Flat RSS

New • Set a custom playback speed for each feed. Handy when some podcasts or channels should run faster than others. • Flat can now skip sponsor segments in YouTube videos automatically, using the video's own chapter markers. Improvements • Busy feeds now stay in sync across your devices. An article you've read on one device still shows up on the others, even if it has already scrolled out of that fast-moving feed elsewhere, so nothing goes missing between your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. • The new-items pill is much more reliable: it only appears in your main Home stream, survives an app restart, and merges new articles instead of stacking up or re-counting. • Mac: a big round of performance work makes the feed list faster and smoother and lowers memory use. • Dimmed, already-seen articles now appear only in Home, not inside filters and timelines. • Podcasts: downloads resume after a force-quit with a visible "downloading" state, and the widget's progress ring is back. Fixes • Saved (stashed) articles no longer lose their mark during iCloud sync conflicts. • Mac: the window no longer pops open by itself when a background sync arrives. • Wide Mastodon and Bluesky posts no longer break the feed layout. • News posts now sort by their real publish time instead of landing in the middle of your timeline. • Podcasts: fixed a stale "now playing" in the car or on HomePod that offered the wrong episode. • Fixed a startup crash when debug logging was on, a black area behind Picture-in-Picture, and a scroll-position jump when new items loaded. • Plus more podcast and reliability fixes under the hood.