lire: RSS Reader

I discovered lire from Federico at MacStories and I’m glad I did. I enjoyed my previous RSS reader app, but was starting to find small annoyances and personal bug bears. Lire fixes these for me as has the best text parser I’ve found in an RSS reader app. The fact I can use swipes to instantly send articles to my read-it-later app of choice is also ideal. The one thing I would appreciate is the ability to mark all articles as read even if it’s still syncing, as sometimes it will hang on one or two RSS feeds; but that’s just a quality of life improvement.

App is full featured and easily configured. Support is fast and superb (within 24 hours). I had an issue with syncing that was due to iCloud not the app. After a reset the syncing worked perfectly. Superb.

I have been searching for years for an app that will pull all my social media feeds into one place and allow me to organise them into categories of importance to me. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this app! It is super easy to use, let’s you create as many categories/folders as you need and I’m finally stress free with social feeds. I even have all my YouTube subscriptions added which is super easy once you know how to get the RSS feed of a YouTube channel. You guys literally saved my sanity! Well worth the reasonable cost for the app. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

This is a great, powerful, accessible RSS feed handler and is especially great for users of VoiceOver above and beyond many alternatives for its special support, which must be acknowledged. It just keeps getting better—now it can sync to self-hosted server options, so with a bit of work you can even keep your privacy. Well worth paying for!

This is the absolute best rss reader on iPadOS for power users w/ 1. Refreshed and modernised interface supporting all new OS features like multi-window, widgets. 2. Automatic full-text fetching. 3. Support most sync services. 3. Tons of customisation and accessibility support. It may not have the smooth animations of Reeder, nor the subscription cost of Fiery Feeds. But this is the one ticking most boxes. I couldn’t find any cons except a few visual glitches that probably nobody else cares.

Lire is super buggy, which is a shame because it’s hands down my favourite RSS reading experience I’ve found for the iPad. Main issues: Some articles with all of a sudden disappear whilst you’re reading, then it locks up and finally crashes 😩

So much better than Reeder, hoping for a text2voice feature, better with self configure option

….can’t read dates in feeds and my “newest” items are dated 2300. UI is convoluted and non-intuitive. I regret purchasing it.

The full text ability and options to designate different views - in-app browser, regular browser, app reader - is something I've never seen before in other rss readers. Works well on a variety of feeds; I'm very impressed. However, I've noticed an irritating issue with all buttondown email rss feeds. Virtually every time I fetch (both icloud sync and standalone) it re-fetches previously read articles for buttondown feeds as if they were unread. As far as I can tell, whenever it does that it's fetching every single item from those feeds anew. And yes, I can mark all below as read, but having to do that multiple times per day is wearying. Really hope developer(s) can take a closer look at buttondown.

Does what it needs, while also being super customizable (if wanted).