Heartfeed RSS Reader5.2.1 - App Store

Do you want to read your news using RSS/Atom/JSON feeds in the most efficient, no-nonsense way, and with no requirement to setup an app-specific user account or relying on a server? If you do, Heartfeed might be the app for you.

Features:

- A compact grid view for your feeds, making it easy to check all of them at once
- When reading news in the internal browser, full support of your configured content blockers, saved passwords, etc.
- Automatic synching of subscribed feeds and read status between iOS devices (requires an iCloud account)
- Quick pick list: Easily select which news items from different feeds you want to read
- Background refresh of feeds: Some feeds refresh often and you then risk missing news in case the app is not used frequently. Background refresh, together with caching of the last 50 news items in each feed, prevents this from happening
- Bookmarks, including reading them from either inside Heartfeed or from any iOS or macOS browser (requires an iCloud account)
- Night mode theme
- Subscribing to feeds from the current Heartfeed top list, from files, or directly from the web
- Full support for split views and multi-tasking on iPads
- No tracking of usage or personal data; optionally, you can anonymously share which feeds you subscribe to for improving the builtin top list of recommended feeds

The app is 100% free and without ads. If you want to tip me somethings as thanks for the app, you can do so within the settings.

I hope you'll enjoy using Heartfeed!

Version History - Fixed some graphical ugliness
- Updated help pages for new monetisation added in 5.2 5.2.1 08/20/2024 - Now completely free for everyone, and of course still without ads. If you want to tip me something of the app, you can now do so in the settings.
- Improved feedback while refreshing news.
- A couple of small bug fixes. 5.2 03/19/2024 - Implemented workaround for crashes when certain feeds sends malformed data 5.1.4 09/22/2023 - Final fix for issues on iOS 12 5.1.3 08/18/2023 - Fixed an issue on iOS12 5.1.2 08/12/2023 - Fixed an ugly color on iPhone
- Fixed a bug when generating topplista 5.1.1 08/08/2023 - Fixed issues with iCllid synching between devices
- Fixed a problem where bookmarks might not have been accessible inside the app
- Added setting for max cached items / feed 5.1 07/17/2022 - Fixed a crash for some feeds providing images in a non-standard way 5.0.2 06/09/2022 - Fix for some feeds having issues with user agent
- Fix for Mastodon feeds after their switch to new title format for items
- Fix when anchors are provided in links 5.0.1 06/09/2022 - Support for badge notifications for unread news
- Support for time-sorting of feeds (for those feeds which send out updates sorted using popularity)
- Support for opening news items in external browser instead of built-in Safari viewer
- Swipe on feed title headers to quickly switch between groups
- Improved keyboard support
- Improved methods for importing feeds using clipboard
- Improved support for getting image previews from videos
- Lots of small UI polish fixes (font sizes, swiping, etc) 5.0 04/15/2022 - Fixed image preview for certain feeds
- Improved keyboard support 4.2.6 04/23/2021 - Fixed a crash bug when feed URLs were longer than 255 characters 4.2.5 02/24/2021 - Fixed bug with OPML export 4.2.4 12/28/2020 - Removed usage of deprecated view technology for news item previews; this means iOS 12 or higher is now required
- Fixed an issue where images in some feeds were not picked up correctly 4.2.3 10/04/2020 - Fixed issue when adding a feed URL containing certain characters
- Improved keyboard support 4.2.2 07/25/2020 - Fixed crash on iOS 11-12 4.2.1 01/22/2020 - Finally, OPML export of feeds
- Additional keyboard shortcuts
- UI improvements 4.2 01/21/2020 - Fixed glitch in dark mode where web address was invisible when adding new feeds 4.1.1 10/28/2019 - Improved support for iOS 13 (system-provided dark mode, UI details) 4.1 10/24/2019 - Background updating of feeds: No more worries about missing news due to feeds being updated frequently!
- Pick-a-list mode: If you prefer to quickly pick which new items to read from your feeds rather than going through all of them, you can now do so. The selected items will be saved as a special list which you can then read through. Note that this functionality does not download the complete articles from the web, just that the news items from the feeds will be saved for reading. The items in this list are saved over restarts of the app but once read, they will be removed.
- Caching of news items: The latest 50 news items from every feed will always be cached on your device, helping with feeds which only contain a small number of news items and/or update often. 4.0 09/18/2019 - Added possibility to mark all items as read for a single feed (long-click on feed name)
- UI polish for some menus
- Bookmarks bug fixes 3.18 02/19/2019 - Improvements when picking preview images (e.g. when smileys were picked)
- Improvements when detecting the web link for a news item (e.g. certain reddits)
- Fixed a crash when trying to share an item without a link
- Better performance in case you have added/removed a high number of feeds 3.17 02/01/2019 - Fixed preview images for some feeds (e.g. for certain BBC feeds)
- Added more keyboard shortcuts 3.16 12/31/2018 - When using floating preview on iPad, resize preview when screen rotates/changes size
- Fixed bug where a window closed too early the first time the app is run on an iPad
- Fixed bug where the back button in the preview view always said "News" instead of the actual group name
- Some interface polish
- Better color for page indicator on help page (see CSV Touch)
- Turning with floating preview: Fix resetting dimensions of window
- No current page indicator when feed contains > 20 or so items
- Fixed popback name in item view (used to be News, always) 3.15 12/11/2018 - Fix for an issue if bookmarks weren't available locally, only on iCloud; in this case bookmarks were sometimes no downloaded 3.14 11/14/2018