If I were to draw up a list of my all-time favorite iOS apps, Silvio Rizzi's Reeder would be near the top. With an easy to use interface that embodied the user experience of Apple's mobile operating system, Reeder made consuming large quantities of RSS feeds a daily pleasure.
Like most of its competitors, however, Rizzi's brainchild was heavily dependent on Google Reader's unofficial API for its cross-device syncing capabilities—which means that, when the search giant decided to shut its RSS service down earlier this year, Reeder briefly turned into a highly-polished digital paperweight.
Once burned, twice shy
Reeder for iPhone soon received updates that added support for several other RSS-sync services, such as Feedly, Feed Wrangler, Feedbin, and Fever, as well as the capability to manage individual feed subscriptions directly inside the app. Those changes, however, never made their way to the iPad version of the app, which was a separate product.
Which brings me to the newly released Reeder 2 (App Store link), which combines support for all iOS devices into a single, new app. A $5 download that clocks in at a little over 7MB, Reeder 2 is universal, though the fact that the app requires iOS 6.1 or later means that owners of first-generation iPads won't be able to install it.
To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
ConversionConversion EmoticonEmoticon