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Smart Feed Reader

Smart Feed Reader

Scand Ltd.

5,000 - 10,000 downloads

Pros

  • Feed format: RSS, RDF, ATOM
  • Import GReader feeds
  • Smart News Filtering
  • Screen widgets (2x1, 4x2)

Cons

  • Too sober (design)
  • Sharing options should be improved (social)
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Expert's Review

3/5
Worthy

"Smart management of your feed"

Reviewed by: Emmanuel Lund / May 28, 2012

Smart Feed Reader is a news feed reader with interesting filters and management features.

Perhaps you're not really into news feed readers with stunning design, smooth flipboard-like effects and swipable highlights and that kind of stuff (like they use to be lately). If you're more practical (or classical) and you want to see your list of subscriptions and articles at a glance, access them quick and fast, and manage your content smartly, by applying filters and other parameters, check this out.

First off, no need to sign up: you can add your rss feed manually or import your Google Reader subscriptions (you'll have to allow access to the app). Once done, you can start favoriting your blogs and articles, create folders and organize your stuff. The app is set in a user-friendly UI and minimalistic layout. Just three streams: favorites, folders and subscriptions. Tap them to access the content.

You can personalize your content with Smart News Filtering which allows you to filter and manage news automatically by Author, Title, Content, Category, etc. Why "Smart" then? Because each filter is made up of search condition to match specific parameter and action to perform. You can also add rules for match field, criteria or action.

Likewise, you can search for content thanks to a built-in searcher, set auto-refresh interval (or do it whenever by clicking the lower right button), and sort content by newer first, older first, unread/read or hide properties.

Needless to say that you'll be able to read feeds offline, sharing content via e-mail or other sharing resources installed in your device and that it supports landscape screen orientation. It brings two homescreen widgets, 2x1 and 4x2.

Highly recommendable if you're a wily old bird in feed subscription and you probably care more about management than design.

Developer's original description available here
Smart Feed Reader is a free, full-featured RSS, RDF and ATOM news reader. Manage your news automatically with Smart News Filtering, organize Feeds Groups by any criteria you choose – music, sport, movies and international news, rate the most interesting readings and share them with your friends and colleagues.
Be Smart & Organized with Smart Feed Reader!

Features:
•Full support of RSS, RDF and ATOM feeds, import Google Reader feeds;
•Offline reading of news;
•Full-context search;
•Widgets support;
•Easy to manage feeds, personalized icons;
•Customization of the feed update interval (global for all feeds and particular – for the selected feed);
•Filtering stories by Author, Title, Content, Category for the best customization;
•Automatic organizing feeds by categories;
•Improved content sorting by Newer, Older, Unread, Read or Hide properties;
•Highlighting of newly-added and updated news;
•Automatic sorting news by Date: Today, Yesterday, Older;
•Media Collection: easy to view pictures and play attached media;
•Full-screen display of News (optional);
•Easy sliding between news with a simple gesture;
•Displaying news with a preview in the NewsList screen;
•Star rating for the news;
•Sharing content via E-Mail;
•Support of landscape screen orientation.

Smart News Filtering:
Personalize your content with Smart News Filtering – powerful and innovative feature that helps you to filter and manage your news automatically by Author, Title, Content, Category, etc. Each filter is made up of search condition to match specific parameter and action to perform. With Smart News Filtering you can automate copying news into custom folders, marking news, rating or just deleting it. You can have as many smart filters as you need!

Requirements:
•Android 2.1 or later.

Recently changed in this version:

- Improved application core functionality and stability
- Added font-size option
- Added caching of images for offline reading
- Added import/export feeds based on OPML files
- Added support of Android Notifications for News and Feed Status Updates
- Portuguese and Russian localization
- Improved design of user interface
- Added support of file attachments: download, copy link to file


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Some lists where this application appears: Reviewed by Emmanuel Lund.

Comments and ratings for Smart Feed Reader

  • (64)

    by geazzy astria on 19/03/2013

    I love this app but, on widget cant auto slideshow.. And I hope on next release suport 4x1 widget... Thanks...

  • (64)

    by Pavel Urubcik on 19/02/2013

    5 stars for the filter. It could use some option regarding when to update feeds: only on wifi, shortuct to push update from another app. GUI could use some remake too.

  • (64)

    by Vasilije Rajović on 13/02/2013

    No ads, perfect. I have some suggestions: 1. Feed storage settings (latest 20, or last 2 days, for example) 2. No need for Google Reader in new feed dialog. 3. Accounts and Sync entry.

  • (64)

    by A Google User on 26/11/2012

    Widget for home screen is better than a lot of paid apps, feed is accurate obviously. Awesome, thanks to developer!

  • (64)

    by Noah on 18/05/2012

    Not quite usable yet, but encouraged enough to try it again after the next update.

  • (64)

    by khunj on 13/05/2012

    Nice, simple and excellent filtering options. Perfect for me!

  • (64)

    by Contacts on 30/04/2012

    Looking for a Google news reader that filters out sites (i.e. LA Times) and words/phrases (i.e. Paris Hilton). Uninstalled.