NewsBlur

iPad app instantly crashes upon launch. Our subscription fees literally paid the developer’s Harvard tuition, and now he can’t be bothered to maintain a functioning app. I guess use the browser version until the developer remembers we exist and slaps another temporary band-aid on the issue. What a waste of a good service.

Very flexible

Installs instantly, still maintained, and still independent. A solid choice.

This app needs work. It feels like the devs may have abandoned it. Very buggy. Reading through stories is such a hassle

I must be missing something. You must sign up BEFORE access to the platform. Once on "news page" most if not all are PAYSITES. There's little to nothing in any category. Most sites being mindless fluff. I had access to three articles. Yet their advertisement for subscription upgrade worked smoothly. None of the chosen categories showed up at all. No way to add links despite banner proclamation? You would think the SPONSORED SITES worked. A workaround of deceptive claim of not collecting "data". I do not believe the suspiciously positive ratings on these apps. Especially, those with unreasonable subscription fees. Easily recognized Dark Patterns throughout. An informed society, protects us all. Please consider BEFORE giving out your information. Or, wasting time and money.

WHY do I have to tap twice on add feed, once to collapse the keyboard and once for it to actually search? HOW can I make it give me more than five suggestions? UI is either not enough space in the list so it feels like nine stories are really one… or ACRES of space in the card layout, scrolling past a mile of empty space to see like 6 stories. I paid for this thing and I really want to like it; it’s my fourth feed trial this week and it does some things really well, but… some frustrations. Anyway, thanks for not collecting identifier data and look forward to updates.

With my favorite app, Reeder, going off in another direction and putting the RSS features into a Classic version, I am a little concerned about how to go forward. Then I see this. It’s pretty close to Reeder, but seems to lack some of the “fit and finish”. I have faith that it will get better. Newsblur is a GREAT way to RSS read.

I LOVE Newsblur (been paying for it for like 10 years), but both the iOS and the MacOS app are worse than reading it in Firefox. I lack the patience to reconfigure everything to make the interface usable. The fact that I cannot just backup my preferences from my Newsblur account (the same way I can save my OPML file) and load them in one of the native apps, to get the same visual experience, is unacceptable.

Not sure if it’s just me, but frequently when I’m clicking into a feed, another feed will load in the requested one’s place. Also, when scrolling through feed items, clicking or swiping one will frequently mess with an incorrect one and occasionally will align halfway down the screen.

Apparently the most recent update now causes insta-crashes. Tried deleting and reinstalling to no effect. Paid user.