I have tried Reader from Readwise and the new Reeder but Classical Reeder is what works best for me. Since I also use DEVONthink I have some times toyed with the idea of ditching Reeder but since RSS doesn’t work in DEVONthink To Go I have not done it. This might change when the next version of DEVONthink To Go is released. Of course DT is much more than a RSS-reader and a bit over the top for using only as RSS-reader. Also, I don’t actually know if there are plans for RSS support in the upcoming releases of DT To Go.
I tried the new Reeder and it’s not for me. I don’t like that I can’t change the view to something more compact, and I don’t like the lack of unread counts. I can’t tell what I’ve seen vs what I might be seeing again, and I don’t like social media-type scrolling. Minor unpopular opinion, it scrolls in the wrong direction.
I’ve also been having a lot of issues with Reeder (both old and new) not grabbing entire articles. I know this is an RSS issue but some apps seem to handle it better than others.
Your post is timely though as I decided to give Unread another try last night. I’ve used it in the past and liked it, and now that Reeder classic isn’t being updated, I figured why not.
I have no interest in paying $40 a year for it, but the free version seems to work just fine. It also - at least on initial use - seems to be pulling in entire articles. My evidence for this is the NY Times opinion feeds which were cut off in Reeder but not so far in Unread, unless I am mistaken.
I find the apps like NetNewsWire get a lot of praise, but the interface looks like something from iOS 10. Personal opinion of course.
@zkarj - you posted that 2 mins after I posted: “I find the apps like NetNewsWire get a lot of praise, but the interface looks like something from iOS 10. Personal opinion of course.”
New Reeder as a “replacement for YouTube” to opt out of the algorithm. Though I wish there was a way to block my subs shorts. If there was a download feature I would even make it my Podcatcher as well. Opted out of the Social media posts except for a few real-life people in my life that actually use them. (I have an old Professor who is a Bluesky and Threads Poster and is doing amazing work.)
Currently trying to figure out a solution on how to get my RSS feeds to my Kobo Reader to become the 21st Century equivalent of the old man reading the paper with a black cup of coffee on Saturday morning. Maybe I am dumb but I don’t fully understand Instapaper and that has native integration after Mozilla killed Pocket.
I moved feeds to NetNewsWire and iCloud last year. I read it on iPad and add feeds on Mac. It’s not installed on the phone.
Previously I was trying Readwise Reader RSS (not a good fit for how I read RSS.) Before that I was using Reeder with NewsBlur as the backend.
Instapaper used to be able to auto-send digests to Kindle. I don’t know if Kobo is similar, but the digest was great. It would be one document with 10-20 articles in it. They would be automatically marked as read in the service, so, you’d flip through this thing like a magazine (no having to select articles to read) and anything you didn’t get to would be automatically tossed.
Also, if you have a laser printer, printing articles two-to-a-side duplex and reading through the stack is still an option. I get through a lot digitally, but it’s worth printing when several pages long or containing difficult math.
