Description
Google Reader Client.
- Syncs with Google Reader
- Browse by feed or folders
- Manage starred items, notes
- Mark as unread
- Image caching
- State saving
- Slider control for list entries:
> slide to right to toggle read/unread
< slide to left to toggle starred/unstarred
Services/sharing:
- Send to Instapaper, ReadItLater or Readability
- Save to Delicious* or Pinbard
- Save to Zootool
- Post to Twitter
- Post to Facebook
- In-app email for sharing articles
- Instapaper and Google Mobilizer
- Open with Safari
- Copy Link
Please note:
A (free) Google Reader account is required to use this app.
(see http://google.com/reader)
What's New in Version 1.5.5
Retina graphics for the new iPad
iPad Screenshots
Customer Reviews
The Worst iPad RSS/Google Reader Application
I have quite a few RSS reader apps on my iPad since I first got the iPad 2 after it came out. I now have the "new" iPad "3" and of course I purchased several of the apps that Apple had advertised specifically for the "new iPad".
Compared to all the other newsreader apps I have, this one is hands down the worst. Why? Well, it's not because of features - this seems to have some adequate features and relatively decent UI design. Quite simply, it's because the colors are low contrast. For some reason, the developer has chosen to have the main content displayed as dark gray text on a light gray background. The amount of eyestrain that this causes - even with the very bright, high-resolution iPad 3 display, meant that I could not use this app for more than 5 minutes without physically feeling discomfort.
I spent time going through all the options (they are in the Settings app, which is also inconvenient), and found no way to have Reeder use a better color scheme (such as black text on white background or vice versa).
Instead of this application, I strongly recommend the use of "NewsRack." It was not updated for the Retina iPad specifically, but due to the way it works, all of the content is Retina quality already. (A few of the UI icons are not Retina quality, but that is of no matter.) It has a similar UI to Reeder (it's actually more easily used in my opinion, especially if you occasionally switch off using it with your left or right hand), syncs very well with Google, will download and cache images offline, and has very flexible options for sending articles to various places. I use the "default recipient" feature all the time when I send articles via e-mail.
I've used almost every other RSS reader app that costs under $10, including Feedly, Flipboard, Pulse, etc. Reeder is the worst of the lot due to the bad choice of colors. Avoid it at all cost (or at least at the $5 it costs).
badly thought out.
The creator of this app has built the app for his own use style, and his own use style only. If you fit into this, you'll be happy. If not, well...
Design 101: If a new design is considered, the new design should solve all the problems the 'old and clunky' design (such as design of feeddler) has solved. Reeder makes a good attempt, but it is ever so slightly off the mark that it's almost useless.
Example in point: I have feeds in folders. So the app shows me white boxes. White boxes?
Example in point: The feed names are truncated. I can feel the designer's urge there. You might want to do good design that neatly fits under the boxes, right? Nobody cares that much about feed names, right? No. The feed names are more important than absolutely perfect layout. I can see the problems this can procure in a grid environment such as this app's first screen, but still, if you are insisting on truncating the feed names against the real information needs, you're a bad designer, period.
Most important example in point: I have feeds in folders. When I click onto a folder, it doesn't open another grid with feeds named on it. It opens a feed window, and acts as if all the separate feeds in the same folder was from the same feed, and there is no way to list a single feed within a folder. Even if there is, I could not find it in the last 15 minutes that I used the application, hence I writing this review. I mean no disrespect, but this is a mistake a first year designer in a design college would make. Really? That just rendered the app useless for me unless I restructure my google reader in a way without folders, and then, I will lose the ability to find anything with the web interface because it will turn to be a huge mess.
What is the tile view for?
I'm not sure why the tile view exists (see developer's screenshots), but that's my only knock against this app. That view doesn't provide much information and getting sent back to it after marking all as read is annoying. I'd much rather have the list views be the top level.
- $4.99
- Category: News
- Updated: Mar 15, 2012
- Version: 1.5.5
- Size: 6.1 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Silvio Rizzi
- © 2011 Silvio Rizzi
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 3.2 or later
