{"slug": "reeder", "name": "Reeder", "category": "media", "category_name": "Media and creative", "description": "", "recommenders": 2, "commenters": 5, "warners": 0, "score": 2.517, "rising": -0.65, "first": "2026-01-04", "latest": "2026-07-01", "why": "But I use Reeder across Mac, iPad, and iPhone to keep up with feeds.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 2, "neutral": 3, "compare": 0, "warn": 0}, "spark": [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0], "listed": false, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "But I use Reeder across Mac, iPad, and iPhone to keep up with feeds.", "icon": false, "domain": null, "github_repo": null, "official_url": "", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Reeder"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 779977073, "item_id": 48748567, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48748567", "by": "stasomatic", "date": "2026-07-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Reeder was my favorite of the bunch.", "excerpt": "I don't know about \"best\", but I've tried many, Reeder, Feedly etc, for many years. These are not OSS though, but Reeder was my favorite of the bunch. I settled on running NewsBlur on an OVH instance, it's open source and so are the apps. https://github.com/samuelclay/newsblur On the desktop I use the default web interface, it runs and looks nice. A bit too many batteries included, but you can turn things off. It's D", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: HackerNows \u2013 Native iOS HN Client"}, {"id": 743814576, "item_id": 46488411, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488411", "by": "geerlingguy", "date": "2026-01-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "But I use Reeder across Mac, iPad, and iPhone to keep up with feeds.", "excerpt": "The RSS button is https://rssdiscovery.app/ And for a short time, RSS was the bee's knees across the entire Internet. Apple had the best support for it, and almost put NetNewsWire out to pasture, until they just removed all baked in RSS functionality, entirely :( But I use Reeder across Mac, iPad, and iPhone to keep up with feeds.", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS feed reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jeffgeerling.com has been Migrated to Hugo"}]}], "caveats": [], "who": [{"by": "ubermonkey", "context": "lifelong nerd in my mid-50s", "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988999", "date": "2026-02-12"}], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["rss reading", "rss reading on ios", "rss feed reading"], "compared": [{"slug": "newsblur", "name": "NewsBlur", "co": 1, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 1}, {"slug": "netnewswire", "name": "NetNewsWire", "co": 2, "switched_from": 0, "switched_to": 0}], "makers": [], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48744778", "title": "Show HN: HackerNows \u2013 Native iOS HN Client", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47253221", "title": "The View from RSS", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978490", "title": "NetNewsWire Turns 23", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806245", "title": "Why do RSS readers look like email clients?", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46487498", "title": "Jeffgeerling.com has been Migrated to Hugo", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1, "neutral": 1}, "2026-02": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-03": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-04": {}, "2026-05": {}, "2026-06": {}, "2026-07": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {}}, "quotes": [{"id": 779977073, "item_id": 48748567, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48748567", "by": "stasomatic", "date": "2026-07-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Reeder was my favorite of the bunch.", "excerpt": "I don't know about \"best\", but I've tried many, Reeder, Feedly etc, for many years. These are not OSS though, but Reeder was my favorite of the bunch. I settled on running NewsBlur on an OVH instance, it's open source and so are the apps. https://github.com/samuelclay/newsblur On the desktop I use the default web interface, it runs and looks nice. A bit too many batteries included, but you can turn things off. It's D", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: HackerNows \u2013 Native iOS HN Client"}, {"id": 756116625, "item_id": 47257289, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257289", "by": "outlore", "date": "2026-03-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used to use Reeder pretty religiously but as websites started to lock down their feeds", "excerpt": "I saw Current Reader (no affiliation) posted on the web a couple days ago. It seems like a nice way to keep up to date with many hundreds of feeds by giving them different priorities, where for example a low priority feed may disappear from view quicker than a higher priority one. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/current-reader/id6758530974 I used to use Reeder pretty religiously but as websites started to lock down the", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "The View from RSS"}, {"id": 751823986, "item_id": 46988999, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988999", "by": "ubermonkey", "date": "2026-02-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "(On iOS, I use Reeder.)", "excerpt": "As a lifelong nerd in my mid-50s, I've accumulated a number of pieces of software that I love -- like, I really have actual emotional fondness for -- that for whatever reasons I no longer use. NNW is 100% on that list. It was my first feedreader, but at some point I shifted away from it (I think there was a time when it wouldn't sync with other services?), and now for years I've been using Feedbin's web client on my ", "context": "lifelong nerd in my mid-50s", "use_case": "RSS reading on iOS", "switched_from": "", "story": "NetNewsWire Turns 23"}, {"id": 749077841, "item_id": 46817365, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46817365", "by": "daft_pink", "date": "2026-01-29", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the guy released a new version of reeder that\u2019s not as good", "excerpt": "It\u2019s funny. I love using reeder classic and the guy released a new version of reeder that\u2019s not as good, but I want to subscribe to it so I can support him, because I love classic.", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Why do RSS readers look like email clients?"}, {"id": 743814576, "item_id": 46488411, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46488411", "by": "geerlingguy", "date": "2026-01-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "But I use Reeder across Mac, iPad, and iPhone to keep up with feeds.", "excerpt": "The RSS button is https://rssdiscovery.app/ And for a short time, RSS was the bee's knees across the entire Internet. Apple had the best support for it, and almost put NetNewsWire out to pasture, until they just removed all baked in RSS functionality, entirely :( But I use Reeder across Mac, iPad, and iPhone to keep up with feeds.", "context": "", "use_case": "RSS feed reading", "switched_from": "", "story": "Jeffgeerling.com has been Migrated to Hugo"}]}