Reeder 3 App Reviews

Solid RSS reader, can’t think of anything to complain about, works great with feedwrangler.

I love Reeder and Reeder 3 is the best upgrade ever, and it looks clean and makes my morning and afternoon RSS reading a joy.

It took a while for me to be forced from NNW3.5. And I do have trouble with some UI differences. But this is pleasing and efficient. I use it maybe 15 times a day… More than almost everything Internet on my machine.

It’s a very good and efficient RSS reader. The only problem is that it doesn’t show the more popular articles in feedly - thats how I find the most useful ones between hundreds of articles that I just don’t care about, and the reason why I’ll probably won’t use it as much as I wanted to.

Just bought this for $9.99. Worked the first few hours after I loaded up all my feeds now it doesn’t work at all. I launch it and it just hangs when its trying to refresh the feeds. I’ve tried rebooting, getting latest updated, etc but still not working. After reading the sparse help section on their site it says I can do a reset but why should I have to go through the headache of wiping my configs after adding and organizing all of my RSS feeds? The last thing I would want to do is to have to go lookup every RSS URL and readd/organize the entire structure. Even tried looking for a config file in the app directory to hopefully backup my RSS feeds to no avail.

The last update make arabic articles unreadable. Please fix the problem

until you fix it I’ll give it 1 star

This app is essentially Malware. Since I installed it just a few days ago, this is what I’m getting: both Firefox and Chrome are crashing. Readability and Avast on Chrome are also crashing. Safari still works but is extremely slow, and I have 45 Mbs download. I constantly have to reboot my Wi-Fi (this could be El Capitan). I am going to trash this app and go back to Feedly on my iMac and Newsify for my iPad.

Ive had it for 20 minutes and already have enough problems to make me want to go back to vienna or my ancient version of newsfire * Can import OPML! Cmon guys, free ones can handle this. * Manually managing RSS feeds is difficult and confusing ("RSS" account?) and lacks functionality * Cant do animated gifs - add the imgur gallery and see what I mean. 1fps and seems to _never_ stop downloading. Horrible! * Really stupid "make images span the whole width" but "enforce padding on text" design for reading. Great for silly design and food blogs, bad for real world. * HUGE amounts of wasted space. Article list groups by day (why oh why!), lots of vertical wasted space, huge blank bars on the sides of articles, etc... Old news reader shows 28 article headlines in the same space this uses for 8! Unbelievable. Shows the blog title for every single item even when viewing a single blog (lack of attention to detail here is evident) Its an app that NEEDS to run in a widescreen monitor so it can try to be "beautiful". * Messes up horizontal scrolling/formating on blogs with code samples in them (I assume its doing some CSS tricks to format the article) * Had to force quit, now I have two "RSS" accounts. * Cant move feeds between local RSS accounts. So had to re-do all my work. * Doesnt show you the URL the feed is pointing to, only lets you edit the name! * No per-feed settings for fetch frequency and retention policies (hello, some feeds publish 20 times a day, some once a week) * "Accounts" bar * The UI is designed for an iPad, it seems Really, I think if you are using this to integrate with some RSS service that watches all your traffic, then Im sure it works fine. If you like manually adding and managing your own feeds, it really falls down. Ancient freeware works better for that, sadly. I guess Im not using it "right", but it seems like a trendy UI applied to a basic product, with a corresponding loss of functionality and clarity.

Not much to say here. Works extremely well, and looks very nice to boot!

I can’t fathom why this app has so many 5 star reviews and such a high rating. In all honesty, this app is terrible. It looks pretty, but the functionality is seriously lacking. For starters, at first launch it wants you to add an account. This window isn’t clear on what it’s asking you to do. The default settings hide news feeds that don’t have any unread content, so it’s hard to tell if you’ve successfully added anything. If you create a group, you can not delete the folder or change it’s name. If you delete all the feeds in the folder, it will hide it, but it’s still there. Deleting feeds has to be done one at a time, you absolutely cannot select multiple feeds and delete them. And, finally, if you want to rearrange feeds and move them to different folders, it’s completely awkward they way that’s done. There’s no drag and drop, it’s a series of checkmarks. I got my money back on this one, it’s not worth any price. If the functionality could match the interface, it would be a good app. But, what you’re really dealing with is a modern interface with early 1990s functionality.

I love Reeder for just how simple it is to use. I really only use it for Feedly reading, but the shortcuts and view options make this my go-to for anything RSS.

Update 2: I’m noticing that the subpixel anitaliasing opton for all fonts in this app is turned off. This makes the already thin text very difficult to ready on non-retina screens. It also has the horrible sideeffect of making text very blurry. Subpixel antialasing is a great feature that makes text very readiable. Turning it off is chaning a setting without any good reason. Please turn it back on. I do, however, realize that this comment is like shouting into the wind. The developer does not care about supporting his app and never responds to support requests or feature suggestions. Updating: There is zero support from the developer. None. You’ll never get a response back whatever the issue might be. Don’t expect any help once you buy it. Changing the review because of that. The app is great, has almost all of the features of the 1.0 Reeder and supports plenty of syncing backends. The support, however, is terrible. It’s essentially non-existant. If you run into any sort of problem or bug, good luck. The developer doesn’t care and won’t get back to you. He might fix the issue or he might not. Also the updates to the app take a long time to be released.

Please, please, please set an aging limit. What are we to do with 300,000 posts beside delete them all which we don’t want to do. 1.The ability to set an "aging" limit on posts that changes their status to "read" after a certain number of days. While read posts are removed at a user specified interval, without this critical feature, when posts are not marked read, they just accumulate. We have accumulated well over 100,000 unread posts. While it is possible to delete them all, this would remove CURRENT, unread posts as well. I would like to set posts to be marked read after, for example, 5 days. 2.The second, less critical feature we would like to see added is the ability to have the current highlighted post in the title list, centered vertically, instead of at the bottom. While this may seem a minor issue, when using the keyboard to visually scan hundreds of posts very quickly, it is extremely useful to be able to read ahead (i.e. further down the list) while scrolling. With the current highlighted post at the bottom of the list, new post titles appear, one-at-a-time, from beow the window, making reading the next title below of the currently selected post impossible.

This app is just plain confusing!!!

Sadly this program has poor keyboard support, including no support for page up/down and home/end while reading articles. It’s pretty annoying.

I’m using this app with Feedly and I’ve found this app doesn’t pick up all of my feeds. Bascially, any category that requires me to click “# more source” on the Feedly.com website doesn’t get picked up by this app. I emailed support with no response in nearly a month and no fix. I thought I was getting all of my sources but I wasn’t. A little embarrassing this has probably been the case for a very long time before I noticed it, but that doesn’t excuse the shortcoming of the app and I knocked off an extra star for no support. I would have even accepted a “we know it’s broken and we’re working on it” type of response but I didn’t even get that. I’m pretty happy with the design, so it gets two stars until its fixed.