An Otter 2.0 brings the Front Page to iPhone and iPad, with native adaptive columns, a calmer serif reader, and Reading Insights. Same otter, much fresher home.
An Otter RSS Reader is a simple RSS reader for following news, blogs, and personal sites without another account.
Subscribe to feeds, organize them into folders, and let iCloud keep everything in sync across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Otter keeps the experience intentionally calm: quick refreshes, native navigation, readable article views, and just enough personality to make checking your feeds feel pleasant.
New in 2.0, the iPad edition grew up. The Front Page opens to today's stories while native adaptive columns keep feeds and the story list side by side when there’s room, then collapse cleanly on smaller screens. Articles set in a real serif with a comfortable reading measure, on iPad and iPhone alike.
Features:
- Subscribe to RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and XML feeds
- Sync subscriptions and reading state with iCloud
- The Front Page: a daily opening spread across iPhone and iPad
- Smart Folders that fill themselves — long reads, quick reads, podcasts, videos
- A serif reading view with adjustable typography
- Reading Insights: streaks, reading calendar, and when-you-read patterns
- Organize feeds into folders
- Import and export subscriptions with OPML
- Keyboard shortcuts and menu commands on iPad
- Refresh feeds in the background or manually
- Shortcuts actions, Home Screen widgets, and alternate app icons
Otter Pro, the optional subscription, adds ad-free reading, custom Smart Folders, TL;DR article summaries, and the full Reading Insights dashboard.
Otter is not trying to be a social network, inbox, or power-user dashboard. It is a practical little RSS reader for people who still like the open web.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://anotterrss.com/privacy
Clean, simple to use, with integration and extras included
Bit Byte
I haven't dug too much, but the fact you have a debug area for people to clean if they want is, to me at least very appreciated. I have two questions, but before that. One suggestion. Instead of having to have a setting default to switching the state to read when clicked, or doing it after you leave the view, maybe a button at the bottom such can be added to give you options to have it read, even delete it (If it's causing extra memory to be used that is, not sure how that works) if they no longer need it, but then have the extra options to move that certain post in case they will be using it again. Questions. Is it being implemented as a browser in the app that will have cookies and trackers latch on? Also, the serious one for now.. Why does it seem like every developer, or just I don't even know.. What is going on with Twitter?? Hahaha. Thanks!Not sure why it didn't paragraph my text.. I surely did, also an issue. I subscribed to the Otter and the indiedev, when I came to type that first review, I went back to the app and the feeds were gone. Like they got consumed after they were already consumed, haha.
Better than okayest!
GalacticHero13
It does what it says on the tin: it reads RSS feeds. Other features are strictly in service of that core function. No accounts, no suggested or “curated ;)“ content. It doesn’t send me emails, or even ask for my email. This is what I’m after in an RSS reader.But! It syncs to iCloud so I can read stuff across devices without thinking about it! It loads full articles without fussing with subscriptions and nonsense! It supports reader view! These things all serve to enhance the feed-reading experience without demanding your attention or getting in your way.Two small features I’d like to see: an option to default to reader-view and swipe to mark as read. The app is great without those things, but I’d appreciate them.
Developer Response
Thank you so much for the kind review! The "default to reader view" was a bug in one of the versions 😔 That should be fixed now along with the addition of "swipe to mark as read". Happy Ottering!
Better than ok
MagneticCrow
I’d been struggling with the rss readers in the app store. Every one of them is very pretty, fine, but every one of them mostly serves up whatever specific sources the developer wants me to see. Otter is beautiful, minimal, and functional. I add the rss, I get a list of headlines, and I can organize them by folder. Literally all I wanted. ….ok I wouldn’t be sad if there was a toggle option to turn on thumbail images on the screen preview list for articles, I do follow a lot of art blogs, but that’s it. Otherwise perfect. If that would mess up the wonderful design this app has, then better than perfect and forget I said anything at all.
Not bad for an early release (updated)
GuntCramps
Original review below is over 2 years old and it's been over a year since an update. An abandoned app can't be anything more than 1 star. Already after one update many of the request I and others have been added as well as comlaints being addressed. Updating to 5 stars. Check app update history for what's been addressed. The reader mode is nicest I've seen so far. You can create folders and move your feeds into them, you can import opml from other apps which maintains folder hierarchy if that app supports folders. What it needs. Mark articles read on scrolling past them Option to hide read articles by default instead of manually hiding all the time. When clicking on a top level folder it expands the folder clicking the arrow should expand the folder. There is no way to view all stories in a top folder. For example I have a tech folder and have to go to every single sub folder and read the stories I should be able to just click the tech folder and see the stories in that folder. Needs swipe gestures example swipe right mark read/unread swipe left add to favorite. When viewing stories there is about a quarter inch of empty space on the left and right making appear almost window boxed. The story headlines should go the width of the screen to see more words in the title. Need to add an option to sort by oldest and newest first. If in reader mode hitting the safari button should open in the in app browser instead of leaving the app. If we want to leave the app from that screen the safari button should open in your default browser. Under notifications there should be an option to show badge count with unread articles. Should be an option to see favicons to the left of the headline to quickly see at a glance which site posted the story as well as an option to enable images if there is one in the story. Either a small image to the right of the headline or a large image below the headline. All in all it's a really good start it's just not ready to be my main RSS app for now I'm sticking with Reeder and NetNewsWire. I am going to keep Otter installed and look forward to future updates.
Developer Response
Hello! I appreciate the all of this feedback :) It's a lot of take in but it really helps me out. A lot of these suggestions are on my todo list already. I'm a new parent so my time is a little bit limited right now but I"m hoping to get a lot of these things out sooner rather than later :)I totally get keeping with Reeder and NetNewsWire but I do appreciate you keeping the Otter installed :heart:
An Otter 2.0 is the iPad release this reader always deserved — and the iPhone got treats too.
- The Front Page: open the app to today's stories, not an empty pane
- Native adaptive columns on iPad — feeds, stories, and the reader tile together when space allows
- Smart Folders arrive in the iPad sidebar, honoring your section order
- Reading Insights is now a full dashboard: streaks, reading calendar, and when-you-read patterns
- Articles set in a real serif with a comfortable reading measure (iPhone too)
- Keyboard shortcuts and menu commands for iPad
- A properly layered app icon with real depth
- VoiceOver improvements throughout, from folder chevrons to the reading calendar
Same otter. Same lightweight RSS reader. Much fresher home.
Version 2.0.1
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