Heartfeed RSS Reader 17+
RSS for the connoisseur
Ozymandias
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Do you want to read your news using RSS/Atom/JSON feeds in the most efficient, no-nonsense way, and with no requirement to setup an app-specific user account or relying on a server? If you do, Heartfeed might be the app for you.
Features:
- A compact grid view for your feeds, making it easy to check all of them at once
- When reading news in the internal browser, full support of your configured content blockers, saved passwords, etc.
- Automatic synching of subscribed feeds and read status between iOS devices (requires an iCloud account)
- Quick pick list: Easily select which news items from different feeds you want to read
- Background refresh of feeds: Some feeds refresh often and you then risk missing news in case the app is not used frequently. Background refresh, together with caching of the last 50 news items in each feed, prevents this from happening
- Bookmarks, including reading them from either inside Heartfeed or from any iOS or macOS browser (requires an iCloud account)
- Night mode theme
- Subscribing to feeds from the current Heartfeed top list, from files, or directly from the web
- Full support for split views and multi-tasking on iPads
- No tracking of usage or personal data; optionally, you can anonymously share which feeds you subscribe to for improving the builtin top list of recommended feeds
The app is 100% free and without ads. If you want to tip me somethings as thanks for the app, you can do so within the settings.
I hope you'll enjoy using Heartfeed!
What’s New
Version 5.2
- Now completely free for everyone, and of course still without ads. If you want to tip me something of the app, you can now do so in the settings.
- Improved feedback while refreshing news.
- A couple of small bug fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
Close to perfect
I was looking for something that could import OPML, that didn't have a subscription (no problem with subscriptions, I just don't read enough RSS feeds to justify one), that wasn't orphaned, and that worked really well. This is that app.
Has potential but not up to scratch
The display that this RSS reader provides is really useful. This is a a display I wish other apps would use. However the rest of the app itself is so limiting that it’s not a practical reader. It doesn’t integrate with other accounts (eg Feedly), although it does accept OPML files it only reads the feeds and not the groups so if you import, as I did, 300+ feeds they’d lost all grouping. This is a massive flaw. With work this could be a great reader, but it’s not there yet.
Developer Response ,
Hi! If you'd like me to have a look at your OPML file from Feedly, please get in touch with me using the support mail address. An issue with OPML is that it's not really a fixed standard so things like groups are difficult to support for all exported OPMLs since different services use different ways to specify the group, but I'd be happy to see if I could make it work with your Feedly export.
At last a replacement for Pulse
LinkedIn's purchase and subsequent murder of the Pulse app was a sad series of events for RSS lovers. Happily the author of this app agreed and wrote this as an alternative for those mourning Pulse's passing. It's functional rather than feature rich and the feed search could be a little slicker but this is a great replacement for Pulse and recommended for anyone who misses that great little app. Massive hats off to the developer for making this.
App Privacy
The developer, Ozymandias, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Simon Wigzell
- Size
- 14.3 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © Simon Wigzell
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Even more tip to the developer £9.99
- Maximum tip to the developer £24.99
- Tipping the developer £2.99
- Tipping the developer £0.99