Reeder. for Android

Get feeeed. Same concept, much better implementation and free.

I love the app, how you can add not only articles but YouTube, Reddit, Mastodon, and more. But it dearly needs a compact view, those entries are enormous. Getting notifications when specific feeds update would be nice too. I’m so close to ditching my current RSS app for this.

I suspect there’s going to be many critical reviews besides by own. Because the Reeder name was kept we probably expect it to have new features and refinements built upon the established Reeder Classic. However, this feels like a half-baked version. It’s missing all the features I relied on for years. This should’ve been rebranded into a new product called, “Feader”.

Here’s a scenario which I imagine every single customer would encounter: I have X posts in my feed on my first session. Do I start from the bottom (there isn’t one) or from the top? Ok I start from the top because I’m forced to. Tomorrow I open the app once more and, if I’m to believe the pitch, I’ll be taken to where I left off even if I’m on another device (this hasn’t worked for me so far). But the real issue with the UX is that I don’t know if I’m supposed to continue reading in reverse chronological order … or if the intention is to REVERSE scroll and go toward the future. The reason this is such a major oversight is because there is no read/unread state per post. So if I scroll backward (towards most recent) from this bookmarked state, I’ll quickly hit the top and… then what? Then I could go the other direction and see all the stories I already saw because I can’t hide read items. I don’t understand how this scenario wouldn’t be considered. I feel like I cannot use this app as a result. Shame, I’m a customer from the beginning so it stinks to not like the latest version. Hoping it’s re-considered!

Swiping away an image requires an extremely long swipe. Please shorten it or make it more sensitive. One star until it’s fixed. Thank you.