Overview Reeder 2: Return of the Legend

Since its introduction in 2009, Reeder seized the attention of the vast number of users, and very deservedly, as had all the chances to become the leader in the segment of e-readers RSS. Independent developer Silvio Ricci from Switzerland put their hearts into their offspring, and Reeder of applications for the iPhone, grown to the iPad-version, and then I came and on the Mac.

The app has been a truly indispensable tool for many people, from ordinary users who wanted to read their news not distracted by advertising and "junk", to journalists who passed through Reeder incoming information flow, choosing the most the main thing.

But after closing Google Reader, everything changed - the developer has left only the iPhone-version of the application, adding a poderzhku and Feedly Feed Wrangler. Versions for iPad and Mac were sawn and its App Store. Without cross-platform synchronization Reeder has ceased to be a versatile tool, and many users have switched to alternative RSS-Reader.

And, Reeder finally returned! With iOS 7 support. With the new interface and design. Well, let's look at what has worked for so long Silvio Ricci, and evaluate his work.

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According to the developers, it is not just updated Reeder, and create a new application from scratch. That is why, for it will have to pay $ 5, but this time, at least do not have to separately buy the version for iPad - Reeder 2 universal iOS application.

Following the philosophy of anti-skeuomorph, which is impregnated with iOS 7 design, Silvio removed from the interface of all imitation leather and paper textures. Now the application design has become even more minimalistic - absolutely nothing distracts us from reading. Due to the changed colors and a flat interface, reading has become much easier. Due to the fact that we focus exclusively on the text of the article creates the impression of reading the paper edition. This is exactly what we loved Reeder.

The application may collect content from services such as Feedly, Feedbin, Fever, Feed Wrangler, Readability. Well, regular RSS, where do without it, however, between the devices will have to forget, in this case timing. Although, by and large, many would be enough support alone Feedly. Also, importantly, it has the opportunity to work with multiple accounts.

Share interesting materials can be using mnogochilsennye shering services, such as: QUTE.fm, Buffer, Readability, Instapaper, Pocket, Evernote, Pinboard, Zootool, Delicious, App.net, Twitter, Facebook, Messages, Mail. sheringa panel is fully customizable, you can only select those services that you need and remove unnecessary.

In the old version of the program used extensively intuitive gestures to control. Now they are markedly increased, here is the complete list of supported gestures:

• swipe left and right in the upper part of the screen in charge of navigation in the application;
• the usual pull-to-refresh for updates that works even if you pull for the title, there is no need to move to the top of the page;
• swipe left / right on the headlines work as before - mark articles as read or send messages;
• swipe on any folder allows you to enable display of headers in the sidebar, instead of the source list;
• swipe from the right edge would open the entire article in the embedded browser;
• tap and hold on the title of an article in the list of marks it as read;
• tap and hold on a feed in the list allows to edit it;
• tap and hold on the button "Back" returns us to the list of accounts;

Using gestures accelerates your interaction with the application and displays the ease of use to a new level.

Text display settings got plenty of options. Here you can not only change the font size (as before), but also its alignment, and line spacing. Here, an interesting function vlyuchaet «Grayscale Image», which discolors all the pictures that they have less to distract from the reading process.

Actually on this, all the key features Reeder 2 ends. And in spite of the updated interface and new design in iOS 7 style app leaves behind a controversial opinion. On the one hand, the elegant and update the developer has done a lot of work, but on the other - the price Reeder 2 is large, as much as $ 5. In principle, such a price tag for the high-quality application is justified, but because we have already paid for it once, right?

How do you think, dear readers, whether Reeder 2 to buy it again?