Follow-up: Have noticed two approaches to feed downloading. Byline syncs everything, which is great for offline viewing later. MobileRSS (free version updated last week, paid one yesterday) is nice for when you do have a connection. You can tell it to download all feeds, but by default it loads on demand, thus being faster to get to the folder/feed you want to read first. Now that it handles InstaPaper, ReadItLater, Twitter, and in-app E-mail (supposedly caching when offline, too) MobileRSS is looking like quite a contender.
Still prefer Byline's UI - at least since it ditched the faux-wood - and it's ability to cache whole webpages for starred or items with notes. These two apps are quite complimentary. When I'm online I'll used MobileRSS for the sharing features. When I know I'll be going offline for a while, I'll fire up Byline before heading out the door.
Craig - 2 years ago
Netnewswire is worthless until the desktop client's "Clippings" and the iPhone client's "Starred" items can be synced.
Darren - 2 years ago
I'd agre with Rich . . . Byline has great sharing features the others don't have, but Instapaper (and Evernote?!?!) integration would be HUGE bonus.
Byline is my favorite for it's offline caching of full webpages for starred items and notes (didn't realize how the latter allows you to mark any webpage to be cached). However, even with this I sorely miss the Instapaper and in-app email features of other RSS apps, like NetNewsWire. MobileRSS has these features, too, and the I've been using the free version even thought I own the full one because of its update to allow Instapaper marking without going to the web view first. Hope the full version with these updates gets approved soon.
What I've found is that it's not too much of a burden to sue multiple RSS readers since they have various strengths and most sync to Google Reader. Still, here's to hoping Byline is updated soon so I'll have offline access and Instapaper support all in one place!
Great info -- Thanks Rich.
Follow-up: Have noticed two approaches to feed downloading. Byline syncs everything, which is great for offline viewing later. MobileRSS (free version updated last week, paid one yesterday) is nice for when you do have a connection. You can tell it to download all feeds, but by default it loads on demand, thus being faster to get to the folder/feed you want to read first. Now that it handles InstaPaper, ReadItLater, Twitter, and in-app E-mail (supposedly caching when offline, too) MobileRSS is looking like quite a contender.
Still prefer Byline's UI - at least since it ditched the faux-wood - and it's ability to cache whole webpages for starred or items with notes. These two apps are quite complimentary. When I'm online I'll used MobileRSS for the sharing features. When I know I'll be going offline for a while, I'll fire up Byline before heading out the door.
Netnewswire is worthless until the desktop client's "Clippings" and the iPhone client's "Starred" items can be synced.
I'd agre with Rich . . . Byline has great sharing features the others don't have, but Instapaper (and Evernote?!?!) integration would be HUGE bonus.
Byline is my favorite for it's offline caching of full webpages for starred items and notes (didn't realize how the latter allows you to mark any webpage to be cached). However, even with this I sorely miss the Instapaper and in-app email features of other RSS apps, like NetNewsWire. MobileRSS has these features, too, and the I've been using the free version even thought I own the full one because of its update to allow Instapaper marking without going to the web view first. Hope the full version with these updates gets approved soon.
What I've found is that it's not too much of a burden to sue multiple RSS readers since they have various strengths and most sync to Google Reader. Still, here's to hoping Byline is updated soon so I'll have offline access and Instapaper support all in one place!