Unread – An RSS Reader
By Nice Boy LLC
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Description
Rediscover the joy of reading your favorite writers with Unread, an RSS reader for iPhone.
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Unread for iPad, an all new app, is coming soon!
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“Unread is refreshingly simple and elegant. If you subscribe to RSS feeds and read them on your iPhone, take some time and use Unread for a while — I think you’ll be glad you did.”
— Shawn Blanc
“Unread provides a fantastic mix of elegant typography, intuitive gesture-based, one-handed navigation, iOS 7 features, and modern sharing tools that, in my opinion, make it the best RSS reader for iPhone today.”
— Federico Viticci
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FULL-SCREEN READING
Focus on the act of reading with Unread’s full-screen article view. Articles are typeset in beautiful fonts from Hoefler & Co. Let nothing stand between you and the words of your favorite writers except a thin sheet of glass.
DESIGNED FOR COMFORT
Move anywhere in the app with a sweep of your thumb, all without having to reposition your hand. Unread’s stacked navigation was built from scratch to be the most comfortable interface you’ve ever used. Flick left-to-right to go back from anywhere on the screen, just like dealing a deck of cards. Tug any screen right-to-left to show options for that screen — just like pull-to-refresh, but sideways.
MULTIPLE THEMES
Like to read in bed? Don’t wake up your partner with glaring white light. Unread has multiple themes designed to make it easy to read under daytime or nightime lighting conditions. There are several fun hidden themes, too.
SHARE THE GOOD STUFF
You shouldn’t have to struggle to send articles to the places you like best. Apps should do that hard work for you. Share your favorite articles via the rich options built with OvershareKit, an open-source sharing library for iOS. OvershareKit was born inside of Unread, and is being discovered by more apps all the time.
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SUPPORTED SERVICES
Unread requires an account with one of the following RSS syncing services:
- FeedWrangler
- Feedbin
- Feedly
- Fever
- NewsBlur
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SO MUCH TO LOVE ABOUT UNREAD
• BACKGROUND REFRESH • Unread keeps your subscriptions up to date with power-efficient background updating. Articles and images are saved to your device for convenient offline reading.
• SHARING • Send articles to Instapaper, Pocket, Readability, Pinboard, or your Reading List. Share articles and images via App.net or Twitter with as-you-type syntax highlighting, swipe gesture shortcuts for the cursor, and automatic smart quotes. Send a snippet of highlighted text to Omnifocus or Things for a quick reminder. Even more options are on the way.
• QUICK ACCESS • Double tap an article summary to instantly toggle read/unread status. Press and hold to show a menu of options. This is great for quick sharing or for jumping straight to the web to view the original article.
• LINKED-LISTS • If an article is a linked-list article, like those written by John Gruber at Daring Fireball, the article summary shows the domain name of the linked item’s site. Many times the domain is a punchline all by itself.
• BIG THUMBNAILS • Turn on the optional inline thumbnails to see big previews of article images while you scroll.
• FOOTNOTE POPOVERS • Articles with properly-formatted footnotes will show convenient popovers when you need to read a footnote.
• PERSISTENT WEB BROWSER • Instead of a transient browser that disappears as soon as it goes offscreen, Unread’s web browser stays around. It remembers your back/forward history and retains the current page. Now you can finally switch back to finish an article without losing your place on an interesting site. You will wonder why every app doesn’t work this way.
• VOICE OVER & ACCESSIBILITY • Unread has 100-percent VoiceOver coverage. Every screen and every feature is available to users with vision impairments. Font sizes are adjustable, too, from Tiny to EPIC and many points between.
What's New in Version 1.3.1
[FIX] Fixed a couple of minor crashers.
[FIX] Fixed an issue that prevented mark all as read on some devices.
[FIX] Fixed an issue that caused max sync counts to be ignored.
[FIX] Fixed a bug that inverted the actions for the Articles section under certain conditions.
[FIX] Fixed a bug that caused shake-to-clear-read-items to break after viewing a web site.
iPhone Screenshot
Customer Reviews
Excellent
Have long since deleted all my other rss apps. Unread is just too nice looking and functional. If i could have a link to hot list on fever, it would be 5*, but definitely not a deal breaker. Outstanding reader app. Give it a shot.
Previous review: Just downloaded this Unread app since i noticed sunstroke hadn't been updated in a while and, after further investigation, will never be updated again. Ive had Unread for 20 minutes and just love it. Its simple, easy gestures, no extra crap for me to fiddle with when i really don't need to. I love that i have no idea how many unread items there are as i browse. I think i subconsciously browse a bit slower this way and don't flick thru just to see my unread count go to zero. If i really care to know, a flick back to the feeds list provides the pertinent info.
Only thing I immediately miss is being able to check out my "Hot" section of Fever. That would make it 5*. Anyway, big thumbs up on first impressions. Holla.
Great way to read RSS
UPDATE: Months later, this is still my go-to RSS reader. The design is perfect and makes reading a pleasure.
There are a handful of apps on my home screen that have been there for a very long time. My RSS reader was one of them. I’ve tried a bunch of RSS readers, but Unread is the first iPhone RSS reader to displace my old favorite. There are two keys to Unread for me. First, the reading view is terrific. Second, Unread allows me to share items across many services. And while those are both important aspects of Unread, it’s the design of the app both in terms of its interface and gestures that makes getting through hundreds of feeds fast, efficient and an all around pleasure.
The two additional things I’d like to see in Unread are the ability to reorder the share service list that pops up and an iPad version.
Clean and simple, best RSS reader on iPhone by far
This is one of those apps that’s so pleasant and nice to use that it just makes me happy. There are a few of them on iOS. Previous to Unread, all the RSS readers I tried were massive compromises. Jared Sinclair clearly thought about what makes a reading experience worthwhile and executed on it.
The app respects the wishes of content owners in having the app require going to the web site for a full article if that’s how a given site has their feed set up; it’s a thoughtful touch that shows the consideration with which the app was written.
Unread gives a clean, smooth, and pleasant reading experience. It’s completely unlike anything you’ve used before for RSS, which was most likely cluttered and made reading RSS feel like a chore.
- $4.99
- Category: News
- Updated: Jun 17, 2014
- Version: 1.3.1
- Size: 27.6 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Nice Boy LLC
- © 2014
Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. This app is optimized for iPhone 5.