Lire is an RSS reader for iOS, and it just added a great update in the form of drag-and-drop. Now you can grab any news story and drag it either to Lire’s own drop-shelf (iPhone and iPad), or to another app (iPad). It really makes great use of iOS 11’s drag-and-drop, but is let down by other apps’ poor implementation for receiving dropped items.

An RSS reader, also known as an aggregator, is a software application that allows you to read sites and blogs that publish RSS feeds. It converts the XML code to a readable format. Readers can be web-based, browser-based, or in the form of a downloadable app.

RSS in 2018?

RSS is still the best way to keep up with news. An RSS aggregator checks in on your favorite websites periodically, and arranges any new articles, posts or stories into easy-to-browse lists. It’s way better than Twitter because:

• 1) You never miss a story because it disappeared into your busy timeline
• 2) Sites implement RSS at a deep level, which means publishers don’t need to hand-post each article to Twitter or implement an automatic posting service.

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Lire looks fugly (to begin with)

Lire is an iOS RSS reader that connects to services like Newsblur, or Feedly, which keep your feeds’ read status synced across all your devices. Lire isn’t bad. Its design is passable, although the way it lays out articles to actually read is ugly and messy. That’s a shame, because all it has to do is present some text and maybe some images. Looks-wise, Unread is probably the gold standard iOS RSS app, but it’s not very good at handling large amounts of feeds. Out of the box, Lire isn’t pretty, but some futzing with the view options improves things quite a lot.

Lire also lacks a three-pane view, which I prefer. This put the sources on the left, then the lists of articles from the currently selected source, then the article itself. And once you tap an article to read it, it takes up the whole screen, even on a 12-inch iPad Pro, so you lose context from the article list. Reeder, my current RSS reader, does all of this better, but it is also living in abandonware limbo.

Drag-and-drop

Lire’s drag-and-drop functionality is exemplary. You can drag an article, in which case it is shared as a URL to whatever app it’s dropped on. Or you can select and drag text, which can be accepted as plain text, rich text or HTML, depending on how the destination app chooses to handle it. If the dragged text contains images, they also will be carried along for the ride, but they might not always be accepted by the target app (images are included as links in HTML selections, as far as I can tell).

This opens up all kinds of neat workflows, especially on the iPad. You can put Lire and, say, Notes side by side in Split View, and drag snippets and whole articles to save them in a note. Or you can drag an article to your to-do list app of choice. Unfortunately, my to-do list app of choice is Things, and this does play well with dropped URLs. All it does is make a new to-do item with the url as the body of the to-do. It doesn’t add the title into the title field. That means you end up with a list of to-dos that all have no title. That’s as useless as it sounds.

Lire’s drag bar

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But Lire has another trick. Its drag bar lets you gather articles by dragging them. You can drag one article at a time. Or you can tap more to gather a bunch and drop them together. It’s not a persistent drop-bar. You can’t keep adding stories to a stack in order to act on them later. Instead, when you drop your dragged articles, a sharing menu pops up. It gives you options to star the items, to share them (via the standard iOS share sheet), or to send direct to one of several supported services, like Pinboard, Instapaper, Evernote and so on.

Lire is pretty great

Lire is one of the best RSS readers for iOS, with just the right mix of features and ease-of-use. If you’re coming from Reeder, like me, then you might not like some of the design choices. But Lire is fast. You can force it to look decent. And the drag-and-drop proves a welcome addition, even if it only shares URLs and not rich links for articles.

If nothing else, it’s about a million times better than Twitter.

Price: $6.99

Download: Lire from the App Store (iOS)

I tried many RSS readers for iPhone, and by “many” I mean more than 20. The problem is, there are thousands of RSS readers out in the AppStore and as you can guess, it’s pretty difficult to discover good apps when there are 3.000 apps in that Category. But anyway, I tried many and in the end the best were the most popular: Byline, NetNewsWire, Newsstand.

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Now, among these three ones my final choice until a month ago was Newsstand: features rich, great interface, stable and fast. But you know, things change fast.

Step down from the throne Newsstand, we have a new king.

The new king is called Reeder and is developed by Silvio Rizzi. Unlike many other RSS readers I’ve tested and (then) trashed, when you first launch Reeder you’ll notice its stunning interface. You just can’t ignore it. It’s elegant, minimal, sexy yet friendly, with awesome animations and with the right features at the right place. The developer crafted an application with an excellent taste, knowing that many users suffered for the lack of a beatiful RSS reader.

And trust me, it’s even more beautiful than Newsstand.

But let’s move on, ‘cause Reeder doesn’t stop at eye-candy. You know, it’s a long way to become the king.

Reeder is not scared by the long way: indeed, it covers all the way with it features. First, Reeder integrates with Google Reader: this means it will sync all your subscriptions with your Google account. If you don’t use Google Reader as your RSS service, I think it’s time to create an account: it’s becoming the standard.

The sync process of Reeder is one of the fastest I’ve ever seen: on the same wifi internet connection, Reeder is faster than any other RSS app I have on my iPhone. Now, I doubt that it depends on some Google Reader outages, so it’s very likely that Reeder is simply better (in the core itself I mean) than other applications.

Reeder’s interface - as I said - is very minimal: there are 4 buttons in the bottom toolbar and that’s it. These buttons basically allow you to switch between starred, unread and the complete lists of your feeds. The last one on the right is the refresh button.

Delving deeper into the UI, you’ll notice a terrific attention for the details: when Reeder is syncing your subscriptions the top toolbar shows “Syncing Subscriptions” instead of the carrier and clock. Nice touch. Or, there’s a tiny arrow above each button in the bottom toolbar, and as you tap on a button the arrow slides with a great animation, much like Tweetie 2 does. Not to mention the whole “notebook” look of the application, with scotch tape and other cool stuff.

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Once you’ve sinced your subscriptions, you can read your feeds “all together” thanks to the Unread menu, or by websites, organized in folders if you wish (at least, I have more than 120 subscriptions organized in folders, you choose). Anyway, no matter which menu you’ll use, the “single feed” view will still be the same.

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As you choose a website which has unread items you’ll first see a list of all the unread articles before actually reading them. Please notice the little favicon in the top right corner which lets you head over the website homepage and the mark as read button in the bottom left. Once you’ve choosen a feed from the list, you’ll see the standard Google Reader’s stripped down version of the post and it’s pretty sexy in Reeder you know.

New in version 1.1 (released today) you can save a post to Instapaper, Read it Later, Delicious or send it via mail to a friend. I wonder who still uses this feature, but that’s it.

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The 3rd party services integration was a big lack of the previous versions and Silvio exceptionally implemented it in 1.1. Just as the sync process, the “Save to.” one is fast and painless. Unlike many other apps Reeder doesn’t have in-app settings, you’ll have to fill out your Instapaper details into Settings.app (Bjango developer wrote an interesting post about the “Settings in Settings.app” problem, read it here) which is pretty unusual today, I wish the dev will put them into the app in the next update.

Now, you should consider a few aspects: Reeder is amazing. Interface, features, animations, speed, price. Reeder comes at the price of $0.99, which is stunning considering of much it offers to the user. The app is on sale, so you’d better go buy it now.

It’s the new king because just as in every good story, Reeder started from nothing and showed everyone how to be a RSS reader today. It stands out from the crowd of overpriced apps with a few features by letting the users do almost everything at 0.99. It stands out from the crowd of terrible interfaces by providing a gorgeous UI. Reeder taught to applications like Byline and Newsstand that an app should be updated often, because the users like support and fresh new features.

The king is dead. Long live the king!

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