![]() The app has nearly both feet in iOS 7, but there is still a toe or two in iOS 6. I can’t put my finger on precisely what it is, but if I had to explain it in one word then I’d say Unread is peaceful.īut my hunch is that Unread will prove to be a somewhat polarizing app. I’ve long been a fan of Jared Sinclair’s design taste, and I consider Riposte to be one of the finest apps on my iPhone. The share sheet slides in from the right-hand side, and feels akin to the bouncy and playful animations of Tweetbot 3. It has all the expected features - you can send an article to Instapaper or share it on Twitter or text message it to your friends - and yet they feel unexpected. Unread is somewhat different than any other app I’ve used before. I paid $30 for NetNewsWire on my Mac half a decade ago, and now, years later, I’m using Unread on my iPhone instead. It’s on launch sale for just $3 and I think it’s worth 10 times that. The app is well designed and nice to use. It’s not that there’s anything in particular. The app is understated, extremely readable, and welcoming. It’s full of subtle animations and easy gestures. I’ve been using it with my Feed Wrangler account and it loads my unread items extremely quickly. Unread works with Feed Wrangler, Feedbin, and Feedly. I have been using Unread throughout its beta period for the past two months, and in that time it has quietly usurped the previous RSS reader on my home screen. It’s a brand new RSS app for the iPhone, and it is fantastic. I’ve also used Google Reader, NewsGator Online, Reeder for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, ReadKit, NetNewsWire on my iPhone, Byline, Fever, and probably a few more.Īnd now, today, we have Unread. But I soon moved on to Vienna, and then NetNewsWire 3.1 on the Mac (which, in my humble opinion, is one of the all-time best pieces of Mac software ever). He set me up with the RSS reader in Safari (which has long since been removed). “You can follow all those sites in one spot, you know?” ![]() But that Sunday morning, sitting next to my friend, he introduced me to an RSS reader. If you’ve read my review of NetNewsWire, you’re already familiar with the story: I used to keep all the blogs I enjoyed reading in a bookmark folder in Safari on my Mac. It was a Sunday morning in early 2007, and our Church had Wi-Fi, and I was sitting in a back corner with a friend, and instead of using my PowerBook G4 to take notes I was surfing the web reading all my favorite blogs. Like so many other life-changing moments, my relationship with RSS readers began in a church pew. Writing apps also can garner a connection with their users because they serve as the tool where we express our thoughts and feelings.Īnd though one might expect an RSS app to be insipid, or, at best, utilitarian, I find them quite the opposite - because they’re filled with the recent articles, photographs, and stories of my hand-chosen, favorite writers, photographers, and news outlets.Īn RSS reader is the window into your curated world. Twitter apps I think are like this because they’re filled with the life updates, corny jokes, and selfies of our friends and family. It’s not my daily RSS client, but it’s so good, especially on the iPad, that I keep it installed and have been using it more and more.There are some apps which, due to the nature of their usage and/or contents, seem to earn a more personal connection from the user than other apps. However, if you use a different RSS service, or read your feeds primarily on iPhone and iPad, I highly recommend trying ReadKit. Personally, though, the number one deal-breaker on the Mac side of things is the lack of support for Inoreader, the RSS feed service I use, which is supported on iOS and iPadOS version of ReadKit but not the Mac. ![]() ![]() Very little has changed with the Mac version over the past few years other than bug fixes and compatibility updates, and it has begun to show throughout the app. The only thing holding me back from using it full-time is the Mac app, which is a separate purchase from the iPhone and iPad version. The design adopts modern iOS and iPadOS conventions and technologies, making it a pleasure to use. I’ve used the app a lot on the iPad, and it’s fantastic. ReadKit is an RSS client that’s been around for a long time on the Mac, but only recently debuted on the iPhone and iPad. ![]()
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