Feedly - Smart News Reader Reviews – Page 28
5/5 rating based on 608 reviews. Read all reviews for Feedly - Smart News Reader for iPhone.
Feedly - Smart News Reader is free iOS app published by Feedly Inc.
Crashes constantly since February Update
SnednarB
iOS 10.2, constantly crashing since last update. Almost unusable. :(
Good, but flawed by refusal to follow Apple standards
Maynard Handley
There's a lot to like about Feedly. Unfortunately the joy of using the app is ruined by developer laziness in for following Apple app guidelines. I do hope that's fixed soon. So what's the point of this app? The point is that it helps you track a certain type of blog, namely blogs that tend to be updated infrequently (perhaps once a week or less); it feels like a waste of time to visit such sites every day, but you don't want to miss the occasional articles that do get posted. You can just throw such blogs into Feedly then open the app once or twice a month to see what's new. This part (tracking sites) works great, as do the navigation features, once you get the hang of them. So what doesn't work great? There are at least two constant irritations. The first is that the app refuses to remember state properly. This means if the app terminates for some reason (memory pressure, OS update, app update, ...) nothing about your state is preserved (ie what you were reading, where you were on the page, and any stack of links that might have taken you there). This is unacceptable for an app whose entire purpose in life is to act as a version of an ebook reader, ie a container for long-form content that may be read over a long period of time. The second problem is that the app doesn't implement the kinds of features we want in our electronic readers which make them better than printed documents. In particular it does not provide any sort of lookup function (eg look up in a dictionary, search for more info on the web) for words and phrases in the text you are reading. Both of these might seem like minor complaints, but for someone like me who does a lot of long-form reading in Feedly, like I say, they are a constant source of irritation.
Okay, could be better
daltonsolo
All in all, pretty good. These are my suggestions though 1. Remove the snapping effect when scrolling. I want to scroll smoothly through my feed 2. Allow me to create "personal feeds" (folders) from the menu, I like being able to organize my content into sections with those folders and THEN add feeds into them. I hate how I have to search for a feed, then create the folder that I want it to go in. 3. Allow me to move feeds from those folders into other folders. I just need better control over the organization of my content, I'm super OCD about that.
Great go-to feed reader
rleary
I use this app across my iPhone and 1st-gen iPad mini. Brilliantly reliable and full of nice features. One hiccup on the mini, running iOS 9 -- leaving the app to read an article in a browser causes the app to refresh when returning to it. One suggestion for the app -- provide a "you might also like" area at the end of the list of current feeds. It could be user-selectable (config switch), and could be used for (I can't believe I'm writing this) a limited number of paid promotions. As long as this could be turned off, I'd be ok with it.
Cannot play video in landscape
fuirious
How hard it can be??? I need to leave the app and open YouTube every time. Absurd
The best app on my phone
Nathanfrom Akron
Feedly is pretty great - it’s fast and doesn’t take up much space. As opposed to Apple News, Twitter, etc. it doesn’t force a bunch of “suggestions” or “related posts” in my face. I only want to read posts from a few specific sites I read every day.
Go-to news app
BeederLonelyhearted
Congregates all the content i like - too bad I cant add ANY site i want