Good App, but Naggy
This is actually a good app, but any app that nags for a review automatically gets a 1-star from me.
An Otter RSS Reader
An okay minimalistic RSS app
#1 Keyword Rankings
Today
Top 10 Rankings
Today
Top 30 Rankings
Today
Top 100 Rankings
Today
Description
"An Otter RSS Reader" is the world's newest most okayest RSS reader with a high key adorable otter icon!
"This is exactly what I've been looking for! A simple RSS reader that syncs my subscribed feeds across my iPhone, iPad, and Mac. This developer is genius! I think he nailed it with this app"
- Josh Holtz
FEATURES
+ Subscribe to RSS Feeds that sync over iCloud
Fetches RSS feeds and refreshes in a background task or on a pull-to-refresh.
+ Auto Discover Feeds
Simply enter the domain of website (like anotterrss.com) and Otter will attempt to discover all RSS feed urls to choose from.
+ Group Feeds Into Folders
You know... because organization is important.
+ Read Articles In A Normal Web View
This isn't anything special. This is why its the okayest and minimalist. Just read the article like how it was supposed to be read. Is it even a reader? It might just be a syncer.
+ Shortcuts
Have fun automating with Shortcut actions for listing feeds, listing articles, and subscribing to new feeds.
+ Widgets
Add some gorgeous widgets to your Home Screen to show unread count for either all feeds or a specific folder of feeds.
+ Import/Export with OPML
Import your feeds with an OPML file (if you have one from your existing RSS reader). Export your feeds into an OPML file if you hate "An Otter RSS" and want to move to another app. We'll understand. There are plenty of other apps out there and this one might not be the one for you!
Hide..
Show more..
"This is exactly what I've been looking for! A simple RSS reader that syncs my subscribed feeds across my iPhone, iPad, and Mac. This developer is genius! I think he nailed it with this app"
- Josh Holtz
FEATURES
+ Subscribe to RSS Feeds that sync over iCloud
Fetches RSS feeds and refreshes in a background task or on a pull-to-refresh.
+ Auto Discover Feeds
Simply enter the domain of website (like anotterrss.com) and Otter will attempt to discover all RSS feed urls to choose from.
+ Group Feeds Into Folders
You know... because organization is important.
+ Read Articles In A Normal Web View
This isn't anything special. This is why its the okayest and minimalist. Just read the article like how it was supposed to be read. Is it even a reader? It might just be a syncer.
+ Shortcuts
Have fun automating with Shortcut actions for listing feeds, listing articles, and subscribing to new feeds.
+ Widgets
Add some gorgeous widgets to your Home Screen to show unread count for either all feeds or a specific folder of feeds.
+ Import/Export with OPML
Import your feeds with an OPML file (if you have one from your existing RSS reader). Export your feeds into an OPML file if you hate "An Otter RSS" and want to move to another app. We'll understand. There are plenty of other apps out there and this one might not be the one for you!
In-Apps
- Mega Tip
- $12.99
- Large Tip
- $5.99
- Small Tip
- $0.99
- Medium Tip
- $2.99
Screenshots
User Rating
4.14 out of 5
72 ratings in United States
5 star
46
4 star
9
3 star
5
2 star
5
1 star
7
Ratings History
Reviews
Not bad for an early release (updated)
Original review below is over 2 years old and it's been over a year since an update. An abandoned app can't be anything more than 1 star. Already after one update many of the request I and others have been added as well as comlaints being addressed. Updating to 5 stars. Check app update history for what's been addressed. The reader mode is nicest I've seen so far. You can create folders and move your feeds into them, you can import opml from other apps which maintains folder hierarchy if that app supports folders. What it needs. Mark articles read on scrolling past them Option to hide read articles by default instead of manually hiding all the time. When clicking on a top level folder it expands the folder clicking the arrow should expand the folder. There is no way to view all stories in a top folder. For example I have a tech folder and have to go to every single sub folder and read the stories I should be able to just click the tech folder and see the stories in that folder. Needs swipe gestures example swipe right mark read/unread swipe left add to favorite. When viewing stories there is about a quarter inch of empty space on the left and right making appear almost window boxed. The story headlines should go the width of the screen to see more words in the title. Need to add an option to sort by oldest and newest first. If in reader mode hitting the safari button should open in the in app browser instead of leaving the app. If we want to leave the app from that screen the safari button should open in your default browser. Under notifications there should be an option to show badge count with unread articles. Should be an option to see favicons to the left of the headline to quickly see at a glance which site posted the story as well as an option to enable images if there is one in the story. Either a small image to the right of the headline or a large image below the headline. All in all it's a really good start it's just not ready to be my main RSS app for now I'm sticking with Reeder and NetNewsWire. I am going to keep Otter installed and look forward to future updates.
OK. Now what?
No guide, insructions, in app. Website menu bar nonfunctional. Looks like it might be interesting. but unless I know how to use it, so what?!
Inconsistent function
The ability to subscribe to a feed from Safari is very inconsistent. I love this app but it only seems to work when it feels like it. Please fix that. :) - Update: it keep completely dumping my feeds now. To the point I've lost a lot of feeds for no reason. I'll save them, go to another app, come back and they're gone. ALSO, I notice a parallel between when I leave this app and have this issue and keyboard malfunctions. Something is going goofy. Still like the app but it's unstable so I'll have to use something else for now. Which is sad. This is the closest thing to Google Reader I've seen since they shut that down. 😭
You Otter try this guy
It's exceedlingly simple. If you are just trying to read your news, saved reddit posts (what I use it for), or your journal articles without being to fussy or fancy. This is the app for you.
Crashes
More attractive and better UI than most other RSS apps, but unfortunately crashes anytime I try to play a video
Review
I cannot get my Otter subscription to RECORD. Unable to record a webinar because of this.
hands down the best Rss reader
look no further, this is THE rss reader...i've tried all the well known reader apps and Otter is king of the hill!
Nice free RSS reader
Works as advertised. Easemporting an existing list of feeds from another reader on my Mac was a big plus. The only improvement would be to reduce the white space between the list of feeds.
Trouble persisting feeds
Hey, I have been having trouble having feeds persist after closing the app; when I subscribe to feeds and close the app, all the feeds are gone, making me have to read each url. Unsure if theres a way to save different feeds? Otherwise love the minimalist nature of the app!
Store Rankings
Ranking History
App Ranking History not available yet
Category Rankings
|
Chart
|
Category
|
Rank
|
|---|---|---|
|
Top Free
|
|
162
|
|
Top Free
|
|
275
|
|
Top Free
|
|
328
|
|
Top Free
|
|
386
|
Keywords
Users may also like
| Name | Reviews | Recent release | |
|---|---|---|---|
Feedbin
Follow your passions.
|
19
|
1 year ago | |
NetNewsWire: RSS Reader
More news, less junk. Faster.
|
33
|
1 year ago | |
Unread: An RSS Reader
|
26
|
1 month ago | |
ReadKit - Read Later & RSS
All your reading in one place
|
13
|
6 months ago | |
RSS Mobile
|
24
|
1 month ago | |
lire: RSS Reader
Full-text RSS
|
17
|
4 weeks ago | |
Fiery Feeds: RSS Reader
A news reader for power users
|
38
|
1 week ago | |
Newsify: RSS Reader
News, Blog & Feed Reader
|
270
|
2 months ago | |
feeder.co - RSS Feed Reader
|
45
|
4 months ago | |
NewsBlur
|
105
|
7 months ago |
Show More
Revenue and Downloads
Gain valuable insights into An Otter RSS Reader performance with our analytics. Sign up now
to
access downloads, revenue, and more.
App Info
- Category
- News
- Publisher
- Josh Holtz
- Languages
- English
- Recent version
- 1.3.1 (2 years ago )
- Released on
- Jan 9, 2021 (3 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom, China, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Spain, Japan, Netherlands, Russia, India, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, Czechia, Denmark, Turkey, Taiwan, Malaysia, Argentina, Romania, Hungary, Greece, Belgium, Chile, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Norway, Mexico, Belarus, Dominican Republic, Portugal, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Peru, Singapore, Thailand, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, South Africa, Pakistan, Philippines, Algeria, Nigeria, Ecuador, Lebanon, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, South Korea, Egypt, Finland, Israel, Ireland, Indonesia
- Last updated
- 3 weeks ago