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Feedly - Smart News Reader App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
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✓ Used to be really goodUsed to love this app and my only source of news feeds. However, some recent upgrade caused the app to constantly lose network connection and have to close and reopen the app to fix it. Meanwhile, I know my network connection is not the issue. This bug is super annoying and needs to be fixed..Version: 82.0.0
✓ DON’T GET THIS APPUp until a few years ago if you wanted more features you’d just buy the “pro” version of an app. Now in the subscription era those of us who bought these “pro” versions are being asked to sign up for monthly/annual subscriptions for more features. If these features were new AND useful then as much as I dislike the subscription model I’d sign up, however the trend now is to remove the features you’ve already paid for and put them behind subscription walls effectively making you pay every month for something you’ve already paid for. I think every person deserves to be fairly compensated for their work, but this is about the character of those making these decisions. Don’t install this app. Don’t get used to this app. Don’t sign up for their subscription. They don’t deserve our support..Version: 71.0.1
✓ Classic is betterNew UI is not good. Use Feedly classic..Version: 56.0.3
✓ I Guess I Just Don’t See The PointWhen I heard about Feedly, I thought I would be great. But after using it, I just don’t see the point. Seriously, if the devs can contact me and explain why this is any better than simply visiting the websites individually, please do so! I guess I was under the impression that I would be able to truly customize exactly what appears in my feed. Here’s an example, I like video games, so I selected Kotaku as a feed source. But I wasn’t able to get any more granular than that. I wanted to have Kotaku content, but only for subjects that interested me. For example, I wanted Kotaku content for God of War, but I didn’t want any Kotaku content for Fortnite. The app doesn’t do that, instead I just get everything from Kotaku always. The same as if I was just visiting the website without Feedly. So, what’s the point? What’s the advantage? [Shrugs] I just don’t get it. If I could filter keywords or tags, etc to truly customize my feed, that would be great, but as it stands I see no value in this app..Version: 40.0.6
✓ Feeds menu broken in landscape modeThe latest update to Feedly has been pretty poor. The larger and changed font isn’t as nice as before, also it’s is no longer possible to select a feed from the feeds menu when in landscape mode on the iPad. Also no related to the iOS app, but the web version is also completely broken; if a feed is set to view full articles, it will never load. Please fix, as Feedly is my favourite app!.Version: 76.0.4
✓ Waste of timeJust gives a bunch of errors. Duplicate label names. Failing to submit new feed titles. Failing to grab RSS feeds. Claiming feeds haven’t been updated in a long time despite them being active. Bleh..Version: 82.0.0
✓ Change for the worseI’m not sure what this update has accomplished other than to annoy your users by the look of things. I hate the new continuous scrolling feature - please give us back the old page option. I also prefer the look of the older app - at least that broke up the content with some larger images - now you just have the option of a list or a grid of exactly the same sized tiles… boring. All I really want from the app is a quick way of scanning my news feed and the ability to quickly add anything interesting to Pocket where I can later read/file/delete it - and now that feature has been removed from the free version. I understand that you have to make money somehow, but I’d prefer to see ads than subscribe to yet another app..Version: 54.0.0
✓ Updates buggyLast update left app prone to crash and latest update will not download/load. App support of no use..Version: 67.0.1
✓ Too ComplicatedHaving used this for years, I give up. My biggest gripe is adding new blogs - there must be some magic I haven’t been I initiated into. And the menu options are also somewhat arcane. Previous: Enjoy the different layout options. Does what a rss reader should do..Version: 84.0.3
✓ Progressively buggierAlthough updates are infrequent, each one seems to break something. This time it's a further degradation in behaviour to a swipe; this used to be instant, then became successively slower, now it fails about 20% of the time and does nothing at all! It also frequently freezes on the article view and refuses to accept the 'back to list' command, something that used to be an occasional ipad-only bug for me but now happens on the phone too..Version: 40.0.5
✓ Why?!? A huge step backwards.I use Feedly daily and have truly loved the app but these new UI changes are a HUGE step backwards. Amongst other problems the new layout renders a process that used to be more dynamic incredibly boring. On a phone it might not be so bad and probably makes a lot of sense, but the limitations on an iPad are pretty miserable. The randomness of layout and variation of image sizes used to give more of a magazine like reading experience and now what’s being presented has all the charisma of the results of a Google search. PLEASE undo this or give more options to return to what it was prior. Haven't given up on the app yet given how long I’ve truly enjoyed it BUT can’t imagine continuing to use it for too long in this form. Originally gave this a single star but am raising my rating slightly. I still don’t like the bulk of the changes in this new version but I do appreciate that the developer has given us the option to use what I think is a preferable UI in another app now called 'classic'. That said, I wish the new app had been something one opted into with the old one simply renamed rather than throwing users into something so different via an 'upgrade' like this. Moves like that always make me a little distrustful of developers and less likely to opt into in app purchases, etc. That said, the ability to download 'classic' addresses that distrust a bit..Version: 54.0.0
✓ Slowly getting worseEach update makes changes which feel like “we better change something so the users don’t get bored”. What about fixing parsing of titles where ' characters appear (Independent)? I’ve been waiting for about a year....Version: 56.0.3
✓ After an update, signed outAfter updating to latest, I’ve been signed out and can’t sign back in.Version: 90.0.3
✓ Still NoI felt a bit guilty about still using the Classic version so I thought I’d give this one another shot. Nope, I am now back to Classic again. I hated that I’d swipe up on an article to show I’d read it, but swiping wouldn’t work half the time. It got really frustrating to repeatedly swipe ten times on an article only to have it not go away. It would just bounce back into place. I also don’t like the Home Screen options (the first page you see when you open the app) and find the Classic version much better at displaying that info. Classic makes it much easier to save an article for later. The Classic version is faster and less buggy. I’m surprised that after a couple of years of doing this “new” Feedly, they still haven’t worked out those bugs. While it is useable, the Classic version is still much superior..Version: 82.0.0
✓ Still a fan, but ...Latest redesign is fine; clean, attractive, and generally easy to use ... but I have one huge complaint. There used to be more white space at the end of articles, before the share/website buttons. That’s now gone, and it means that as I’m reading an article and scrolling as I go, I end up with a gentle scroll inadvertently closing the article, before I even realize I’m close to the end. Please fix this! Either add some more white space between the end of the text and the buttons, so it registers more readily that I’m at the bottom, or increase the amount of “swiping up” it takes to actually close the article. It’s super annoying to constantly need to re-open the article and scroll back to the bottom — very carefully! — to finish reading..Version: 55.0.1
✓ Feedly need to listenI've been using this now since Google shutdown the reader, it is an excellent freemium alternative and regularly updated with users interests. However, there is no way to give direct feedback and so new features that don't always make sense (like automatic rotation to portrait mode after reading a story, when you always read in landscape mode, with no ability to turn this off!) can't be communicated back to the team. These guys make it impossible to contact them, this is my issue..Version: 40.0.6
✓ Most features behind pay wall nowThe latest update moved basic features behind a paywal. Things like "send to pocket" are now considered premium although you can still do that through the "share" button. Another "premium" feature is the popularity filter. So instead of actually providing value, the developer decided to take away features from the free version and charge for them. Will be looking for a new reader.Version: 54.0.0
✓ Landscape!Bring back landscape please.Version: 40.0.6
✓ Start PageJust because articles can be merged by time doesn’t mean users don’t want to read by group/theme instead. “Start Page” needs an option to start with a single group so that readers can scroll by group/theme..Version: 54.0.0
✓ Version 67 keeps dismissing articles too quicklyI've been using Feedly since 2013 and this latest update has become really infuriating. Open an article and try to swipe to the bottom and Feedly will prematurely dismiss the article and mark it as read. There a bunch of other UI issues but this one is really annoying. It makes things literally unreadable!.Version: 67.0.1
✓ Use classicAll the positive reviews are fake. The real version for this app is the classic..Version: 68.0.0
✓ "We broke rotation"The latest releases states "We listened" and "We polished rotation", however they broke rotation badly. Feedly now auto-rotates, even if the rotation lock is on the device, resulting in annoying rotation at such times as returning from reading an article. The auto-rotation makes the app extremely annoying to use. A look at the user feedback forums reveals they broke it and have done nothing about the problem for at least 3 months. They could have pulled the update while they fixed the bug, but instead they've left it twirling around on user's screens and not responded to user reports despite claiming they "listen". It is though the app has been abandoned. Recommend avoiding until they fix it, if ever....Version: 40.0.6
✓ Requires accountLogging in to read rss? Yeah, nah🤣.Version: 82.0.0
✓ New update worse for reading linked contentAside from the fact that I do not like that everything has changed, and feels less efficient, the reading links, and clicking through to the actual blog has got much worse. Whereas once one remained in Feedly to do this, and could just close the pages to return to the reader, one is now taken to the safari browser. It is not as easy to get back, and it is very very annoying..Version: 54.0.0
✓ Can’t login with FacebookI can’t login with Facebook anymore. It gives a OAuth : Invalid error. And I can’t merge my account with another login service..Version: 90.0.2
✓ A bit hostile and heavy handedBeen a big fan of Feedly for years now, and would be down to pay a flat fee for the development of this app - however a lot of newer features although nice aren’t really needed for a slick light weight RSS reader with a clean user experience. I don’t site Reviews often, but I’m pretty bummed the way development has been going and is really starting to cross the line of good user centered experience to user hostile experience with basic functions and ease of use (slide right/left for functions) to dive directly to paid functions. Really bad. the simple act of saving articles for later reading went from slide right to save to, slide right+click, to now slide right, and pay. Feels a bit sleazy and user abrasive. Why not adopt a Apollo model and pay for cosmetics, and extra plugins? Now looking for alternatives in a niche market..Version: 83.0.4
✓ No longer able to log inSomething went wrong. Try clearing your browser cookies. But that doesn’t work either. Can’t use the app anymore. I’m an IT professional so I’m pretty sure I’m not doing something dumb..Version: 90.0.3
✓ Don’t separate news by topicI really wanted to like this app, but there are two issues: 1) It’s slow. It takes WAY too long to add news sources. Each time you add one you have to wait 5-10 seconds, so if you read a lot of news you could spend an entire afternoon just adding news sources. Tap. Wait. Tap. Wait. This is made a lot worse by the fact that other news aggregators like Flipboard and Apple News allow you to add a news source within a split second. 2) I don’t want news to be separated by category. Show me all the news from all categories all in one long feed. You can do this if you open the app, tap the button on the left side, tap All Feeds, and then wait another 5-10 seconds. But there isn’t any way to set this as the default reading option. I don’t want to change this setting every time I open the app. I wanted to move away from Flipboard after many years because I think their magazine idea is stupid and distracting, but I guess I will stick with it and hope they get rid of that feature..Version: 82.0.0
✓ Is it workingIs this App still being maintained. I’ve used it for a couple of years and it’s been great. But I’m now noticing that weekly blogs are not being updated for quite a few of my feeds. They seemed to have stopped in August. What’s happening?.Version: 82.0.0
✓ Wants you to open external links all the timeI love seeing everything in one app. However, I’m very confused. Why is it that many articles get cut off and make you open the rest in an external link?? I never want to do that, Feedly was supposed to help me keep everything in one app. It’s frustrating to click stories and keep having to keep leaving them mid-read. I need a way to either “turn off” articles that cut off like this and never see them in my feed, or see them labeled somehow so that I know not to click those. I also don’t like the double-tap to close article feature because I do this by accident all the time, then I have to open the article again and scroll down to where I left off since it doesn’t remember where I left off, since it doesn’t anticipate this user error happening so often..Version: 76.0.4
✓ Good but lacking native feelGenerally quite good except it is essentially a web view which means it looks and feels clunky. Headlines are truncated to three lines which can be frustrating. Would rather a continuous scrolling of content rather than paging, too..Version: 40.0.6
✓ 😒Not being able to search without having feedly pro seems...too greedy.....Version: 64.0.6
✓ Won’t SubscribeCreated an account, logged in, searched for suggestions, clicked follow, no follow. Deleted app..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Network errorsIm suddenly getting very frequent ‘network errors’ that require the app to restart..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Car CrashThe guys at Feedly are probably sat there thinking that the new App is loads better than the old one and that anyone who isn't wholeheartedly embracing it is simply resistant to change... Your Beta feedback process can't have been comprehensive because you have released a dog of an app that makes it harder to browse and navigate aggregated news articles. If support for the Classic version of the app ends... you'll have lost a user. The continued existence of the "Classic" version is telling and I'm thankful for it!.Version: 54.0.0
✓ IPhone X update please!I use this app several times daily to keep up with technology news. I would love for it to use the full potential of the iPhone Xs display!.Version: 38.0.0
✓ Trash. Needs account.Allows pasting a url to look at it but cant save or do anything at all unless you sign up for an account. Pushes account signup into your face too much. Useless. Garbage, do not buy..Version: 84.0.3
✓ Best I’ve found, but still a few flawsAnother update. iPhone X support please. Let’s do this. Update again. Hate that you can't default download the whole article into the app, just down to the break or whatever for certain sites. Please fix! I use this app like crazy. Needed something that worked on my phone, iPad, and PC. Thanks. What kills me though is that I tap to read an article and just get the first paragraph, can we have a setting to get more? So I have to tap on the heading to get the whole thing. Fine. Now when I'm done reading I either have to scroll all the way down to swipe up to close, and some blogs have all the comments down there, or I have to click the back arrow then the x. I wish I could just close the article right there somehow. The double tap thing doesn't work. The back arrow also is laggy..Version: 38.0.0
✓ Update is a step backwardsI’ve used Feedly ever since Google shut down Reader and some of the new UI updates are frustrating. First, I can no longer press and hold to add to read later. I don’t want or need the extra steps to add it to folders, that just makes for extra unnecessary steps. The second is not having an option to jump straight to the Safari browser. Some webpages I just know aren’t going to work for me in the browser in the app. An example that comes to mind is the free apps of the day that BGR puts out. Clicking on links to the App Store is better done through Safari so I don’t have to reload the page each time. The last thing that really bugs me admittedly doesn’t hurt the functionality but I very much dislike the pictures being on the right. It just doesn’t look right. I prefer the pictures on the left with the text preview on the right..Version: 54.0.0
✓ One month to 2022, still has a app without dark modeCan you please, add dark mode?.Version: 84.0.3
✓ Hate the new UIThe fonts are too small, really straining my eyes; the whole app is black and white with no images, not attractive at all. The whole app feels so crowded, so 1998. This change is for the worst. Why don’t you take a leaf from Apple News app?!.Version: 54.0.0
✓ Don’t like the new “endless” page formatI like the new look and features of Feedly, that is except this one. The endless page... where the story listing never ends. A quick flick of the thumb and .... oops....went to far... missed a story there... slide back down with the thumb... there it is. Reading well involves predictable eye tracking. A quick glance at a predictable page layout meant you could actually comprehend what you quickly glanced at. With endless scrolling, lines of text on the screen are never in predictable places when you’re scanning for headlines and story leads. Comprehension and quick glances (at headlines ad story leads) are now mutually exclusive. It’s a bad reading setup. Hire a reading specialist before reformatting digital magazines. I deleted News 360 for this same reason. This one goes too. Thank goodness for Flipboard..Version: 54.0.0
✓ Worst update in historySomehow y’all managed to make the most opened app on my phone utterly unusable. I don’t know which 4,000 users you consulted but they should just go download twitter or use apple news if they want more pictures than words. The most intriguing aspect of your app for me was the ability to immerse myself with readable content from a multitude of sources. Even just comparing the amount of articles displayed on screen in list type from old to new you can see the app was LITERALLY dumbed down with the update. Whoever was in charge of the new version of the app needs to be fired, that panel of 4,000 people should not be allowed to download the classic version, whoever was being snarky and committed the typo in the description of Classic version needs to be demoted or at least a reprimand letter, and promote or at least give a bonus to whoever saved your company from falling to newsify by putting out the Classic version. The second you change or mess with the classic version you will begin the timer to your company’s demise..Version: 55.0.1
✓ Total FailI test it and you broke what was good and create complicated gesture for mark as read, no more pagination, etc. All the bad reviews are true and i hope youll step back on next update. Only one good thing, and its truly an improvment: the bottom menu!!! Thank you for that, but ill dont upgrade :(.Version: 54.0.0
✓ Where is your support page?I would contact you via your support page but there isn’t a link to a useful one from here or from your main website. The Feedly iPad app keeps reloading articles while I’m in the middle of reading them. Very frustrating. This started happening in the last week or so. Before that, app has been great!.Version: 40.0.6
✓ SlowSlow to launch with latest update.Version: 84.0.3
✓ The ‘classic’ version is so much betterIt’s a mystery what’s going on here, they had the best reader in town and ruined it. Fortunately the much more appealing Feedly Classic is still available, and feels more like reading an attractively designed magazine. Did the original designer leave the team or something? Or did they sell it to a new developer? Sadly, the new version is graphically illiterate and misses the point of everything that made Feedly appealing. EDIT: and since the developers have been kind enough to respond to this review, I should point out that it’s the iPad version that really bothers me - the app appears to have been designed for a phone, whereas Feedly Classic used the iPad to make something like a beautiful magazine, with different sizes of image. This made a huge difference to an otherwise repetitive experience and was for me a stand-out piece of design..Version: 75.0.0
✓ Latest update is a battery killerRuining battery life even with light usage..Version: 65.0.1
✓ Bug makes it impossible to read source articlesWhenever I follow a link from Feedly to a source article, the page constantly reloads so I never get to see the page. Don’t bother with this one unless/until they fix it!.Version: 60.0.0
✓ Feedly RSS FailI downloaded the app to do one thing, get the AWS Podcast RSS feed. However it only shows the podcasts up to Jan 5th 2018 (it is currently March 7th 2018). Any podcasts since then are missing. The web version has the same issue. This makes it unusable for me. Reeder 3 has no such issue. This app has now been deleted..Version: 40.0.6
✓ Errors and not very intuitiveFirst time using it and got an failed load error. Tried same link on another, simpler app and no issue..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Feedly requires updates quickerFeedly is a nice friendly information app across several services platforms for both business and social. It gets annoying when the information already read is still displayed through its own vacuum. It is like you can’t tell what is new or old unless you read the blogs closely which states 2 days ago etc. Going into 2018 the app needs a more snappy update otherwise rating will be 3/5..Version: 38.0.0
✓ Buggy in iOS 13Seems like closing articles occasionally returns to the top of the feed. Occurs more often when swiping to close the article. Also, the feed occasionally returns to a scrolling list versus page scrolling. I actually prefer scrolling! Opening the left panel and dragging up and down (without lifting your finger) moves the feed; close the panel and the feed is ‘free’ scrolling..Version: 68.0.2
✓ Tries to be clever, but it makes it hardAttempted to create a feedly login with my email address, but it detected I used to have a Google sign in with that email address. I don’t have the Google account anymore and it refused to allow me to create a new login, because my Google sign in would make life easier. Managed to work around this after some fighting with the app and their web site. Once I got in to the app, I wanted to add some Reddit RSS feeds by adding .rss to the end of the subreddit URL. But it detects its Reddit and instead asks me to sign in to Reddit, I assume to use their api, which is not what I want, as I specifically want to use the rss feed. Feedly says ‘no’. Looks like a really good app, that I would have paid for, but the app trying to be smart makes it unusable for me..Version: 85.0.5
✓ A seeming step back with latest updateI have been using Feedly for a few years now to collate journal articles; RSS feeds are the most efficient way to keep up to date on a field of science. For the most part, Feedly is excellent for that, but the update that seems just to have happened has a couple of important steps back. First, the design looks somehow worse; I am not a fan of the new font choice in the source-selection menu. This isn’t a big deal, though, and I’ll get used to it over time. Second and more importantly, there are now sponsored posts that have snuck into the feeds. It’s quite jarring to see a scientific article and then a clickbait blog post about getting rich. I would like to see those removed..Version: 76.0.4
✓ Hip but less functionalNews reading apps are one of the best examples of “must be functional over being slick and hip” and the new Feedly redesign breaks that. I know it is a tough task, I appreciate you left the classic design app out there (unmaintained?), but it does not mean the new design cannot be criticised and hopefully the answer is not a hand waving “opinionated design” one... this is a regression. So much wasted empty space, none of the mix of display density and news type (text, card, magazine) feels right and uses the screen spaces well. It is a lot harder to quickly flip through the news and find the ones that deserve closer attention. Designer and coders are probably happy and in isolation they probably did a good job: it looks and feels smooth... still not what a news app should aim to be..Version: 54.0.0
✓ FreezeFreeze.Version: 84.0.0
✓ New version deletes all your feedsLost all my feeds after the update..Version: 90.0.2
✓ I hate this appI had high hopes for this because I love Feedly for the web and am a pro subscriber but this user experience is truly bad. Almost every destructive action I took was accidental and not undoable. In trying to figure out how to mark an article unread I accidentally marked an entire feed read. I kept getting into weird modes where I could see the top of an article and could swipe left and right to other articles but couldn't scroll down. For some reason they decided to make the simple act of scrolling down a long list (to the bottom of a feed, for example) irritatingly snap to each screenful, as if they had never used an iPhone app before. For some reason the bottom of every feed takes up a full page of list contents with "done!" (Hint: no I am not and you just made me nervous you marked everything read on me) and a giant checkmark. This app puts me in a bad mood..Version: 38.0.0
✓ The new update makes it unusable.This is my first review on the app store. I have been using feedly in the past couple of years and this is the best news feed app I have ever used. However. The latest update made the interface very user unfriendly. And now it will now properly load the articles in the same format every time I refresh it. Hopefully you guys can fix it soon. Sorry for the one star but I'm very disappointed. I used to use the app everyday..Version: 55.0.1
✓ Another backwards ‘upgrade’What is it with developers ruining perfectly good apps with upgrades that degrade the quality of their product? I suspect it often has something to do with money, i.e. a desire on their part to extract more cash from users. The Feedly UI used to be intuitive and it was easy to figure out what is what. That all changed in the last year or so and now it has officially become another ‘used to be good’ app that has turned into a mess. It seems the devs do not want users to customize Feedly by adding only the sites they want to follow. And where are the settings and preferences? Adding and deleting content and creating customized boards (and moving content between boards) used to be a straightforward process, now it is next to impossible. Really disappointing..Version: 57.0.1
✓ Buggy Reader LaterSubscribed feeds works great, but the Reader Later function cannot extract all contents from webpage. I have to find other rss app that can do the job..Version: 82.0.0
✓ Why the changes!!!!Edit: didn’t see that there is now a Feedly classic, as well. I’ll check it out. This one still deserves 3 stars ... for now. May update later. Why all the changes!!! It was almost perfect as it was!!! Now all my setting are wrong after the latest update, and I can’t get it back to the feed order that I had before the update. I can’t swipe left on the page and have all the articles showing be marked read. This new format will take some getting used to, if I even bother. Not cool... Also: why don’t you have the option to make the change from day to night mode automatically, after sundown, or when the current screen brightness drips below a certain percent..Version: 54.0.0
✓ Slow and cumbersomePerformance is pretty bad, takes way too long to load any feed at all.Version: 75.0.0
✓ Not working for meDoesn't give me an option to log into Feedly, only Google reader, which, as we all know, no longer exists. Logging into this since it is the only option, gives a "Feedly is over capacity" error, which isn't correct, as it has lasted for days, and I can always access Feedly through Firefox on the iMac. So a wrong error message for being forced into logging into a nonexistent service. Not impressed so far..Version: 16.0.522
✓ Options for Night theme or add Dark themeReally wish we could adjust the Night theme to not dull everything out. It makes sense for use at night, but makes the theme less than ideal during the day. I definitely prefer dark themes—I love that this is full black—so it’s frustrating that there aren’t options to make Night mode more usable all the time. Again, there just needs to be a toggle for reducing the brightness of images & text..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Can’t Express my Disappointment EnoughFirst, adding a monthly pay wall for RSS features that are easily obtainable thru link structure is, plain and simple, thievery. Disgusting. Second, the features offered in the Premium/Pro version that can’t be achieved thru link structure are weak. Limiting users to 100 sources is another money grab, “VIP Support” exists really only in name, and I’d get better results using Yahoo Search than the little AI bot. The only features that make the head turn are notation and sorting by popularity. Pathetic. Third, and this one is rather specific, if you use Reddit RSS feeds, EVEN WITH THE PRO SUBSCRIPTION, you do not receive the feed as it is posted, like in most other readers. Instead, you get a dump of posts from “X hours” ago. Good luck with your “diversified” feed. False advertising. Finally, and in summation, this service is not worth the effort it takes to achieve the desired result. You pay far too much for elements that should be free, and if you choose to go without the subscription, your feed stops updating with any relevant speed, you gets lovely ads (not only thru “sponsored posts”, but thru Feedly’s own “upgrade” ads), and are limited on the sources you can add. Go download Reeder 4 or NetNewsWire..Version: 75.0.0
✓ People don’t like change but...Sometimes change is necessary to move the product forward so that is relevant to new users. But let’s be honest, this rollout was done very poorly. A lot of the things many people miss about the old version actually are available in the new one if you dig into the settings. But unfortunately Feedly didn’t see fit to provide any instruction on how to find them. They have been very responsive on Twitter, which is good. And some of the things I can’t do anymore have been replaced by arguably better features. Unfortunately it was annoyingly hard to figure out how to use these new features and cost me way too much time. For what it’s worth I would recommend rolling out changes incrementally rather than overhauling the whole system all at once. Two last points: 1. One thing Feedly did correctly was to make their old version available in the iTunes Store. It is called Feedly classic. So everyone who’s complaining about the update can simply download the app. 2. Give an optometrist a call. Both your day and tonight settings are not ideal for the eyes. There’s a very simple contrast and color palette you can implement that would be much better for day and night. This is one of the things I was really hoping would be fixed in the new version..Version: 54.0.0
✓ Switching back to Feedly ClassicI’m not the one who is sour about every new version of every product. Generally, I like when things evolve and move forward. However, I think Feedly missed the point. The old version was just so much more “comfortable” to use. I find that swipe gestures in this new app are much more strict and unforgiving. It’s literally painful to operate this app because you have to get the angle of the swipes so precisely otherwise they won’t work. I just now switched back to the older style “Feedly Classic” app which works wonderfully. There is one feature I miss from the classic app - that is the ability to search across all articles. (For the record, the new version doesn’t get it right either.) I am syncing with Google and have an extensive set of feeds, neatly organized. I’d like to be able to find older articles by searching for key words. The pro subscription feature is not interesting to me. Would be OK paying a one-time fee to upgrade, but not willing to make ongoing payments, especially not one this high..Version: 57.0.1
✓ Share Sheet UpdatedThe share sheet option to imessage should, not only include the link of the shared article, but a place to add your own comment in Feedly before sending. Right now, I have to send then navigate to the messages app to write a comment/message..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Terrible after forced updateNew update and “features” are a step backwards. Missing feature to mark a full page read. HATE the green box that slides into view when marking a article read. Alternating between a bottom menu and a top menu is asinine. Do not need whatever you call the transition between the list and the article and back. Not sure what benefits came from this update, and I am sorry that you wasted so much development time..Version: 57.0.1
✓ Something is wrongSince you did maintenance on the system this week your app crashes constantly on my iPhone. Blank white screen. Constantly asking to reload because of internet connection when I’m on wifi and or full bar service. This triggers the white screen and causes a crash..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Very buggyFinding I’m having to restart the app a lot. The sidebar appears as a white menu that I cant select anything on so have to restart. Often gets confused with ads when I lock my phone and go back to an article I was reading, the text on the webpage doesn’t move but the advert does. Also when I mark articles as read, they reappear straight after. Not sure why this app is so highly rated because of this..Version: 70.0.4
✓ Broke something that was working fineThe latest update with its myriad of UI changes have made the app much less usable. The biggest annoyance by far is the loss of ability for it to cache articles offline and read them when there is no signal. This used to work fine but now you get an error as soon as the signal is lost. The UX of the app has not made the app intuitive to use at all..Version: 54.0.0
✓ Very good RSS reader with a few bad bugsFeedly is my preferred RSS reader. I like the layout and the ads don’t bother me much. I don’t subscribe to the pro features because I have no need for them. It’s basic and that’s all I need. But there are some annoying bugs. First, and this started in the last few months, is that the app will show the option to arrange sources non-alphabetically, it doesn’t actually let you. You go to move a source and the app snaps it back into alphabetical order. Seems kinda dumb to let users rearrange the sources but not keep them there. It used to happen only when adding a new source, but just the other day the app started alphabetizing my existing sources. Not cool. Second, it’ll randomly give a “no connection” error and throw you out of whatever you were reading, even if you have a perfectly fine connection. I also don’t like that there’s no support link on their website; I’d rather email them about these bugs instead of posting them here..Version: 84.0.3
✓ IssueI've been using Feedly for 10 years. It's been great for many of them. But somewhere around iOS 14 it got buggy. After reading a few articles the app becomes unresponsive in the feed view. I need to force restart it for the issue to go away. I've tried alternative apps, but haven't found one as good yet, or maybe because I'm so used to it. With every update I hope it gets better, but....Version: 85.0.5
✓ After Subscription experienceSubscription is very expensive. Moreover I wanted to feed through twitter account After subscription it didn't work. There si no clear instruction how to do that even. Some of the newspaper website is showing error sign. I will give few more days try if it doesn't solve there is no mean of such expensive subscription..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Thank you for bringing Classic backThe redesign makes browsing and going through saved items so much slower. Aesthetically it's nice, but difficult and sluggish to flip through pages. Fewer articles fit on each screen, and seems to take longer to load. Very grateful that old version was brought back..Version: 60.0.0
✓ IOS 14 is here nowThis app needs widgets for me to give it 5 stars. Make it!.Version: 80.0.0
✓ Broken setup & login, iOS version poorGarbage from the get go. Continually trying to push for more of your personal data. Stuck in password reset loops. iOS and safari problems galore. It’s shouldn’t be this hard to aggregate news feeds. Positive reviews must be bots. Take a pass!.Version: 72.0.0
✓ Pro features need to be labeled clearlyCurrently they're not labeled at all. If you want to search articles, you'll get a message overlaying the search results telling you "get Power search!". But what if i just want regular search? 🤔 There's no button to close the overlay, making me think power search is the only way...and it takes me to a window sign up for Pro. This also happens on the desktop version btw, so I think this is more deception than bad design. Another example is when they announced the revamp with new features and we can filter out articles by phrases or keywords. But there was no option for me to enable this in the settings and after a bit of searching, found that this is a Pro only feature, WHICH they neglected to mention in the blog post. Nice. I'm not against companies wanting to make money and I think subscription models are appropriate for online services like Feedly (that have to run on servers in order to work). But users should have a choice and we should not be deceived by Pro only features. Things like search, have it grayed it and label it Pro Only. Done. This whole thing was irritating enough for me to shell out $5 for Reeder. Good riddance..Version: 64.0.6
✓ I wish the app is fasterThere are other better RSS clients fro iOS with feedly integration which works faster than the feedly official app. Hope they improve the overall app experience.Version: 40.0.6
✓ Gradually just stopped working - “ no network”Been using it for ages. Over the last few weeks it increasingly pops up a red banner to say “no network”, but there is! Yesterday it just stopped working completely, with a blank white screen. Eventually, I deleted and reinstalled. Now it will not log in via any of the options (“no network”). So frustrating and unreliable..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Not workingCan’t login directly with email (had to use Apple or Google). Can’t subscribe to feeds. App appears to be broken. I noticed it hasn’t been updated for 8 months as of Feb 2023..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Latest versionCrash buggy garbage. Very frustrating. Widget is also basically useless. Clicking on it refreshes the article and app rarely works do what I was interested in reading is gone..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Back to Classic for me...at least it was a soon as I realised that still existed. Two infuriating aspects of this app, one probably a choice and one bug. It’s not possible to mark a page of posts as read with a single swipe, which makes it sooooooo laborious to review them. The semi-paginated, semi-scrolling interaction doesn’t really work and it certainly doesn’t help if it is what’s preventing marking a whole page as read. And secondly, opening in Firefox was already hard work because it seems impossible to set it as the default browser. It required opening an article preview, tapping “iOS sharing”, choosing Firefox, and selecting “open with Firefox”. But in this app the latter option is missing. It only shows a partial URL and the option to search in FF. Only by loading the full article in the internal browser can I get to those options. Removing one or more of these steps would make things so much smoother. Feedly is still great, but not in this app..Version: 76.0.4
✓ Literally doesn't workCan't follow or love an RSS feed to get it to show up on my feed. Broken app..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Is anyone home?UPDATE: I was hesitant to switch because I had been using Feedly happily for years. Switched to Inoreader and have absolutely no reason to look back. Try it! Feedly is apparently abandoned, sadly. I feel ripped off after having paid for Pro for so long. —- Finally canceled my Feedly Pro subscription after years of use and a ridiculously long period of significant unaddressed bugs. As many have pointed out, the connection constantly drops, making you refresh, sit through a blinding white screen (really awful when reading in the dark), then find many of your read items are marked unread again. Over and over. Has this app just been abandoned? Seriously, what gives? Aside from that there are plenty of UI bugs and UX issues. I just can’t justify paying for this service anymore..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Bug?Can’t seem to open anymore!.Version: 75.0.0
✓ Get Feedly ClassicThis app is so unquestionably bad, when it was installed automatically in an iOS update I came here to figure out what went wrong. I assumed it was an older crappier and less functional version of the app? Thankfully others told me to download Feedly Classic , and all my problems were solved!.Version: 84.0.3
✓ Favorites lost subfolders on redesignThe redesign made it harder to read favorite feeds - it did away with subfolders. For example: I have a few news feeds favorited, and I also have a few feeds from sites I maintain, which each publish a post or two each week. I need to be on top of those. With the redesign, there's no way for me to see individual feeds in the favorites new posts count - it gets buried in with the other feeds. I don't want to see that I have 43 new posts in my favorites. I'd rather still see that I have two things that need attention and a bunch of other stuff that can wait. Features are nice, but it's better to do one thing and do it well. Why the move towards doing more things less well?.Version: 54.0.0
✓ Not had but has one fatal flawI actually quite like the scrolling experience and could adopt this as my main news reading app. But there is a serious flaw, which is that if I'm reading an article, go to another app, then come back to Feedly, the article I was reading is gone and I'm back on the feed. Plus, the article is now marked as read, so it's not on the feed any more. It's disappeared, essentially, which is really frustrating..Version: 57.0.1
✓ Articles won’t load from widgetThe Home Screen widget is broken. When I tap to go to an article, the app lands on the today page and not the specific article I tapped. The app also steals your data if you care about that..Version: 85.0.5
✓ New interface is very limitedLove this app, but I’ll be using the ‘classic' app. Bring back the transitions(swipe) As feature request, ‘mark as read’ by feed on the today view.Version: 55.0.1
✓ Why no more horizontal view?I really like the app. The feel abd look are great. Also the new, true black theme looks great. However, and this a big issue for me, it won‘t rotate any longer. Most of that I read abd look at are images and comic strip. But they just don‘t work vertically. So now I have to open most of the thing I want to read and look at externally and then return to Feedly to continue, which is rediculous. Why has this been removed? It was so useful! If this doesn‘t get fixed soon, then I‘ll have to just find another app for this..Version: 40.0.2
✓ Please no happy “you’re done!” cartoonsBecause when I’ve just read a comic or a fun article about skin care or whatever, that would be fine, but when I’ve just read a dark, depressing news item about people dying or the economy tanking, it is SUPER jarring and weird to see a happy smiling ‘toon congratulating me for reading all the things. And it’s more often that second situation that the first, so...please. I wrote a similar review a few years back when y’all decided a chipper cartoon dinosaur was what people needed after they finished reading the news. I discovered that one for the first time literally after reading about a hate crime, and it was awful. The dinosaur went away quickly and I can only assume it was because others felt much as I do. The only comics I need in my Feedly are the ones I subscribe to. Please no smiley congratulatory cartoon figures, anywhere. Or at least give us an way to opt out of that. All that’s needed is the green check mark. Less is more..Version: 62.0.2
✓ How many bad reviews are needed?The new version of Feedly is a massive failure. Please ditch it and go back to classic. The layout is miles better. How it scrolls is better. Classic could use some love and bug fixes now. Although what can you expect. Feedly always ignored user feedback... they never implemented an offline mode with a cache of articles dispute thousands of users requesting it and decided to develop enterprise solutions that no one was asking for..Version: 74.0.0
✓ Super weird bug happeningI have grown accustomed to seeing this message that says something like, “JavaScript is not supported in this browser.” If I really wanted to know what was in that blank space on the screen, I open in Safari or something and there it is. I dug deep into phone and app settings and found no suggestions online that fixed it. They “browser” problem is really just specific to Feedly. Lately, some content is now showing up where it used to be blank, which would be an improvement—only now a finger swipe over that part of the page is being translated into a finger tap. A long 10-second freeze later, a random site opens up where the image of a purse or whatever can be purchased. Only I never tapped the image. Ugh. Been experimenting to make sure it wasn’t just my “technique.” Nope, it’s not me. And to make matters worse, Feedly then freezes entirely after that. I can’t open the next item in my feed unless I close and open the app entirely. It’s so weird and ridiculous. And I’m still seeing the “JavaScript not supported” message pretty often, so that problem is still there as well. Why can’t all this silliness be fixed once and for all?.Version: 40.0.6
✓ Destroys Battery LifeEvery time I read an article in the in-app browser, my battery life drops at about 1% every 5 seconds. After reading one article on the bus, my battery is at 60% down from 100%. Please fix :(.Version: 72.0.0
✓ Update issuesI used to love Feedly but recently there are constant updates which keep messing things up! First you got rid of opening the webpage directly, which fortunately has now been reinstated, now ‘compact’ view gives us acres of white space and only about 7 articles per page. Fewer items on the page and less text as the preview of first few words has gone. What was the thinking behind this? If I want fewer items on the page I will select the less compact view! Please can we have a ‘compact’ that is actually so, I want text from you not a blank screen! Now paged scrolling has stopped working despite it being selected on the menu I still get a continuous single page. Have had to give up and download Feedly Classic to get a useable app. Very disappointing..Version: 56.0.3
✓ Way too complicated interface...Not renewing the subscription after 4 years. After using the new UI for over a year, it is still difficult to use. The Evernote integration adds little - virtually nothing - above what you get with ios Share save to... Find myself clicking about 4 times each article and going out Safari, to get a better simplified view. The simplified view should be the default. Moreover, hiding articles older than a day is not what I want. In short, the new (2018) UI is completely not what a mobile app is about for me. Go redo it, its a total mess, that's my suggestion. It would also be great, if possible, to monitor web page pages other than RSS, and if possible (if Twitter etc lets you etc), accept broadcasts from there. Also, $45 USD is a tad overpriced for this, again acceptable if its an excellent fit for the user - which it is not..Version: 66.0.0
✓ Can’t follow anythingBrowsing content works, but tapping “follow” doesn’t do anything. Deleted..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Not liking Version 7.6I used to be able to look at specific feeds, now everything in each category is lumped together. I now have to sort through a large number of articles for just those from feeds I want to see. My time to read news feeds is limited and now I have to waste time scrolling around. I may have to find another newsreader app..Version: 76.0.4
✓ No help button: tech issueAs there is no help button inside the app that I can find, I’ve had to use this review as the way to signal and issue. Using this version of feedly on my iOS device the follow button does not do anything. Looks like a link to me, that is green in the app, but on the website, it is a button on the website the follow button adds a piece of content on the app. Nothing happens. This is a poo are user experience..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Unable to Google to Sign inLooked promising, but was unable to receive verification email and gave up.Version: 85.0.5
✓ Used to use this, now it’s a subscription model? No thanksI was using Feedly when Google Reader shut down, but removed it when a lot of pages started updating on Facebook instead. I’ve since deleted fb and need something to manage news feeds with. I see that Feedly now charges $12AUD to manage RSS feeds. Come on bruh your service ain’t that good that I should pay that to have more than 3 categories. Get bent.Version: 56.0.3
✓ Articles delete after a monthWish I knew this when I got the app, but unread articles are deleted from your feed and marked as “read” if you leave them for a month. Sometimes I don’t have the time to read everything as it comes out, so I use RSS readers as an archive to check back on later. Making the articles delete/“read” after a month makes it effectively useless for this. How will I know where I stopped reading if everything is marked as read? I’m very disappointed to say the least. This app could be 5 stars if it didn’t do that. But for now, I’ll be looking for alternatives. (Update to developer response: I know they aren’t truly deleted, but marking them as read removes them from my feed, which is effectively the same as deleting, since I still miss them. Is anyone asking for this feature? How hard is it to keep unread stuff marked as unread?).Version: 40.0.6
✓ Love it but buggy“No network RELOAD”.Version: 78.0.2
✓ Terrible scrolling experienceNever have I known an app so good with one minor UI issue that effectively prohibits use of the app. That issue is the inability to scroll through content. Feedly has 3 navigation options: Stack, Swipe, Scroll. But Scroll is in fact another version of Stack, where content is grouped into screen-sized stacks. Only one stack can be seen at a time. You then ‘scroll’ through stacks, but the stacks snap into position. Every year or so I try out a new reader (since google reader disappeared). I try out Feedly and am reminded each time why I could never use it. It requires such a simple fix: add a natural scroll feature, with no Stack snapping. The eyes can then remain locked in position while the content scrolls. Currently your eyes need to read top to bottom, then repeat for each new Stack. It sounds minor, and it is an extremely simple fix, but it’s frustrating enough for me to not want to use the app. Please fix this!.Version: 40.0.6
✓ Good Newsreader, but needs to be improved!I do like reading news with Feedly, but while reading the news and once you arrive at the end of the latest news, any news released while reading others is being marked as read as well even though they were not loaded and read... In previous versions they were loaded as new and we could read them as well without missing anything... A simple keyword search should be added as well....Version: 64.0.6
✓ Thanks for Feedly ClassicCos this new version doesn’t even stand up. on so many levels. but unlike many app developers that put out rewrapped products geared solely towards dollar gouging, you at least have the decency to have the ‘true’ version of your product still available. so, thanks, but FU. and how is it that so many ratings/reviews are years old. false economy. FU even more.Version: 66.0.0
✓ BuggyLiterally impossible to remove a feed via the app. The "remove" button doesn't show, the folders don't expand, and searching the feed individually doesn't give an option to unsubscribe anywhere as the feedly FAQ suggests..Version: 40.0.2
✓ Incredibly buggy on iOS 15The app freezes frequently ever since the iOS 15 release. Will this be addressed?.Version: 84.0.0
✓ Good features but laggySince the iOS 13 update, Feedly has become noticeably laggy on my iPad mini. Actions like closing an article or opening the feeds sidebar lag to the point that sometimes I repeat the action thinking that my swipe gesture wasn’t detected..Version: 68.0.2
✓ Feedly has been buggy for too longJuly 2023 review: This year Feedly has been plagued with a “No Network - Reload” popup warning even though it’s working just fine. Annoying. Previous review: I am impressed with the functionality of feedly. Always reliable and well integrated with sites. Even the free version is impressive!.Version: 85.0.5
✓ Ads... why?No thank you..Version: 82.0.0
✓ Latest update removes opening Safari reader modeThe latest update removes the ability to open website in Safari reader mode. Bring it back!.Version: 90.0.3
✓ Terrible long term dedicated userI cannot believe anyone could even like the new way that you set this up it’s awful I have been using your app since you first started I have always loved your app cannot believe that you changed it to this garbage it is complete utter garbage so glad that you still have the classic version it is very fortunate in my search for a new RSS reader I found that you had not totally give up on the old version I’m very happy and hope that you will keep old version around I don’t even see why people are even using this app it is on usable it’s worthless I do not like it at all and don’t understand why people would want you to change the best app for reading stories on the web I will definitely switch to Apple news or Flipboard before I ever use this app it is terrible Understand I very rarely ever review anything but I had to when you changed one of my go to favorite apps for years for total garbage. You should have made this a new app and seen how many ratings it got on its own to put it under all the good ratings of the old app is totally unfair I don’t understand what you guys are doing but if you continue on this path I am very scared that you’re going to go out of business when you’ve got something good why change it be like apple abandoning the iPhone for A piece of paper and a pen what you’re doing just makes absolutely no sense.Version: 54.0.0
✓ Too much memory?Since the latest update, the app is slow and does not hold (cache) data as soon as you change app (iPhone 5s). Used to be able to pre-load a few pages on WiFi by flicking down a few pages and then read later offline, now you need to scroll down but by bit (takes much longer) and then as soon as you leave the app it will close and needs the internet to refresh (it used to be able to store)..Version: 54.0.0
✓ Issues right off the bat.After toggling through settings, I’ve made the most recent update serviceable but I did want to address some things that I found very disappointing. -The new fonts are thin and much harder to look at. Please bring back Slab Serif and San Francisco options, even if you like your new one. Your new fonts are bad. -Scrolling, which can be disabled, isn’t ideal and I’m not fond of the cut off presentation at the bottom of the screen. It also makes the mark as read option more annoying to use, as the bottom of the scroll won’t auto mark because it stops dead. -After I enabled page flipping, it still has that cut off headline at the bottom and it also doesn’t do a complete page flip. The next page has the last article from the previous page. This is poor design. -Make Read Later simple again. It’s no longer a bookmark affair, now I have to sort everything I want to pass. -Thank you for keeping Feedly Classic as a downloadable option. I have to ask though, what is better about this version? What has been improved besides animation? It feels like a step back and a dumbing down of a great product..Version: 54.0.0
✓ Mark’s as read when you haven’t read!Anything over 30 days old gets automatically marked as read. Developer tries to justify this in support with some nonsense of it being necessary for them to be able to do fast searching....if I haven’t read an article then don’t mark it as read, it’s that simple. Shame as otherwise a really good app..Version: 82.0.0
✓ Don’t like the new changesThe new changes confuse me. I had muscle memory that is now useless. I would pinch to zoom virtually every article, especially for images, and I can’t do that now. It aggressively presents articles in categories, which I don’t want. I just want to see all unread articles in chronological order, uncategorised. It seems too easy to mark articles as read. I’m not convinced that I got to read all articles. This is change for no good reason, and I hate that..Version: 54.0.0
✓ Sign in with AppleI am not happy that: a) even to use basic features I am required to create an account b) there is no option to use “Sign in with Apple”.Version: 72.0.0
✓ Update is worst yetEach update has worsened the ‘usability’ of this app. This one was the worst. Want to save that article to read later? Instead of holding down on the article so that it saves to your ‘read later’ you now need to click 5 different things to achieve the same thing? And where’s the explore section gone?.Version: 56.0.3
✓ Great appBut can the built in browser include an ad blocker? That way, we don’t have to see ads on other website..Version: 90.0.6
✓ Issues still remainVery good in many respects but missing some key features. Still no native iOS 13 Dark Mode (they haven’t switched from their old custom dark mode thus screens like sharing and onboarding are still in light mode. You can have articles open in safari built in reader mode automatically which is great but you can’t disable that for select feeds like you can in other apps like Reeder 4. For instance Daring Fireball and HackerNews feed you will always want to open in feed mode rather than the actual linked page. This is the biggest issue I’ve found. Other apps like Reeder support background refresh so feeds are always up to date. Feedly oddly still does not so each time I open have to manually refresh. macOS was updated last year to make safari more secure yet they still have not updated their Safari extension so still no way to save articles in safari to the read later system, not even a js bookmarklet. No Siri shirtcut support like other reader apps. All in all the app is bit behind the times in supporting all the iOS technologies. Also the action buttons are on the top out of reach rather than the bottom when viewing an article like most all other apps that have in thumb reach at bottom..Version: 72.0.0
✓ Can’t add any contentTapped the “follow” button and nothing happens. I give up..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Well done feedly, you’ve lost a long term userI have used feedly since 2013 when Google Reader closed down and, to be honest, I thought I had found a feed and rss aggregator just right for me. Unfortunately it has gone the same way as all apps eventually do where to use an original feature you used to rely on you now have to subscribe. Originally you could have more than three feeds but now you have to subscribe $8 a month. I keep the same format across all my news readers. Four feeds, one for general, one for tech news, one for science and environment and one for gaming. Guess I’ll drop Feedly and start the hunt for a new rss reader again. Well done guys you’ve lost a long time fan..Version: 75.0.0
✓ Articles constantly accidentally closeUsed to be good. They eliminated the setting to choose how to close articles a while back. Now everything close an article - swipe past the end, but also swipe left, swipe right, back arrow, done button, double tap, and double touch. Not kidding - any one of these things will close an article while you’re in the middle of it. And your spot won’t be saved. If you even slightly touch two fingers at the same time, or touch the pad of your thumb and your thumb, the article closes. I can get through a short article, but anything longer than a minute will close multiple times before I’m done. So…it’s basically no good for reading anything past a Twitter character limit. Used to be the best, but it no longer performs it’s most basic function for me without major frustration. If that gets fixed it’ll be back to 4.5 stars, any other problems are minor compared to other readers..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Wastes timeI hate the new interface. It keeps flipping up and down and I’m unsure what I’ve read and what I haven’t. Have I missed some things altogether? I can’t see any benefit in it at all..Version: 55.0.1
✓ Doesn’t load contentIt won’t load content, gives me a network error after just a few short minutes of reading. Have full Network status and wifi. Forces me to reload the content. Super annoying. It’s not like it’s a one off. It happens all the time and every time I use the app..Version: 85.0.5
✓ New version - change for changes sake?New pagination isn't as useful. Previous iteration made it super quick to scroll through content and mark material as read. Now you need to scroll and then scroll again to move to the next section. Without the division lines the new UI is not as friendly when reading content..Version: 54.0.0
✓ Try again...Why do you make me ‘Read More’ every time you update? I don’t want to read more. I don’t care what’s in the update, i know you spent time on it, but I just want to continue reading the articles I read. Why isn’t there a ‘whatever…’ button to just let me continue doing what I’m doing?.Version: 85.0.5
✓ Support doesn’t care...I have reported a major bug affecting the display of pics to the articles almost 3 years ago. Lot's of emails and chasers since then and still is unresolved!!! Every time someone finally picks the chaser email, spends like 5 secs and then dismiss the issue without proper investigation and asking me to provide proof of the bug. I have sent a huge amount of information confirming the bug over and over again, but really nobody ever works on the resolution of the issue. Oh and btw their CEO confirmed the issue....Version: 78.0.2
✓ Difficult to readWhy do app developers and website developers occasionally choose very light-grey text on a white background. For many of us this is near unreadable, and there is no reason whatsoever to do this, it’s not sexy and not clever. Look at successful sites and apps and you won’t see it. People like me who have sub-optimal vision deplore this short-sitedness. Great app ruined by poor thinking.Version: 90.0.3
✓ Interrupted by review requestI prefer to rate programs on my own schedule. It is not appreciated when programs interrupt what I’m doing to ask me to give it a 5-Star rating..Version: 40.0.6
✓ Scrolling with trackpad after 16.4 update iPadThere is a noticeable un-responsiveness when trying to scroll through feed on a iPad keyboard trackpad. It seems that it is not as sensitive as before, so I cannot make small scrolls anymore, however, moving along on trackpad with a faster longer distance resulting in the feed just scroll past several rows. Thanks.Version: 85.0.5
✓ The reason for Feedly UpdateI’m going to leave this review for the real reason behind this Feedly update. None of us like their Sponsored Ads. You can call them any other names, they are ads. They claim you can pay $8 a month for Pro, just to lose ads on articles and add features no one asked for. $8 a month is a rough price for some streaming services and definitely not worth it for this kind of service. They created the Feedly Classic app to try to get users back on it so you can get what you used to have. They tried to cover their tracks of what they really did. The real reason of changing this app instead of creating a new one. The sudden change of the app goes against everything they started with. They built up a great amount of reviews from people that loved what they did, thousands of 5 star reviews. By making this change, they are able to keep those total reviews and great score. Everything they’ve done is deceptive. They sold out and got too greedy. Apple should reset their review score because this app is not the same as it was. Adding in fees and new features is taking advantage of the flawed system Apple has in place and the people that once supported them..Version: 77.0.3
✓ BadCrash very frequently... I assume it's hard for these people just make a non-crash app.Version: 40.0.2
✓ Lost all RSS feeds after a recent updateAfter a recent update, it forced me to login through Facebook, and lost all of my RSS feeds.Version: 65.0.1
✓ Today view is the worstFor some reason the today view is always the first view that opens, and it is always the most annoying, as it doesn't respect sorting and it keeps having more articles as it only shows a sample of everything. I wish it could be eliminated and just do the first tab..Version: 85.0.5
✓ Lost all data on update to v90The “complete rewrite of the native layer” (whatever that means, come in, people!) in version 90 logged me out as if I was never using this app. Did I ever even log in? I can’t remember, but the app then acted as if it never met me. I had to create a new account. This also means I lost all my selected sources, saved articles, history. Not happy..Version: 90.0.2
✓ Big fan for years, now looking elsewhereI’ve been an avid Feedly user. I loved the fact that there were great experiences on both desktop and mobile. I loved the mobile app with its quick gestures that allowed me to quickly scan and mark things as read either a screen at a time or individually. To my surprise the new app changes things dramatically. Gone are the quick swiping days now I have to individually swipe each item or scroll down to the bottom for the elusive “mark all as read” something about this new experience feels old and it’s definitely cumbersome. All in all, I don’t see much difference between this app and countless others now. Ingenuity I guess didn’t matter. Now the hunt into something that might surprise me. Don’t worry I’ll still keep the app until something better comes my way or Feedly finds its way back home..Version: 54.0.0
✓ Missing couple features and over pricedOverall Feedly is one of the best rss readers available no doubt however they do a couple things that make me really want to switch to another one. For all the great features that are available, one major one missing is that you can’t get notifications on your phone for any article. Being able to get notified when a certain keyword comes up on the feeds that you follow can be pretty use and important yet doesn’t exist. Another major issue I have with Feedly is that their AI is one of the biggest things that set them apart from the competition yet after charging you $144 a year for their pro+, you don’t even get the full thing as access to industry and competitive intelligence features of the AI are only for “Enterprise” groups rather than individuals which is such a major disappointment to any individual that needs a feature like that like individual investors. There was one another major feature missing but I forgot so I might edit this later when I remember..Version: 84.0.3
✓ Video no longer working..Feedly used to be fantastic, now it’s just kinda working. Images flash on and off on scroll... however video stopped working on iPad a while ago, and I’ve just noticed it’s not working on iPhone. Not sure why, but this is odd... and a core function. Please fix.Version: 40.0.2
✓ Crashes on iOS 17.1 Beta 3Will not open after reinstalling..Version: 90.0.3
✓ No longer allows me to log in.Worked great for years, but suddenly I was signed out and can no longer log into my account..Version: 90.0.2
✓ Bugs left unfixed on a regular basisFeedly is an rss aggregator, but it struggles mightily with handling whether a post is read or switched to unread. The mobile app always keeps read items greyed out but still in the list until I swipe left repeatedly on the read items - as if it never saved the read status! The web app often ignores if I set a read item to be unread, meaning when I refresh the list it has disappeared and I have to go find it in the recently read items and reset it as unread. Ads are buried in between posts meaning the at-a-glance of the list isn’t showing me most of my true items in the first screen. Disappointed in the quality of both mobile and web versions of this app..Version: 90.0.6
✓ No push notifications??How does this not have push notifications?! Like when a new article or blog is posted on a site you subscribe to. Maybe I’m missing it? I have looked thru the notifications menu in iPhone settings, the app settings in iPhone settings, and the in-app settings. Nothing about push notifications! What?! What?! I am astounded! “Congratulations on purchasing your new car! Wheels sold separately!” I never even use this app because i forget it is there because it doesn’t tell u there is new content. Sort of the Snapchat concept of not freaking telling you when someone posts a Story (there is no push notification for that). I guess they think that will make you obsessively open the app to check for new content. Nope. Just forget it is there. What a waste..Version: 38.0.0
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