Solid RSS Reader

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.

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