NewsRack

The best RSS Reader that exists on iPhone. And it gets extended all the time. My central application for sharing content with others.

The best iPhone RSS reader.

This review is my first and I have to say it takes one great software for me to even consider writing a reivew. I find this software to be so creative and just fun to use. Seems to fix all the major gripes from other RSS readers. I have tried them all and this one is by far the best. If I could add anything it would be a feature from the Google Reader app that lets user download a full web page. That is being picky though. If you looking for a fun app that also happens to be creative and content rich look no further!

I've tried iRSS, Bylines, smartRSS, NetNewsWire, and azRSS...most were pretty bad, and none including this one are perfect. I do think Newsstand is the best though.

pros: internal browser, feed finder, coverflow, email & del.icio.us bookmarking, themes, read offline.

cons: internal browser is a little slow, coverflow doesn't "snap into place", del.icio.us opens in safari.

I spent $5 and feel good about it...like i said. Best news reader available

This is my favorite RSS reader for iPhone - it's very flexable, it nests feeds in folders, and it's very stable - It's almost perfect ... except for the awful useless landscape mode. Ugh!! I pulled up the Dillbert comic and the strip was wider than the screen so I instinctivly rotated the phone and ... nothing but disappointment. I didn't get to see Dilbert in widescreen, that's for sure. It's funny how the weakest part of this app is advertised so prominatly. It's kinda useless.

I was using Google Reader but it had a LOT of inherent problems like crashing, reloading when I opened up a story therby browsing away from the reader. So I thought I would try this reader. Guess what? I am going back to Google Reader. This app is missing quite a lot. Fir instance, there are no folders to organize my feeds. This also means that I can't aggregate categories of feeds. More annoying is that when I open a story and rotate my iPhone to increase the font size (old eyes need bigger fonts), the app flips to a pretty graphic display that seems to provide no value. In summary, the developer needs to take a close look at Google Reader and beat that. Then this app would be worth 5 bucks. As of now it is like one of those annoying free apps you download then throw away after playing with it for a few minutes.

The Good:

<> Google Reader and Instapaper integration.
<> Well designed UI & graphics
<> Theme support
<> Feed View is beautiful

The bad:

<> VERY SLOW for anyone with a lot of feeds
<> Feed view is not practical (dont know anyone who reads their feeds this way)
<> Instapaper support is clucky (requires too many multiple clicks)

Overall I would love to see this app refined further. Especially for people with 100+ feeds, its just unusable. Keep up the good work though!

[Update for 2.1] Newsstand is still not very useable for anyone with 100+ feeds - it takes a long long time to go through each feed individually.

I accepted for a long time how slow and puzzlingly memory hungry this program is, but the constant syncing problems -- which still occurs in this update despite claims to the contrary -- is just too much. Every time this error pops up, I have to reestablish the sync, which also means having to deactivate feeds that I want on the desktop but not (because they slow this thing to a crawl) on the phone. There's no quick way to do this: i have to deactivate each thread, one by one, only to get another sync error a few weeks later and do it all over again. No thanks. I expect better support from the most expensive newsreader app on the iPhone, but I'm done wasting time.

The look and feel of the app is great but the sync function with Google Reader is unreliable. The read/unread status of feeds in NewStand is not transfered to Reader correctly after a sync and the read/unread status in Reader does not show up correctly in NewStand. Its very frustrating to read my RSS feeds in Google Reader at my desk then check during a meeting break on my iPhone and be unable to know which feeds I've already read in NewStand because it is showing many unread feeds than I had previously read in Reader. Fix sync with Google Reader and you get three more stars from me. Add sharing capability with Facebook and you'll get another star. Big potential for a 5 star app here but as it stands now I can only give it 1 star.

I loved this app. LOVED for a long time! I considered it my best app purchase and recommended it to everyone. To this day, when working properly, I believe it's the best feeder out there, but boy have the sync and connectivity issues killed it for me. It rarely opens, and despite clicking that i've read everything, its all back to unread when i return, but worst of all, it crashes consistently. I thought this latest update would fix it, but like the complaints below, here I am again dealing with the same issues. Please fix it. I hope to rewrite a review one day giving it the five stars it at one time deserved. Until then, I'll remain disappointed.

Will not store my password. Syncing is very slow on wifi. Newsrack's UI used to be my favorite but now MobileRSS is superior to this app. MobileRSS is so much better than this app. It is faster and reliable. MobileRSS updates are frequent. Disappointed in Newsrack

requires my password each time.

I'm having the same problem as others. Recent update mow requires me to enter my Google password EVERY time I start NewsRack. Please fix. Other than this issue a great GN reader!

Instead of just leaving an app alone in peace and not futzing with it, an update ruins everything by asking for the password EVERY time the app starts up. Life lesson: if an app ain't broken, stop screwing up its function with an update that doesn't work! I'll give it until after the Oscars for an "update" fix for this password-requesting mess, otherwise Newsrack is off this iPhone.

No sync. Unread for everything already read. This app and it's stupid update are currently worthless. What a shame as I used to use this all the time. Now I absolutely hate it. Fix it!!