• Newly organized navigation system. We feel that the new navigation is much simpler to understand and use, it’s faster and will allow us to greatly expand the functionality of the app.

  

 

• Custom icons everywhere making the app feel friendlier and more intuitive, with overall focusing more on imagery not so much on explanatory texts.

          

 

          

• For iPhone X we have a special AMOLED optimized “Night” mode.

 

          

 

          

 

All the best from our team, we want your feedback – here in the comments, the Contact Support option in the app, our forum, wherever you choose … we are tuned in!

 

One of the most discussed areas of our iOS redesign was the iPad experience and how it lacked certain usability features that made the previous version a pleasure to use. Thus we quickly tried to adapt what you told us was missing!

Here is a list of what we changed:

 

• YouTube and other embeds now stretch to the full width of the screen and their proper aspect ratio is maintained.

 

• Tags and Active Searches are now directly listed inside the Library. There’s no intermediate screen between the tree pane and your favorite tags, saving you one additional tap.

 

 

• Tree width now respects the device screen and will stretch on larger phones, giving more screen estate for your subscriptions.

Thanks to all who helped us fix this and put the redesign on the right track!

 

 

 

 

RSS has been emerging back on the main stage recently in light of “fake news” and social media scandals, however it has never ceased to be an invaluable tool for businesses and organizations to research and monitor online information, especially from social media channels like Facebook.

We will mention three services here, Inoreader is a paid option, Zapier is free but works only for your own Facebook pages, while FetchRSS offers a free tier to create 5 amazing looking Facebook public page feeds.

A quick word about Inoreader – RSS reader or content aggregator that helps people follow, organize, and monitor the web all-in-one place, without having an algorithm spoon-feed you a news feed.

You might be a freelancer who tracks specific Facebook pages for inspiration, or a content curator who needs to scoop up the best content for his industry. Regardless of your needs, here are several ways to convert Facebook public page feeds to a nice, always fresh RSS feed.

NB*: THE TOOLS LISTED BELOW WORKED WHEN WE TESTED, WE DO NOT GUARANTEE THAT THESE TOOLS STILL WORK WHEN YOU ARE READING THIS

1. Inoreader

Inoreader automatically converts Facebook pages to RSS feeds for you, simply enter the Facebook page URL and the app will recognize it as a valid subscription.

If you haven’t done it previously, the app will ask you to provide Facebook access token permission and you are all set to go!

Add public Facebook pages straight to Inoreader when upgrading on our “STARTER” plan which allows for 1 Facebook feed to test out the service. The “PLUS” plan allows 30, and the “PRO” plan is for up to 100.

Caveats: Using Inoreader to track Facebook pages is practical and cost-effective, but there are caveats. Due to Facebook seriously restricting their API usage permissions, we are forced to deliver lower quality visuals and sometimes no visuals at all in posts. This is why this feature is most useful for tracking large number of posts and pages, applying certain rules and filters to them or actively listening for specific keyword mentions. Also quite useful for curation if the page is mostly a content aggregator and posts third-party links.

2. Zapier

Convert Facebook pages to RSS with Zapier. They give a pretty detailed guide on how to connect and use their zaps to achieve this.

Caveats: Unfortunately Zapier can be used to follow ONLY your own Facebook pages where you have admin access. For any other public Facebook pages you will need an Inoreader premium subscription.

3. FetchRSS

Enter the Facebook page URL and you will get a matching RSS URL that you can put inside any RSS reader, obviously we recommend to put it inside Inoreader.

A great service with a FREE tier, FetchRSS provides great high quality images and complete post content. Here is how one of their feeds looks when added inside Inoreader!

Got more options we missed? Please tell us in the comments.

We took time to review 10 Android apps in addition to our own, hopefully you will find these reviews and the filter below useful to pick out the best one for you!

All Ad-free Appearance Options Custom Gestures Day/Night Theme Inoreader Sync No Log-in OPML Import Offline Reading Podcast Player Search Day/Night Theme Open Source Widget

Inoreader

Widget, Inoreader Sync, Day/Night Theme, Appearance Options, Offline Reading (Premium), Custom Gestures, Search, OPML Import (From Web)

Without spending too much time on our own app, Inoreader for Android boasts numerous useful features mostly for appearance and behavior customizations, light and dark themes, AMOLED theme, and many many more, you can go in and start playing around. Our discovery catalogs are searchable and relatively up-to-date. OPML import has to be done through the web interface and you will have to register to have the app save your information for future use. Otherwise the Android app can be completely used as standalone.

We believe that when used in unison with the WEB app, Inoreader is the most powerful way to stay on top of all digital content from your favorite topics and channels.

Flym News Reader

Open Source, Search, Ad-free, OPML Import

Flym is a very light, minimal functionality RSS reader that feels great to use. The project is headed by Frederic Julian who is publishing this application as “free and open-source software”, so feel free to contribute if you enjoy his app!

Read – Simple RSS Reader

Widget, Day/Night Theme, Podcast Player, Appearance Options, Search, Ad-free

Quick intro to Read – a very young and inexperienced player in the RSS ecosystem, yet with mounts of potential. The app misses key features for RSS power users such as OMPL Import and the ability to clearly show sources next to news feeds.  

On the other hand, they have pretty quickly nailed other aspects of a great RSS app such as fresh looking day/night themes, flexible feed layouts, great article formatting, and two awesome styles for homescreen widgets.

I was mostly impressed by their podcast search directory and their podcast player which plays in the background after closing the phone. You can even download the podcast for offline listening. If you don’t have many sources to add (since you will have to do it manually) and you are a podcast aficionado like me, definitely give this app a try!

RSS Reader

Widget (Premium), Day/Night Theme, Appearance Options, Offline Reading, OPML Import, No Log-in

Clunky and slow and definitely not the best UI, but this app by Svyatoslav Vasilev boasts an impressive number of features which is why we decided it deserves a place on this list. Not everyday you see an app supported by a one-man army!

One feature we were impressed with is the “automatic or scheduled synchronization” which lets you pick out a time of the day when to get the app synced, which is a great feature for more casual users who want to avoid information overload. Also you can choose to download for offline reading just one designated folder like “Favorites”, which is an awesome feature to have while taking trips and lacking access to the web.  

We were disappointed however that many feeds lack images like “The Verge” and additionally there is no search inside articles, while the “Add feed” directory is incredibly hard to use. I typed in “Seth Godin” and his blog was not found because the way it’s written is  “Seth Godin’s Blog….” which means basically do not rely on search, hopefully the OPML import works just fine.

RSS Savvy

Day/Night Theme, Appearance Options, No Log-in

Very casual RSS reader with limited functionality but clean and attractive UI and very nice looking themes for day and night reading. There is no OMPL import/export so It is a nice option for someone just starting out with RSS, also has a very nice integration with Pocket. Unfortunately as you get more advanced with RSS, and you know what you want to read and what features you need you will quickly abandon this app.

Paperoak

Day/Night Theme, Appearance Options, Search, Ad-free, No Log-in

Probably one of the best looking RSS apps we found out there, but immediately felt that the UX is designed to behave much like a social network news feed in the sense that it has no unread counters, and quite hard to navigate through different sources. Infinite feeds and no inside article view means its designed to be used for content aggregation, not consumption. No OPML import and very hard to add custom rss feed.

Definitely not a power user app, but we give 10/10 for very appealing and minimalistic design!

NewsJet

Widget, Inoreader Sync, Day/Night Theme, Appearance Options, Custom Gestures, Ad-free, OPML Import

Very easy to migrate on NewJet since you can log-in with Inoreader and sync your subscriptions immediately. Definitely a clean and smart looking UI, but most importantly the app shows ONLY unread posts so it aims to be a sidekick to the web app, that is used in short time bursts.

At the same time however, the app has all the necessary sharing and saving integrations needed by professionals such as Evernote, Onenote saving, as well as the “Full Content” loader.

There are some pretty neat font controls which make the app hugely accessible and customizable to one’s own taste! NewJet can be an amazing companion to the web app, just for catching up on new posts and starring interesting articles.

FeedMe

Widget, Inoreader Sync, Day/Night Theme, Podcast Player, Appearance Options, Search, Ad-free, OPML Import

Similar to NewsJet, you can sign-up for FeedMe with Inoreader login. A truly beautiful UI, FeedMe doesn’t include visuals in their posts, all of their feed layout options appear to be some variation of the list view, even the card layout is showing purely titles and subtitles. Impressive Dark and Light themes, as well as an OLED theme available. The widgets seem completely useless, as they only show unread counters.  

However, there is an AMAZING podcast player available if you turn on the “podcast view” layout and the best of all, layout settings are saved locally per feed so you can set all your podcasts on this view. There are numerous advanced options per feed and other settings you can play around with.

One thing that is clear, FeedMe is not for consuming visual content from entertainment feeds like 9GAG, it is more for quick and efficient information catchup and that’s it. We have many users that literally crave such an experience from their RSS reader. If you are this type of user, this app will knock you off your socks!

NewsTab

Widget, Day/Night Theme, Appearance Options, Offline Reading, OPML Import, No Log-in

In complete opposite to FeedMe, NewsTab is an RSS reader that looks like a magazine app like Flipboard. They’ve taken notes from the updates in Google News tab, and even though the design of the app is absolutely 10/10, its usability is just as bad as a social media app, with infinite scroll feeds massively wasted whitespaces.

However we have to say “cudos!” for the NewsTab discovery section, the content we found was absolutely fresh and well categorized, while their local news options are absolutely unmatched, having a complete list of active local publishers from many many countries. If not for everyday use, there is definitely lots of great RSS feeds to be discovered in the NewsTab discovery section.  

In complete honesty however, the FREE version is literally submerged in advertising, so the experience is quite awful according to us, and we see a lot of Spotify-esque tactics for making you upgrade.

Swipe News

Day/Night Theme, Inoreader Sync, Appearance Options, Custom Gestures, Ad-free, OPML Import

The perfect blend between design and usability, the Swipe News app feels very similar to Inoreader’s own Android app, you can import your feeds with Inoreader log-in, then start playing around with customization options. The themes definitely look quite well, but you’ll have to pay for others than Light, Dark, AMOLED.

The app impresses with the “Automatic Night Mode” based on time, a bunch of behavioral and custom gesture options. You have the ability to completely control how the feed looks with a great preview tab. The app is really an all-round winner that includes amazing features for Free, and provides essentially more skins in the Premium option if you would like to further personalize colors and themes.

We strongly recommend this app, few downsides we found were sluggish sync for articles, as well as when viewing visual feeds like the 9GAG or Dribble, the app makes a special layout for the header image which for image feeds actually makes it unusable. Hopefully they will apply this layout only on certain feeds in the future.

For an app still in “Early Development” it is an absolute treasure!

Readably (Beta)

Day/Night Theme (Premium), Inoreader Sync, Appearance Options, Custom Gestures, Ad-free, OPML Import

Probably the MOST beautiful app on the list, Readably joined the scene very recently, created and developed by Isaias Matewos, this app will stun you with its fluid and clean UI.

Not boasting lots of functionality, yet already a pleasure to use, for those of you who want to join Isaias on his journey, you can install this app and start giving him feedback, we are sure he will be thrilled!

Are you absolutely certain we missed something? Tell us in the comments!

We have been getting numerous requests from you – our users – to include a way to control how long articles are kept as unread inside a folder, where the main reason behind this is you only want to see the freshest, most relevant content for your selected folders. This is a great feature especially for noisy feeds which would otherwise overwhelm your whole reader!

Today, we announce these new controls available for Professional accounts as part of the core Inoreader experience. If you still haven’t tried the many benefits of Pro accounts, you can immediately start a 1-month free trial!

Before the introduction of this feature the same problem was addressed with a workaround using IFTTT integration – if you want to try it then turn on this applet integrated with Inoreader.

Are you PRO? Tell us what you think about it in the comments section below…

Happy testing!

From the Inoreader team.

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Part I: What is Content Aggregation? Getting Started with Content Aggregators

This post is part of a complete guide with up-and-coming series:

• Part I: What is Content Aggregation? Getting Started with Content Aggregators
• (Coming soon) Part II: Best content aggregation tools, apps, websites & platforms
• (Upcoming) Part III : How to set-up an in-house content curation machine (Content curation best practices)
• (Upcoming) Part IV : Content Aggregation for Publishers
  • Should you submit your content to aggregation sites
  • Content aggregation in WordPress
  • Content aggregators business model (how aggregators make money)
  • Is content aggregation legal

Want to find and share great content on your website or social media page? Want to keep up with industry news and be knowledgeable in your business area? Want to discover amazing content so it helps you to create your own?

That is not an easy task today since we are living through the information era renaissance. The key driver of information output besides user data and the Internet of Things has been digital content. Overwhelming the web, online content is being produced in vast volumes in various formats, length, and quality. The web is submerged in new content literary every 60 seconds, as this infographic by Smart Insights perfectly shows it:

Clearly we need tools that can help us manage the overflow of information. Tools allowing us to quickly discover, filter out/in, manage and distribute content to our audiences. Sometimes this would be proprietary content which we own, and other times we simply want to share useful information. That is where content aggregation tools and websites come into play.

Content Aggregation Definition

“Content aggregation” means the act of collecting content (blogs, newsletters, news articles, social media posts, etc.) from various feeds to the same place online. Aggregation can be done manually by people or automatically by software tools.

Often the content aggregation process is part of an organization’s content marketing strategy. Aggregating content helps them write their own blog posts and deliver value to users. At the same time, some companies use it for news intelligence to always be knowledgeable of their industry.

What is a Content Aggregator?

A “content aggregator” is an application or website designed to pull content from a variety of sources and then publish it all into the same place. And to answer your burning question, yes, Facebook, Youtube, Instagram are all content aggregators that close the gap between content publishers and users. Publishers submit their own content to social media platforms, while another great example of an aggregator, Google News, crawls and pulls the new content from many websites on its own. Our own app (Inoreader) is also a content aggregator that works on the basis of RSS technology, in other words it automatically collects content from websites who publish new content and who also utilize this RSS technology.

It is often the case that aggregators specialize in different types of content or content format (video, blogs, academic journals, etc.), such as technology specific news, or aggregating content from social media channels only.

With that said it becomes obvious that no aggregator can fit all your needs, so choosing your content aggregator mix depends to a large extend on which sources you plan to pull content from and whether the specific aggregator supports those platforms. That way, you make sure that they’re not missing a thing and only share the most relevant news to your audience. We will cover more information on the types of aggregators in the upcoming Part II of the series: Best content aggregation tools, apps, websites & platforms.

The Difference between content curation, aggregation and syndication

Often misused even by professionals, you might be wondering what is the difference between content curation, aggregation and syndication.

Curation

Content curation – when users individually review many pieces of content, select the best and freshest posts, and sometimes manually tweak it with hand-written intros called annotations to each piece. Curation usually takes much longer than simply aggregating content on your website and will result in lower volumes of published content overall. This is not a downside however, since as we already discussed we are living in a world submerged in information, your audience will greatly appreciate you took the time and effort to select only the best for them. Examples of this are often specialized newsletters with thousands of subscribers that curate the best web content around a specific niche subject, such as UX Collective’s newsletter that gathers all great new things UX and sends it out on a weekly basis.

Aggregation

Before you curate content, first you have to automate your aggregation process. Using a web content aggregator like Inoreader lets you filter incoming feeds to include or exclude content based on specific keywords or other criteria, and even select the eventual output format of the aggregated content. Aggregation is extremely time efficient after initial set-up and that is what makes it so sought after. You don’t have to visit each source individually, you don’t even have to go through every post they publish, just the ones relevant to you and your audience.

Syndication

Without going into too much detail, content syndication is an entirely different beast which mostly concerns content publishers trying to get more eyes to see their own content. Syndicating content often means submitting it to various content aggregators (Facebook, Medium, etc.) on which we will cover more in Part IV: Content Aggregation for Publishers.

Thanks for reading! Want to discuss something? Try the comments…

Part II (Coming Soon, subscribe to stay tuned)

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Inoreader for Android lovers rejoice – for all of you who patiently waited along and for those of you who heeded their observations and excitement on Twitter:

@Inoreader hi. under iOS there is a big update. under android development seems to be stopped? 4 months without update. do you prioritize developing under IOS? cordially

— Zayatoshi (@Zayatoshi) 10 юли 2018 г.

@Inoreader Hi. is it expected soon a big update of the android application as under IOS?

— Zayatoshi (@Zayatoshi) 11 август 2018 г.

Can we please get an update on when the new UI will launch? It’s 2 months behind the original May date and iOS has had theirs for over a month. Android users are beginning to feel like second class citizens with no update comms from you guys.

— Jamaar DeBoise (@Jayspinion) 13 юли 2018 г.

We heard you loud and clear and the new app is now live!

WHAT’S NEW IN INOREADER 6.0

• Updated navigation tree looks with larger icons and stronger fonts.

• There’s a completely new section called “Library”, which houses your Tags, Active searches, Saved web pages and in the future will do quite a lot more. We have also added a new “Recently read” under the same group.

• The “Eye” menu is now opened via tap when you are located at the top of every feed.

• We have added a specially optimized article view for selected feeds and one important change here is to enter immersive mode you now have to tap only once on the article, not twice. Try with “The Verge” for example. We plan to add this view to a lot more feeds.

• Redesigned sharing and saving options.

• We’ve kept the old Mark all as read button since many of you insisted it is a key part of the core user experience.

• We now have a day/night mode and have kept the special AMOLED optimized “Night” mode.

• Custom icons everywhere making the app feel friendlier and more intuitive, with overall focusing more on imagery not so much on explanatory texts.
• The comments section have been completely redesigned to be more user friendly.

Our team wishes you happy using and please provide us your feedback so we can fix any issues in a timely manner … we are tuned in!

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At Inoreader we are committed to deliver a fast, robust and pivotally – a secure platform.

Feeds’ images are one potential vulnerability spot that can leak personal data through tracking pixels among other methods. The Secure Image Proxy directs your image requests solely to our own servers and not to the original source. We do the job of fetching the images on your behalf, thus not exposing your browser requests to the origin.

We have taken steps to introduce Secure Image Proxy in the Professional plan, which as of today will begin serving feed images from our own backend thereby providing professional users with:

• Completely secure HTTPS connection to Inoreader. Your browser will no longer downgrade the connection to inoreader.com.
• Secure viewing of images without leaking data to third-party tracking applications.
• A side benefit of the image proxy is that browsers with limited access to the original source will make requests to our proxy instead. In other words if you are able to open inoreader.com you should be able to also see the images in the articles.

The Secure Image Proxy is available in our Professional plan.

Thanks for being our loyal fans and supporters, ask your questions in the comments below.

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Yes you read correctly! Your favorite RSS Reader and one of the world’s most advanced content aggregators now lets you share in on the profits.

After getting a number of requests already, we are officially opening the Inoreader Affiliate Program!

This is your chance to earn from promoting your favorite information tool.

Check out our Affiliate page to get started.

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Dear Inoreader Community,

Update: 1. If you were on a premium plan, your current limits will be protected until the end of your current subscription period!

2. Please check your email (registered in Inoreader) later today for complete communication regarding the new plans and what will happen to your current plan and price!

We have been working tirelessly since 2013 to deliver a secure, stable, ever more scalable solution for our users. Inoreader has grown to be much more than an RSS reader – it is now a content hub used by information professionals and avid news readers alike.

The best of all is that over the last couple of years we have started amassing larger and more resource heavy organizations on the platform – or simply put – we have been getting more enterprise customers to whom Inoreader is at the heart of business operations.

That is why as of today, we are releasing completely new plans which we modelled by analyzing our users’ aggregate data in 2018. We decided to provide offers that reflect actual usage and will leave roughly 90% of our users completely unaffected in their daily Inoreader use.

Starting to work with large organizations will allow us to move the needle in our industry and open the door to amazing things like experimenting with innovative features and improving numerous aspects of the application.

In fact we already started notifying our “heavy users” a month ago and the consensus so far has been that the service is indeed too inexpensive for the value provided which makes us comfortable that this is the right move.

We invite you to view the new plans in your Inoreader web account.

Thank you for helping us make 2019 the year of progress and innovation,

Best wishes from the Inoreader team!

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Dear Power Users,

We released our new plans last week. We needed to balance them to ensure the future of Inoreader.

After spending the last few days going through user feedback we realized that we cut off many power users from their favorite functionality. This was not what we intended! While we can no longer provide Unlimited plans, we are now raising the limit of Rules in the Pro plan to 30, a number that is more in sync with the fair allocation for a typical Inoreader power user.

We are a team of 7 people fully employed with Inoreader and the majority of our funding comes from premium subscriptions. If our plans are not correctly set up we will not be able to grow or even stay in business.

We are geeks who learn from their mistakes and this was one of them. I personally apologize and I hope we can regain your trust in the future.

—
Yordan Yordanov
Founder of Inoreader

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Inoreader is all about giving power to the power users. And our most powerful feature just got a nice upgrade. You can now set an external Webhook to be triggered whenever a rule matches an article, which will practically create an instant notification to an endpoint defined by you.

But what exactly are Webhooks?

Webhooks are sometimes referred to as “Reverse APIs”. Normally when you make an integration, you need to periodically query a certain API to check for updates. We already have our extensive API published at inoreader.dev. However integrating a full API can be a daunting task with all the steps involved to register and authenticate your app, not to mention it’s not very effective to constantly ask a server if it has something new. Webhooks “reverse” the direction of this flow, so instead of you asking our API for new content, it is Inoreader that pushes the update to your API via simple HTTP link, called a Webhook. No authentication or any kind of further integration is required. It just works! Plain and simple.

To start using Webhooks, just open a current rule or create a new one, scroll down to the Actions section and choose “Trigger webhook”. Enter your Webhook URL in the box and Save the rule. Clicking on More information will open a quick reference for the Webhook format and fields.

Pro tip: You can add multiple Webhooks with the + button!

Now each time the rule matches an article you will receive an HTTP POST request to your Webhook. The article will be a JSON object inside the body of the POST request. It follows basically the same format as our Stream Contents API method, so if you have experience with our API it should be very familiar:

{
  "rule": {
    "name": "Gaming News",
    "matchesToday": "112",
    "matchesTotal": "11852"
  },
  "items": [
    {
      "crawlTimeMsec": "1553225690484",
      "timestampUsec": "1553225690484482",
      "id": "tag:google.com,2005:reader/item/000000048c7e8793",
      "categories": [
        "user/1001926517/state/com.google/reading-list",
        "user/1001926517/state/com.google/read",
        "user/1001926517/label/Gaming"
      ],
      "title": "Vampire: the Masquerade...",
      "published": 1553225400,
      "updated": 0,
      "canonical": [
        {
          "href": "https://kotaku.com/vampire-the..."
        }
      ],
      "alternate": [
        {
          "href": "https://kotaku.com/vampire-the...",
          "type": "text/html"
        }
      ],
      "summary": {
        "direction": "ltr",
        "content": "..."
      },
      "author": "Heather Alexandra",
      "likingUsers": [],
      "comments": [],
      "commentsNum": -1,
      "annotations": [],
      "origin": {
        "streamId": "feed/http://kotaku.com/rss",
        "title": "Kotaku",
        "htmlUrl": "http://kotaku.com/"
      }
    }
  ]
}

If you are curious to try out our Webhooks, but you don’t have your own backend to send them to, here are some useful resources that will help you started:

• Webhook.site – It’s like a sandbox for Webhooks! It gives you a unique URL and you can immediately start sending and debugging Webhooks.
• Integromat – We’ve been keeping an eye on this emerging automation tool and it definitely deserves your DYI-centric attention. It has very flexible Webhooks integration.

We really hope you will find our new Webhooks useful.

The Inoreader Team

Hey guys, we know it’s been a while since our last big announcement and you might be wondering what’s going on in Inoreader’s HQ. We’ve been let down by some of our key developers and that’s why you haven’t seen updates of our mobile apps in a while. We want to bring you only the best in terms of development, so it’s taking a lot of time for us to find a worthy replacement. We are also considering a remote position especially for skilled Android and iOS developers who are familiar with RSS and RSS readers. If you are interested see our careers page and drop us a line.

We are still going strong and investing more than ever into Inoreader. Remember The Black Mirror, our backup datacenter? It’s now as powerful as our main DC and can independently run the whole Inoreader infrastructure in case our primary DC fails. We have upgraded our StorPool storage to a hybrid SSD+HDD system, which can now delivers a massive 100k+ IOPS performance to our databases. We are now amassing a whopping 230TB or combined raw storage space in our two DCs. And speaking of databases, we have so many now that we recently started backing up to tapes:

Development of the platform have been steady with daily updates to the backend that you usually don’t see, but they improve the stability and performance of the system and fix annoying bugs. In fact our backend and web frontend commits graph shows that we’ve even increased development in 2019:

We’ve also been working on a Zapier integration for a while now and our app is already in public beta stage and should be officially launched by the end of June 2019. You are invited to try it out even now:

Last but not least, we have been working on something huge for quite some time now and we hope that soon we will be able to show it to you. Just hang on a little longer and prepare for something big!

The Inoreader Team

If you are a seasoned Inoreader user, you should already know that Inoreader is not just a regular RSS reader, but a power tool that can be used to achieve practically anything with the information coming into your account. And if you are new here, there’s so much to learn.

But as powerful as our Rules are, when it comes to integrations they are limited to sending articles only to services that we have direct integration with.

That’s why in the past months we worked hard to bring you Zapier integration, so you will be able to connect Inoreader with 1500+ apps in any way you can imagine!

Zapier is a productivity tool that seamlessly connects over 1,500 business apps, such as Gmail, Slack, and MailChimp. Zapier helps to automate routine processes and repetitive tasks without the need for coding or technical resources. The company’s mission is to help everyone be more productive at work.

Zapier uses event-based automation called Zaps – workflows that connect your apps and streamline routine tasks.

To learn more about Zapier, please visit zapier.com or follow them on Twitter and LinkedIn.

Check out Inoreader’s channel to get some ideas what you can do with Zaps and start creating your own. By creating Zaps with Zapier you can automate an endless amount of different actions – for example if you broadcast an article within Inoreader, you can send it to Buffer or automatically save your starred articles to Instapaper. Or even the other way around – you can save stuff in Inoreader from other apps. For example you can save YouTube videos matching certain search term into an Inoreader tag. Neat huh?

Zapier’s integration with Inoreader opens up a whole world of automation! The following are a few ready to use Zaps to get you started:

Zapier integration is available in our Pro plan. Your comments and suggestions are always welcome. Use the Contact support option in our apps to send your feedback.

We have some exciting news for everyone following Facebook Pages with Inoreader.

There’s a new way to search across Public Facebook Pages without even leaving Inoreader. Here’s how:

1. Type in the name of the page you want to search for and choose “Facebook pages” from the drop-down menu.
2. Done. It’s that easy!

From the results page, you can quickly preview the latest posts and subscribe with one click.

We hope this will make subscribing to Facebook Pages even easier now.

But there’s more!

We have recently upgraded our Graph API integration to enhance the feature used by many professionals.

• Images are now displayed in high resolution instead of small thumbnails.
• We have added support for galleries.
• We have added support for multi-share posts.
• We have generally improved the handling of all other kinds of media attachments to posts.

We hope you will find good use of our Facebook Pages feature.

The Inoreader Team

The best part of using RSS is that you see all the news, unfiltered and sorted exactly chronologically without a smart “AI” messing with your data and deciding what to feed you.

It is, however, useful sometimes to have the power to sort through thousands of articles and see the most interesting stuff on top. Maybe you have just 10 minutes to read between work projects, or maybe you are following an important topic and you want to see yesterday’s hottest articles? In any case, you might want to take a look at our new feature that allows you to sort articles by …Magic.

But why Magic and not popularity for example? That’s because our platform tries to sort the articles not by their absolute engagement score, but also to your reading habits. To be precise it tries to rank articles from feeds that you read more often higher than others even if the latter have bigger general engagement. It’s also another throwback at Google Reader as some will remember. The new sorting option can be found in the Eye () menu.

Apart from sorting, there are also new indicators on articles that show their general popularity inside (and in some cases outside) the Inoreader platform. You can configure them to show only an icon, icon and score or completely turn them off from Inoreader’s Preferences.

And this is how it looks in Card View:

Sorting through billions of articles is not for the faint of heart servers, so Sort by Magic is available in our Pro plan, but the indicators are visible to everyone.

We would also like to invite you to our new Discord server where we casually chat about new features, experiments or just geek about RSS:

If you’ve browsed your Twitter or Facebook page feeds in the last week, you have probably noticed that we changed the presentation of the posts, so they are more coherent with how a microblog post should look like.

Initially, Inoreader started as a pure RSS reader and titles are an essential part of any RSS article. That’s why the title was a very important UX element since the beginning. An article without a title just couldn’t function properly. Microblogs, however rarely have separate titles, just a simple post, sometimes with attached media. Here’s how those posts look like in Inoreader’s Expanded view now:

Initially we made this change specifically for Twitter and Facebook feeds, but we found that there are lots of other feeds that can benefit from this change. So we took the extra mile and extended our feed parser to read additional author metadata whenever available and also added a custom parser for Micro.blog JSON feeds extensions.

Now whenever Inoreader detects an article with an author and without a title it will present it as a microblog post. We hope this change improves your experience with microblogs.

Join our Discord server where we casually chat about new features, experiments or just geek about RSS:

Since the beginning, Inoreader was meant to be a power-user tool, pushing the boundaries of what RSS readers can do. We were the first to introduce automation with integrated Rules, then go beyond RSS with Twitter and Facebook pages feeds, even native support for microblog posts. If you are regular to our blog, you will know that we never stopped adding new features.

This doesn’t come without a price tag! Adding features ad-hoc means that sometimes we lose coherence in the user interface. Not everything is intuitive, there are too many buttons, switches, options and redundant information on the same screen. Some people get used to it, but it doesn’t mean it’s right. We knew for quite a while, that something has to be done.

Today we are releasing our brand UI redesign, which aims to bring this missing coherence in the user interface and generally make Inoreader a more pleasant place for everyone. It’s the result of months of prototyping, user testing and even a full-blown interim version using a completely different frontend framework. There are also brand new features, that we will cover in greater detail in subsequent posts.

Let’s have a quick walkthrough with the most important changes.

The first thing you will probably notice is the new typography and article layout:

By default articles are centered, but if you prefer the old left-aligned article or even full-width articles, you can easily change it back from the new text preferences bar:

That’s where you will also find the font size and other settings, as they are no longer buried deep in the preferences. Speaking of the article toolbar, it will now float as you scroll past longer articles, so you don’t have to go all the way to top or bottom just to add a star to the article.

The search functionality has been reworked from scratch. Since Inoreader allows you to search for all kinds of stuff, it’s hard to have a one-box-fits-all solution, but we think we made things a lot more intuitive this time:

The new catalog (which is seamlessly integrated with the search functionality) will help you find new and interesting feeds to subscribe to, with more than 50 categories with cherry-picked sources. We will continue to add more sources in the future too.

Because Inoreader is full of customization options and features, the preferences are a common place to visit, unlike most software where you only go there to change your password for example. That’s why we took great care to rearrange them and make everything intuitive and pleasant to use.

For example, one of the most important modules is the Subscription manager. It’s now not only improved visually but also shows an “Engagement” column, showing how much you read stuff from this source.

Filters can now be browsed, renamed and even temporarily disabled, highlighters too. There is also a brand new section called “Power User settings”. From there you can enhance Inoreader even more by removing some features or elements that you don’t use. And if that isn’t enough for you, we have also added an option to use your custom CSS!

Fans of rules will be pleased to see our improved rule dialog. We have greatly simplified the layout of the dialog, Performance has also been dramatically improved, so you can add hundreds of conditions without any slowdowns.

New features!

But wait, we are not only serving UI refreshments today. There’s desert too!

Email newsletters – Inoreader now allows you to create custom inboxes that work just like regular subscriptions, but instead of RSS items, they feed from emails! You can now forward all your newsletters to Inoreader and read them together with your regular feeds, apply rules, group newsletters into folders, all the good stuff that you can do with regular feeds. We will cover this feature in a separate blog post.

Email digests – You can now set up a daily, weekly or custom email digest from articles collected in a tag, team or any other section. You can subscribe external recipients like your management for example to receive those digests. This feature also deserves its own blog post, which will be posted shortly here.

There are a lot more subtle changes to the user interface of Inoreader, optimizations of the code, so it is as snappy as before and even faster here and there. We also have a completely redesigned login page and finally, publicly visible pricing.

As always if you spot any bugs and issues, use our contact form, as this is the best method to get official support.

We would also like to invite you to our new Discord server where we casually chat about new features, experiments or just geek about RSS:

You have mail! Inoreader now allows you to subscribe to Email Newsletters just as regular RSS feeds. By creating a new Newsletter feed, you have the opportunity to create a unique email address where you can direct emails and read them just as regular articles.

To create a new Newsletter feed, click the plus (+) button in the sidebar and click “Add Newsletter”. A dialog will pop up, where you will be able to choose a name for your subscription and customize the email address.

Immediately after you create the subscription, it will be ready to receive emails.

Each Newsletter Feed you create has a unique email address. You can choose to direct all your emails to this address or create different feeds for every Newsletter you subscribe to. It’s up to you.

Newsletter Feeds function the same as regular feeds, so the emails will mix nicely with your other news items. You will be able to filter them or create rules, apply tags, send them as push notifications and email alerts. Even export them as RSS feeds, essentially creating Email to RSS bridges.

Newsletter Feeds are available to Supporter and Pro users. Supporter users can create 1 Newsletter Feed with up to 30 days of email retention. Pro users can create up to 20 Newsletter Feeds without retention limitation. If you need more, you can always request a quote for a custom plan. For more information, check our pricing.

With the above news, we are also announcing the deprecation of our old Mail2Tag feature. We have prepared a converter, which will prompt you to convert your Mail2Tag tags into the new Newsletter Feeds while preserving your legacy email addresses, so you won’t have to resubscribe. Mail2Tag tags not migrated to Newsletter Feeds will stop receiving emails after May 01, 2020.

Hey, it’s been quite some time without updates on this front, but our latest updates to our Android and iOS apps should make up for it. Our apps are now both at version 6.2 and include several cool new features.

Automatic Day/Night mode

This feature automatically detects if your OS is in Dark mode and switches the app’s theme accordingly. It requires at least iOS 13 or Android 10 and is now enabled by default.

Better support for Microblog articles

It’s no secret that microblogs are getting more and more popular, mostly thanks to Twitter’s success, but also because of new and independent platforms like micro.blog. Inoreader now has a much better presentation for microblog articles. You can read more about the whole feature here.

Sort by Magic and Popularity Indicators

When we released Sort by Magic a few months ago, we received so much positive feedback, that we immediately prioritized it for development in our mobile apps. In short, this feature sorts the most popular and relevant articles on top of the list, and it also displays indicators depending on how popular the article is. If you dislike the new indicators, you can always turn them off from the Apps settings. Sort by Magic is available in our Pro plan, but popularity indicators are visible to everyone.

Apart from the new features, the new 6.2 update includes lots of bug fixes and stability improvements for newer OS versions as well as an updated launcher icon.

Get the updated version from your App Store: