Feedly - Get Smarter for Android
I've been using Feedly since before the demise of gReader. It appears you have taken away the ability to organize our Personal Feeds, meaning there is no way to change the order of the feeds in each feed folder. We used to be able to do this both in the app and on the web.
I haved used feedly for years and built a huge database of feeds. It works perfectly and can interact with other apps like dropbox. There are some things on my wishlist for a future update, but it's definately a 5-star already. Wish list: Bookmarks sorted by category, full articles in-app (not just the intros), better video support.
Hands down the most efficient app for feeds and news. Personalization is great and it has a huge collection of websites for each topic. It is actually the first app that I check out in the morning. Just been having a little issue regarding the list view for my feeds. It works in every section but the 'all feeds' section. Reinstalling the work, so doesn't changing the default view in settings. Hope this gets fixed soon. Otherwise, it's a must-have app.
Generally made it much easier to stay on top of the news via my preferred news outlets. I do wish I could turn off sections from said outlets though. At the moment in particular, all I get is football/transfer news. Sport isn't important enough for me, to take up half my home screen. (five stars if I merely missed the function and you can tell me how to turn off).
The internet is a complex place and there's a huge amount of information to process. Feedly helps me process and make sense of it all! It really suits my way of working - I add articles of interest to 'read later' and then archive things in boards. I can then follow more dynamic sites and blogs through the RSS feed tracker. The 'add to board' functionality when sharing something to feedly directly in Google chrome is sometimes a bit buggy but otherwise it works great.
Really great app! I wasn't sure how to get started with being more informed about worldly events, mostly because the amount of information on the internet is overwhelming and I wasn't sure where to start looking! Well this app brings all different sources to you hand with a couple taps and you can also easily read from different sources to get unbiased news! I would suggest 'the economist' and 'wall street journal' these seem to be mostly unbiased sources of news :)
I have been using feedly for a long time .... Loved it and saved a huge collection of articles... Almost like a little technical library. For what ever reason, it started behaving strangely recently. If I m in a particular channel and opened an article...When I press back, instead of bringing me back to where I was in the channel, the app looks like it restarted and brings me back all the way to the startup page...So now after every article, I have click my way back to where I was to continue..........Can this be fixed?
Lowered 2 stars because, like many other apps, it continues bugging you to rate it after you have already done so. "Stack" method of browsing is great. Love the viewing flexibility and the beautiful display of feeds. Would like a little bigger font on the tablet. Needs the ability to search feeds - then it would be nearly perfect.
This app is so good!!! I check it obsessively because it's the perfect way to get all the news and only the news I care about. I tried it once before and decided it wasn't for me, but I've really been needing a better way to aggregate the articles and things I was interested in, so I really gave it a shot this time and I'm so glad I did. There's so many great features! Swipe away to mark as read is great, and if you match this up with pocket, that's the best app combo!!! I use Feedly to get through all the news I might be interested in, and I save anything that's super long to pocket to read later. I love Feedly! Don't change a thing!
After using Feedly for a few months now I have had to change my rating, there are just too many features that made gReader a great app to give Feedly 4 or 5 stars. My initial review is below: I've just installed Feedly, as a gReader Pro user for many years it will take some getting used to. But at least it's fast (much faster than gReader), feeds who's content didn't load in gReader load in Feedly and the developer hasn't just quit developing the app.
Keep closing.. In my case.. Previosly always working well. I have been using this app for more than 5 years. Unfortunately, I need to looking for the alternative since 'keep closing' issue appeares... [Update] Issue is fix with new update.. GREAT
Much better than it used to be. Two things missing for my workflow (or not found): 1. Way to set all feeds to oldest first by default. 2. Go from an article to the feed it appears in (tapping the name doesn't work). Not asking for confirmation on "Mark all as read" (as the web version does) is a major problem.
Excellent little RSS reader. If you are the kind of person who likes to read news from many different sites, Feedly makes it easy to keep track of stuff. I use this app practically every day and have zero complaints. Plus, it's free. What more could you want? :)
Great app which I have used for years now. However I am having issues with switching my feeds to list view (my preferred view) - they default to magazine which I don't like. If this can be fixed I'll update the rating to 5 stars.
Edit: issue is fixed with new update. 5 stars! I love the app but it has been crashing on startup. Not sure if it's just me or not. Hopefully it's a quick fix because it's one of my favorite apps
I like that abusive trolls can't make ignorant comments, not about the actual article, but aimed at the other commentors. A shame one can't dialog civilly in THIS U. S.. The ill mannered Milineals, Unsustainable Consumers and Globalists have made it impossible to have an opposing position. This feed is less stressful.
Why cant I scroll down a seamless list of articles? Your app switches to the next page.. (I've tried all the different settings) This makes it impossible to use with one hand. Allow me to swipe to the left to show the side bar. (Again so I can use app with one hand. Also the widget is terrible.. only one article... I've needed to load 6 widgets on one page to get a selection of news. For a rss widget look at iphone it does it welll
The app works great. I just wish some news services had better mobile/text friendly feeds that I could read in app without having to launch the full site. Im looking at you Wired. No fault of Feedly though.
I like the app quite a bit, and have used it for a while. Maybe I've never noticed it before but I'm seeing ads stuck in among the new stories almost like they were a news story themselves. I hate that. What next, clickbait?
On a galaxy tab 7.7, title view is unworkable to the point of making me feel like crying... Tapping on an article marks it as saved, instead of opening, at the best of times. All other times it just freezes. Also, how difficult is it to implement continuous scrolling?
Cannot select list view since it's inactive. Deleting app data or reinstalling the app doesn't solve the problem. List view used to work when Settings > Default view was set to List view and never set custom view for a feed. In that case all icons appeared unselected, but after choosing an icon different from List view it goes wrong and no return. You'll never be able to select List view even if you apply it as Default view. It's not device specific, cause it works like that on two devices from different manufacturers (HTC + Huawei)
I so love Feedly. Indeed am a founding pro subscriber. But now Google sign in is broken. Looks like Google is now rejecting the referrer. Please fix, as I cannot use it at all from my Pixel 2 XL anymore.
They're messing with functionality to get you to pay a monthly fee. I don't use the app often enough to pay 4 bucks a month. I'll pay but don't hold me hostage. It's now a hassle to switch feeds around.
General functions works well but feel comfortable on daily basis app need offline mode (at least previews) and feature to remember last opened article. Jumping all the time to first one in menu is silly.
Had it for 2 mins. UI is rubbish. Mobiles are for scrolling... Do u get that? No offline (I know u r aggregtors n not content creators) still shouldn't be an issue to convert a couple of pics or videos and some text to an offline mode. And 200k ppl gives it 5, can't believe it.
I want to like feedly more, and do actually use it all the time, but it seems I can't get through a single session without it crashing on me. Sometimes multiple times. Frustrating. Started to crash all the time. I finally resorted to uninstalling it, and will find something else. Edited to add: the app has been greatly improved and I use it as my daily reader.
It works pretty well once you get it set up, and learn how it wants to work. Not my favorite restaurant reader, but my favorites are either broken or no longer supported.
It had been working fine, lately. Old:'Problems again..."lost" network access while I was reading news. I've closed it and now it starts as it as been fresh installed but the logins options don't work.... Old: Nice but lacks offline support and after some time of use it won't respond and starts to slowing down, I've to kill the app and restart it so it will function properly. Memory leaks?
I've used feedly since google reader went defunct. It's a good rss reader and allows basic functions. Sometimes I accidentally close the app or window while reading, and the article is marked as read... That's about the worst. It usually works well and the controls are intuitive.
There's always more to read. I'd prefer just be told there are 17 new stories in a topic and be able to read some but not others then mark all as read and it's empty but another page then appears and it'll have stories mixed from different topics. I simply can't get a feel for where I am.
A bit annoying for the differences between the app, site, and extensions. Overall it's a good replacement for Reader. Dropped a star since the widgets don't work other than as aqua blocks with logos. Update: abandoned widget. Comfortable with the app. Few frustrations, but they are mostly the result of the information source's restrictions.
Does exactly as promised. Just wish there was a "news feed" style option that will grab RSS feeds I don't subscribe to based on interests or keywords to help me discover new things.
Not bad to get the info I need. However, the user interface is weak. I'd suggest something google inbox, in the sense that you swipe right to archive, left to save for later and up for the next. The fact they have five articles to a page and then you have the swipe up and you then get one article on the page doesn't really make sense. It's almost like they need some really good ux/ui people to review and make recommendations.
Simple interface, works great! So many apps these days are unnecessarily complicated, suck up battery life like there's no tomorrow, or ask for ridiculous permissions - kudos for going against the grain. Highly recommended. ETA: Downgraded from 5 stars, because most feeds no longer update. Will be looking for an alternative.
Great but there are bugs that have been around since basically forever. Very rarely, my feed gets stuck and I can't go past a certain page.
I had previously been using the Google tiles for my new, but I kept driving into issues where I read the same thing over me over. I did some research and noticed how highly the Feedly app was rated. I downloaded the app and began to play with it, too my surprise the RSS search is built in and can find any site even if it isn't listed, you just simply type in the web url and that's it. Of course the site has to support RSS but that's a minor thing. This app has made finding new things so much easier and way more enjoyable.
Terrible! The app constantly restarts which wouldnt be a big deal if the app saved what you were listening to but it doesnt! You have to find whatever you were listening to, select it again and when you do select the episode you were listening to it doesnt save where you left off! I tried to find some sort of customer support email and after ~10 minutes of looking I gave up and got pretty pissed and uninstalled the app and wrote this review.
also: interface is kind of clunky. can't add new subscriptions without stopping reading current article. when adding new categories, touch keyboard hides text field. Would like "visit website" to open article in Chrome directly
I love the pro version online and this reader is awesome on larger devices like my iPad... But it's terrible on my Samsung Galaxy S8+ both in navigation, user experience, and just plain reading. I'm 27, so if I can't read this that well or find it intuitive, I can only imagine how many other adults must feel.
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This app seems to be fundamentally broken, and badly in need of a rewrite. At a basic level it works, but it does not look nor act like a native android app. For example, I already have the Pocket app set up – why do I need to enter my username and password in the Feedly app as well? At times it crashes, and refuses to work unless data is cleared. It's the only app on my phone that regularly needs to be reset this way.