Reeder Classic App Reviews

The best RSS app gets even better. I’ve used Reeder since version 2 was released in 2014, and, like it’s predecessors, version 5 of the app is the very best app in it’s class. The Reeder family of apps captures the essence of everything that defines exceptional Mac software; they are beautifully designed, incredibly responsive and — perhaps most importantly, they respect user’s privacy.

Works great. Solid RSS reader. I like that it syncs across all my devices via iCloud without needing a third party service or account. The reader view, for sites that don’t provide the full article in their feeds, is excellent, though you can’t use it with hard-paywalled sites even if you have a subscription. I recommend it if you want a simple news reader app.

needs to move to an in-app purchase model. The fact that each point-zero release of this app is a separate app is really annoying. I only found out about this latest version by accident. Instead of charging to download, just move the charge in-app to unlock it or whatever. That way you also don’t have to release the Mac version as an additional separate app. You’re lucky I’m a loyal user.

Thanks to the developer. This is a great update. I’ve used Reeder off and on for years but this update gives everything I think I need (at least for now). iCloud support, mark-as-read on scroll, automatic readability, custom fonts/sizes, etc. These are quality of life features but ultimately make the reading experience better than all other news apps. This combined with content neutrality, I highly recommend.

Life Changing. I have read more longform articles in the past few months of having reader than I have in my entire life. This app has single-handedly changed my entire approach to reading. As someone with executive function disorder it is extremely draining to read and this app completely revolutionize that aspect of my life. this app has become so consequential to my life that I am more than willing to pay for it and support the Reeder team in anyway I can. I want for this app to see regular innovation such as ways to more readily categorize “reading for later” as well as a more up-to-date tagging system and a PDF reader or conversion reader. anybody who struggles to read, struggles to stay focused while reading or has to read over and over again please consider this app as it has turned me into a voracious reader.

Background refresh never works. Update: I’m downgrading this from 3 to 1 stars and probably deleting the app. I haven’t used it in about a month so when I open the app it’s showing me articles from that long ago while it seems to be downloading EVERY article since then. So, my only option is to let this sit here updating while I make a cup of coffee. It’s just not usable for me at all :( - Reeder is easily my preferred RSS reader. However, it’s lack of background refresh is quite frustrating. I often have to wait more than a minute for it to catch up on the days articles. Not sure why there’s a specific option in settings for background refresh when it doesn’t do anything.

Slick design, one time fee!. I love that there is a one time fee for use. I sync my Feedly to this and set up a swipe gesture to save to Pocket. I will also explore using the new read it later feature in the app. This works for me and it works perfectly.

Almost greatness. Beautifully designed and works flawlessly except for the fact that switching out of the app while reading an article causes Reeder to lose track of that article. I am often need to switch out of the app while viewing an item. I return to find that Reeder has marked the item as “read” and cleared it from the feed. It’s generally too much effort to track the item down again. Fix that and I’m back as a user.

Great! But could use some quality of life features. I bought this app for the bionic reading and I am SO happy with how it works. I understand this wasn't the originally intended purpose for the app but I use it to read longer form content. In Pocket (the app I'm using to import my reading) they have a highlight feature which you can use to save your place. If you could add a bookmarking or highlighting feature I would just be over the moon. As I can often lose my place if the app is closed or refreshed in the background. Even a word finder would be appreciated so I could copy the sentence I last read and then search for it later! So glad I spent the money on this but it would just do a TON for me to have those simple features that suit longer txt.💞

Greed killed my most-used apps. I get that most of the world forgot about RSS when Google sunset Reader, but it’s the only way I can efficiently keep up with the industries I work in. I’ve been an outspoken fan and purchaser of every version of Reeder. Knowing it’ll no longer be updated to focus on a new Reeder has been acceptable in the past, but the newest Reeder is absolute garbage as an RSS reader. But the developer is clearly following the subscription model greed trend with the latest version, and now I’m left disappointed and wasting time finding and migrating to a replacement.

A great, great RSS client. Reeder is powerful, yet beautiful. It has the smoothest animations, takes true advantage of ProMotion, and provides for a comfortable reading experience. iCloud sync is phenomenal, too; I’ve never had it fail. It always works, it’s instant, and it’s beautiful. Reeder is a delightful RSS client, and it’s worth every penny.

Great time saver. Great app, I no longer scroll hacker news and other news sites all day. Now I have them set up as RSS feeds and I scroll through all my feeds in a few minutes 2-3 times a day. Bought the Mac app too, love that as well!

Worth the Upgrade From 4. Been holding out a good while, but figured I’d go ahead and upgrade with the new year. Being able to move from 3rd party (Feedly) and have feeds sync’d via iCloud is fantastic. Doesn’t do a great job of handling Instagram embeds in either default or Reeder view, hope that gets fixed soon with an update. Recommended nonetheless.

App does to provide any support. In general I like this app. Been using it for several years. That being said, there are bugs, and I found many annoying ones that never get fixed. In addition, there is no customer support. In the last few years, I contacted support three times and I have yet to receive a reply. I’m knocking off three stars for the lack of support.

Gets stuck on one article after iOS 15 update. Loving this app so far but ever since updating to iOS 15, it only shows one article no matter which of the other news articles I try to read. Hope this gets fixed soon.

One of my most used apps, but I’ve got a problem…. Something happened to the Twitter integration yesterday. It suddenly stopped syncing tweets. I realized that I haven’t seen any in over 24 hours. While investigating I tried logging out of Twitter in the app, but can’t get back to the login. It acts like it tries and then immediately fails to load a login screen. The other service login screens seem to appear normally though. Help?

Developer has abandoned app.. Regrettably, it would seem that the developer has abandoned Reeder. He is completely unresponsive to users who have reported major issues with Reeder. At one point in time, this app used to be the best in class RSS reader on iOS; now, it’s riddled with show-stopping bugs and is completely unusable. As just three examples: background sync doesn’t work at all; mark all as read doesn’t work at all; and mark read on open, under a tag, always displays empty/missing content. I would recommend Unread or Fiery Feeds instead. Those apps have a dev that actually care about maintaining their apps and both of them have been updated within the last two weeks, unlike Reeder which hasn’t been touched in many months.

iCloud sync has limit of 50 unread articles. Love the app and loved the idea of syncing via iCloud instead of a 3rd party tool. However, iCloud sync only seems to pull up 50 unread articles from each source, so any high volume RSS feeds are not working so well under iCloud and I am missing a ton of articles. Can this be fixed? For now, I’m still keeping my 3rd party app running just so that I can watch my high volume feeds. But it’s annoying to constantly have to switch between them. Please fix this!!

First impressions. - signing in for accounts is strange as there isn’t an OK button. After tinkering with settings and scrolling down, there’s a delete account button. The other option is to tap on the X and go back and assume that the account has been added - setting up Pocket needs to be done twice as if you switch between sign up and login, I think it disrupts the process and doesn’t lead to the authorization page. I would suggest having it load the login page and not the sign up page first. - it would be nice if we could manually set the order of the accounts in the list of accounts that we are signed into - the icon will take some getting used to Can’t wait to explore the rest. Will update the review over time! Everything works so far.

Suggestion. Option for light gradient top to bottom to help Visually distinguish one article from another article in the List feed view. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what picture goes with what article. The gradient would help distinguish each article in the list view. Maybe better isThe option to increase padding between articles in list view. Seems like the text and the pictures are so evenly spaced it makes browsing a bit of a chore. This is when the pictures are large like on an iPad. Another option to show the web view of an article. Reader review doesn’t always show the pictures that go with the web view. If this app had this feature it would be the end-all to other apps for me. Check out fiery feeds. It does both of these but that one lack some critical share features this app has. One of these two apps is so close to being perfect.

Meh. Between Newsify snd Reeder, Newsify is the clear winner. It’s stood the test of time and in years I’ve not been forced to upgrade or ensure failed syncs. Reeder, however syncs much more data, when it works, but that sync is slow. IDK what determines the number of articles that are fetched but iCloud sync is insufficient. I use TheOldReader and syncing online (although very slow) pulls about 150K articles. I have a lot of feeds so that’s about right for me, but I wish it was adjustable. Today, TheOldReeder syncing stopped. It’s the same issue I had with Reeder 4 and why I upgraded to 5. Pull down for sync and the spinner stops within 2 seconds. Yes, I can delete and download again, however bc of the slow speed that means keeping the display alive long enough for it to complete.

Syncing with iCloud is a game changer. I’ve been an avid user of RSS newsreaders for years, and this app is the best I’ve ever used. When the developer added iCloud syncing, I was able to unsubscribe from a subscription RSS aggregation service, which saved me a lot of money. Syncing via iCloud continues to work great. I’m encouraged that the developer recently released an update, and I hope this app continues to be developed. I request that the developer enable the iPad app to be used on Apple Vision Pro.

Good app but lacks some functions. It maybe is the best RSS reader on iOS, but it still need to add some basic functions, such as selecting multiple articles and deleting them all at once, changing fonts for language outside English or reducing prompt’s displaying time while saving articles from safari to read later.

Great App, Very Refined, Under Priced. I’ve been using various versions of this app for years. With each new version, the developers do an amazing job making it feel more fluid and fast with every iteration. It’s feature rich with everything you could hope for but none of the features get in the way of simply reading. I also appreciate how the app is tastefully customizable. Overall, this app is one of the best bargains on the App Store for the amount I use it.

The developer listened, changing from 3 stars to 5. Longtime satisfied user since reeder 3, was complaining about folders not able to rename thus rated this version 3 stars, 2 for app lack of real upgrade, 1 for old time’s sake. Then the dev listened and released some functions I was requesting, now a satisfied user again, changing my rating from 3 stars to 5. Btw, app is beautiful, but UX can be improved, the design logic for gestures/actions aren’t always the same, thus getting me a bit confused, mostly when editing folders or subscriptions.

App needs some updates. The app is pretty looking. Nice animations but that’s it. It’s slow to load articles (with just 25 feeds only) post images many times don’t load when scrolling through the list. When trying to get full article text, is a hit or miss. The app definitely need some updates. However, it hasn’t been updated in a year. It could be an abandoned app now.

Quality quality quality. Reeder app continues to dominate in quality, appearance, customization, and features. Happy to continue to support on MacOS and iOS. Appreciate that the app is kept a one time but would be willing to pay monthly as I use it multiple times per day!

Will give 5 stars when bookmark and place holder is introduced. Will give 5 stars when bookmark and place holder is introduced. When pausing an article, the app doesn't have a tool to bookmark the location of the article where I paused, therefore, I regularly lose my place in the article because I can’t remember where I was holding. Please introduce the ability to bookmark the reader’s location. I’m sure that I’m not the only one with this issue.

cannot find installed fonts. I installed some fonts with a font manager app which installed in appStore. I can find those fonts in "ios > Settings > General > Fonts". But when I changing font in "reeder > Preferences > Reading > TEXT > Font > Custom" I wish Reeder could support install custom fonts by icloud Files、AirDorp and so on. Because my Common language is not English, I need change custom font for reading.

Lacks keyboard input. After using this app for a month, my initial impressions remain accurate. This app is designed for touch input. I primarily use it on my ipad with a keyboard attached, and really simple keyboard input is missing. I will also mention that there is very little documentation and my support emails to the developer went unanswered, something that is fine maybe for a free app but less so for a paid app *** Initial impressions: it seems like a solid RSS reader with a lot of pretty animations, etc. Some really basic controls seem to be missing, developer is a bit slow to respond to support questions. I plan to continue using this app for the time being.

I was stuck on an old version of Reeder for a long time…. I thought that Reeder was an abandoned project, hasn't had updates for years, so that was that. Finally went to the app store to buy a replacement.. and found this. On the one hand, thank you for not nagging. On the other hand… I WOULD HAVE BOUGHT THE NEW ONE SOONER IF I KNEW IT EXISTED. lol

Love it except when doing initial sync on new devices. I’ve been using Reeder since it first came out and paid for each new release across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. This is one of my few instant buy apps. The only downside which is rare is whenever I have to erase a device and reinstall or move to a new device the initial sync from iCloud feeds takes hours for me. I do have a lot of feeds and. Lot of saved and unread articles usually but it can sometimes take a day for the initial sync to complete. Again this is a rare instance but always happens in these instances.

So clean and noninvasive. This app took me a short minute to figure out but that seems to be a fault of the sites you may try to follow, some of them require a little more digging to find the RSS link to add their feeds to the app. The app is very worth the up front cost to have a custom newsfeed that won’t shove its own ads in your face or push additional feeds that you didn’t ask for.

Loses cookies. In a recent idea I no longer stay logged into websites through Reeder. Even if I sign in, if I close the in app browser and open it again I’m signed back out. This used to work. Follow up: Seems it was an iOS bug. I rebooted and cookies work again.

Great client!. I have used Reeder for a very long time. Since the days of Reeder 3. Every big release gets better and better. Honestly, this app deserves the full 5 stars, but I have one big issue. Why is there no full support for VoiceOver? Currently I have to configure the app to work with it through the apple settings and it works good. But I think it would work much better if it was native. Being visually impaired, I can see well enough to tap through the menus and at least VoiceOver works when reading the article itself. I think this great app would appeal to more people if this accessibility feature was implemented. Other than that, love the app. I highly recommend it to those looking to buy it. And if you still use RSS, certainly this app is worth every penny.

The best RSS reader just got better. Reeder is hands down my favorite RSS app, and this is another fantastic update to an already amazing app. iCloud syncing works flawlessly, the new design feels fresh, modern and clean, and there’s no *bleeping* subscription, which by itself is enough to make me want to support this app and developer. Oh, and widgets. 👍

Still no shortcut to read later. So much to love but one major issue that is so frustrating. When in your feeds such as Feedly, etc, the bottom bar has starred, unread, archived but is missing Reading List. So no easy way to quickly get to your Reeder Read Later list other than swiping back multiple time then choosing reading list drilling down then having to do that in reverse to get back to the feeds and then doing that everytime all day when going back and forth. Everytime there is an update I check the release notes hoping finally there will be a button to get to the read later list when in your feeds, but so far no luck. Would be a 5 star app otherwise.

iCloud Syncing stopped working. iCloud syncing stopped working on my iPhone few weeks ago and I had to delete and reinstalled the app several times trying to fix the issue, but all efforts have failed. Reeder used to be my favorite news app, and I still using the Mac OS app, but have to look for a new alternative to replace it on my iPhone. I’ve simply lost my patience waiting to have it fixed, maybe will try again when the Reeder 6 come out.

The best thing since Google Reader. I haven’t found anything I’ve liked/used as much as Google reader until I started using this. It’s a great way to look for something to read when I have a bit of time. Getting support for the new Matter app would be great, I’d love to just swipe to add the article to it instead of having to use iOS share feature.

Saves my life and time.. Very solid app, plenty of options to customize. Doesn’t pidgeonhole you into creating an account and syncing your entire rss library through them. I would recommend checking the spelling under the reset option on Feeder’s settings - it should be “your data won’t be restored!” instead of “you’re data”. :) Good work!

Widget/Background Refresh Rarely Work, If At All. Since iOS 14 I’ve been looking to find more apps with useful widgets and was happy to see reeder add them. Unfortunately the widget has been anywhere from mostly to entirely useless. Initially, the only way that the widget populated content for me was if I opened the app and manually pulled the feeds then, upon exiting the app, the widget would show whatever I had left unread. Since the last update, it seems like that does not work any more. The background refresh never seems to work, so the majority of the time the widget just sits there empty. reeder has always been a great RSS app but I really only paid for the update to get the widgets, if they’re fixed my opinion of the app would go up considerably.

iCloud sync? Done deal!. I’ve been using Reeder since v3 and it’s — hands down — the best feed reader available on iOS. The ability to sync feeds through iCloud (instead of through a third-party or self-hosted service) just makes it that much better.

iCloud syncing is now very broken. I have been using this app for years. Paying for upgrades and recommending it as best in class. Unfortunately it’s now been months since it has synced reliably. I use the app on iPad, Mac and iPhone. I rely on it being up to date and in sync. As I write this it last updated my feeds over 2 days ago on iOS and just spins and spins. I have reinstalled and re-downloaded. I have hoped the last few updates would solve this. I will have to move to a competitor if this isn’t properly resolved.

Beautiful app, but adding next buttons on the sides would make iPad experience better. In a previous version of Reeder the iPad version had previous and next arrows on the side of the screen while viewing an article. I wish the developer would bring this back and let you customize which side to put them. Also, I was and am happy to support the developer by purchasing every version along the way, but otherwise I don’t see any significant reason to upgrade from Reeder 4 other than widgets (if you use those).

Fantastic RSS Reader. This is my favorite client for all of my subscribed blogs and news sources. I love the ability to force “reader view” for subscriptions that only post a few sentences to the RSS feed. The only feature I wish it had was the ability to do quick notes. I don’t know how feasible that is, but it would make taking notes on articles so much better. (Highlighted text in quick notes would be a *huge* bonus, but I think that’s probably something only Safari can do?)

Pretty Good. Image Previews could use some improvement. Medium previews offers a square aspect ratio, but Large crops a lot of the image out. I wish Reeder had better handling of different aspect ratios so the entire image could appear within the Image Preview. I also have some issues with certain RSS feeds from Reddit consistently retrieving posts from years ago, despite continuing to Mark As Read. Otherwise, the app is pretty slick and modern. I like it.

Useful and elegantly designed but…. Mark above/below as read” has been very useful. I appreciate the feature :) The app is also elegantly designed. I enjoy reading articles with it. Wondering, though: Why not “Mark here and above/below as read”? It can remove the extra step of marking a selected article as read. Odd, but related: Articles marked read above/below a selected article marked read are removed from article list (as expected), but selected article stays in list (unexpectedly). I need to pull down on list for selected article to be removed. Another oddity: “mark all as read” marks all as read AND returns to list of feeds. I would expect to stay in same feed.

Background refresh is working now. But it takes few days to get it working. Maybe developers should mention this from the very beginning instead of letting people have to dive into the support page.

Features like iCloud Read Later are no longer working. iCloud read later stopped working on the desktop months ago. More recently, it stopped working on the mobile app. No support responses from developer. It’s a shame, it’s a really great app UI and the functions that work, work well. Just feels like we’re being left in the dust with a paid app. Update: months later, This was fixed. No response (ever!) from developer on support requests, but the fixes were made. So the app works again, but the dev continues to be non-responsive.

Love it but need. I love Reeder! I have it on all my Apple devices. But I wish it’d support newsletters like Feedbin does. I’d be willing to pay $5 a month for newsletters support. It’s worth it to keep my inbox from getting cluttered and to support my RSS addiction lol. And email support on the website…I’ve never received replies to my emails.

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Nice. Been using Reeder for years, I'd be lost if it ever went away

Article viewer still doesn’t work. Good app until you have to read something in the article viewer, have to kill the app every time I need to read something in the article viewer.

Reeder is the first app I install on any new device. In last 14 years I used Apple Products, Reeder has been my go to app for getting news. It’s just so simple, elegant and feels like as if Apple has made an RSS app.

Best RSS reader. I've tried quite a few but nothing beats reeder! I wish that the reader could be improved a bit.

Twitter login won't go away. Every time I open the app it pops a twitter login. I don't have any twitter feeds left (all deleted). Extremely annoying

Still the best RSS reader. I’ve been using Reeder in multiple versions, across iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS, for years. I love the clarity of the user interface, the compatibility with multiple aggregating services, the ability to check my feeds on any platform I currently have in front of me, and its totally robust function. I’d tried many feed readers prior to Reeder, and even a couple since, but nothing is as good as Reeder. Highly recommended.

Custom font bugs. Some custom font bugs are found on iPad and iPhone. Custom fonts are supported for articles’ headline, but those fonts of articles’ content are not updated.

Great app, but missing modern features. Reeder is a great RSS app, but it's missing some modern features such as the ability to filter feeds to ignore items with matching keywords, deduplication, summarisation etc...

Good but lack of Vision Pro support is a deal breaker. Update: I’ve just switched to the app “lire” which works great on all my devices I’d been using Reeder for ages, but the one thing that annoys me most is that after a year there’s still no support at all for Vision Pro. I’m not asking for a fancy new experience, I’d be happy if I could even just use the iPad version on the Vision Pro. From what I’ve seen it’s just a switch you can turn on during compilation.

Thank you. I came here to just say thank you. It is such a breath of fresh air to have an app built in way that I don’t have to care about subscriptions hanging around, some login and passwords into some shady third party service that’ll collect and sell my data. Simply my feeds, simply in my iCloud account, simply on my every device. Thank you so much for your work.

Beautiful intuitive rss reader. I’ve been using variants of reader for over 10 years. Still one of my favourite apps. Reeder Classic for life now. Thanks for the commitment to keeping this app updated.

Reeder 5 for Five Stars. Have used Reeder off and on since version 1, mostly with my Feedbin RSS account. V5 is a terrific update for both iPhone and iPad. A very mature and polished app that benefits from the developer getting paid for each version. Very thankful he can continue to work on this without turning it into a subscription - though it’s one of the apps I use everyday so I’d pay that.

Please add post filtering!. Reeder is wonderful. I love it and I’ve used it for ages. However, the blogs and journals I follow are several times each year overrun with Amazon Prime Day sale posts which junk up more than half of my feed. To be able to filter any posts with “Prime Day” in the title would be life-changing. Please consider implementing this!

A great RSS reader. I’ve been using Reeder since the first version and the app just gets better and better. Version 5 is no different!

Perfect RSS app. Just such a perfectly made RSS app. I’ve used past reeder apps (probably for a decade now) which I’ve always enjoyed. But this v5 has just turned out to be the best yet - with iCloud sync I don’t need any RSS online service. The app never asks for an App Store review - so, when I was using it today, I realised it’s just one of my most stable apps that I don’t want to change - and I have to actually write a full review. Thanks for making such a great app (also love Mela too for similar reasons)!

iCloud to manage my feeds!. This is great. Finally no longer need Feedly. It felt like I just purchased v4 but this is totally worth it. Happy to support the developer. Not to mention it’s a really great app. Been using it since v1 🏆

Vision Pro. I love this app, use it all the time on the iPhone, but disappointed I can’t use it on Vision Pro, not even in iPad mode, will likely need to get another app going forward.

Great potential but Buggy release. (Update 20 October 2020) The developer Silvio must be commended for being responsive to the feedbacks. I was able to have my issues addressed and voice heard. Would recommend giving this app time to improve. Beautiful interface as was Reeder 4! Support the developer for the work put in for making the widgets and iOS 14 support Unfortunately Reeder 5 is too buggy for me to use it for now (18 October 2020) 1. Opening articles from the widget will open them in the default view. The app does not open in Reader view even with the settings 2. The “All” tab shows unread articles only. So once you read the article, it disappears. It needs to be fixed before reeder 5 is useable for me. Back to Reeder 4 for now.

Filter Finction. I enjoy of using Reeder very much! Thank you for developing a such great product. Since some of the RSS web does not have good filter function. I hope Reeder has a filter function in the future so I can filter some of the RSS result. Filter by keyword, include or exclude some of keywords. OVERALL GREAT APPS!

Good flexible rss/atom news reader. A great news reader for those who still like organising their rss feeds the old fashioned way. Was having some syncing issues with reader on two devices. Both of which had been updated from earlier versions. Seems to be working better now. If you hate being locked into one news service this is still the best Reader. Would love a way of filtering out some articles based on keywords in the title. The gaming Site I subscribe to insists on posting Wordle and Querdle answers or hints which I would love to delete automatically from the feed.

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Amazing app. Please, please add a newspaper/magazine view for articles 🙏🏽

worsened. nice ui but glitch and unstable

Unusable. I have Reeder on my iPhone and iPad. The app stopped syncing on my iPhone, tried removing and reinstalling app, now I can’t add my iCloud feed. Gotta look to some other RSS app that actually works now.

Way too expensive for something that doesn’t work properly. It never updates in the background, so I never get notifications, so I miss things constantly. No thanks.

Excellent!. Reeder 5 is really good! The UI is spot on. Reeder has been my go-to RSS reader (for the most part) for a few years now. Reeder 5 is the icing on the cake. Really well done and highly recommended.

App cannot follow/find a single feed I’ve tried. The app simply does not work. I want a refund.

Works. Wished the listing for the iOS and MacOS apps weren’t separate.

Not for me. I’ve tried it so many times but every time I find the UI is just a smidge too clever. I can never figure out how to get a nice reading experience with all the obscure icons hidden everywhere.

Fantastic. By far, it the most used app on my phone.

Love it. One of the best apps on my device! 💪

A solid upgrade. I’ve used Reeder since version 3 on the Mac and on my iPhone. It’s solid, reliable, and beautiful. When I saw version 5 was out it was an instant buy on both platforms and worth every penny.

Still getting regular updates in late 2024!. New iOS 18 dark mode icon included! Thanks dev!

Solid and elegant reeder. My hub for news and learning since many years. Solid upgrade and I am happily paying to support the developer!

Incredible Automatic Reader mode. Finally a beautiful iOS up-to-date UI for a RSS reader with an amazing automatic reader function !!! Could we imagine having an automatic reader mode configuration to enable this globally somewhere in the settings ?

Hard to read garbage. Can’t change background to white. Not contrast-y enough to read comfortably with a poorly implemented FORCED Sepia background. Wish I had not purchased it. Don’t you make the same mistake.

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Best rss app. I love this app, only one I need: magazine view and mix channels news there

The best. If you’re looking for an RSS reader, this is it. Everything about the experience is rock solid and well refined. I’ve been using Reeder for years and it’s one of those quietly reliable apps. I sometimes forget how good it is until I try any other RSS reader.

Obvious bugs and oversights. Unfortunately could not adopt this as my RSS reader. - RSS feed marks items as read and banishes them to the netherworld. Can't find them once I re-open the app. - no Sepia theme. Come on.

Still broken. The issues that were in version 4 (that I reported to the developer) are still in version 5. Find a better app, I know I will. This time I was fooled it’s “shame on me”. And it’s slower. Yay! :( P.S. I went back to Reeder 3 - it’s a delight!

Love it, and. I found iCloud slow, but nobody else was complaining online; Apple or Reeder Classic, so it was just me. I realized instant sync is what I had before so I imported opml from my Files/Dropbox, so now it is as fast as before. As it's from my phone. I am no geek, I just love this product, & then Narwhal 2 for some Reddit content.

Superb!. Highly-recommended. RSS forever! The way to go for busy people that actually read articles. Hoping in the future it offers Twitter post integration so we don’t have to directly visit that SM platform ever (time a-wasting).

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Built-in cloud sync is busted. Been a Reeder user since the beginning. Upgraded to this version thinking I could do away with my RSS service. Unfortunately, the built in sync has me rereading the same headlines half the time, sometimes 4-5 times. There is also no sync between devices so I need to mark items read on my phone and tablet to get things clean. Bummed. Shouldn’t have upgraded.

Simple reader. It’s a simple rss reader, but so far fails on notifications and background app refresh. Support page claims it could take a few days for background app refresh, but this is the first time I’ve heard of that. Hoping it works out so notifications and the widget works reliably

Long time supporter and fan. Feels like I’ve been using this app for nearly 10 years. I would say “keep it up” but this app has truly withstood the test of time and has never disappointed. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

A Masterpiece. The best RSS reader on iOS. Hands down. Everything is so buttery smooth Started with Reeder 1 and bought all versions up until now. Reeder 5 is amazing. The only features I am using are Mark all as read > go to next folder and I really love the new icon And love that the app is not subscription. I paid the $5 just to support the developer. Thank you for maintaining this brilliant app.

Too easy to trigger the “view/share image” which is disturbing. Come on, this is a problem for reeder 4, and now it is there, could you consider to add a timer after how long time when pressing an image, should trigger the pop up box? Or just simply prolong the timer for a reasonable value like 1.5 seconds ? Or use force touch (even it is fading away)

Not worth the upgrade. There’s practically no difference between this and Reeder 4, and the at least one of the new features — scroll to mark as read — doesn’t work for me. Of course, sending in a report to this effect didn’t even merit a response from the developer. 😵‍💫

A joy to use. This app made me fall in love again with RSS. Although some of its UX is peculiar, the overall feeling is of a product made with love and care. Absolutely worth the price.

Perfect. I’m yet to find anything wrong with this app. Is clean and fast. Keep up the quality work.

Solid. Fast, in sync across devices. Powerful features. Problem free. A daily usage tool across iPad, iPhone and Mac.

background refresh totally not working. Even I turn off and on the background refresh switch, it’s still not working

There is no way to save link to Pocket. There is no way to save link to Pocket, from link opened inside Pocket! But I can find the way from link opened inside Feeds. This is not referenced to the Packet app. All inside the Reeder app. Please consider adding the option. Thank you very much!

Will be the last version I purchase. Have been a Reeder supporter for years. The app has been on every iPad, iPhone and Mac that I’ve owned. The recent update and lack of support has brought me to the conclusion that I won’t support the developer going forward. The ability to sync is pretty important for any RSS client, so now that it’s broke just makes for a nice icon on my iPhone. Have reached out asking for assistance and no response. On to the next app.

Syncing is broken as of 7 May 2021. Syncing with Feedly is broken as of 7 May 2021. Background app refresh is no longer working with Feedly.

Almost perfect. Love to be able to add feeds locally and then sync them using iCloud! That and widget support is more than enough to justify the upgrade. Only concern is the widget, which is not updating automatically... hopefully it can be fixed with a quick update

iCloud Sync is broken.. Over the past month, the iPhone and iPad apps are no longer talking to each other. Starred items, as well as to what’s read and unread, are no longer syncing properly. It’s basically making the apps unusable if I can’t pick up from one device to another. Please fix this. This was happening just before iOS 15 hit.

Contrast!. I really dislike the levels of contrast for reading light mode (yes, even with “increase contrast” enabled). I find myself just going straight to the article’s website to read instead.

Awesome app. Its an awesome app with very clean minimal yet very good looking ui with subtle animations. One thing I wish it had: ability to show only 1 or 2 lines from feed title. Some of these feeds have very long titles and they take up a lot of space to show it entirely.

not super optimized. - no alerts for a feed - can’t see feeds individually when put in groups - can’t easily add same feed to different folders - seemed optimized for older version of iOS at least hypothetically - no option to save all links in specific folder.

Best “reeder” app. ...just fix the app icons on iPad. When you chance them, they only change for about 1 seconds and then revert back.

Great, but.... I am enjoying this app. The new widget is great, it does not update on its own. I have to go into the app for it to refresh. Hopefully this is a bug that will be fixed in the near future.

Continues to be my favorite and most used app. Says it all in the title. Ready and willing to ensure this product has a long life span - happy to pay for a Reeder 6 and beyond.

Double Images. Decent newsreader, a number of helpful features, but also, a few unfortunate quirks. The biggest is that images for many feed sources are duplicated when using “reader view” (a must for easy reading). This has been an issue for a long time, but the developer is unresponsive.

Please make it work with apple news. The bionic reading function is so good I want to use it every time I read news

Eh so far. For being number one in App Store there’s a bunch of bugs. Can’t change app icon for instance. Doesn’t register. Hard to navigate. UI is clunky. Reputation of past apps gets you only so far. Hold off for an update. I’ll update my review when it gets smoother

iCloud sync is broken. Few days on both my iPhone and iPad the status “syncing” doesn’t changed and nothing is synced. I wrote two days ago to the developer but still didn’t receive any answer . I’m still waiting.

Buy this instead of the new Reeder. This is an RSS feed reader. It will access subscriptions wherever you have them. The new Reeder does not and is arguably not even an RSS reader. This is fantastic, paradigm-shifting software. The new Reeder is not.

Blank archive. Icon changing is a little buggy, but seems to be an OS problem. Restarting phone fixes this problem. Trying to look at Archive/Read items often loads a blank screen on the first try. Have to back up and go into it again to see the articles. Very frustrating. Buttons at the bottom are a little too small. The star/unread/all is hard to hit accurately. Would love integration with GoodLinks like lire has. Makes it hard to move away from that app.

Disappointing!. This is a gorgeous app for reading articles, however the fact that it does not “still” support push notifications (almost all others do), is strangely disappointing. How is anyone to keep up with latest content without notifications?

Weird setup, no instructions. I have no idea how to use this. I don’t use feeds - I wanted to be able to copy/paste article links. Seems like an easy ask but there isn’t a way to do that. It’s just asking to add all your accounts. Please either explain how to set this up with tooltips or something, or make it easy to read whatever random article we want.

Reader view of feeds that require click through to web. In addition to the text delivered by the RSS feed, this app has a reader view to view the text of the full article within Reeder/the app. Very nice.

Broken?. Recent app version does not seem to pull feeds. I would understand if it is just with one feed but in my case it is all of them. Other than this recent problem, this was an excellent app

Only crashes. I’ve used Reeder for years. I paid for the upgraded to version 5 and all it does is give the message “Reeder crashed the last time it was trying to open its database.” Resetting Reeder doesn’t fix the issue and this message is displayed again and again. I contacted support but there is no reply.

Keeps getting better. Added various usability and setting updates to make the experience better. Best of all I greatly appreciate the developers decision to stay away from the subscription train.

Great and beautiful but lacks twitter integration. i’ve been a Reeder user for years and love the new iCloud syncing and Reader functionality - a lot of services/apps support Twitter feeds now though and I can’t give that up! The Mac app is also a separate purchase.

Almost amazing. Would be 5 stars if articles had word count or estimated reading time like Matter and Readwise competitor apps. Despite missing that key feature, the app is still really good and well worth the money. I use it almost daily.

Fonts are messed up. One of my most used apps of all time but lately, all of the fonts are all messed up in the app - need to go directly to the sites to actually read the posts.

TEN STARS. I do all my reading of the internet in Reeder! I’m very happy to get an upgrade with iCloud syncing where I’d prefer my data - and support an awesome app. I also picked up the Mac version which has a beautiful Big Sur UI refresh - and so all my stuff stays synced up!

iCloud Sync Finally Fixed. iCloud Sync has finally been fixed! Updated review for the fix. Best RSS reader around. The read later feature is a must have. The design is simple and top notch. Money well spent!

Loyal customer for many years.. The just added Reddit feature is awesome!! Twitter was also added but i don’t use it.

Attention to detail. Reeder is one of the best RSS readers out there. I've tried many and none come close to the features and functionality of this program. Every update and version continue to improve upon and already amazing program. Of you use RSS, you owe it to yourself to invest in the best option available. Version 5 has done it again and I will be able to say good bye to relying on 3rd party feed managers.

It is a good app but need a more frequent upgrade.. Nice app for RSS read but we need a more frequent update for a better network connection And more function.

very confusing. this app just throws you in with no clear instructions. I wanted to figure out if I could use it for the books app but found no instructions on it. I would not recommend this app to anyone except for people who read a lot of online articles.

Great app abandoned by developer. tried emailing a couple times about enabling Apple Vision Pro support and developer won’t respond. don’t appreciate that after purchasing Reeder on all the platforms it’s available on. app hasn’t seen any meaningful changes since i bought it years ago.

It was good for awhile…. I have paid for a few versions of this product and like the design. I got notified by the developers that they are going to be making this a legacy app (I guess they’re making some sort of new product or subscription service). NetNewsWire is a great alternative that is free.

Keeps marking unread as read. I really like the layout and the UI, but it drives me crazy when unread items at the bottom of my list get marked as read when I try refreshing Unread on iPad. Sometimes I have older news items that I haven't gotten to yet, and then they just disappear. It's like it's registering a scroll action. I've read through the other reviews for this app, but none of them share my concerns. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? It's just that I've never had this problem with other feed readers. Unread: An RSS Reader is much better in this regard, but it's much much more expensive.

Keeps getting better. The paid upgrade from 4 to 5 was well worth it for me. Having iCloud sync track what I’ve read across devices was the feature I’ve been waiting for.

Decent reader, unresponsive developer. I've attempted to report a bug in the app several times over the last month but have received no response. I had high hopes that this was going to be the perfect RSS reader, and while it's close, it's pretty hard to live with a glaring bug that causes images not to show up.

Good RSS reader. It’s pretty and works well. Only complaint is that if you’re scrolling through a list when it refreshes, you’ll lose you spot. Sounds little now but let that happen every day and it gets super annoying.

Crashes frequently. Crashes so often that it’s basically unusable, and loses scroll position in the text each time 😞

Back to the top!. I love this app, it’s always improving and issues are fixed quickly.