Plenary - RSS feeds, Podcasts

Plenary app

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About this app

Plenary is a modern RSS reader (RSS feed reader), news aggregator, podcast player and offline reader app for Android. App serves two main purposes:

1. Subscribe to RSS feed of your choice & get updates from those feeds automatically.
2. Download the article to your local storage & read it later anywhere offline.

You can follow your favorite blogs, magazines, news publications that you trust, YouTube channels of your choice, podcasts you like & more. You can use it as your favorite RSS feeds and article downloader app with great UX.

Why should you use Plenary as your RSS feed reader & offline reader?

  • 🔓 No login required

  • 🔇 No Ads/Trackers
    Plenary is ad free & doesn't track anything you do on the app. Everything the app does, from fetching feeds to aggregating them and saving them is done on your device. All the data of feeds & downloaded articles is stored on your local storage.

  • 📶 Full offline support
    Feeds will be synced at your preferred interval if you are connected to the internet & you can access them anywhere offline. You can save the entire content of an article by tapping the save button to use the app as an offline news reader.

Core features of the app:

  • 🎙️ Podcast support
    Stream and download your favorite podcasts!

  • 📖 Offline reader
    Download articles or news items by adding URL in Saved section of the app or sharing URL from other app using Save to Plenary. Read it later anytime!

  • 🎨 Multiple themes

  • 🔄 Auto sync feeds
    Option to auto sync feeds at regular intervals with multiple choices available ranging from 15 minutes to 1 day

  • 🔃 Backup & Restore

  • 🔔 Notifications
    Get notified if new entries are added to your subscribed feeds. You can toggle notification for individual feeds

  • 💬 TTS(Text To Speech)

Other features include full OPML support, Search feeds online through feedly API, categories of feed & fully customizable reader experience (font, textsize, themes etc).

How to add feeds?

  • 📰 Local News
    Subscribe to news feeds of most popular news sources from 15+ countries including Brazil, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Spain, UK & USA. Top sources include :
New York Times, The Guardian, The independent, FOCUS Online, Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun, Independent Australia, Washington Post, BBC News, Daily mail, The Atlantic, Lifehacker, Business Insider, The Verge, Buzzfeed, Vox, engadget, Newsweek, Times of India, Economic times, NDTV news , India news.

  • 💁 RSS Assistant
    Create your own RSS feeds from popular sites - Google News, Reddit, YouTube, Medium, WordPress, Wikipedia, Tumblr & Pinterest

  • 👍 Recommended Feeds
    Choose from more than 400 top feeds curated by us in 30+ popular categories i.e. Business, Finance, Gaming, History, Movies, News, Sports & Technology.

Premium features:

  • ⚫ Pure black theme optimized for AMOLED displays

  • ☁ Automatic Backup of data on Google Drive, Dropbox

  • 📲 Open links directly in external apps

Other premium features include unlimited (more than 100) feed subscriptions, customizable widgets, more accent colors, fonts for reeder screens, more options in assistant (YouTube, Medium, Reddit & WordPress), quick actions in notifications & inline YouTube player.

Ratings and reviews

The best rss reader ive found. I love the notifications. The paid premium model is fair. One thing that could be better though is if the dev either offered more cloud storage options besides google or offered webdav as backup in the app. Also the swipe down to refresh needs to go. There are too many times ive tried to go to the top of the feed but,accidentally swiped the first article and hit refresh. Please replace this with a button.

Good app but needs some tweaks. The following are changes I would like to see. 1. Always start with unread articles shown. 2. Floating button should have a mark all as read option. And mark as read when scroll. 3. Dark background when you select webview. 4. Display picture thumbnails for all articles. 5. Manual refresh doesn't work consistently. 6. Number of unread articles on app icon. I would gladly pay for premium if half of these changes were made.

Moving from Flym and this seems pretty good. Only two knocks against it - it'd be great if opening the app or marking something read would auto clear its notifications. And it'd be nice if the new article notification had an option to just summarize as opposed to making every article it's own notification. But other than that, I like it and will be using it for a while.

What's new

v4.6.2
* Fix TTS issue in some devices
v4.6
* Added Substack as an RSS Assistant option
* Added support for Material You accent color (Android 12)
* Added support for HTTP Basic auth
* Fixed issue with external app open