Feeder

NoNonsenseApps

About this app

Feeder is an open source feed reader (RSS/Atom/JSONFeed) for Android created in 2014.

With Feeder you can read the latest news and posts from your favorite sites.

Feeder does NOT sync with usual remote backends so no account registration of any kind is necessary.

Feeder is free to use and runs locally on your device. Your data is 100% private.

Features

• Parses HTML and displays it in a native TextView


• Offline reading


• Background synchronization


• Notifications


• OPML Import/Export


• Handy access to enclosure links


• Material design

Full changelog is available on GitHub.

Ratings and reviews

There were a few things I initially had trouble figuring out, such as the fact that you have to swipe up in the dialogue box to access the "add feed" button when adding a new rss feed. The app works really well though and is very easy to use unlike a couple of other rss apps I tried out. Notifications in particular work well which is the thing I was most looking for in the app. Nice job by the person that created it.

Brilliant RSS reader, even easier and cleaner than the old Google reader you still miss so much. I'd like to see more ways to sort feeds (e.g., by source), but that's a minor quibble when you can just limit your feed to one source at a time (a nice touch). All this and 100% free, too. (The only hurdle has nothing to do with the app itself, but in finding feeds. Why did most websites stop using RSS? Offering a feed is stupid easy -- set it and forget it.)

The design of the articles listings isn't my favorite (not big on any of the options, I prefer Pluma's thumbnail view, but that app is broken). Other than that, it's simple and works well. I'd like to see source favicons in the compact view as well as in article notifications. The app has improved since I used it last year. Articles used to have no scrollbar, making it hard to tell how far through you were. Now articles have a draggable scrollbar! The app's also smoother and snappier.