Reeder 5 Delivers RSS in Style

Silvio Rizzi has released version five of his RSS reading app, Reeder. Reeder was the first great RSS reader on the iPhone. Version 5’s marquee feature is iCloud syncing across macOS and iOS devices, which obviates the requirement for an intermediary sync service, such as Feedbin or Feed Wrangler. It still supports such services, however.

Reeder 5 on macOS

Some people will howl that Reeder 5’s only real new feature is iCloud syncing. And if you don’t need that feature, you could probably stick with version 4. (I might argue that the new icon is a good enough reason, as is supporting a developer who makes great software for a very specific kind of newsmonger).

Reeder on iPadOS

But if you do, in fact, rely on a sync service, you’re likely paying way more than 4.99 USD (it’s $9.99 on the Mac App Store). I pay $4.99 monthly (happily, I will add) to Feedbin, and supported both Feed Wrangler and Feedly before that[1]. So even an annual release at these points would save you money. For the record, I purchased Reeder 3 in August of 2018 and version 4 in May of 2019.

Reeder supports a great custom UI on iPadOS, if that’s your thing. It’s super-smooth on an iPad Pro, too:

[2] I used Feedly’s free tier for a long time, but it bothered me… I grew to feel that if something is important enough to you, it’s worth paying for. And I missed Google Reader so much after it was retired that I didn’t want to go through that again. Is paying for Feedbin a guarantee of that? No. But I can’t blame myself if it does.

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