# Current - RSS Feed Reader — Calm, minimal news reading > A calm RSS feed reader focused on present content, not unread counts. (iPhone/iPad app by Jupiter Interactive Group LLC.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/current-rss-feed-reader/id6758530974 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Jupiter Interactive Group LLC](https://appshunter.io/developer/526857550) - Category: News, Productivity - Price: $9.99 - Rating: 4.50/5 from 111 App Store ratings · 100 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 18.0 · 46 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-02-17 - Data updated: 2026-08-27 - Monetization: paid - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/current-rss-feed-reader/id6758530974/reviews.md ## What is Current? Current is an RSS reader built on a simple idea: your feed should never make you feel behind. There are no unread counts. No red badges. No number climbing while you sleep, silently tallying everything you haven't read. Current shows you what's new right now, and that's it. Nothing is owed. Nothing is overdue. You open it when you want to read, and whatever's there is what's there. The design is intentional. Every screen, every interaction, every animation was built to feel calm and unhurried. Articles are presented beautifully with clean typography and generous whitespace. Navigation is fluid and intuitive. The app gets out of the way and lets you focus on what matters: the writing. Current supports multiple sync providers so you can bring your existing subscriptions: - Feedbin - Inoreader - MiniFlux - FreshRSS - The Old Reader - NewsBlur - Local RSS (on-device, no account needed) Features: - Universal app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Beautiful article reader with smart formatting - Full-text article extraction - Light and dark themes - Background refresh - OPML import and export - Share extension - Keyboard shortcuts on iPad and Mac - iCloud sync for local feeds Current is a one-time purchase. No subscription. No ads. No tracking. Just an app you buy once and own forever. Built by an indie developer who wanted to love RSS again. ## Key features - No unread counts or badges - Calm and unhurried design - Beautiful article presentation - Support for multiple sync providers - Full-text article extraction - Universal app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac ## Chart rankings - #16 in Top Paid · News (US App Store) ## Recent user reviews (10 of 100) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/current-rss-feed-reader/id6758530974/reviews.md ### 5/5 — A breath of fresh air! *2026-08-18, version 1.0.15* So powerful and simple. ### 1/5 — Developer is a liar *2026-08-10, version 1.0.15* Really disappointed with this developer who has deceived DaringFireball and their readers with his lies. Not sure why he’s not come clean. Wish I could get my money back have the idea of supporting this deceiving individual. ### 5/5 — ♥️💙💜 *2026-08-02, version 1.0.15* I’m in love with this. It is the Internet as it could be. ### 3/5 — Cool but frustrating little issues *2026-07-05, version 1.0.14* I love this concept and want to love the app so much, but my initial take is that it’s kind of a mess. The feature of setting different article lifespans for different feeds is great, except when you go change the lifespan for a feed and then hit save, nothing gets saves, so there doesn’t seem to be any way to *use* the feature. I clicked something that opened an article preview pane, which is nice, but then there’s no way to close it - the entire control disappears! - and I was stuck until I figured out that “sift mode” under the view menu really means “hide preview pane.” Basically - awesome thinking - please be a little less clever in the UI so users aren’t left scratching their heads wondering how to do what they want. And how do I actually change article lifespans? Because that’s one of the main things that attracted me to this, so it is a bummer to have paid my ten bucks and find it just isn’t there anywhere I can find it. ### 5/5 — Beautiful app *2026-06-26, version 1.0.14* Current has become my preferred RSS reader. I love the reading pane, with its clean format, large readable fonts, and nice integration of text and images. It took me a few weeks to get used to Current’s method of managing feeds, but it’s working smoothly for me now. I have a few minor issues; I wish Current kept track of my position in the Voices sidebar, instead of returning me to the top of the list after reading an article. But overall, this is a great app! ### 5/5 — Beautifully done *2026-06-26, version 1.0.14* Current has become my preferred RSS reader. I love the reading pane, with its clean format, large readable fonts, and nice integration of text and images. It took me a few weeks to get used to Current’s method of managing feeds, but it’s working smoothly for me now. I have a few minor issues; I wish Current kept track of my position in the Voices sidebar, instead of returning me to the top of the list after reading an article. But overall, this is a great app! ### 5/5 — Excellent app *2026-06-18, version 1.0.14* This app has been a game changer for me. I have been so stressed with other RSS apps, feeling like it was homework to keep track of all those new posts. In the end I just did abandon the app. With this app I don’t have that issue at all, I love the concept of “currents” and “river”, and when the river sleeps, it feels liberating to me. It is very clever and innovative and I highly recommend it for anyone that has felt stressed with RSS apps in the past. ### 3/5 — Love everything but *2026-06-17, version 1.0.14* The inoreader support. The app stops syncing after only a few days and I have to keep logging in. ### 5/5 — Revived my love for RSS *2026-06-15* Simple and gets out of the way, in the best sense. You get a river of news and that’s it. Progress is saved. Sync works well. I can’t say I care for the “voices” thing, and I wish I could turn it off. RSS clients have historically made following sources an emotional commitment: do I really want to be nagged about every little update this source has to publish? Only after Current did I come to appreciate that was a design issue. Most clients seem designed with an eye for tweaking for its own sake: the UI, the typography, the refresh settings. Current is the opposite. I guess the UX is so good that I find it difficult to go back to NetNewsWire, even when I think it’s technically better in a bunch of ways. ### 5/5 — …gaze upon the news as it drifts by… *2026-06-13, version 1.0.14* Imagine yourself relaxing on a golden sand bar along the bank of a meandering river, sun shining down on your face, the gentle rustle of tall meadow grass in the distance. A tree branch floats by, bandied about by the current, green and yellow leaves swirl past, an occasional raft or kayak navigates the waterway. You glance up and watch them pass in and out of existence, resonating in your mind like a plucked guitar string fading into the wind. This is how information should be consumed. Own your attention again. ## Frequently asked questions about Current ### What does Current Reader do? Current Reader is an RSS feed reader designed to provide a calm and unhurried experience. It focuses on showing you what's new right now without the pressure of unread counts or overdue articles, allowing you to read when you want. ### What are the key features of Current Reader? Key features include a design free of unread counts and badges, beautiful article presentation with smart formatting, full-text article extraction, support for multiple sync providers (like Feedbin, FreshRSS, NewsBlur), and a universal app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. ### How much does Current Reader cost? Current Reader is a one-time purchase. There are no subscriptions, ads, or tracking involved, meaning you buy the app once and own it forever. ### What devices is Current Reader compatible with? Current Reader is a universal app, meaning it is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. It also supports iCloud sync for local feeds. ### What are the main use cases for Current Reader? The primary use case is to consume RSS feeds in a relaxed and visually appealing manner, avoiding the stress often associated with traditional feed readers. It's ideal for users who want to focus on the content without digital clutter or the feeling of being behind. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.15 — 2026-07-30 - Significant performance updates across the board - Feedly is now available - Most feeds that don’t work are blocking us with Cloudflare, so now we provide that detail when adding a feed, rather than “no feed found” (and are still working on being allow-listed w/ them) - A11y Scrub has been extended and is now fully implemented - Fixed an issue where linkblogs (daring fireball, etc) sometimes link to themselves and get suppressed. - Adjust the feed picker to disambiguate each feed when a source has multiple. - Blackholed a handful of “helper cards” that were indeed not helpful. - Fixed an issue where if you don’t launch the app on the 2nd device within 7 days you could end up with orphaned stories that don’t expire. - Fixed an issue where the source list could fall out of sync between two devices related to above. - Fixed an issue where offline requests may clog up the queue once you go back online. - Adjusted the reading time insights to account for when you leave an article open in a pane (iPad primarily) and aren’t actually reading. - Fixed an issue where “Auto advance after release” would get reset by the cloud. - Over 30(!) small visual and interaction fixes across macOS, iPadOS and iOS. - Over 50(!) source fixes for parsing and identifying feeds. ### 1.0.14 — 2026-05-05 - You can now save articles on macOS via the plus button on the saved view, or by pasting a url into the command palette (cmd+k) - You can now right click any source or current in sidebar on macOS and release all, or release all read. - Added changelog rss feed quick add under help (so you can keep up to date with what’s changing inside Current) - Fixed an issue where Inoreader users would get duplicated currents created from folders. - Fixed an issue where Currents may un-delete themselves from sync provider. - Added a feature to re-build currents from sync provider tags/folders at any time. - Fixed an issue where after editing a source the list would jump to the top on macOS. - Fixed an issue where feedbin may give us urls with hashes that don’t map to feed locations (for newsletters for example). - You can now set a default browser to open in on macOS (not just safari anymore) - Made logged in sessions persist more reliably. - KaTeX and MathJax are now supported for all the math. - Many other small tweaks and bug fixes. ### 1.0.13 — 2026-04-08 - You can now set a custom velocity / age out date for a source! - You can now configure the app to use the “since it first appeared in the river” date as the age out start so that you don’t miss content if you have long periods of away time (good for you!) - Sped up reader extraction. - Sped up fetching for iCloud only accounts. - Fixed a bug where on cold launch the loader may get stuck. - Fixed a bug where iCloud sync can overwrite current membership and appear as though pausing is broken. - Improvements to the river position on iOS when new content arrives. - Youtube rss should no longer discover random channels. - Keyboard focus on macOS should be restored much more reliably for shortcuts access. - Command + Z to undo release is now available on macOS. ### 1.0.12 — 2026-03-29 - You can swipe left from reader to open in browser. - New hyphenation modes: auto, and off, for better reader control. - macOS settings got a bit of a facelift, making it much faster to browse. - You can now use all of your fancy mouse 3, mouse 4, whatever buttons to go back and forth on Mac. - A brand new pack of 8 beautifully designed icons by Current user Steve Ledlow! - Currents on macOS are now able to be re-ordered, matching iOS. - Sign in has been made more reliable, but you may have to sign in again :) - There is now a “building your river” animation for cold starts instead of a momentary blank screen. - New diagnostics (and alerts) for sync service issues. - “Evergreen” velocity has been changed from 7 days to INFINITE so articles from sources can stick around FOREVER AND EVER (or until you release them). - Read items now show greyscale thumbnails (if thumbnails are enabled) to help you better determine what’s read and what isn’t. - “Performance improvements and bug fixes” - Like all the other apps write in the store. ### 1.0.11 — 2026-03-20 - New App Icon (which supports tints, dark, glass) by Matthew Skiles! - You can now log in w/ any site and reader mode will fetch the logged in full content - macOS now has a safari share extension - Feed detection on add a source catches more sneaky edge cases - macOS got a visual design and interaction overhaul - Sometimes a source feed doesn’t update regularly and so when it does, it can provide content that pops into current way down the river (due to chronological item order), so now there is a new ‘hey we just found this but it was published in the past’ function that will put those items up towards the top for a few hours so you can see them. - Action bar at end of articles now displays more reliably at end of article and doesn’t disappear (and you can still tap anywhere to present it) - Miniflux could create duplicate currents, and no longer does - Youtube videos (and many other video embeds) now play in line. - In app browser now has more options (release, share, etc) - You can use spacebar to scroll (and shift space) in reader on macOS ## More apps by Jupiter Interactive Group LLC - [Interval Contact Lens Reminder](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/interval-contact-lens-reminder/id6757413370) - [Proof: Returns & Warranties](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/proof-returns-and-warranties/id6757509228) - [Stillwater: Focus and Clarify](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/stillwater-focus-and-clarify/id6757566433) - [PTO Maximizer](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/pto-maximizer/id6757622762) All apps by Jupiter Interactive Group LLC: https://appshunter.io/developer/526857550 ## Related topics [current rss](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/current-rss) · [current reader](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/current-reader) · [current rss reader](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/current-rss-reader) · [minimal rss reader](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/minimal-rss-reader) · [mount desert island rss](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/mount-desert-island-rss) · [rss reader for safari](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/rss-reader-for-safari) · [feeddler rss news reader](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/feeddler-rss-news-reader) --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*