Love RSS feeds? So do we!!
RSS feeds are a great way to follow updates on your favorite website. However, some sites set up their feeds to only show a portion of each entry, you know, to get you to click through to their actual website. We find that really annoying, and we're sure you do too.
Which is why, unlike other RSS feed readers, that either push you into a browser (in-app or otherwise), or depend on third party text parsing services and require you to be online to fetch the full text of one article at a time (which makes it no different from having to click/tap through to a website), in lire, you get your favorite RSS feeds as they should've been. You don't need to click through to any website (though, you do still have the option to, if you really wanted). It takes your favorite partial feeds, does it's magic, and converts them in to full feeds, so you don't have to click/tap on those annoying 'Read more' or 'Continue reading' links.
Once they're cached, you don't even need to be connected to read your full-text feeds.
Use as a standalone feed reader,
or,
sync with any of the several services: Feedly, Feedbin, FeedHQ, The Old Reader, Inoreader, BazQux Reader, Newsblur, Feed Wrangler, FreshRSS, Miniflux, Nextcloud News, Tiny Tiny RSS.
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Great reader that needs more polish
Fixxeren
Let me start by saying that I love using this app. I want to use it as my primary reader but it's pretty unstable and the performance of basic functions can be hit or miss. Here are a few examples. The app sometimes just crashes while caching images. Sometimes image thumbnails do not appear and it require closing and reopening the app for them to appear (This happens on the iOS version as well). The album very can be painfully slow to load if the post has more than 5 images or based on image quality. Images pulled up on in the image viewer disappear when you try to zoom in (You must view them in preview to be able to zoom). There are some other pain points as well but I don't want to sound like I'm being hyper critical.As a reader it does really well considering it uses iCloud and doesnt have a backend service that collects articles for you. I love that it is not subscription based, but it still needs a lot of polish, it can feel rough around the edges at times. Again with some more polish and refinement I think it can take the place of Reeder (Particulalry becasuse the Dev is repsonsive to customer inquires which demonstrates that they care about the app).
Needs Work. Lots of Potential
linkjc
I've used Lire for a few weeks. now and though it's got a lot going for it there are just a lot of little quality of life things that make me crazy. First, and this is the big one: It crashes *a lot* especially when fetching new data. The second, having to scroll all the way. to the bottom to mark everything as read, and having the mechanism to actually make the mark be buggy at best is awful. Just being able to right click a "folder of articles" and "mark as read" would be so normal and intuitive that I can't believe it's not a thing. For the price, I expect a bit more, because as it stands it's not worth what I've paid, but if there is continuing development, I'd like to revisit it again and update my review.
Excellent rss reader
hardindr
I have had several RSS readers over the last ten years, and this is an excellent one, that is also updated frequently. I had an issue with the app crashing constantly, and the developer worked with me to correct the issue (it was not obvious what the cause was).
Excellent one-time purchase RSS Feed
hendu793
App had clearly been updated since many of the previous 1 star reviews. Lire has been excellent, and it’s the best I’ve found without paying $100 dollars a year for some pro features (like full text) - which is silly.
Version 3.3.3
FIXED:
- YouTube Error 153: YouTube videos should now work more reliably.
- A bug that caused inconsistent scrolling behaviour when using Spacebar (Keyboard Shortcut) to scroll on macOS 26.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Previously in Version 3.3.1
ADDED:
- Icons in app's main menu on macOS 26
FIXED:
- A bug that caused the window to go blank while scrolling an article on macOS 26.
- Other minor bug fixes.
Version 3.3.0
NEW:
- Updated for the new macOS 26 Liquid Glass User Interface, along with a new app icon to go with it.
- Summarization of articles using Apple Intelligence on iOS 26 (available on devices that support Apple Intelligence).
-- Summarization is available in the context menu in Article Lists, and as a link at the top of the reading area in the Full Text View, and the Feed Item View. It is also available in the share sheet.
-- You can even edit the summarization prompt (that the app send to Apple Intelligence) using the second button in the top right in the Summary View. (NOTE: Editing its only available when the app has a generated summary, not while a summary is being generated)
--- The default prompt is "Summarize this article", you can change it to something like "Summarize this article in bullet points" or "Summarize this article in two sentences" or "Give a non-clickbait title to this article".
- New "View Mode" button in the top bar to switch between different view modes from within the article reading view. When using it, the app remembers (and syncs if using iCloud sync mode) the last used view mode on a per feed basis, so you do not have to keep switching.
-- Updated the names of article reading modes. "Full-text" is now "Full Text View", "Original Content" is now "Feed Item View", and "Inline Webpage" is now "Web View".
- New "Get Current Article" shortcut, which should now be available in the Shortcuts app.
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Version 3.3.3
The developer, Kunal Sood, 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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Supported Features
VoiceOver
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Information
Seller
Kunal Sood
Size
89.3 MB
Category
News
Compatibility
Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
Languages
English and 8 more
English, Czech, French, German, Greek, Italian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese