Handy News Reader

yanus171

About this app

"Staying in touch with all My Interests never has been so easy".

Handy News Reader: no ads/free software under GNU GPL license.

• make up Your Dream Magazine!


• interesting articles straight into Your hands


• finally enjoy reading

...enjoy Your Life being distraction-free - and up-to-date with Your interests in the same time. Focus on the Essence...



Meet Handy NR - a feature-rich, off-line oriented RSS reader which respects Your Time as well as Your Inner Peace: it avoids switching attention and distractions which are so familiar today when You think of mobile devices.

Features:

• full articles at hand: no need to use an external web-browser to reach full text,


• convenient reading: switching articles by volume buttons or swipe, Tap Zones, remembering the position of reading per article,


• important articles' notification: You will no longer miss anything You find especially important,


• "Read It Later": You can quickly flick through articles - marking (starring) chosen ones to read later in Your spare time - or just to preserve,


• "Remove When Finished" - once You've finished such an article - it may be automatically removed from the 'Favorites' (='Read It Later') set,


• ready to go off-line - dive into interesting reading without distractions: once updated, there is no need of additional loading anything - it really will do without Internet :),


• save the bandwidth: go on-line only for new articles - not for loading their full-version every single time; control what should be downloaded - and to what degree,


• gesture-friendly: e.g. swipe top down to add/remove an article from Favorites, swipe along the left edge of the screen to adjust text brightness,


• user-friendly: care about Your eyes with a dark theme, adjust text size, color and brightness to meet Your individual needs,


• neat ideas: non-hyperlinked article headers won't interfere with Your fingers any more ;) ; scrolling article pages by 90% of their height can make reading less confusing = more comfortable,


• highly customizable: from Tap Zones' size to hyperlinks' color and underlining - there are a bunch of details which You can tailor exactly to Your Own taste and needs,


• advanced features: auto-backup (export/import to/from an .opml format), providing content out of non-RSS websites,


• more interesting features "in store" - visit our website to find out more :) !,


• important: this app does NOT synchronize with online news feed readers (i.e. Feedly),


• feedback and suggestions are welcome;

Where you can find us:

• source code at GitHub,


• homepage,


• translations;

Ratings and reviews

Edit: Haven't used the app for awhile & coming back. Was able to add my own custom font and make text even larger (eye issues). I have plenty of room to make it really large (hope I don't have to!) Able to make the colors as I like so it's easiest to read for me, with no bright whites and a nice dark grey background. I was reading Reddit constantly thru my fave app, but now that that app is gone, happy to have customization here! Edit, old request: TY on importing opml; will try. I missed that!

Handy News Reader has been a Godsend after the shitshow that READ rss reader became. I hope its layout and functionality never change and that it does remain ad free. That said, I'd gladly spend five bucks or so for a paid version were it to be released with the same feature set. Its behavior is predictable, and does not download the full article and attachment by default, like some other RSS readers I've tried. Love this application.

Love the app for allowing to create notifications for news via RSS, especially those who want to catch it at the first minute or so. However, making it showing pop-up and sound notifications will occassionally show a "Refreshing feed" or something similar notification that will lead to notifications being made without any news. Would be nice if the notification feature to be tweaked a bit better, at least doesn't create notification until there's actual news.

What's new

- Article list: Show more button to incrementally enlarge visible piece of displayed text of expanded article
- Article list: Right brightness slider, scroll page down by tap on right|left tap zone, Text preview (pref & toggle menu item)
- Remaining page count indicator
- Image tap menu: Open, Share, Save to Downloads
- Advanced settings: Select apps for direct use as browser & image viewer, Ignore all SSL errors, Connection timeout
- ...
- bug fixes