For a long time, RSS readers followed an "Inbox Zero" design philosophy that showed the number of unread feeds for each source. If you had a dozen or so feeds connected to your RSS reader, hang in there until that number got to zero. Silvio Ritzzi, a developer who built the popular RSS Reeder application, wants to satisfy the public who wants to move away from the pressure of an unread calculation using the overhaul of the appendix. 

Rider's new avatar is more associated with a large number of sources, such as Youtube, Mastodon and Bluesky flows, Reddit channels, podcasts and comics. Rizzi continues to run the old app, but it now has a different name: Reeder Classic. He told  via email that while Reeder Classic already supports sources like YouTube and Reddit, it doesn't provide the ideal viewing experience.

"What some people may not realize is that most of the content that the new Reeder supports (like YouTube, Reddit, and Mastodon) can already be consumed with Reeder Classic. In that sense, not much has changed," Rizzi said.

"What has changed is that content is no longer streamlined in a viewer that was originally designed just for RSS feed articles. The new Reeder offers different viewers for different types of content, such as articles, photos, videos, social media posts, and podcasts. It is designed to be easily extensible to add new types of content in the future. 

While some of the fundamentals of the app remain the same, Rizzi built the app from scratch. The previous design of the RSS-style app tried to recover everything, making iCloud sync unreliable and slow; the new version only retrieves your follows, your position on the timeline, items marked for sync, etc. The developers said that eliminating the unread message counter across devices will also have a positive impact on overall speed.

Reeder has multiple sources, so you can create curated feeds and share them with friends and on social platforms. The app is free, but you'll have to pay $1 per month or $10 per year to share feeds, sync your Mastodon and Bluesky timelines, or create more than 10 feeds. Rizzi said Reeder will soon add swipe navigation for lists, new layout options, a smart ribbon, keyboard shortcuts, and more. Reeder isn't the only app trying to create a solution for recording and using multiple sources in one place.

Some other app developers are also toying with the idea of ​​combining multiple channel types. One example is the freelance engineering app from Nate Parrott of The Browser Company Feeed. The Twitterrific team also makes an app for various feeds called Tapestry. Former Twitter engineer Joe Fabisevich's Plinky app isn't strictly a feed reader, but it works in multiple formats.