Mr. Reader is a RSS news reader for your iPad that synchronizes with your Google Reader account. Due to the large article preview and image thumbnails, it is easy to read only the articles you are interested in. Manage your subscriptions directly in the App and share articles with multiple services. Please see below for a list of features.

showing all feeds and folders and now only feeds and folders with unread items mark items as read tap and hold the 'Mark All As Read' button tap and hold the blue 'unread/read' button assign tags tags assigned customizable service menu; tap on Twitter opens the twitter dialog Twitter accounts create the Twitter message star an article for reading later folder selected articles list currently sorted chronological and now grouped by feeds and back to chronological select a feed and tap on an article opens the article viewer; move the actions bar to the left to the right change the font size etc. assign tags select tag tag assigned again the customizable service menu add and search for feeds tags are in a special folder tag management folder management example: renaming a folder folder renamed open folder feed selected feed management example: assigning the feed to a folder feed moved to the folder search for articles and save your searches settings with the theme selector on top tap on 'Install More Themes' button opens the themes webpage; tap on INSTALL button another tap installs the theme downloaded 'Woody' theme installed 'Paris By Night' theme selected 'New York' theme selected 'Sydney' theme selected 'Berlin' theme selected 'Synchronization' settings 'Articles Table' settings 'Article View' settings 'Services' settings customize the services menu customized service menu 'Sounds' settings 'Miscelaenous' settings ... and a lot more!

Features

Google Reader

  • Multiple Google Reader accounts with separate settings
  • Read/unread items
  • Starred items
  • Shared items
  • Friend's shared items
  • Tagged items
  • Folders, tags and feeds
In October 2011 Google removed the shared items / friends / comments from Google Reader. You can read more about this cleanup in the official Google Reader Blog.

All Google Reader actions are immediately synced with your Google Reader account. When no internet connection is available, it synchronizes later.

Supported Services

You can re-order the services menu and enable only the services you use.

Themes

  • 4 themes included
  • Theme Editor to create your own themes
  • Download more themes from the Themes page
  • Send your created themes to other Mr. Reader users by Mail
  • Received themes can be installed directly from the Mail App

Folders and Feeds

View Modes:

  • Show all folders and feeds
  • Show only folders and feeds with unread items

Mark As Read

There are different ways to mark items as read:

  • Single items
  • All items
  • Items older than n-days/weeks (tap and hold the 'Mark All As Read' button)
  • Items above/below the current position (tap and hold the blue dot button)
  • While scrolling
  • Pull up at table end to mark all feed items as read

Search

Search for articles with the option to save searches.

Add Feeds

You can subscribe to feeds by using the feed URL directly or by searching for feeds.

Feed Management

  • Subscribe to feeds
  • Rename feeds
  • Delete/unsubscribe feeds
  • Assign feeds to folders
  • Reorder feeds
  • Open the feed homepage in one of your installed browsers
  • 'Subscriptions Checker' to check if the feed URL's are still up to date

Ordering

You can change the sort order of your folders, feeds and tags.

Attention: This feature is only available when enabled in the Google Reader settings.

Settings

You will find the settings - with a lot of options - inside the App. I tried to split and describe the settings as clear as possible. If you have to think twice, then something is wrong. Please contact me. ;-)

Articles Table

  • Group items by feed or list them chronological
  • Change the sort order (ascending / descending)
  • Customizable: thumbnail size, thumbnails left/right, row height, font size, multiline titles
  • Downloads thumbnails of embedded videos from YouTube and Vimeo
  • Jump to the feed of an article
  • Load more articles on request

There are many settings like showing the absolute or relative published time, dim read items, etc.

Article View

  • Switch with one tap between RSS, Web, and the Instapaper, Readability, Pocket Mobilizer
  • Set your preferred view mode (RSS, Web, Instapaper, ...) for each feed individually
  • Thumbpad to navigate between articles and to close the viewer
  • Pull up/down to navigate to the previous / next articles
  • Move the actions toolbar to the left, right or bottom
  • Change the font size and family
  • Change the content width
  • Display the content left/right aligned or justified
  • Zoom images to full screen or save them in the camera roll
  • Integrates with Terminology, by Agile Tortoise, to look up definitions of words

Folder Management

  • Create folders
  • Delete folders
  • Rename folders
  • Reorder folders

Tag Management

  • Create tags
  • Rename tags
  • Delete tags
  • Assign tags to feed items

Offline Reading

Download and cache images for offline reading. When the download is not finished and you leave the App, it tries to finish the download. Due to a restriction of iOS the max time a App can do something in background is 10 minutes.

Attention: Currently only for the original RSS content and not for the Web and Mobilizer views.

Sounds

Select different sounds for the most important actions. Disable all or just some of them when they are annoying you.


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