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

Great RSS reader, but it lacks more advanced features to be the Swiss knife I wish it was. Namely: More per feed customization (I want newest first compact for news, but oldest first cards for comics!). Better UX (impossible to tell what is read and isn't. Save buttons should be on the top right. Why can't I uncheck unread? Actions are not contextualized like add feed in tag doesn't include tag by default.) Little broken things like bug report never load if you have the GitHub app installed.

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.

Got this to replace Feedly, and it seems very good. My key reason for the change was to be able to download all the text from an article without the whole web page, which this app does perfectly. My only gripe is that in dark mode it's almost impossible to differentiate between read and unread articles in the Super Compact view. Greying the title text would definitely help.