lire: RSS Reader

Since iOS 26 on the iPad the screen turns black when looking at RSS feed articles (e.g. MacRumors). I have to minimize and then re-open app to see the article. Hopefully you can recreate and fix it in iOS 26?

lire is one of the snappiest and best designed apps I’ve used on iOS in a long time. It’s an absolute joy to use! I’m taking my switch to lire as an opportunity to drop Feedbin and switch to iCloud for syncing. The only thing I miss so far is the ability to automatically mark some items as read based on filters. Other than this, lire has everything you could want in an RSS app, plus a beautiful design to boot!

Great looking app with lots of features. Unfortunately it freezes while syncing a couple times a week and never recovers, so I have to force close the app occasionally. Also I wish the pull to refresh gesture required a bit less of a pull. Compared to Reeder, I just find myself not pulling far enough, I guess.

The new interface is awful. The old version was much cleaner and easier to navigate. Now that this has been updated for ios26, it’s a mess and the old version is no longer functional at all. Fortunately I have an older iPad with iOS 18.7 where the older version still works well and is easy to use. For this app alone, I may not ever update the older iPad. Sad.

Decent app overall, but there are a couple of issues that prevent me from recommending it. I have >100 feeds and get constant iCloud sync errors. Even when I don’t get the yellow error banner I still notice articles on my iPad that I read earlier in the day on my iPhone. Also, the background sync has never worked for me as far as I can tell. I have to wait for the sync to complete every time I launch the app, and I often need to manually activate the sync. Lastly, the iPad layout has a rea