This update improves iCloud sync, launch behavior, article-list stability during refreshes, long-article reading performance, feed discovery, and OPML imports.
A calm, beautiful home for your feeds.
Ember Feed is a modern RSS reader for macOS designed for people who want focus, clarity, and control over their news. No algorithms. No noise. Just the content you choose — presented beautifully.
Designed to Feel Good
Reading should feel calm. Ember Feed features soft pastel gradient themes, light and dark mode, and a curated selection of 20 beautiful fonts so you can create a reading space that feels uniquely yours.
Seamless iCloud Sync
Your feeds and reading progress stay in sync across your devices with iCloud. Start reading on your Mac and continue right where you left off.
Stay Organized
• Organize feeds into folders
• Personalize folders with custom emoji icons
• Mark articles as read or unread
• Save articles for later
Your feed structure is fully yours — simple, flexible, and intuitive.
Import and Export with Ease
Already using another RSS reader? Import your subscriptions instantly with OPML. You can also export anytime — your data always belongs to you.
Offline-Ready
Articles are cached for offline reading, so your feeds are available even without an internet connection.
What a refreshing RSS reader app! I love the interface and the random pastel radiant backgrounds! I picked a greenish background and saved it. Love the iCloud sync!!!! Well done!!!!!!
Developer Response
Thank you so much for trying my small app! More updates are coming soon, please keep checking out the updates.
- Improved iCloud sync reliability so read/unread state and library changes from other devices refresh more consistently without requiring a restart.
- Prevented stale local persistence from removing feeds or folders that arrived from iCloud, while preserving intentional local delete and reset behavior.
- Made startup more stable by keeping cached feeds visible during the transition from launch storage to the real SwiftData store, including CloudKit fallback and retry cases.
- Reduced article-list jumps during refresh by preserving same-source refresh anchors, stabilizing dates for undated articles, keeping grouped headers uniquely identified, and avoiding visible-list churn from body-only refresh updates.
- Improved latestOnly refresh behavior so genuinely new backdated or undated articles can still appear without duplicating old entries.
- Made long articles feel lighter by lazily rendering prepared reader rows, using compact body metadata for render decisions, and avoiding full-body string work in SwiftUI task identities.
- Made article opening more responsive while feeds are downloading by decoupling article-body reads from refresh persistence writes and indexing loaded article bodies.
- Improved Saved and Favorited badge performance, favicon loading, article-list cache invalidation, and feed/article derived-list updates for larger libraries.
- Improved feed discovery, XML parsing, and OPML import duplicate handling so imports can preserve distinct feed URLs on the same host while still skipping true duplicates.
- Removed redundant reader content-mode toolbar controls while preserving automatic reader mode, extracted-content fallback, and the original article browser action.
Version 1.9
The developer, Lawrence Gimenez, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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