Tag Archives: iPhone RSS apps

Pulse News Reader App Now Free

by on November 15th, 2010 at 12:36 pm

The popular Pulse News Reader (for the iPad) and Pulse News Mini (for iPhone and iPod Touch) apps are now free. The company that develops them has got venture capital funding, and it looks as it they may become ad-supported at some future point. Pulse provides a different spin on …

mBloglines: an iPhone RSS reader to avoid

by on July 10th, 2010 at 4:06 pm

I began using Bloglines about 4 years ago and, unlike many of my colleagues, I didn’t upgrade to Google Reader as my primary RSS reader. Is Bloglines all that great? Probably not; but if you’ve ever saved posts for future reference, you might understand my reluctance to lose hundreds of …

Feeddler RSS Reader – My Favorite iPad RSS App Now Works on iPhone

by on May 30th, 2010 at 12:12 pm

Feeddler RSS Reader is  now a universal app that will run on the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad.  It is a featur-rich RSS app with full Google Reader sync support. This app originally came out for the iPad only and it quickly became my favorite RSS app for the …

Google Reader Mobile Just Keeps Getting Better

by on March 18th, 2010 at 9:53 am

     I’ve tried just about every leading RSS app for the iPhone, but more often that not I come back to the one that has been the best since before the App Store even opened and still remains the best – Google Reader’s web app. Each time I think I’ve …

NewsRack for iPhone Latest Update (2.3.2): Avoid It, It Breaks Google Reader Sync

by on March 2nd, 2010 at 10:37 am

if you use NewsRack – one of the leading iPhone RSS reader apps – here’s a quick note about its latest update, to Version 2.3.2: Don’t Do It This update breaks Google Reader sync.  Well, at least it breaks it in the sense that it renders it virtually unusable. Ironically, …

Newsstand iPhone RSS App Is Back – Now Called NewsRack [iPhone Apps]

by on February 2nd, 2010 at 10:59 am

The excellent Newsstand RSS app for the iPhone is back in the App Store “ except now it has a brand new name: NewsRack. As I posted about a few days back, the name change was caused by a trademark complaint. I ‘m glad to see NewsRack back “  as …

Newsstand iPhone App Forced to Change Name, Pulled from App Store [iPhone Apps]

by on January 27th, 2010 at 11:07 am

My current favorite iPhone RSS app, Newsstand, has been pulled from the App Store and forced into a name change. Please note: Because of a trademark complaint, we had to change the name of this app (which was formerly known as “Newsstand”). It is currently in review with the new …

Dear NetNewsWire for iPhone – Can We Have Missing Google Reader Sync Features Please...

by on January 23rd, 2010 at 10:29 am

I know it ‘s considered terribly bad form to demand, or sometimes even request, non-urgent (critical bug fixes etc) updates for iPhone apps.  Even so, I ‘d like to throw up a request to the folks at NewsGator for their NetNewsWire app for the iPhone. My request is for some …

iPhone RSS Apps: Some Good Choices

by on December 18th, 2009 at 1:41 pm

iPhone RSS apps have come a long way in recent months “ there are now some very strong choices available if you need a good RSS reader that syncs with Google Reader There used to be little or no choice when looking for a good iPhone RSS reader application, if …

Boxcar 2.2 for iPhone is out, with fresh new features

by on December 17th, 2009 at 11:12 pm

Boxcar, receiver of Macworld’s 2009 App Gem Award for “Best Notification App“, has just been updated to version 2.2. This update brings with it several fresh new features, in addition to a new icon and splash screen. In case you’re not familiar with Boxcar, it functions as a go-between app …

NetNewsWire iPhone App Updated – Bug Fixes

by on November 8th, 2009 at 3:53 pm

NetNewsWire “ my current favorite native RSS app for the iPhone “ has just had an update, to Version 2.0.2. As you can see from the screencap above, this is not a huge update.  I haven ‘t really experienced any bugs with the app, so I can ‘t comment on …