Restless Philly - News Phily

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Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this app

Restless Philly is a news feed reader for people of Philadelphia, configured to search the web for reliable local RSS feeds that you may choose to add and read. It is up to you what news sources you add and choose to read.

Our app is not a news station, it does not produce news, but it is a reading tool and helps you find the best sources and read all news that interests you in one place. We will always try to give you the best recommendations for local news sources.

Also, You may enter any website address and Restless Philly will try and find if it has a public RSS feed, that you can add.

Restless Philly has a Live mode reading option. In Live mode, we will group all news titles from all the recommended feeds that you add and you may read titles as they are published by the sources in one big flow. Even more, the Live mode groups titles by topics.

The app also has a List mode reading option where sources are listed vertically.

Restless Philly has a dedicated team that constantly monitors public feeds related to Philadelphia area and updates and filters our feed suggestions to offer a civilized reading experience. We are also monitoring our Live option solution to keep a good flow of titles mix for your selections.

- No intrusive permissions
- News are fetched fast
- No downloads in the background, while you not in the app
- Options to enlarge or reduce texts

Even though we do not offer news, we have journalists in our group to monitor our news reading apps and maintain a civilized experience.

Ratings and reviews

Used to be able to come back into the app with my source selections listed. Now I have to re-select my sources everytime I open the app and save. Save function appears not to work.

Unique

Adds in notifications.

What's new

23.3 - few improvements
20.0 - optimized; better layout
16.6 - bugs fixed; 14.8 - added Live mode, options for ads