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It is either Reeder or Mr. Reader for google reader accounts. I like Mr. Reader the most.
Yes, Reeder is still the best.
And it is getting really great on the Mac too.
Great features in both iOS & Mac like Readability.
And it is getting really great on the Mac too.
Great features in both iOS & Mac like Readability.
River of News is the hands down winner, imho.
Although I do keep Reeder and Feedler installed, I haven't opened them in months.
Although I do keep Reeder and Feedler installed, I haven't opened them in months.
Mobile RSS lets you do this - there is a caching option for offline - see the description pointers:
✔ Comprehensive suite of offline capabilities: marking items as read, starred, shared, keep unread, and more
✔ Download full posts from excerpt feeds automatically. Full control over which feeds have this feature enabled
✔ Store items list when you're offline, including embedded images
Might be worth contacting the developer as well if you haven't already to find out why this is or confirm it is due to the provider as mentioned by Weaselboy.
I've been a long-time user of MobileRSS HD and when it comes to 3 things that I consider to be the most important, Reeder beats it hands down:
- Performance: update speed on Reeder is just crazy fast.
- Offline: whereas MobileRSS fetches a block of articles at a time, Reeder retrieves the full list silently in the background as well as caching all the summary and image contents without breaking a sweat.
- Stability: Reeder very rarely crashes. MobileRSS not so much.
When I first tried FlipBoard, I wasn't impressed, so I deleted it. River of News was my favorite RSS reader. However, over time, the various bugs got to me, and the developer basically leaving the app to rot, and made me decide to look elsewhere.
I tried FlipBoard again because I heard it added Google Reader support. Indeed, it did, and now I love it.
So I vote for FlipBoard. It's awesome.
I tried FlipBoard again because I heard it added Google Reader support. Indeed, it did, and now I love it.
So I vote for FlipBoard. It's awesome.
River of News
The thing that makes River of News so good in my opinion is the fact that it "streams" (more or less) your news from Google Reader. This is infinitely better imho than how Reeder handles it where you have to actually download the articles first. So for someone like me who has a huge Google Reader account with upwards of 1000 of unread messages at any given time...waiting for 99% of the RSS readers out there to download "The Latest 3 days" is just not efficient or feasible. With River of News, it doesn't matter how many I have unread, I just scroll and it dynamically loads more as I read.
The other thing I love about River is that I can use scroll through the articles in one continuous stream. This allows me to cover alot of ground very quickly. One article seamlessly moves into the next...so with a flip of the finger at a speed I choose, I can either move quickly through them, or just scroll them slowly and scan them as they pass...if something catches my eye, then I just stop the scroll and read more....when I'm done, flip the finger again and the list goes scrolling. It's an ingenious way to read your RSS feeds.
As far as I know, no other RSS reader provides the above two options...if I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
The thing that makes River of News so good in my opinion is the fact that it "streams" (more or less) your news from Google Reader. This is infinitely better imho than how Reeder handles it where you have to actually download the articles first. So for someone like me who has a huge Google Reader account with upwards of 1000 of unread messages at any given time...waiting for 99% of the RSS readers out there to download "The Latest 3 days" is just not efficient or feasible. With River of News, it doesn't matter how many I have unread, I just scroll and it dynamically loads more as I read.
The other thing I love about River is that I can use scroll through the articles in one continuous stream. This allows me to cover alot of ground very quickly. One article seamlessly moves into the next...so with a flip of the finger at a speed I choose, I can either move quickly through them, or just scroll them slowly and scan them as they pass...if something catches my eye, then I just stop the scroll and read more....when I'm done, flip the finger again and the list goes scrolling. It's an ingenious way to read your RSS feeds.
As far as I know, no other RSS reader provides the above two options...if I'm wrong, someone please correct me.
Agreed. River of News got a bunch of good mentions in this thread so I bought it. Terrible terrible app. It's slow and clunky and makes marking things as read very very difficult. I'm just not a fan. If you like the idea of what reeder does, you won't like River of News I'm guessing. Save your money.
To each his own I guess. River was certainly slower on the iPad 1, but it's been fine with my iPad 2. And in practice, I actually find Reeder much more slow and clumsy because it sits and tries to download 800,000 unread articles that I'll never open each time I boot it up.
Same with me. I didn't think Flipboard was that great at first, but now I use it all the time and really enjoy it.