Best RSS Reader for iDevice?

There are tons of other readers out there.
Which reader is best for you depends on if you use Google reader or not.

I use Gazette its has served me well and is similar to Byline.
The advantage with these two readers is that they sync with your google reader account.

Two other good readers are Newsstand and Manifesto.
They are great stand alone readers but you can only import your Google bookmarks, you can't sync with Google.

 

i use JS reader

its not great, but with every update it gets better...i like the read offline mode
eventually i will want to update to a better RSS reader, i have a few of the ones you mentioned on appsniper in the meantime

 

I went from Manifesto to Smart RSS2 and I am happier.

Smart RSS2 is faster loading the feeds + true google reader sync - Something that Manifesto didn't have.

The interface might be a little too fancy for it's own good though.. and you can't customize it, but it's a new app and needs an update. I recommend it over Manifesto though... I tried a bunch of RSS apps and even paid for a bunch and I think its the best one so far.

 

I can suggest rssRunner by GoldenApps, good app well laid out.

 

Byline has great Offline features (load pics & websites). I wont recommend Manifesto, because the developer hasn't done any updates for months.

 

I'd avoid Manifesto also. I think the developer has a heavy school load so it doesn't see the attention it needs. Also, in my case Manifesto was the cause of my backups in iTunes never completing (yes that was tested and proven. Again, that's in my case, your results may vary)

Feeds is pretty good, last update brought a lot of great features, but in my case I'm getting too many crashes from it. It's very good otherwise so I'll give it a go again after the next update.

I wish NNW would add some of the features other readers have, it's been my standby all along and I've always gone back to it.

Best of luck!

Rich

 

I use Newsstand. It is great and the developers provide frequent updates and fixes

 

I actually don't remember registering for Smart RSS2 at all. It loads the feeds faster than Manifesto and does true google reader syncing.

What features are you looking for?

 

I prefer Newsstand, it stood out to me the most, imo.

 

I like manifesto and newsstand. Both really good rss readers

 

I have used both Doppler and Byline and there is something with Doppler that i cant point out that makes me use that mostly.

 

it's definitely swifter than Manifesto. Not sure what you mean by folders though.. one thing I love about Smart RSS2 is the "open in Safari" feature.

You can also bookmark a feed that you like, but I think they all do that. As far as reliability goes - all RSS readers crash!

 

Noop they dont! i havent have one crash in Byline and only one with Doppler.
I bought Feeds yesterday and darn that app is hopeless! sometimes it syncs and sometimes it dont.
Sometime it syncs but you cant see the feeds and then suddenly when you restart it it shows everything. it got some huge probs.

 

well I use the standard www.google.com ireader and for the most part it does the job. I only really use it when I've got a wifi or cell signal,so not that worried about offline caching (and the time it takes at starting up)

The only things I wished it would do, was show an expanded view when Wifi is on (similar to the desktop version) rather than just a few lines of each article, with embedded gfx, and the ability to browse more than 15 items at once.

I bought Gazette to see if that is any better, but apart from the offline side, it's worse that google.com's ireader (you can't select to browse a whole folder for example)

so still not the perfect reader for me yet.

 

That I would agree with. While I like Smart RSS2, it's not perfect so I am not sure if I should even recommend it. I wish Google would work on an RSS App instead of thr web app.