Reader Ultra
A clean, ultra fast RSS reader
£9.99
The RSS reader that gets out of your way. Blazing-fast, beautifully clean, and synced across all your devices in real time — with Reader Ultra sync service included.
Reader Ultra is RSS the way it should be: fast, clean, and completely free of nonsense.
No cluttered timelines. No ads dressed up as articles. No algorithm deciding what you see. Just your feeds, your folders, and a reading experience built for speed and focus — on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
GET STARTED IN SECONDS
Fill your reader your way. Add feeds by hand, paste in your own feed URLs, import an existing OPML file to bring your whole library across in one step — or skip the setup entirely and pick from a specially curated selection of quality feeds to get you reading straight away. However you start, you're only a tap or two from your first article.
FAST, FROM LAUNCH TO LAST ARTICLE
Reader Ultra opens instantly and stays out of your way. Scrolling is smooth, articles load clean, and everything is designed to get you reading in seconds — not fighting a busy interface.
A PRIVATE, HIGH-PERFORMANCE SYNC SERVICE
Reader Ultra includes its own private RSS sync service — not a bolt-on, and not built on tracking. Your feeds and reading state sync across every device in real time, and it's fast: read an article on your Mac and it's already marked read on your iPhone; add a feed on your iPad and it appears everywhere in seconds. Silent background push keeps every device current without draining your battery, and the whole service is engineered for speed and reliability even with hundreds of feeds and thousands of articles. Sync is included at no extra cost — there's no separate account to juggle and nothing to configure.
NATIVE ON EVERY PLATFORM, OPTIMISED FOR EACH
Reader Ultra isn't a single app stretched to fit — it's built natively for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and tuned for each one. On iPhone it's a fast, one-handed reader designed for quick sessions on the go. On iPad it takes full advantage of the larger canvas with multi-column layouts, split view, and keyboard support. On Mac it's a true desktop app with real keyboard shortcuts, resizable columns, and multiple windows — the polish Mac users expect. Whichever device you pick up, it feels like it was made for that device, because it was.
FOLDERS AND SMART FEEDS, YOUR WAY
Organise feeds into folders and make them yours — custom names, custom SF Symbol icons, and colours that help you find what you want at a glance. A tidy sidebar means less hunting and more reading.
PERSONALISE EVERY DETAIL
Reader Ultra is yours to shape. Choose from 20+ app icons and matching app accent colours to set the whole app's tone. Customise the sidebar to suit how you read — tailor the status tile, adjust the analytics tile, or hide the analytics tile entirely for a cleaner, more focused layout. Make it as informative or as minimal as you like.
OPTIMISED SHARING
Share the way you actually want to. Reader Ultra gives you clean, fast sharing to your favourite apps — the full article, the link, or a quick summary — with a share sheet that just works.
SAFARI EXTENSION
Subscribe straight from Safari. The extension finds every feed on the page — even the ones sites don't advertise — and hands it to Reader Ultra, ready to add.
THOUGHTFUL, MODERN FEATURES
• On-device article summaries powered by Apple Intelligence
• Siri AI, Siri Shortcuts & App Intents — refresh feeds, find articles, and more, hands-free
• Feed filtering — define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds
• Spotlight integration to jump straight to your articles
• OPML import & export — bring your feeds in, take them anywhere
• A clean reader view that strips clutter and blocks distracting content
• Unread counts and badges that stay accurate across every device
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Your reading is yours. Reader Ultra doesn't build an ad profile, doesn't track what you read, and doesn't get in your way.
Whether you follow a handful of blogs or hundreds of news sources, Reader Ultra keeps everything fast, organised, and perfectly in sync.
Download Reader Ultra and rediscover how good RSS can feel.
more - iPhone Duo: Reader Ultra is fully updated and optimised for iPhone Duo
- Performance optimisations
In previous updates:
- Improved search: search for multiple terms with spaces or combinations enclosed in quotes
- New Copy Article feature in the Share menu: copy the entire article body including all images to the clipboard
- Improvements to article swipe and pull gesture reliability in certain edge cases
- Smart Feeds can now apply key word searches against the RSS article body as well as the article title
- More options in Settings > Reading allow control over how you navigate through feeds with gestures
- Improved Share > Email Article formatting and appearance in both light and dark modes
- Support for Reader Ultra Service backend performance optimisations
1.47 4 days ago
- iPhone Duo: Reader Ultra is fully updated and optimised for iPhone Duo
- Improved search: search for multiple terms with spaces or combinations enclosed in quotes
In previous updates:
- New Copy Article feature in the Share menu: copy the entire article body including all images to the clipboard
- Improvements to article swipe and pull gesture reliability in certain edge cases
- Smart Feeds can now apply key word searches against the RSS article body as well as the article title
- More options in Settings > Reading allow control over how you navigate through feeds with gestures
- Improved Share > Email Article formatting and appearance in both light and dark modes
- Support for Reader Ultra Service backend performance optimisations
1.46 16 Oct
- iPhone Duo: Reader Ultra is fully updated and optimised for iPhone Duo
- New Copy Article feature in the Share menu: copy the entire article body including all images to the clipboard
In previous updates:
- Improvements to article swipe and pull gesture reliability in certain edge cases
- Smart Feeds can now apply key word searches against the RSS article body as well as the article title
- More options in Settings > Reading allow control over how you navigate through feeds with gestures
- Improved Share > Email Article formatting and appearance in both light and dark modes
- Support for Reader Ultra Service backend performance optimisations
1.45 14 Oct
- iPhone Duo: Reader Ultra is fully updated and optimised for iPhone Duo
- Improvements to article swipe and pull gesture reliability in certain edge cases
In previous updates:
- Smart Feeds can now apply key word searches against the RSS article body as well as the article title
- More options in Settings > Reading allow control over how you navigate through feeds with gestures
- Improved Share > Email Article formatting and appearance in both light and dark modes
- Support for Reader Ultra Service backend performance optimisations
1.44 11 Oct
- iPhone Duo: Reader Ultra is fully updated and optimised for iPhone Duo
- Smart Feeds can now apply key word searches against the RSS article body as well as the article title
- More options in Settings > Reading allow control over how you navigate through feeds with gestures
- Improved Share > Email Article formatting and appearance in both light and dark modes
- Support for Reader Ultra Service backend performance optimisations
1.43 8 Oct
- iPhone Duo: Reader Ultra is fully updated and optimised for iPhone Duo
- Smart Feeds can now apply key word searches against the RSS article body as well as the article title
- More options in Settings > Reading allow control over how you navigate through feeds with gestures
- Improved Share > Email Article formatting and appearance in both light and dark modes
- Support for Reader Ultra Service backend performance optimisations
1.42 6 Oct
- iPhone Duo: Reader Ultra is fully updated and optimised for iPhone Duo
- Smart Feeds can now apply key word searches against the RSS article body as well as the article title
- More options in Settings > Reading allow control over how you navigate through feeds with gestures
- Improved Share > Email Article formatting and appearance in both light and dark modes
- Support for Reader Ultra Service backend performance optimisations
1.41 6 Oct
- Extended icon/glyph options for folders and Smart Feeds
- Improved Share > Email Article formatting
- Support for backend performance optimisations
1.40 4 Oct
- Extended icon/glyph options for folders and Smart Feeds
- Improved Share > Email Article formatting
In previous updates:
- Within a feed or folder a new gesture is now available: pull up to Mark All as Read
- Mark All as Read gesture is now supported in the folder and feed list rows
- Right-to-left language support in articles (feed and reader views)
- Deleting feeds now always asks for confirmation
- New "Reader" article view. The article view selector on the article toolbar now has 3 modes: Feed, Reader, Full Website. Reader is a new ultra clean readability view of the article web view. Set your default for each feed.
- Major performance improvements for folders and feeds that have 5,000 or more articles: version 1.30 has tested to well over 20,000 read or unread unread in a folder and performance remains fluid and natural
- Smart feeds: define your own smart feeds based on article subject filters, multiple terms and exclude terms are supported. You can also select custom glyphs and colours for your smart feeds for extra personalisation. Rules and smart feed settings sync via iCloud to all your devices.
- Feed filtering: define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds. Filters can apply to the subject, body, or both. Filtered articles can also be easily viewed. Settings are synced via iCloud.
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- New option in Settings > Reading to swipe right-to-left in Article view to go to the next article on iOS and iPadOS
- Improvements to the folder expanded view and indenting of feeds
- Optimisations for iPhone Duo
- Performance improvements
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.34 3 Oct
- Within a feed or folder a new gesture is now available: pull up to Mark All as Read
- Mark All as Read gesture is now supported in the folder and feed list rows
- Right-to-left language support in articles (feed and reader views)
- Deleting feeds now always asks for confirmation
In previous updates:
- New "Reader" article view. The article view selector on the article toolbar now has 3 modes: Feed, Reader, Full Website. Reader is a new ultra clean readability view of the article web view. Set your default for each feed.
- Major performance improvements for folders and feeds that have 5,000 or more articles: version 1.30 has tested to well over 20,000 read or unread unread in a folder and performance remains fluid and natural
- Smart feeds: define your own smart feeds based on article subject filters, multiple terms and exclude terms are supported. You can also select custom glyphs and colours for your smart feeds for extra personalisation. Rules and smart feed settings sync via iCloud to all your devices.
- Feed filtering: define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds. Filters can apply to the subject, body, or both. Filtered articles can also be easily viewed. Settings are synced via iCloud.
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- New option in Settings > Reading to swipe right-to-left in Article view to go to the next article on iOS and iPadOS
- Improvements to the folder expanded view and indenting of feeds
- Optimisations for iPhone Duo
- Performance improvements
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.33 2 Oct
- Minor improvements
In previous updates:
- New "Reader" article view. The article view selector on the article toolbar now has 3 modes: Feed, Reader, Full Website. Reader is a new ultra clean readability view of the article web view. Set your default for each feed.
- Major performance improvements for folders and feeds that have 5,000 or more articles: version 1.30 has tested to well over 20,000 read or unread unread in a folder and performance remains fluid and natural
- Smart feeds: define your own smart feeds based on article subject filters, multiple terms and exclude terms are supported. You can also select custom glyphs and colours for your smart feeds for extra personalisation. Rules and smart feed settings sync via iCloud to all your devices.
- Feed filtering: define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds. Filters can apply to the subject, body, or both. Filtered articles can also be easily viewed. Settings are synced via iCloud.
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- New option in Settings > Reading to swipe right-to-left in Article view to go to the next article on iOS and iPadOS
- Improvements to the folder expanded view and indenting of feeds
- Optimisations for iPhone Duo
- Performance improvements
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.32 1 Oct
- Major performance improvements for folders and feeds that have 5,000 or more articles: version 1.30 has tested to well over 20,000 read or unread unread in a folder and performance remains fluid and natural
- New "Reader" article view. The article view selector on the article toolbar now has 3 modes: Feed, Reader, Full Website. Reader is a new ultra clean readability view of the article web view. Set your default for each feed.
In previous updates:
- Smart feeds: define your own smart feeds based on article subject filters, multiple terms and exclude terms are supported. You can also select custom glyphs and colours for your smart feeds for extra personalisation. Rules and smart feed settings sync via iCloud to all your devices.
- Feed filtering: define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds. Filters can apply to the subject, body, or both. Filtered articles can also be easily viewed. Settings are synced via iCloud.
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- New option in Settings > Reading to swipe right-to-left in Article view to go to the next article on iOS and iPadOS
- Improvements to the folder expanded view and indenting of feeds
- Optimisations for iPhone Duo
- Performance improvements
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.31 29 Sept
- Major performance improvements for folders and feeds that have 5,000 or more articles: version 1.30 has tested to well over 20,000 read or unread unread in a folder and performance remains fluid and natural
In previous updates:
- Smart feeds: define your own smart feeds based on article subject filters, multiple terms and exclude terms are supported. You can also select custom glyphs and colours for your smart feeds for extra personalisation. Rules and smart feed settings sync via iCloud to all your devices.
- Feed filtering: define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds. Filters can apply to the subject, body, or both. Filtered articles can also be easily viewed. Settings are synced via iCloud.
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- New option in Settings > Reading to swipe right-to-left in Article view to go to the next article on iOS and iPadOS
- Improvements to the folder expanded view and indenting of feeds
- Optimisations for iPhone Duo
- Performance improvements
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.30 28 Sept
- Smart feeds: define your own smart feeds based on article subject filters, multiple terms and exclude terms are supported. You can also select custom glyphs and colours for your smart feeds for extra personalisation. Rules and smart feed settings sync via iCloud to all your devices.
- Feed filtering: define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds. Filters can apply to the subject, body, or both. Filtered articles can also be easily viewed. Settings are synced via iCloud.
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- New option in Settings > Reading to swipe right-to-left in Article view to go to the next article on iOS and iPadOS
- Improvements to the folder expanded view and indenting of feeds
- Optimisations for iPhone Duo
- Performance improvements
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.28 27 Sept
- Smart feeds: define your own smart feeds based on article subject filters, multiple terms and exclude terms are supported. You can also select custom glyphs and colours for your smart feeds for extra personalisation. Rules and smart feed settings sync via iCloud to all your devices.
- Feed filtering: define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds. Filters can apply to the subject, body, or both. Filtered articles can also be easily viewed. Settings are synced via iCloud.
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- New option in Settings > Reading to swipe right-to-left in Article view to go to the next article on iOS and iPadOS
- Improvements to the folder expanded view and indenting of feeds
- Optimisations for iPhone Duo
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.27 26 Sept
- Smart feeds: define your own smart feeds based on article subject filters, multiple terms and exclude terms are supported. You can also select custom glyphs and colours for your smart feeds for extra personalisation. Rules and smart feed settings sync via iCloud to all your devices.
- Feed filtering: define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds. Filters can apply to the subject, body, or both. Filtered articles can also be easily viewed. Settings are synced via iCloud.
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- New option in Settings > Reading to swipe right-to-left in Article view to go to the next article on iOS and iPadOS
- Improvements to the folder expanded view and indenting of feeds
- Optimisations for iPhone Duo
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.26 26 Sept
- Feed filtering: define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds. Filters can apply to the subject, body, or both. Filtered articles can also be easily viewed. Settings are synced via iCloud.
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.25 19 Sept
- Feed filtering: define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds. Filters can apply to the subject, body, or both. Filtered articles can also be easily viewed. Settings are synced via iCloud.
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.24 18 Sept
- Feed filtering: define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds. Filters can apply to the subject, body, or both. Filtered articles can also be easily viewed. Settings are synced via iCloud.
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.23 15 Sept
- Feed filtering: define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds. Filters can apply to the subject, body, or both. Filtered articles can also be easily viewed. Settings are synced via iCloud.
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.22 15 Sept
- Feed Filtering: define keywords to filter out articles in individual feeds. Filters can apply to the subject, body, or both. Filtered articles can also be easily viewed. Settings are synced via iCloud.
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.20 14 Sept
- Mark all as read above and below the selected article in the article list: to access use long press on iOS/iPadOS, right-click on macOS. This feature respects your setting for prompting Mark All as Read in Settings > Reading.
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
1.19 13 Sept
- Improvements to the Siri AI experience in iOS 27 and iPadOS 27
- Other iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 improvements
1.18 12 Sept
- Updates for iOS 27
1.17 11 Sept
- Improvements to auto folder/feed selection after Mark All as Read
- Optimisation for larger screen size devices
- Improvements to app icon badge count updates
1.16 8 Sept
- iPhone Duo: Reader Ultra is fully updated and optimised for iPhone Duo
- Performance optimisations
In previous updates:
- Improved search: search for multiple terms with spaces or combinations enclosed in quotes
- New Copy Article feature in the Share menu: copy the entire article body including all images to the clipboard
- Improvements to article swipe and pull gesture reliability in certain edge cases
- Smart Feeds can now apply key word searches against the RSS article body as well as the article title
- More options in Settings > Reading allow control over how you navigate through feeds with gestures
- Improved Share > Email Article formatting and appearance in both light and dark modes
- Support for Reader Ultra Service backend performance optimisations
more Version 1.47 4 days ago
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