# Smart Feed Reader — user reviews

> 33 indexed App Store user reviews of Smart Feed Reader by SCAND LLC, rated 4.60/5 from 7 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smart-feed-reader/id385243121/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/smart-feed-reader/id385243121.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 5 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 0

## Newest reviews (10 of 33)

### 3/5 — The app loads headlines only

*2022-04-14, version 2.0.0*

The body does not render. Sometimes you get an image with the headline.

### 3/5 — Perfect except for delete

*2021-05-10, version 2.0.0*

Why ask for confirmation for deleting an article? It is a perfect app except for that one fault

### 2/5 — simple but useless

*2020-05-02*

i like the simplicity of this reader. No banners, no big pictures. But there is no way to go to the source of news either. And without details it is useless.

### 3/5 — Good but needs work

*2013-10-26*

This RSS news reader is, in my opinion, the best of the bunch.. but it needs work. This app doesn't remember certain settings, such as "Hide Read", "Unread First", etc. This failure alone makes this app difficult to use in long lists of mostly read items because it causes the user to scroll unnecessarily. Resolving this bug would make this the best RSS feed reader in the App Store.

### 4/5 — Хорошо!

*2013-07-24*

Мне понравился. Простой, удобный. Авансом 4 звезды, половину моих лент не обновляет. Только если удалить ленту и заново создать, тогда новости обновляются. Потом опять не хотят. А так, очень даже ничего. Если бы доделали и убрали эти косяки, было бы 5 звезд! И еще, где выключатель наклейки на иконке приложения? Сделайте возможность их отключения, а то раздражает видеть на иконке приложения количество непрочитаных новостей!

### 2/5 — Hangs when trying to add RSS feed

*2012-05-06*

Hangs when trying to add RSS feed.

### 2/5 — Good idea

*2011-07-23*

Got this when it first came out, great idea but nothing has changed since release. Emailed the author with list of suggestions to improve the app but it looks like this app has become an orphan. Too bad, had a lot of potential.

### 4/5 — Interesting

*2010-09-28*

Nice rss reader. Thanks to developers.

### 1/5 — Not persistent

*2010-09-27*

I'ts cool, but the worst thing is that it's not saving feeds after program exit.

### 3/5 — Ok, but buggy.

*2010-09-21*

Has this annoying bug where sometimes when you start the app, all your RSS feeds are gone.  It happened 3 times, then I uninstalled the app.

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Atom feed updating doesn't work

*2013-08-27, version 1.5.1*

Although it supports ATOM and will initially download the article list, updating the list subsequently doesn't work, you have to delete the subscription and resubscribe - which makes the app pretty useless.

### 1/5 — As previously stated

*2013-05-12*

This is a waste of time. The app does not work! It freezes up.

### 1/5 — Fail

*2013-04-27, version 1.4*

First feed I tried to add ... I could not get it to paste the URL in. When I tried typing in the URL manually, there was a massive delay between hitting a character and the character appearing on the screen. Gave up. Deleted the app off my ipad.

### 1/5 — ужасно

*2013-01-27*

Так и не смог подключить свой гугл-реадер,постоянно ругается на неправильные данные.

### 1/5 — Good Idea, Bad Implementation

*2012-12-10, version 1.4*

Unable to connect to Google. 
Freezes in multiple occasions. 
I would be furious if I had paid money for this app that doesn't work. 
I wonder what people do in Apple Store. For sure they didn't verify this app.
If this was fixed could an amazing app with a future and I would give it 5 stars.  As is, it is a waste of time and only deserves 1 star for the concept behind it.

### 1/5 — Couldn't connect to Google

*2012-11-05, version 1.4*

:-(

### 1/5 — A total piece of crap!

*2012-10-18*

Don't waste your time downloading this.  Useless.

### 1/5 — Had promise, but doesn't work

*2012-07-07*

Drawn to this for the flexible filtering options, but it hangs on importing feeds. Too bad. Suggest you revise, or just take it down - why waste people's time.

### 1/5 — Keeps freezing

*2012-04-29, version 1.4*

Keeps freezing sometimes when a news is red. Need to kill it, then it crashes when it is open again, then it works fine until another freeze happens....quite annoying, long overdue for fix....

### 1/5 — Unstable.

*2010-11-04, version 0*

Crash without notice and lost all the rss after crash. Have to Add all in again.

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Need notifications

*2018-10-22*

This might be the only RSS feed which has filtering! Please add notifications for folders when new items are available!

### 5/5 — Информирование отфильтрованных слов

*2015-02-05*

Сделайте информирование при поступлении новости настроенной по фильтру. Например звуковой сигнал или вибрацию

### 5/5 — Best RSS reader for iPad

*2014-11-30, version 1.5.1*

This is the best RSS/Atom feed reader I could find in the store. There is no annoying advertising and no need to sign up or sign into a social media account. It just displays feeds.

The screens are simple and clear and very easy to use/navigate. You can create a folder structure if you have many feeds which I do. Has built in browser to see full articles so no jumping to Safari. Works on my old iPad (iOS 5) and runs quickly. I would have paid for this app.

### 5/5 — Отличная читалка

*2013-11-24*

Программа очень хороша, интуитивно простая. Перепробовал около 20 читалрк rss, лучше этой не нашел, без глюков и тормозов! Честно, рекомендую!!

### 5/5 — Хорошо

*2013-11-06*

Отличное приложение. Наконец-то хоть кто-то реализовал возможность фильтрации в rss! После того как всё настроил, ощущаю себя медиамагнатом :) Пожалуйста, не бросайте приложение. Функция "спрятать прочитанные" работает некорректно.

### 5/5 — Brilliant Filtering

*2012-02-25, version 1.4*

The filtering rules in this reader are fantastic, very flexible and allows rss feeds with large numbers of items to be seamlessly sorted into folders, so you only read the items you are interested in. Highly recommended.

### 5/5 — easy and simple

*2012-01-18, version 1.4*

Does exactly what it says - pretty nice app!

### 5/5 — Great app

*2012-01-17*

I like the app. Nice UI, works great, I like the sorting filter and Rules as well.

### 5/5 — Great app, keep going!

*2010-09-14*

Great app but found one small bug: I've added my feeds without internet connection available and when I've got connection to the internet and refreshed my feeds list - feeds' titles were not updated. Fix it - will be looking forward to a new version.

### 4/5 — Close to a 5

*2014-06-14*

Now my preferred reader. Easy to use but a little confusing to add feeds. Unread first rule not always followed. But it doesn't constantly crash like Newsify.

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