FocusReader RSS Reader

Focus App (Social News Podcast)

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About this app

RSS is system used by most websites to easily distribute their content to anyone that wants to monitor it. Most websites that publish articles offer an RSS feed. You can collect and organize these feeds into your own customized, personal magazine/newpaper-like reading experience. These feeds are either stored in specialized OPML files or collected by different services called "aggregators" (Inoreader, Feedbin, etc.). The advantages of using RSS over just visiting various websites include:

• all of your content is gathered in one unified place
• a good RSS reader will strip out ads, pop-ups, and everything else except for the content of your articles
• you can integrate your YouTube subscriptions, Twitter feeds, and email newsletters
• you can follow hundreds of different sources without having to search through bookmarks or click through the web - RSS automatically gathers new articles for you effortlessly!

FocusReader is an modern RSS reader designed to provide the best Android reading experience possible. It will manage your feeds by either storing them locally (using OPML import) or seemlessly integrating with all of the major aggregator services (including Feedly, Inoreader, The Old Reader, Feedbin, Bazqux, Tiny Tiny RSS, FreshRSS, and Fever).

Basic, completely free features include:

• a full-screen reading experience
• a pure reading mode that streamlines article content into a clean reading layout
• podcast support
• article translation
• gesture navigation to painlessly swipe through subsequent articles, star articles, mark read, view images, open in browser, activate readability mode, or copy/share links
• light and dark themes
• full article caching for offline reading
• magazine, card, and list views
• user-defined reading settings (multiple fonts, font size, line height, line spacing, line justification)
• sync on open, sync on demand, or optional background sync
• per-feed customization settings
• easy new feed search and add; just type in a term you're interested in and you'll be presented with tons of feeds to choose from
• built-in image viewer/downloader
• integration with Pocket, Evernote, and Instapaper
• mark articles as read either manually or on rollover
• article sorting either ascending or descending so that you're presented with content in the chronological order you prefer
• fully support using external browser custom tabs for seemless viewing of articles that are difficult to parse
• high-definition favicons for all feeds
• optional navigation using volume buttons

We feel that continued development is best supported long-term by a subscription model. This enables FocusReader to be in continuous development, addressing bugs quickly and always adding features. Those who choose to subscribe can use the following additional features:

• user-defineable light, dark, and AMOLED themes, as well as auto-dark mode,
• complete subscription management - delete and rename feeds and folders,
• filter out or retain articles using keywords
• ability to open a feed's article using its corresponding app (for example: a YouTube feed can be set to open in the YouTube app)
• ability to add an unlimited number of accounts
• ability to backup app data locally or to Google Drive, DropBox, or OneDrive to save your setup for easy future restoration or share settings across devices
• intelligent automatic ad-removal from synced Inoreader accounts
• automatic duplicate article removal based on article title or URL
• a "Today" view that will show articles from the last 24 hours
• ability to cache images during sync (enhancing your offline reading)
• full-text article search
• Readability support that will fetch full article text into the app from partial RSS feeds; 3 different Readability engines are provided (native, Feedbin, and advanced)

Community:
https://support.qq.com/products/286382

Developer email:
[e-mail]

Twitter:
https://twitter.com/allentown521

Ratings and reviews

The reason I like this app is that you can group your feeds. Been using for a few days now and overall it's been a good experience and I have gone premium. Only downsides are 1) when refreshing you can't click into any feeds or groups very easily 2) Adding a feed to a folder invokes a refresh which then leads to problem 1. If you could look at this functionality that would be great 👍

Good app, bar a handful of UI quirks: (1) think it would benefit a feed navigation menu accessible across views; (2) the text colour of read items in feed lists is far too dark (in dark mode), especially if you need to search through long lists of read items - a subtle badge for unread items might work better; (3) would be great to be able to import an updated OPML without completely overwriting the current one... Lifetime purchase opt could also be good. Just my 2 pence - otherwise a great app

I really want to like this app. I did wind up going for the Pro version because I liked it initially. However, I'm finding issues with some RSS feeds not updating as frequently as they should. For instance, a daily quotations page that I have verified updates daily lies dormant in FocusReader, and syncing does not do anything. Yet on other readers, it is updated properly. I wound up importing all I wanted from Feedly and Inoreader, but would be nice to be able to combine them easily.

What's new

Add larger font settings
Fix the issue that the TTS engine cannot switch