A Thoughtful Take On RSS: Unread for iPad

There’s a new RSS app in town, and it’s called Unread. I haven’t had hands-on time with the recently released iPad version, but from the reviews I’ve read thus far, it does sound like a blown-up version of the iPhone app (which isn’t really a bad thing in this case).

I did use the iPhone version of Unread for a while, and my favourite things in the app were:

support for any RSS service I could possibly use (FeedWrangler, Feedbin, Feedly, Fever, NewsBlur)
a clean spacious layout with generous headlines
large swipe areas (no need to swipe from the very left side of the screen)
a fun gesture-based UI
a built-in web browser that remembers its history across launches (e.g. you can go back to pages you visited within Unread, even if that was a few days ago)

I ultimately stopped using Unread because I found that there were a few too many…

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