Bulletin - AI RSS News

I’ve installed on iPhone , iPad, and my Mac. iPhone works but on iPad and MacBook the icon for imported in the sidebar does nothing when clicked. Luckily the Mac has the view menu at top and dropdown to imported from their works but no such view bar on iPad so you only have the imported icon in sidebar which as stated doesn’t work. Uninstalled and reinstalled but still the same. It’s a great app and very refreshing news feed viewing. Alongside Reeder this is now my go to and together I have it covered. Hopefully the Dev will sort this out for iPad and Mac. Thanks. EDIT 9th May 2024: Updates since I first left a review have been great but to be honest I don’t look forward to opening as it’s very miss than hit. On my iPhone and iPad I open it up on general all news icon and just get blank screen and spinning icon. I’ve uninstalled and reinstalled to no avail. It’s become absolutely unpredictable as to if it’ll load up actual news or anything. Even if I open up the ‘jump to’ part to load another area, say tech or even my imports, then it does the same, just blank screen. Strange thing is when the start-up blank screen happens or if I try to open another section I can press the AI summarise icon and get a summary of that section even though the screen is still blank and spinning wheel!? Go figure 😂. I’m on newest iOS iPhone 15 Pro Max and iPad Pro 12.9 M1. I’ve not tried with Mac as I said earlier I just get frustrated more than excited on opening it now. I’ll wait and see if any of future updates change it but to be honest I’m not using it now as one of my main news readers purely because of the issues I’m experiencing. Obviously it could just be my system and it’s perfect on others as otherwise the Dev would’ve realised so I really don’t know what else to do. Sorry for long winded write up but I wanted to be as open and give as much information as possible. Anyways thanks very much for it as when’ it works it’s brilliant as I’ve said before it was one of my main go to news readers.

I wish we could use Safari built-in reader mode for some custom sources that don’t display content properly. It would be great to have a top headlines view too. Then it would definitely be an app that would make me delete all my other news apps and worthy of 5 stars.

Enjoyed the app a lot day one and on day two could not do anything without a subscription. This was misleading as the app store button does not mention in app purchases. I'm not willing to pay for curated news when we have Artifact, Flipboard, Reddit as places to easily grab that. Sorry! If this wasn't a paid app it would be a 4 or 5 star!

I am on iPhone - I really like this app however the toggles in each category seem to do nothing - my feed doesn’t change based on which publications I choose to select or not. Can this be fixed? Additionally I can’t add any feeds - import does work however when trying to add additional URLs in the ‘paste X feed URL’ field, it does nothing. Can this also be fixed please? If these two issues are fixed this will probably become my go to news app.

I’ve installed on iPhone , iPad, and my Mac. iPhone works but on iPad and MacBook the icon for imported in the sidebar does nothing when clicked. Luckily the Mac has the view menu at top and dropdown to imported from their works but no such view bar on iPad so you only have the imported icon in sidebar which as stated doesn’t work. Uninstalled and reinstalled but still the same. It’s a great app and very refreshing news feed viewing. Alongside Reeder this is now my go to and together I have it covered. Hopefully the Dev will sort this out for iPad and Mac. Thanks.

I love the idea behind this app. The care and attention to the UX is clear. Appreciate push notifications, iCloud syncing, and the full Apple ecosystem support. If you want a basic “already configured”news/RSS app, Bulletin fits the bill. Which leads to what’s missing… It’s missing some critical things for long-time RSS users though: * Yes, you can import in your own OPML feeds, but organizing them and essentially wiping the slate clean to just bring my familiar feeds in my own organization style…that’s a daunting process. So much so, that I gave up for now. * It doesn’t appear to offer options to use Postlight or Readability to parse/extract articles from feeds that only provide headlines, but admittedly I only tested a couple of feeds with this. * Customizing notifications in a more granular way by feed, number of topics, or keywords would be a lovely addition. * Hierarchical sorting beyond a single category. * Customizing the sidebar area. This is an opinionated app…I love that about it. It’s just not quite my aesthetic. Longtime users of Reeder or News Explorer are going to enjoy the UX, long for the AI summarization features that come natively here, but struggle to embrace a paradigm that wants you to do things the Bulletin way instead of the way you’ve become accustomed to in other RSS apps. That’s not a bad thing, but I do long for significantly more customization features in feed organization, hierarchy, parsing, update times, and a “just start from a clean slate and import my stuff and don’t add anything to it” option. I’d happily spend money on this app if it evolves in that direction. For now…I will envy some of the summarization features but go back to my trusted long-time RSS apps.

“A new notification has been posted” is not the type of notification I want went a new article gets posted, why can’t it show the title and the content of the posts like other rss apps?

So tired of text-centric apps such as this where all you do is read text and yet there is NO WAY to change the font size of the article text, even using iOS app-specific font size feature. What is the deal with these devs? It’s like making a car without the ability to adjust the seats. Unbelievable. Navigation from the tiny text article view is horrible. No way to swipe to next article or even dismiss the pop-up view. No easy way to mark articles as read. No mark read on scroll. This is just horrible… go check out other apps like Inoreader or Readkit and copy their main reading features. Then build off of that with your AI. Add more voice options. The default iOS voice is unbearable. Also your price is too high for what this offers. I like the idea of this which is why I care to leave such a review and it’s a great start to something amazing. It is just unusable… for me. Main gripes are above. Fix the problems and I’ll change this to a glowing 5 star review. UPDATE TO YOUR RESPONSE: No, you can’t. It does not change article font size which was my point.

The summaries are worthless. Other than than the app feels like one of many sub par news aggregators.

Great concept but in my usage I notice a lot of slow updates and/or the app appears to hang on a blank screen.