Version 2.0 is the biggest update since launch. Lede Reader now uses a new language model to decide which articles belong to the same story. It understands Finnish, Swedish, German, French, Spanish and dozens of other languages, so feeds in those languages are grouped just as well as English ones. The model is built into the app and runs on your iPhone. Articles open in full in the reader. Menus, ads and newsletter sign-ups that used to slip in with the text are gone, and subheadings, quotes and lists keep their formatting. If a story is behind a paywall, its card shows a small $ sign. Images are larger and better cropped. Tap one to see it full screen, in portrait or landscape. Cards on the front page now show how many articles cover each story. The Breaking card has a new layout with the headline below the photo, where it's easier to read. The app is also faster. Scrolling is smoother and it uses far less memory. Other changes: • Connect a Reddit feed key so your subreddit feeds keep updating • See in Settings which feeds need attention • Hide items that have nothing to read • Choose from an updated list of suggested feeds • More reliable iCloud sync

Lede now keeps your feeds and reading in sync across your devices. A feed you add on one device shows up on the others, and a feed you delete stays deleted. Articles you've read stay read, even when another device syncs later. As before, every sync saves articles, full text and images on your iPhone, so you can read without a connection. Those saved images are no longer copied into your iCloud backup, which can free up a lot of iCloud space. Also fixed: • Priority notifications no longer miss articles after a big sync or mention ones you've already read. • Merging your data when you turn on iCloud sync no longer crashes. • A few smaller fixes.

A new way to find what you've already read — and a quieter app underneath it. History now groups by source as well as by date. Tap SOURCE in the history toggle and your read articles regroup alphabetically by publisher, with the feeds you follow at the top. Tap DATE to switch back. The choice sticks across launches. Beyond that: a full performance pass over the front page. Cold launch is quicker, and scrolling holds its line during sync.

Sharper, faster, more honest. A round of fixes and small refinements that make Lede quicker to respond, steadier on the page, and more truthful about what's new — so there's less between you and the story.

A steadier pull-to-refresh. When you pulled from deep in history, the top card could land clipped under the title bar until you reopened the app. That snap is now precise on the first try — the front page settles where it should, immediately.

A steadier front page. Lede Reader 1.6 is a focused fix on the last small thing: when an image finished loading on the front page, the surrounding cards could shift slightly, nudging your scroll position. That last layout twitch is now gone — every card claims its space on the first frame and keeps it there. One thing to fix, fixed.

A steadier page, snappier articles. Lede Reader 1.5 is about the small things that should not happen while you're reading. - The front page stays put. Reading an article, liking it, or coming back from the lock screen no longer reshuffles your feed. Cluster order, card sizes, and what's on top change only when you actually refresh — pull to refresh, or come back after a longer pause. - Article images appear instantly. Heroes already on disk now snap in on the first frame instead of fading from a placeholder. Swiping forward in the reader pre-decodes the next two articles' images, so the queue feels uninterrupted even offline. - Source identity in every row. Briefly items and history rows without a hero image now show the source feed's avatar — same icon style as Settings — so each row stays anchored to where the story came from. The newspaper instinct, with even less in the way.

Smarter sync, sharper lead. Lede Reader 1.4 is about the thing you barely notice — what happens between syncs. - Smarter sync. Refresh now skips feeds that haven't changed instead of re-downloading the whole thing. Easier on cellular, easier on battery, identical reading experience. - Breaking only when it really is breaking. The breaking slot now requires at least two sources covering the same story. On a slow news day the slot stays empty rather than promoting a single-source item to the top. - Tappable history rows, all the way across. Taps on the right edge of a history card now open the article instead of falling through. - Retention rules, spelled out. Settings explains what happens to older items: anything past 30 days, or beyond a 1000-article cap, is dropped automatically. The newspaper instinct, with less in the way.

The lead, sharper. Lede Reader 1.3 tightens the thing the app exists to do — see the same story across your feeds and pull it together. - Sharper clustering. A second pass picks up siblings the first sweep missed — awards seasons, weekly roundups, multi-day rollouts now group the way you'd expect. Coverage counts unique sources, so syndication mirrors don't inflate the front page. - Cards without photos, finally their own. Every hero tier — breaking, large, medium, priority — has its own no-image layout: a generous serif headline, the article excerpt where the photo would have been, and the same source-count and timing cues as their imaged siblings. - A calmer page. Duplicate badges and pills cleared from every overlay; each fact appears once, in the place you'd look for it. - Steadier under the hood. A refresh-path crash after pruning old stories is gone, and a white-gap glitch after background sync is fixed. The newspaper instinct, sharper.

Read the whole story, not just the lead. Lede Reader 1.2 turns every article into a complete read. - Full posts, end to end. Tap any article and read it whole — no more 400-character previews from Blogspot, WordPress, Ghost, or Reddit. The original site stays optional. - Inline images in the reader. Photos from the post body now flow between paragraphs in Lede Reader's own typography, so longform reads the way it's meant to. - Reddit galleries, in full. Every image in a gallery post, prefetched at sync time and ready offline. - Pull-up history. Drag up at the bottom of the front page to reveal everything older than your freshness window, grouped by the day it was published. Read items show when you read them. Likes and stars stay marked in gold. Essentials first — and now the whole story when you want it.