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The right Byline

By scott

If you use Google Reader as you main RSS reader (and I do) and also have an iPhone (I do) then the chances are there will be times when you want to read your feeds via your phone. Google steps in and provides an handy mobile version of Google Reader, that has been tweeked to work better on the iPhone. Cool. Only, I prefer the Newsgator mobile RSS reader - Net News Wire. This was a problem until Byline, the gReader iPhone app Google should have made.

What you get is a clean slick UI, which on launch starts to download the first 25 new items in each folder you have set up in Reader to you phone (handy for browsing offline if you let it complete the task. You can also choose the archive option, which will download all the pages you feeds need to once again allow you to read offline) You can read then read the feed - either 25 items at a time in your ‘new’ folder, or on a folder by folder basis. The app lets you star items, add notes to items, email the items to a friend and open the items in Safari. It is quick, slick, and by far the best feed reading app I have used on the iPhone.

I have to say, whilst I enjoy playing with new iPhone apps, aside from Twitter and Facebook related ones, this is the only one I use every day. It is not free - £2.99 (maybe £1.99 would be a better price) - but for me it is worth it; although if you’re not a slave to google than the Newsgator option is the way to go. It offers the best combination of desktop, web and mobile RSS reading (with complete sync) using Feeddemon (the only serious desktop option), and the web and mobile versions of Newsgator - which are both very good in my opinion.

Full post as published by Information Overload on January 14, 2009 (boomark / email).