Reeder 2.1 Coming With Themes, Safari Reading List Support, And More

Reeder 2– the best RSS reader on iOS — is getting a beefy new update soon, hopefully in time for holidays. The app’s developer has just submitted an update to Apple for approval that adds some big new features — including themes, Safari Reading List support, and more — as well as tweaked features and a load of bug fixes.

Here’s what you can expect when Reeder 2.1 hits the App Store.

What’s new:

• Themes (can be changed in the article viewer → “aA” button)
• iPhone: Landscape support for images and videos
• Article list: group by feeds or by date
• Add to Safari Reading List
• Pinch gesture for Readability in the article viewer
• OPML import (Reeder can now open .opml files), for local/standalone RSS only
• Setting to disable pull-to-next/previous in the article viewer (see Settings→General)
• Enable/disable sharing services in the top settings list
• Sharing: Messages can be disabled now
• Feedbin, Feedly, Fever, RSS: Sort subscriptions alphabetically, folders first or feeds first (per account setting)

Improved:

• Article Viewer: Improved right edge swipe detection for the services panel
• Mark all as read: Immediately remove the subscription list entry (no delay)
• Faster and less bouncy “Mark all as read” sheet
• Improved article layout
• Hide the status bar for the fullscreen image viewer (iOS 7)
• Removing of read articles when syncing or going back to the subscription list
• Also dim selected, read articles
• Feed Wrangler: List smart streams first, then feeds

Fixed:

• Truncated / wrongly sized input fields in the Settings (default recipients in the mail settings)
• Disabled scrolling in the article viewer
• Only apply the option to sort by oldest first to the unread article list
• Truncated description text in the Settings
• Crash when selecting a row in a list
• Missing images for cached articles
• Swipe to go back in the settings (iPhone)
• Service panel issues when tap-and-holding on a link
• Infinite caching of the same articles
• Fever: Filter out “#comment hash”
• Fever: Improved handling of self signed certificates (https)
• Empty article list
• An issue where it wasn’t possible to sign out of a sharing service under certain circumstance

If you’re an existing Reeder 2 user, the update should be hitting the App Store soon. If not, you can buy Reeder 2 for $4.99 here.

John Brownlee

John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.