Having tried a number of readers, I liked MobileRSS the best, especially now that the iPad version came out.
Pulse and Early Edition are solid apps and great looking. But my own opinion is, if I wanted great looking, I would just open up Safari and go to the web sites directly. The reason we get RSS apps is to do a news digest sort of thing. Too many CPU cycles into generating the look instead of just downloading the articles. MobileRSS is a simple, fast app that has a bunch of features.
But for me, a major issue was with how the web was accessed inside the RSS app. A lot of times, you need to go to the web site directly to see the article content since the RSS feed can sometimes be just a headline and not give anough info. Some apps, like Pulse and Early Edition, have a problem with accessing web sites inside their own app if the link is designed to open up as a "new" page by launching a new window or tab (from the perspective of if you were on a conventional browser).
They work OK if the link is designed to open the new page in the same existing window or tab. But if the link tries to open as a new tab or window, those RSS feeders won't open those types of pages - nothing will happen when you click the "outside" links. MobileRSS and Reeder will work with those coded kinds of pages OK, though Reeder doesn't have an iPad version yet.
It sounds pretty obscure, but for me at least, this issue comes up quite a bit.
Pulse and Early Edition are solid apps and great looking. But my own opinion is, if I wanted great looking, I would just open up Safari and go to the web sites directly. The reason we get RSS apps is to do a news digest sort of thing. Too many CPU cycles into generating the look instead of just downloading the articles. MobileRSS is a simple, fast app that has a bunch of features.
But for me, a major issue was with how the web was accessed inside the RSS app. A lot of times, you need to go to the web site directly to see the article content since the RSS feed can sometimes be just a headline and not give anough info. Some apps, like Pulse and Early Edition, have a problem with accessing web sites inside their own app if the link is designed to open up as a "new" page by launching a new window or tab (from the perspective of if you were on a conventional browser).
They work OK if the link is designed to open the new page in the same existing window or tab. But if the link tries to open as a new tab or window, those RSS feeders won't open those types of pages - nothing will happen when you click the "outside" links. MobileRSS and Reeder will work with those coded kinds of pages OK, though Reeder doesn't have an iPad version yet.
It sounds pretty obscure, but for me at least, this issue comes up quite a bit.
