Into the void created by Google’s closure of Reader rushed a number of RSS services. I tried Feedly for a while but found the pro tier (I wanted a service I could pay for) expensive and the features useless to me. I settled on FeedWrangler after a time, even after using Feedbin, which I liked but found expensive in the early days of subscription pricing vs outright application purchases.
FeedWrangler’s friction points for me were slow syncing with 3rd party RSS readers, and difficulty adding new feeds. This couldn’t be done inside any of the apps that I was using,* and also couldn’t be accomplished in Mobile Safari. I was adding feeds to OmniFocus to process on my Mac later. Not the end of the world, but inconvenient and, to my mind, a step back from my previous experiences. The iOS application didn’t run at all on the last iOS device I installed it on, either.
I signed up for a free trial of Feedbin and noticed that both Unread and Reeder were able to load my feeds far more quickly than either app was able to with FeedWrangler.
On a related note, and we’ll have to see how processor usage goes, ReadKit has been slowly but continually iterated, and currently looks great and syncs fast using FeedBin, installed on Mojave. I used to have issues with the application using a lot of juice on the Mac.
NetNewsWire, by the way, will eventually support Feedbin, which prompted me to reconsider my service of choice.
* Unread actually doesn’t let you add new feeds irrespective of the sync service you choose. This isn’t a dealbreaker if the web version of the app works on Mobile Safari, which in the case of Feedbin, it does. Unread is such a joy to use: zero chrome, all touch, easy sharing features.