Users complained about stability problems with earlier versions of the app, but the latest updates-versions 0.9.1 and 0.9.2-seem to have swept away the last of the bugs. But my favorite of this lot is Pro RSS Reader by Simon Oualid, which is a fine, full-featured RSS app that wins additional plaudits for responding quickly to users’ technical issues. The app also imports Google Readers feeds with just a tap, and lets you pick and choose which feeds you want. If that doesn’t work-and the feature is by no means perfect-then you can still enter feeds manually. For the lazy among us, the app has an auto discovery feature that lets you enter a site’s URL, and then searches out the feed address. So although Manifesto works best with a Wi-Fi or 3G connection, you’ll still have plenty to read if you’ve flagged stories for later. The great thing about Manifesto, however, is what happens once you’ve flagged a story: The app caches the stories you’ve flagged for offline reading. Manifesto also lets you flag all stories with a tap of a button. To un-flag an item, simply tap the icon again. That’s not so nice.įor Your Offline Reading Pleasure: One of the best things about Manifesto is the ability to flag stories to read when you’re offline.Flagging articles is a simple matter of tapping the left margin of the story list or the flag icon at the top of the screen if you’re reading by story summary. If you happen to forget either, or enter one or both wrong, this feature will never work right unless you reinstall the app. A word of caution, however-iNews prompts for your Instapaper name and password. iNews lets you share stories by e-mail, to Twitter with or without comment, or to Instapaper ( ), which remains perhaps the easiest way to read articles on the iPhone and iPod touch. INews does have some nice features that other readers would do well to emulate, such as hiding empty news sources, a tilt scroll option and the ability to read either the mobile text or original Web version of a story in a browser. You can switch the feature off in preferences. The more feeds you have, the slower this is to load-and, indeed, the app crashed on me more than once. The feature doesn’t add much-the publication names get cut off, and any graphics just slow down the app. The app’s “fancy screen” feature is a more simplistic version of Newsstand’s ( ) design, with simulated front pages of each feed.
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