Leaf - RSS News Reader App Reviews

Only thing that would be nice is more control over notifications and setting a different refresh interval for each source (or maybe just stagger them all by 30 seconds?). Still, it’s quite awesome!

Leaf is a clean, well designed, and fast RSS Reader. It doesn’t just link out to a webpage like many RSS readers I’ve used in the past. It offers 3 different viewing modes: Summary, Clutter-Free, and Webpage. I tend to go with the summary, which seems to load the fastest for me. It also has a pretty good search tool that looks up feed urls for you. Mostly, I love that the app gets out of the way and lets you focus on the content. Well worth the price.

I like the simplicity of this application. It would be useful to arrange news from old to new though.

Minimalistic, so elegant and easy to use. Makes me cry! Go get one!

I’ve tried several others, and they were clumsy or a pain to use. Leaf works smoothly. I’ve not had any trouble reading any of my feeds or reposting to social media.

This is a good app. It meets my needs, works well and has a nice interface.

This is a simply wonderful app with a clean, simple easy to use interface - love it! One feature I can think of is some way to add sites that do not have RSS feeds...

Just what i needed. Simple and easy to post.

Within one minute of using this app it addressed everything I like about a RSS news reader. I like the various viewing options and the pleasant interface.

This is my first RSS app and it has changed the way I read news forever. It’s simplicity is attractive to the new user and I will continue to use this problem-free app.

Every app should have the dark mode option. This one does so I love it. RSS featrues work as expected clean interface, fast, notifications are good. what else could you ask for.

Twice in a few months it has done this: It crashes, for whatever reason and when it restarts all my feeds completely gone, no favorites, NOTHING. It was a good app and now but this is too much work. I don’t want to be reloading feeds and losing stuff I marked as favorites, for no reason whatsoever. NOT RECOMMENDED, GET SOMETHING ELSE.

Great app! Clean and easy to setup. Would be great if there’s a highlight and note taking function like Instapaper.

This app beats Reeder 3 in all aspects! I was looking for Reeder replacement for a while which seems stop improving long time ago. I’m happy find this app when it was on sale for $1.99. the best part is ability to search in your feeds without paying for Feedly premium.

The app is solid, but it is a paid app. I point this out because there are quality apps on mobile platforms that are free and are better in some ways such as Newsify because of it’s newspaper like layout and other things. Sure it has ads, but some people don’t mind it. On Mac, it seems that the selection is limited so for quality apps you get what you pay for, but again, it’s kinda weird having to pay for an app that isn’t as nice as some free ones on the mobile front. Nonetheless, this app is probably one of the best RSS reader for Mac OS right now. The others are pretty basic, but the style of this one is beautiful. It does what it says, and that’s congragate your RSS feeds, not to mention has feedly sync as well. I like the “clutter-free” view very much, as most readers will just show the RSS summary and then you have to switch to a browser to see the full article, defeating the purpose of making it easy to read and enjoy your feeds. Doesn’t seem to work with all websites, but a majority. Another thing I like is being able to open the webpage within the app, making it unnecessary to navigate to another window, which is a nice touch. Can’t forget to mention, it remember your views per feed, so you’re not constantly switching when you’re reading a different article on a different feed. Last nice touch are gestures. Those with Magic Trackpads or Magic Mice definately are able to take more advantage of gestures, such as nagivating to the next article. On the downside of things, gestures are limited to just that. Would be nice to be able to use gestures like you could in the Mail app to mark things starred or read. Also, the feed view for read vs unread could be better too. Instead of removing read items from the unread view, would be nice to be able to keep them till we hit mark all read incase we skim too fast through an article, especially due ot the gestures.

I was looking for a reader that integrates with notification center and is none invasive. This one seems to do the job. However, one of the feeds I’m following that workds just fine in Vienna RSS doesn’t work in this one. I emailed the support twice and never heard back. Considering this is a commercial product (and not a free one), I would think at least an automated email in response would be appreciated, but instead this is a black hole. Another annyoing thing is that the RSS feed URLs are not editable. This matters for feeds behind passwords, which the developer suggests we incorporate into the the URL. So what are we to do if the password changes? Good luck.

I really enjoy Leaf as it’s clean and simple. Leaf has everything you could want in an RSS reader and it doesn’t try to force feed you features that you don’t want or need. What it does is give you a an elegant no fuss approach to keeping track of your favourite news and blogs. Leaf is conveniently compatible with your other online RSS trackers and allows you to share across your social networks. It lets you intuitively organise and keep track of multiple RSS feeds and view their content in the format best suited. Leaf gives me a filter to find the news, articles and papers that i care about and then view them in a beautiful interface. I load it up once a day to check about a dozen newsfeeds and it suits this application. I keep my Dock on the left and unlike other newsreaders it copes with this. If you try a lot of RSS readers, you will eventually end up Leaf. If you are lucky enough to try Leaf as the first RSS reader, save your time to explore others. Leaf is a nice and simple app for nice and simple people like me. You suscribe to feeds - it displays the feeds’ articles in summary, uncluttered or website mode - you read the articles with the eyes you were born with. I’d been looking around for a great newsreader to keep on eye on blogs and other news feeds into one application and stumbled upon Leaf.

I am happy with Leaf. It performs as expected and almost never crashes. The only suggestion I would like to make is that there should be a keystroke or keystroke combination to hide the sidebar. I haven’t discovered one which forces me to use the dropdown menu.

cannot save entire articles to evernote, only the link. This is a deal breaker for me. This would be my sole Mac RSS reader if this freatire worked. The developers have done a great job with this app otherwise.

Seemed like a good, inexpensive alternative to the other (better) RSS app, but they’ve really gone backward with the updates. Themes are horrendous, settings don’t stay consistent, and any app that begs to have me sign up for developer newsletters, download their other apps, or leave app reviews upon every launch is usually an automatic trash for me. I’ll find something better, which shouldn’t be difficult.