Description of App
Love RSS feeds? So do we!!
RSS feeds are a great way to follow updates on your favorite website. However, some sites set up their feeds to only show a portion of each entry, you know, to get you to click through to their actual website. We find that really annoying, and we're sure you do too.
Which is why, unlike other RSS feed readers, that either push you into a browser (in-app or otherwise), or depend on third party text parsing services and require you to be online to fetch the full text of one article at a time (which makes it no different from having to click/tap through to a website), in lire, you get your favorite RSS feeds as they should've been. You don't need to click through to any website (though, you do still have the option to, if you really wanted). It takes your favorite partial feeds, does it's magic, and converts them in to full feeds, so you don't have to click/tap on those annoying 'Read more' or 'Continue reading' links.
Once they're cached, you don't even need to be connected to read your full-text feeds.
Use as a standalone feed reader,
or,
sync with any of the several services: Feedly, Feedbin, FeedHQ, The Old Reader, Inoreader, BazQux Reader, Newsblur, Feed Wrangler.
Comments
question regarding push notifications
Hi all, wondering if someone knows the answer to this,
I have one rss feed added to lira, what I want is to get notifications whenever the feed is updated like you get push notifications with emails and other apps.
I have the background app refresh enable in lire for the feed and background app refresh on in settings.
However despite this lire never seems to refresh unless I actually launch the app.
any ideas? I am running this on a 6s plus running ios 9.1.
I also have it set to enable notifications for lira under notification settings.
So Far
So far, I'm liking this app better than BWRSS and Newsify.
Thank you for recommending this to me on another topic.
I also tried newsify and I think one other one and I have to say I like this one the best. Thank you very much
Yeah
Hope you found al the feeds to the sites you wanted.
Yes I did!
Yes I did!
Lire
I'm thinking about purchasing this app. Does it still work with iOS 10? It hasn't been updated in over a year.
Still Working
Hey Chris,
Yes, it still works just fine under iOS 10. As the matter of fact the developer is currently working on a new major release. So hope to see this soon.
Hello, yes Lire is still
Hello, yes Lire is still working and don't worry, 3.0 is almost ready.
Mine is not wirking
I use Lire everyday, but as from last week, whenever I launch Lire, I'm always presented with an error message: no API found. As a result of this, I've switched to 'Newsify'.
Viewing Feeds
Hello,
How do I view my list of articles grouped by feed? I imported an OPML file with my feeds from Vienna on my Mac. However, I just get this extremely long list of articles that is called all articles. I'd rather have them grouped by the feed name and then drill down to view the individual entries per feed. How do I do this? While I'm talking about feeds, it seems like the list of all articles is sorted from oldest to newest even though I checked the option in the settings to show newest first. What am I missing. Aside from these issues, I love this app. However, if I can't figure it out, this will be pretty much useless with all these entries scattered around.
Try to look for subscriptions
Try to look for subscriptions in the app main screen .. there you go and do have fun!
Figured it out
I figured out the feed issue. There is an item in the main screen called subscriptions. I passed it because I thought it was a heading of text. NOw I feel like an idiot. heh!
V3.0 is out
As expected, this major update takes accessibility quite seriously as well as offering a wide range of enhancements everywhere.
What's New in Version 3.0
Background refresh not working for me with lire 3
Is anybody else encountering problems with lire 3 not automatically refreshing feeds in the background?
I have tried everything that I can think of - toggling all of the relevant app and iOS settings; hard restarting my phone; killing the app in the App Switcher; deleting and reinstalling the app - but still have to manually refresh feeds nearly every time that I go to the app.
There is so much that I like about this app, but this problem is driving me somewhat crazy … and possibly back to Feeddler.
Hi, I have a question about
Hi, I have a question about refreshing feeds, basically I want when lire refreshes a feed in the background automatically to be notified when this happens, I understand that this is possible.
However what I would like to know is if I disable caching of text and images does this effectively mean that I won't get notifications when the background app refresh fetches new content? basically I have no interest in storing articles for any length of time its mostly to know when new things are posted to the feed that is important, I also always have an internet connection available so offline reading isn't important to me.
Of course if I need text caching to be on for notifications of background app refresh to work then I will turn it back on.
also, I assume that starring an article means that it won't be purged after a day if I have read it which is what I now have set so that anything I read is automatically deleted after a day.
Can Lire Access Password-protected Feeds?
I read lots of Dreamwidth blogs which require me to login before displaying the RSS feed. Has anyone done this successfully?
Adding subscriptions
With this new update, when I try adding subscriptions it gets me to either Google or being. How do I add subscription now? Thank you
Can't subscribe to Applevis
Why I can't subscribe to applevis using Lire. It does not give an article automatically
Adding Feeds
Using version 3.0.18 of the app, can someone please tell me the correct way to search for feeds?
At the moment, when I do any kind of search be it URL or specific words, all I get is the Google and Bing results, nothing else.
I'm obviously doing something wrong, but can't for the life of me work out what it is! Any help gratefully received.
Thanks.
can't add subscriptions for
can't add subscriptions for some strange reason. is this still possible?
adding new subscription problems
having dificulties adding new subscripttions can can we still do this?
Lire vs feeddler pro 2
Hi all.
Could someone with latest experience with lire and feeddler rss reader pro 2 tell us how they compare? I need to buy an rss reader but I’m torn between the two. I don’t care about the price.
Who is the winner? Lire full text rss or feeddler rss reader pro 2?
Cheers.)
Freeman.
Lire vs feeddler pro 2
hi all,
Which is better, lire or feeddler pro 2
Can someone with latest experience with both of these apps tell us?
Thanks.
Lire Full Text RSS
Hi, I can't really say anything about Feedler Pro as I never used it, but I myself do use Lire and love it.
Thanks,
Thanks for the feedback.
So far so good. I’ve just purchased this app and I’m really impressed with it.
Thanks again.
With regards.
Version 3.1
WARNING: If you are currently using version 2.0 in standalone mode, please make sure that you have a backup of your feeds in an OPML file, before installing 3.0.
Version 3.1.0
- A new 'Discover' section includes ways for you to discover interesting articles articles that you may otherwise miss. Including:-
-- Hot Links: Shows web-pages that get linked to from multiple articles.
-- Calm Feeds: Show articles from feeds with a low article publishing frequency.
-- Linked List: Shows articles that are determined to be a linked-list style articles (i.e. the article’s URL is a link to another website than the one that owns the feed that published it).
- Added compound filters: Filter any/all article lists by more than one filter, like 'Unread + Starred'. Tap the filter button, and then tap 'COMPOUND' at the bottom to see available compound filters, or tap & hold the filter button to go straight to compound filters.
- Added ability to create custom email templates with preset subject, recipient/s, and body-text, and, have it available in the system share sheet. Please visit Settings > Share Options to set one (or more) up. (There are also some pre-added mail templates for you to use there)
- Added ability to create custom URL actions to share articles with any website or app the supports URL schemes. Please visit Settings > Share Options to set one (or more) up. (There is also a small directory of URL actions for you to try out)
- The bottom toolbar in the main article reading view will the completely hidden once fully collapsed on iPhone X.
- Other minor bug fixes & improvements.
If you enjoy using lire, please leave a review, tell a friend about it, or consider dropping a small thank you in the Tip Jar. That helps a lot!
Replying to #66
Hi! I bought the app. today hoping to get notifications as well. It was the reason why I bought the app. I am in the same situation as you. Did you ever get them working? If so, what did you or anybody reading this do? I realize this post is a couple years old but it's worth a shot. Maybe I will get a answer from somebody.
Is the new app worth the cost?
Hi,
I previously bought lire, & loved it!
It doesn’t make sense to me, why the new version, would be a separate app. However, I am seriously thinking of purchasing it.
For those who have already bought the new version, what do you think of it? How does it compare to the previous version?
Is it worth the cost?
Trouble downloading full text after updating to iOs 14.5
After updating my iPhone 7 to iOs 14.5 I can not download full text for any articles. Every attempt ends with a timeout error and a message saying unable to download full text.
This worked fine before updating to iOs 14.5 and has not worked afterwards, including several hard closes of Lire and rebooting my iPhone.
Is anyone else able to download full text with iOs 14.5 and Lire?
Fixed for iOs 14.5
The developer responded to my issue and quickly fixed the problem. Lire is now able to download full text on iOs 14.5
Version 5.1.8
What’s new inversion 5.1.8
Version 5.1.8, 1mo ago, Version 5.1.8 ADDED: - Open articles in Newsletter Mode (Experimental): Some sync services (like Feedbin), and some 3rd Party services (like kill-the-newsletter.com) allow you to read Newsletters in your RSS reader. In Newsletter mode, articles are rendered as is, without applying lire's internal styling, this is especially useful for reading newsletters (most of which include their styling inline). You can set specific feed to open their articles in Newsletter Mode in Settings > Article > Open in. FIXED: - A bug that caused a crash while trying to open certain articles dowloaded while syncing with Feedbin. - Other minor bug fixes. Previously in Version 5.1.7 - Minor bug fixes. Version 5.1.6 ADDED: - Ability to send articles to Readwise Reader: Available in Swipe Actions, as a Toolbar Shortcut, and in context menus. - Ability to manually delete thumbnails in Settings > Caching. - Ability to toggle Aggressive Widget Thumbnail caching in Settings > Caching > Automatic Image caching. FIXED: - A crash that could occur in certain cases when tapping on "Errors Occurred". - Other minor bug fixes. Version 5.1.5 - Minor bug fixes. Version 5.1.4 FIXED: - A bug that caused a crash while attempting to cache full-text of certain articles. - A bug that could prevent some articles to not be downloaded correctly when syncing with Feedbin. - Other minor bug fixes. Version 5.1.3 - Fixed a bug that caused a crash while syncing with Feedbin in some cases. Version 5.1.2 ADDED: - Three new options to "Mark all as read that are older than" menu. (Tap & hold the mark all as read button in article list to see this menu) - "Mark as read" options to the context menu in the sidebar (i.e. the view with list of folders, tags etc.) FIXED: - A bug that prevented certain buttons from working while "Undo Mark As Read" panel was visible. - Other minor bug fixes. Version 5.1.1 - Minor bug fixes. Version 5.1.0 ADDED: - iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets. - Find on Page (on iOS 16/iPadOS 16). When reading an article, tap Share > Find on Page, to search for a specific piece of text inside that particular article. - Ability to choose/set any installed font in article reading view. - "San Francisco Rounded" font option for reading articles. - "System Rounded" font option in UI. UPDATED: - Re-organised the iPad Sidebar. Settings button moved to the bottom to make more room in the the top bar. - Overhauled the internal font engine (All old custom font options have been moved into a special section called "Legacy"). - In-app "Errors Occurred" notification to have a more prominent appearance. FIXED: - A bug that prevented images in certain specific formats from being loaded as thumbnails in article lists. - A bug that prevented articled marked as read using shortcuts from being synced to Inoreader. - Several minor bugs related to handling of feeds with non-ASCII character in their URLs. - A bug that caused a crash while importing certain OPML files. - A bug the prevented management (rename/change folders/unsubscribe) of feeds in a BazQux Reader account, when the feed's URL contained query parameters. - Tons of other minor bug fixes. If you enjoy using lire, please leave a review, or tell a friend about it. That helps a lot!