The long-time RSS reading app evolves to become a one-stop shop for all your news and social accounts. Is this how to combat information overload or is it too much all at once?
Keeping tabs on all the news and social media apps downloaded on your phone can be overwhelming. There’s only so much time you can spend scrolling, swiping, and posting.
Downloading another app to combat this scourge may seem counterintuitive, but the updated Reeder mobile app offers a way to pull your various feeds into a single, unified timeline.
If Reeder sounds familiar, that’s because it’s been around for years as a traditional RSS reader. That app is now Reeder Classic, while the new Reeder is a new experience and design that supports more sources from around the web. The idea is that users will open one app throughout the day instead of bouncing between several different ones.
“The new Reeder is more about presenting the various content types in a better way and not retrofitting everything into a classic RSS feed article viewer”, Reeder developer Silvio Rizzi told me over email. “And, of course, also to get a bit more out of it, like, for example, replies and conversations for Mastodon posts (using the API).”
Power users can still add a feed, site URL, or OPML file to make the app function like a basic RSS reader, but there are now streamlined methods for adding podcasts, YouTube channels, subreddits, comic strips, Flickr users, and Bluesky and Mastodon social accounts. There are ways to keep tabs on audio and video content.
