Unread 5.1 incorporates syncing with Birchfeed, a Quick Reads article action, and more.
Syncing With Birchfeed
This update adds the ability to sync with Birchfeed accounts. Birchfeed is a great new web-based RSS reader and syncing service by Matt Birchler.
Unread syncs with Birchfeed using its implementation of the Google Reader API. It was already possible to sync with Birchfeed using its implementation of the Fever API, but using a Birchfeed account adds these capabilities:
- The ability to subscribe to feeds, organize feed subscriptions, and unsubscribe from feeds from within Unread.
- The ability to subscribe to feeds using the Subscribe in Unread share sheet extension.
- The ability to mark read on scroll.
- The ability to mark all articles above or below a specific article in an article list as read.
If you already have a Fever account in Unread that syncs with Birchfeed, you can add a Birchfeed account to Unread that uses the same credentials with just one tap. On iPhone or iPad, long press the Fever account on the Unread home screen, and then choose Add as Birchfeed Account from the resulting menu. On Mac, select the Fever account in the Accounts pane of the Settings window, and then click the Add as Birchfeed Account button on the right.
Quick Reads Article Action
This update adds an article action for Quick Reads. Quick Reads is a read later service, also by Matt Birchler, with great capabilities such as text to speech and highlighting. Unread’s article action makes it easy to save an article or a link inside an article to Quick Reads. You can invoke the article action in any number of ways:
- From the context menu of an article in an article list
- From the context menu of a link inside an article
- From the menu bar on Mac and iPad
- Using a customizable keyboard shortcut on Mac or on iPad with a hardware keyboard
- Using a toolbar item on Mac
Like Unread’s other premium article actions, the Quick Reads article action requires a subscription to Unread Premium.
Additional Improvements
- Unread’s Instapaper article action now uses version 2 of the Instapaper API.
- This update fixes a bug that prevented article list images from loading for some articles in FreshRSS accounts and Inoreader accounts.
- This update removes the “us.inoreader.com” and “jp.inoreader.com” options for the Inoreader Host (under Advanced Settings). Inoreader deprecated those hosts, and is going to redirect them to “www.inoreader.com”.
- Unread’s privacy policy has been updated with a link to the privacy policies of Birchfeed and Quick Reads.
