Unlike other news reading apps like Flipboard, Unread is text-heavy, but that is a good thing.

It's easy and natural to use once you get used to it. A swiping motion from right to left is used to access a menu for each screen, while a swipe from left to right takes you back from an article to your RSS feeds and then to your account page. You use a tap to move from your list of accounts (Feedly, Feedbin, etc) to your RSS feeds and then to individual articles. Many apps adopt a gesture-based, minimal interface because its is trendy, but Unread uses a minimal UI because it works well within the framework of the app. As a result, Unread provides a surprisingly pleasant reading experience. It does so with a simple UI that stays out of your way and places the focus on the words in an article. Reeder is not as good, but is comfortable enough for me.Unread is a new RSS reader for the iPhone that promises to deliver 'quiet, careful reading' of your RSS feed. Sadly, they switched from one-time payment to monthly subscription and I can't justify the cost when I only use it in a very light way(just for sorting items).

All the gestures optimized for single-hand operations are just fantastic. If I ever need to click a link in an article, jumping from a reader software to a browser is too big of a context switch that disrupts my flow - just let me go through all the feeds right now, and I will decide how to prioritize the most interesting ones and allocate my reading time later.įor my use cases, Unread on iOS gave me the best experience. Ad-blocking - given the current popularity of RSS, I don't know if it really makes sense financially for websites to do so, but I notice some feeds do inject ads. Some personal blog sites have very beautiful (or interesting) designs that I find myself actually enjoys poking around. e.g.: Project release notes on GitHub, which usually come with links to PRs, commits.etc, so I need to open several browser tabs to consume the content anyways. Some feeds are just better to be read in a web browser. Some feeds only provide title/summary and not the full text article (yes, I know there are full-text extraction service, but last time I tried them, none of them was perfect, and I don't want to play the guessing game - 'Am I reading the full article, or a broken extraction?') Instead, I only use a RSS reader software to quickly go through all the unread items and send interesting articles to a read-later or bookmark service. Not sure if it's just me, but I have not used a RSS reader as a serious reading software for years.

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