Reeder‪.‬ 17+

I beta tested this app for a couple months, and although it took some getting used to, this approach to feeds makes sense. I do wish X profiles could be pulled in (not Silvio's fault) and there are certain RSS feeds that work in Reeder Classic, but not in this new Reeder, which is a bit annoying. It would be nice if the default reader view could be set from the app level, and not have to be changed for each individual feed (or at least have a default setting).

I will be sticking with it. I am disappointed it's a subscription. I would gladly do paid upgrades, and having yet another subscription was almost a deal breaker for me.

This is a neat idea that plays into the notion that we can’t 100% our feeds anymore and thus don’t need to see that we have thousands of unread RSS feed entries (and videos, and Reddit posts, and so on and on) we’ll never get to. As a complement to Reeder Classic (but, personally, not a replacement for it), I can easily see a use case that has me using both daily. But I won’t pick this up again until there’s some visual indication of which posts I’ve read/seen/watched/heard. A syncing timeline isn’t enough (and, so far in my testing, not very reliable in terms of where it lands after a sync). I don’t need unread item counts or empty feed folders, but please just dim the items I’ve interacted with (or, better, give us an option to automatically hide those from the main feed once they’ve been interacted with). Without that option, this feels way more unwieldy than a large list of unread feeds in Classic, and I’ve only loaded up about four feeds so far. A small fix, even if it’s off by default but available as an option, will go a long way.

When I heard about the changes to the app, I wasn’t sure, but after giving it an honest shot, I’m sold. I love not worrying about if a post is unread or read, the social style feed works so well. The syncing it rock solid and pretty fast, what’s there just works and works well.

There are feature missing though that keep me from giving it 5 stars. Thankfully most of the missing features are on the coming soon list. Once I have text options and keyboard shortcuts, this becomes a 5 star review.