Feedly - Smart News Reader Reviews

Latest update is very buggy.

RareReview5475

*update* after most recent update the app is working better. But I still keep getting a blank screen after the app has been inactive for a longer period of time, which requires a force close

I love Feedly, both the web version and the iOS app. But one thing that I’m missing from the iOS app is the “tap to the top” feature that most iOS apps have. When I’m reading a long article all the way to the bottom and I want to scroll back all the way to the top, it’s so painful. In most other apps, you can just tap the top of the screen and it’ll bring you to the top. Please add that feature.

Warning: Misleading

the_cylo

Feedly Pro+ sounds great until you sign up and realize that common topics you wish to subscribe to are locked away in yet another tier that requires even more payment. This is not made clear at all when signing up and is very deceptive. Developer is also unresponsive on the matter.

Shares ton of data to FB!!

S1xxxxxth

Be careful with this app. Company is not straight forward or honest about their data privacy and processing. They do share data to FB you can see it in the app privacy report. Moved onto another app that doesn’t share what your reading to FB.

Widget deep links don’t work

Bion Howard

Whenever I tap a widget link, it opens the app, but not the article. I have to exit the app and tap a second time to actually get the article. How do you fix this bug so articles open in 1 tap on the widget?

Keeps getting buggier

ApeHondaMuellerApollo

I have to kill the app every 20 articles or so because it just freezes up. Doesn’t matter which feed I’m at.

Widget

Fahad4421

I was using feedly in Android just because their widget, so i hope there will be a widget for ios

I love this app!

VeryGrumpy12121212

Kudos to the Feedly Dev team! This is such a nice app. I went looking for an RSS app to get away from the flying data-eating Gifs, screaming and scrolling data chugging videos, and annoying pop ups we now—thanks to the major browser companies removing the features that allows you to turn them off—are stuck with. Individual apps are often even worse. So yep; I chose Feedly because I detest auto-run in all its forms, and especially annoying advertising. Feedly, which has been slaughtered on here because of the ads in the feed. Feedly, I like them. They don’t scream, pop up or follow me around the page. I like that they look like the articles; and as long as you keep them to innocuous topics like toasters or coffee makers—and stay away from the malware laden enabling of outright organized crime certain social outlets engage in—you and me, we’re good. Two small things though. By taking us directly to the buy button / sign up sheet when we click on the ads, you are shooting yourself and the sponsors in the foot. Last I checked, affiliate advertising was about getting people to buy. Pretty sure your sponsors see it that way anyway. So please take us to the article described in the link, let us learn about them, read about what they are offering, and we might actually hit the buy button. The second item; your bot. Having it is a grand idea. Asking people to vote yes / no style BEFORE reading the article is STUPID. It literally guarantees that your bot will deliver absolute garbage, and sending your paying customers—who are allowed to use it—screaming out the door. Do this: Place the bot dialog AFTER we read the article. Yes you might get fewer responses, but they will be ACCURATE. Also, give us an option to long press “other” and let us help the bot by choosing the right category. Otherwise, great job Feedly!! I can read news again, in peace and quiet. Especially love your interface with the external websites, how the reader auto activates, and the ability to customize using Safari’s controls. UPDATE: Your AI is being torpedoed by your users. A function of where the input box is located I’m sure. The identification of categories is going rapidly downhill. Two articles about the election count comes to mind—and yes I clicked through to read them. One was labeled Cannabis, and while the electorate may well be smoking it—the article didn’t even mention it. The next one was labeled US Navy. How does the present status of poll workers counting votes equate to anything Navy related? Feedly, you may want to temporarily kill the bot. Someone’s screwing with it. I refuse to believe that in 2020 an algorithm can be this God awful. Make it tamper proof please.

Ads. Ugh.

aliwade44

The latest update is infested with ads. I see that the development folks are responding to critical comments with a boilerplate response trying to justify them. Whatever. They still ruin the user experience. I fully support compensating developers for their work, and I would be happy to pay a fair price for an app that I find useful. But I hate ads and I don’t (and will never) rent software, so a recurring subscription fee is out of the question. I’m done with this app now.

Ads?!

killadvertising

I downloaded Feedly because I wanted to follow blogs without seeing ads—especially pornographic ads, strobing ads, video ads, and noisemaking ads. Today there was an ad in my feed. Nothing annoying or distasteful, but the market pressure is all one way. How long until the strobe light ads begin? Pro is $8/month with is 2.5* storing a terabyte of photos with Apple. That’s crazy. I would pay $1. I’m researching alternatives now, and will be deleting Feedly once I find one.

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