Silvio Rizzi Reeder 2.0.1 for Mac For those who don't need advanced features, Reeder 2 lets you quickly and easily read your RSS feeds. Gesture control and support for plenty of sharing services. Reeder 3.0 feels faster than Reeder 2.0, looks cleaner, and has better sharing. The elements it changes and moves around aren’t just pretty – they contribute to providing a fluid and more powerful experience. Three years later, Reeder still is the best Google Reader. The longtime App Store favorite is better than ever. Price: $5/£5 Version: 4.0.3 Size: Silvio Rizzi Seller: 20.6 MB Platform: iPhone and iPad. Reeder, a longtime favorite RSS client of ours, is now better than ever.
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However, I’ve always preferred Reeder. Reeder is the first app I bought for the iPhone back in 2010, and is one of those apps I find myself buying before even reading a feature list.
So when Reeder 4 debuted a few weeks ago for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac, I only discovered the app’s new features after the apps had been installed.
Reeder 4 doesn’t rewrite the playbook that made it one of the premier RSS apps for every Apple platform, but it introduces a few niceties, like smoother and more friendly animations, a refreshed and more consistent code base across iOS and macOS, a new native Read Later feature, and Bionic Reading support. The app also debuted with a new icon, which may be the only hiccup I can come up with at this point.
Design Improvements
Looking at a screenshot of Reeder 4 reveals how discrete the design changes are from version 3 to version 4.
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Where we had a light, sepia, dark, and black theme before, you can now set the theme to automatically change on the Mac. (Unfortunately, this feature doesn’t exist on the iPhone or iPad, which is particularly curious, as automatic theme changing is such a common feature across hundreds — maybe thousands — of other apps.) Lists can be pulled to refresh, while articles flow into and out of lists and menus by sliding in smoothly and gracefully. The article viewer has been cleaned up as well, providing a better reading experience.
Back when Reeder 4’s public beta debuted for the Mac, I pointed out how much I liked Reeder’s new menu:
This new settings menu sets a new standard for how settings should be displayed, changed, and selected. A significant part of the improvements in this settings menu is the pared down approach — RSS apps are notorious for having a bazillion customization features and it’s so easy to get lost in the shuffle. Reeder 4 pares down the number of customization features and the settings menu makes it easy to customize the most important pieces.
Much of what I wrote in that article stands true today: I love Reeder’s new settings menu. The new animations are smooth and friendly, and the app feels like it was given an extra layer of polish, especially on the Mac.
But at that time, I hadn’t had a chance to test the forthcoming iOS version of Reeder 4.
The single design feature that stands out to me, specifically on the iPad Pro, is the option to customize Reeder 4’s layout. There are four layout options: single, compact, regular, and full (you can choose to automatically change between them on the Mac as you enlarge the window).
Caption: Full layout on the left, Automatic layout on the right.
The “full” layout option ensures a three-pane view when in landscape on your iPad Pro; a list of your feeds remains open on the left at all times, a list of the feed’s articles stays sandwiched in the middle, and the article can be read on the right side. Especially on the large 12.9-inch iPad Pro, having this full-layout option ensures you can navigate the app with two hands and whisk in and out of articles without the UI jumping all over the place.
I’ve called for more of these three-pane views for the largest iPad Pro, and word on Twitter is that the same three-pane view is coming to Fiery Feeds in the future as well.
Bionic Reading Mode
Bionic Reading is not a feature I was aware of before Reeder 4 launched, but a quick Google search reveals Bionic Reading helps your mind absorb what you’re reading in a more enhanced way by bolding specific parts of words in the article. From the Bionic Reading site:
Bionic Reading is a new method facilitating the reading process by guiding the eyes through text with artificial fixation points. As a result, the reader is only focusing on the highlighted initial letters and lets the brain center complete the word. In a digital world dominated by shallow forms of reading, Bionic Reading aims to encourage a more in-depth reading and understanding of written content.
My experience so far is that Bionic Reading is more distracting than helpful, but I’m willing to be convinced. I’m excited to test this out on longer pieces in the future.
Read Later
Instapaper and Pocket are the two best third-party read-it-later services (I use Pocket personally), but some folks may shy away from these services altogether. For those, Silvio Rizzi has added an internal Read Later feature inside Reeder 4, allowing you to save articles to read later right inside Reeder 4 and sync them across to your other devices.
In the services menu (swipe to get to the left-most pane), tapping the “+” reveals a list of the services Reeder 4 supports, one of which is the new Read Later feature. The feature syncs via iCloud and is nearly instantaneous. I clicked the “Read Later” button in Reeder 4 on the Mac and the article was synced over to the iPhone in less than a second.
If you’re like me and your read-it-later service is already overloaded with a backlog of content to read, another read-it-later service might not be a solution. However, if you want to keep your RSS reading all within Reeder, you can now do that.
Other New Features
Reeder 4 is a brand new app for Mac and iOS, so there are a laundry list of new features to go through:
The pull-to-refresh swipe forces a refresh of your subscriptions, but it now also moves you between articles in your article list when you swipe in the article view.
New keyboard shortcuts on the iPad make for a consistent external keyboard experience when jumping between the Mac and the iPad. I wouldn’t peg Reeder 4’s new keyboard support as the same power as Things 3, but this is a huge improvement over Reeder 3’s keyboard support.
Image previews in your article list allow you to skim through your articles visually, and you can change the size of the image thumbnails in the settings menu.
A range of new customization options are available to better customize your reading experience.
Reeder 4 has a new icon for iPhone and iPad, while the new Reeder 4 icon for Mac looks (to my eye) identical to Reeder 3.
A new consistent code-base across both the Mac and iOS versions helps to ensure Rizzi can better implement changes in the future.
Wrap Up
One of our biggest complaints about Reeder 3 was its development schedule — Reeder 3’s last major update came all the way back in 2012, so this Reeder 4 update felt like a long time coming.
While I don’t think we’re going to go so far as to change our pick for the best RSS app for iPhone and iPad, we will be working on updating our reviews to showcase the new updates to Reeder. The new Bionic Reading mode, design improvements, and Read Later feature all ensure Reeder is going nowhere on our list of the best RSS apps available for iPhone and iPad.
For the Mac, Reeder 4 doubles down and further entrenches our pick for the best RSS app. The laundry list of built-in services and whimsical new animations put it heads and tails over the macOS competition.
For those looking for the best reading experience when consuming their RSS feeds, take a look at Unread. For those looking for a standard RSS reader, Reeder is still our pick. And for any RSS reading on the Mac, Reeder 4 is still the only great choice available on the Mac App Store today.
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For news and information junkies wanting to stay on top of the newest developments in their areas of obsessive interest, nothing beats a newsreader (also known as a news aggregator or RSS reader). Such an app lets users specify which Web sites they want to monitor and consolidates the continually updating RSS feeds from these sources in one place for convenient consumption.
For many Apple users, Reeder is the gold standard of newsreaders. Available for both iOS and macOS, Reeder makes news reading an elegant, enjoyable experience. Version 3 had been getting a bit long in the tooth, though, with problems such as a lack of support for the native screen resolutions of the newest iPad Pro models.
Happily, developer Silvio Rizzi has just released Reeder 4, and it’s available on the App Store and Mac App Store for $4.99 and $9.99, respectively. There are no upgrade discounts, as is the case for most apps sold through Apple’s App Stores. The iOS and Mac versions are all but identical in appearance and functionality, which isn’t coincidental: the rebuilt apps now share a codebase for easier and hopefully more frequent updates.
The Reeder Backstory
Before I dig into Reeder’s new features, let me share a bit of history.
Reeder has a long pedigree, going all the way back to 2011 when it served as a front end for the Web-based Google Reader. Google controversially killed Google Reader in 2013, but Reeder lived on, adapting to a fragmented RSS realm with an array of Web-based Google Reader replacements (see “Explore Alternatives to Google Reader,” 18 March 2013, and “The State of Google Reader Replacements,” 27 June 2013).
In this regard, Reeder found its groove as a sort of über-newsreader that could pull in not only individual site feeds, but aggregated feed data from other newsreaders—including the likes of Feedly, Feedbin, Feed Wrangler, FeedHQ and NewsBlur. Put another way, Reeder became a stylish, iOS- and Mac-native client for Web-based newsreaders.
Over time, Reeder has maintained its reputation as a minimalist tool for efficiently processing RSS feeds while optionally filtering out cacophony and garishness. It’s an extraordinarily attractive and nimble app with rich theming, a bevy of keyboard shortcuts, and an assortment of gestures for powering through the news using a Mac’s Magic Trackpad or an iOS device’s touch screen.
Reeder 4 Look and Feel
The new version of Reeder, longtime devotees will be thrilled to discover, is largely unchanged.
Navigation on iOS and the Mac is the same: it’s made up of columns. Moving from left to right, you have columns showing:
Web-based reader accounts
Feeds and feed groupings
Article headlines
The current article in a streamlined form
Clicking an article headline displays the corresponding full Web page while collapsing all but the headline column for more reading room. You can also choose to open an article in an external Web browser.
One aesthetic change is obvious: Reeder now displays article thumbnails in the headline column to serve as visual cues about article content. Previously, Reeder was notable for eschewing such interface flourishes, offering only favicons as visual clues about the article’s source. Feeder 3 2 4 download free. You can set the thumbnails to any of three sizes, or, for traditionalists, banish them from view. For more minimalism, you can switch the favicons from color to grayscale. Silvio Rizzi is clearly trying to keep everyone happy.
Reeder 4 has other, minor but welcome interface changes to enhance its usability—including options for larger, more readable text in the feed and headline columns. This is helpful for people reading on bigger screens and for those among us whose eyes aren’t getting any younger.
Theme selection has been simplified a bit, and now includes support for Mojave’s Dark mode, along with a totally black option designed for use on recent iPhones with OLED displays.
Reeder 2 0 4 – Rss Reader Pdf
Other Reeder 4 Features
Reeder 4 sports several other new capabilities that are not groundbreaking but make the app more versatile and user-friendly.
Bionic Reading Mode
This option sets portions of words in bold to create text that is, at least for some, easier to scan and digest. The Bionic Reading technology did not originate with Reeder, and it’s also available as Chrome and Firefox extensions for in-browser reading. You can toggle Bionic Reading off and on using a toolbar button and alter its appearance using sliders (for tweaking “fixation” and “saccade,” whatever the heck those mean) in Reeder’s preferences.
Read Later Support
For those wanting to save articles for later reading, Reeder now sports a native Read Later mode that syncs via iCloud so you can access your archived articles in the Mac and iOS versions of the app. Once you’ve set up this mode as its own account, alongside your usual RSS services, you’re good to go.
Reeder also has you covered if you prefer the Instapaper read-later service or Safari’s Reading List feature. You can Control-click any article and choose either option (or Reeder’s own Read Later service) to save the article for later. Instapaper users also can move articles into folders they’ve created on the service without needing to leave Reeder, but the app makes this a bit confusing by calling the folders “tags.”
It’s a shame Reeder lacks native support for the popular Pocket read-later service, but you can still save stories to Pocket using the standard Mac or iOS share sheet. You just won’t have this content integrated into the Reeder app.
Automatic Layouts
Reeder 4 on Mac and iPad is deliciously malleable thanks to layout choices for screens of all sizes and proportions (on iPhone there’s only one layout). You can go from a “single” layout for just a list of stories to the “full” option with all interface elements on display, with a couple of other layout options in between.
Reeder 3 wasn’t as versatile, providing only “full” and “minimized” layouts. Sims 4 for mac free 2019.
Best of all, Reeder 4 has an automatic-layout mode. Select it, and the app will make all of the necessary layout adjustments on the fly depending on the size and shape of its window.
Improved Reader Mode
This one is a bit confusing, but it can be helpful once you understand what’s going on. Reeder 4 offers a Reader view, via a button in the toolbar, to clean up an article for easier reading. But since articles are already shown in cleaned-up form when you pick them in the list, you might wonder why you need to streamline an already streamlined article.
It turns out that the default article view in Reeder is based on how the corresponding RSS feed is set up. Sometimes that includes the full article text, but often it offers just a text snippet.
Reader view can be useful because it always retrieves the full article text while streamlining it for greater readability. Still, it’s sometimes a toss-up as to which of the two views (feed view or Reader Mode) is more readable and pleasing to the eye, so feel free to experiment.
Reeder 2 0 4 – Rss Reader Free
You also, of course, always have the option to access the article’s fully formatted Web page, without any text simplifying, if that’s what you prefer.
Hey, Where’s the Share Sheet?
Along with additions and improvements, there’s one obvious subtraction. Reeder veterans will notice (and potentially lament) the loss of the app’s longtime native share sheet (as opposed to the standard macOS and iOS share sheets). I liked Silvio Rizzi’s custom share sheet, with a look and feel mirroring the rest of the app. Apple’s generic share sheets are a bit visually jarring given Reeder’s consistently minimalist style.
Reeder 4 for Mac still offers options for adding service icons to the toolbar along the top of the app’s window but, again, these don’t adhere to the developer’s style conventions and therefore look a bit out of place.
The Read on Reeder 4
Reeder 4 is a solid upgrade, though one that Reeder 3 users shouldn’t feel pressured to embrace. The old version will keep working for the foreseeable future, according to Rizzi. And, more generally, Reeder is not a necessity if you already like using one of the Web-based newsreader services. I also often use Feedly directly via its Web-based interface and iOS app—Feedly has come a long way since it first emerged as a notable Google Reader replacement.
But longtime Reeder users are likely to find version 4 enticing. Its marquee features aside—I don’t find Bionic Reading helpful, and as a Pocket user I’ll never use Reeder’s new Read Later functionality—the interface tweaks make the app easier and more pleasurable to use. Thumbnails in the headline column alone are worth the price of admission for those who like to identify article sources. And I think it’s worth spending a few bucks for a top-flight Mac or iOS app to get the best possible newsreader experience. Logic pro x for pc download.