Skim Reader vs Resonance

Skim Reader: Read Smarter, Not Longer In a world of infinite scroll and endless content, your time is the ultimate currency. Skim Reader is the RSS reader that respects it. The Problem With Modern Reading You subscribe to 30 feeds. You have 200 unread articles. You have 10 minutes. What do you do? Skip everything? Skim headlines and miss the insights buried in paragraph seven? Feel guilty about the growing unread count? There's a better way. One Slider. Infinite Control. Skim Reader introduces something no RSS reader has done before: a compression slider that transforms any article to match exactly how much time you have. Drag left for a two-sentence summary. Drag right for the full article. Stop anywhere in between. It's that simple. - Glance: The headline in 10 seconds - Brief: Key points in 30 seconds - Summary: Main ideas in 2 minutes - Digest: Detailed overview in 5 minutes - Full: The complete article Every position is generated by on-device AI. No cloud. No subscriptions. No data leaving your phone. AI That Lives on Your Device Skim Reader runs a state-of-the-art language model entirely on your iPhone or iPad. Your articles stay private. The first time you open the app, you'll download a ~1GB AI model. After that, everything runs locally. Your reading habits are yours alone. It Learns How You Read Notice how you always want the full article from The New York Times but just the brief from tech blogs? Skim Reader notices too. The app quietly learns your preferences - by feed, by time of day, by habit. Open an article at 7am during your commute? It remembers you prefer Brief. Saturday morning deep-dive? It knows you want Full. You can disable this entirely in settings. But once you experience an app that just knows, you won't want to. Beautiful Typography, Zero Compromise Reading apps should be beautiful. Skim Reader uses carefully chosen typefaces optimised for extended reading: - New York for headlines - editorial elegance - Charter for body text - designed for screens - Your choice of fonts and sizes - Bionic Reading mode for faster scanning - Light and dark themes that don't strain your eyes Features That Matter - Add any RSS or Atom feed - paste a URL and it finds the feed - Full article extraction - even when feeds only provide snippets - Swipe gestures - mark read, bookmark, delete - All Articles view - see everything in one stream - Bookmarks - save articles for later - Pull to refresh - stay current - Open in browser - when you need the original - Haptic feedback - feel the slider snap into position No Subscriptions. No Ads. No Tracking. Skim Reader is free. No monthly fees. No "premium tiers." No advertisements. No analytics watching what you read. Who Is This For? - Professionals who need to stay informed but don't have time to read everything - Researchers managing dozens of sources - News enthusiasts who want depth without the time commitment - Anyone tired of the "mark all as read" guilt spiral - People who believe reading should be a choice, not an obligation The TL;DR for a Doomscrolling World I built Skim Reader because I was drowning in content. Every day, more articles. Every day, less time. I wanted a reader that adapted to me, not the other way around. Now I read more than ever - because I can finally read at the right depth for every article. Some get 10 seconds. Some get 10 minutes. Every one gets exactly what it deserves. Your time is valuable. Read accordingly.

Has this ever happened to you....? You're talking to a friend about a great podcast you listened to. Problem is, you can't remember what it was called. However, you DO remember you listened to it while on a roadtrip back in 2016. That's where Resonance comes in. Check out your route history, navigate to the date of the roadtrip, find the podcast, share with your friend! Play any podcast and Resonance maps your route in real time with GPS. See where you walked, drove, or commuted while listening — all visualized on an interactive map with start, stop, pause, and podcast-change markers. Scrub through your timeline or animate your route at 60x speed. LISTEN YOUR WAY - 9 playback speeds from 0.5x to 3x - Customizable skip forward and back intervals - Sleep timer with gentle fade-out - Per-podcast settings for skip intro, skip outro, and playback speed - Background playback with lock screen and Control Center controls - Queue with drag-to-reorder, playlists, and downloads for offline listening MAP YOUR LISTENING - GPS route tracking during active playback - Interactive maps with start, stop, pause, and podcast-change markers - Route animation and timeline scrubber - Routes grouped by day with distance, areas visited, and duration - Reverse geocoding turns coordinates into real place names KNOW YOUR HABITS - Listening streaks, milestones, and personal records - Daily, weekly, and hourly trend charts - Genre breakdown, completion rates, and top podcasts - Full session history with duration and playback speed STAY ORGANIZED - Subscribe to podcasts from the iTunes catalog - Custom playlists and an Up Next queue - Rate and review episodes and podcasts - Download episodes for offline playback - Favorites surface on your personalized home screen YOUR DATA, YOUR DEVICE - 100% on-device storage — no accounts, no servers, no analytics - Zero third-party SDKs - Export your data anytime as JSON, CSV, or OPML - Import from backups or migrate from other apps - Location permission is requested only when needed, never at launch, and is off by default