iPad RSS readers

[asdfx3]

Thank you to all who mentioned Flipboard. A lot of other readers don't seem to present as much information or don't present it as nicely as Flipboard. For my use (grad student, I use it to view journal feeds first thing in the morning with my coffee) it seems to be great.

I just wish you could get more pages. I'd definitely be willing to pay for an unlimited pages version.

 

[Mawal]

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.

lol....let's stick with the facts, default sync on Reeder is limited to 5.000 articles...

where as 800k unread items strike how did you manage to get that.

In my experience is slow on the Ipad2 as well.

 

[Stangs55]

lol....let's stick with the facts, default sync on Reeder is limited to 5.000 articles...

where as 800k unread items strike how did you manage to get that.

In my experience is slow on the Ipad2 as well.

Well, I may have exaggerated the 800k number, but it's the difference in how the two function that I prefer (as posted above).

If Reeder would add a feature where it would 'mark as read' when you scroll, then I would give it another go...but as far as I know, the only other Reader program that does that is Feedler, which I also have installed. If I'm reading the headlines of 5,000 articles and decide that I only want to actually read 20 of them, I want Google to know that the other 4,980 I've seen and don't want to see again....but unless I open each one individually, they'll always show up as unread. Of course you can always 'Mark All as Read', but what if I haven't made it though all of them yet? What if I've only scrolled down half the list? Then it'll mark 2,500 that I haven't seen yet as read.

 

[mrt209]

Bought 3 news readers: Reeder, Mr. Reader, and NewsRack

Out of the three, I prefer Mr. Reader, definitely one of the best readers available. Reeder is nice too, however, I prefer Mr. Reader's layout and features (like to see the list of feeds on the side). I use NewsRack on my mac exclusively, however, the iOS app sucks, takes forever to sync! Definetely not worth the money.

I'm probably going to switch back and forth between Reeder and Mr. Reader.

 

[Stangs55]

Bought 3 news readers: Reeder, Mr. Reader, and NewsRack

Out of the three, I prefer Mr. Reader, definitely one of the best readers available. Reeder is nice too, however, I prefer Mr. Reader's layout and features (like to see the list of feeds on the side). I use NewsRack on my mac exclusively, however, the iOS app sucks, takes forever to sync! Definetely not worth the money.

I'm probably going to switch back and forth between Reeder and Mr. Reader.

I picked up Mr Reader last night after reading this and subsequently emailing the dev a couple questions. To my surprise, he responded almost immediately...which was enough for me to give him my $2.99 in support, regardless of how much I'd use his app.
Well I didn't actually time the initial sync when I started it up...but I'd guess it took 8 or 9 minutes to sync before I could even do anything. ...Yeahhh...that's not going to work for me... Although I did love his interface and design, very clean yet functional. I look forward to seeing what improvements he can implement in future updates.

 

[Fedorov]

The dev of Mr.Reader is excellent and I'm expecting great updates from this app. Need to remember it's already as good if not better than Reeder and it's only a v1 product. I'm sure sync speeds will be improved.

 

[mrt209]

The dev of Mr.Reader is excellent and I'm expecting great updates from this app. Need to remember it's already as good if not better than Reeder and it's only a v1 product. I'm sure sync speeds will be improved.

Absolutely love Mr. Reader, prefer it over Reeder (regret buying it) and other rss readers. The sync isn't that bad, yeah it syncs for a while the first time, but its not 20 minutes like newsrack Looking forward to see new features in the future, although Im not sure what more to add.

 

[debudebu]

started with newsstand -> went to reeder -> pulse -> flipboard -> river of news -> mobilerss -> feeddler

Absolutely loving feeddler at the moment. Still sometimes use flipboard for the layout, but it sucks for downloading and getting through a large amount of feeds.

 

[Fedorov]

So what do you find better about Feeddler over MobileRSS and Reeder out of interest?

 

[Diiiiips]

So what do you find better about Feeddler over MobileRSS and Reeder out of interest?

I've settled on Feeddler over MobileRSS too tbf. Mobile was just crashing on me when opening feeds sometimes so I gave up on it. I use Flipboard for other stuff but not RSS as it doesn't seem to fetch all th news from a feed?

Pulse is just not an option for RSS. It looks pretty but it take to long to navigate round and choose your story, etc.

Not tried Reeder, River or the rest as I'm waiting for the jailbreak.

 

[Stangs55]

I use Feedler on my iPhone about 90% of the time. The problem with the iPad version, is that's it's just a blown up iPhone port. I'd give the iPhone version 4.5 stars and the iPad version 1 star.

 

[Sanveann]

I've been using Reeder for my iPhone for awhile now and just got the iPad version. Love it! (Thanks for the info about "unpinching" folders, btw -- didn't know you could do that!)