A blazing-fast, clean, native RSS reader for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Built entirely in SwiftUI and obsessively optimised — incremental sync, cached reading, and instant article switching keep it quick no matter how many feeds you follow.
A clean three-column reading experience that stays fast under load — typography you actually control, no clutter, no ads, and no trackers. Read your way, feed by feed.
Cached reader HTML makes switching articles instant, while unread counts and filtering run off SwiftData queries and snapshots rather than re-scanning in memory — so it stays quick with hundreds of feeds and thousands of articles.
A clean, parsed layout for every article. Pick from SF Pro, New York serif, SF Rounded, or SF Mono, and tune size and weight until it reads just right. Cached reader HTML makes switching articles instant.
Prefer the original page? Read the full website via WebKit, with ad and tracker blocking built in and an optional dark theme for light-only sites. Choose Reader or Full Website globally, or feed by feed.
Organise feeds into folders with custom SF Symbol icons and drag-to-reorder. Give any feed a custom title and its own reading preferences.
Browse Unread, Starred, or All, and narrow by time range from the last hour through this week. Full-text search with filters and newest or oldest sorting finds anything, fast.
Fine-tune anything on a feed-by-feed basis — Reader or Full Website, ad-block exceptions, and reading preferences — so each source behaves exactly how you want.
A Safari extension for iPhone, iPad, and Mac finds every RSS, Atom, or JSON feed on a page — including the ones big platforms and blogging engines don’t advertise. Pick one and Reader Ultra opens with Add Feed pre-filled; the toolbar button only lights up for feeds you don’t already follow.
Sync runs through a blazing-fast Reader Service included with the app — no extra subscription — partitioned per account and secured with API-key and session auth. Your reading follows you across devices, privately, with no ads and no third-party trackers.
An ultra-fast, highly optimised Reader Service comes built in — with no extra subscription, ever. It powers seamless, rapid syncs and near-instant updates of your feeds across every device.
Cursor-based snapshots download only new articles and deletions — never a full re-scan. Read and starred changes retry until acknowledged, so nothing slips through.
Silent push notifications quietly refresh new articles in the background — no permission prompts, no interruptions. Your feeds are fresh the moment you open the app.
Your accent colours, app icon, fonts, layouts, and reading preferences follow you through your personal iCloud — along with your folder customisations, including their glyphs and order. Font sizes stay per-platform, and passwords are never synced.
Reader Ultra automatically prunes articles older than a window you choose — starred items are never pruned, everything else is tidied away. Your retention choice syncs across your devices through your account, so every device stays in step.
Refresh on your schedule — off, or every 5, 10, 15, 30, or 60 minutes — plus pull-to-refresh whenever you want the very latest.
On iOS 27 and macOS 27, just ask Siri to catch you up, summarise your unread or a folder, find articles, refresh, or mark all as read — completely hands-free. See the phrases →
On iOS 27 and macOS 27, Reader Ultra works with Siri and Apple Intelligence — catch up, summarise, search, refresh, and clear your unread, all hands-free. An in-app Siri AI status sheet lists example phrases to get you started, like these:
Tune every colour, icon, and line of type — then step back and watch how you read with a dashboard of feed analytics and activity charts.
Pick from 25 hues — the 14 system colours plus custom shades like rose, coral, gold, forest, navy, and lavender — and match your app icon from 24 alternate options on iOS and a rendered Dock icon on Mac.
Choose Compact or Comfortable lists with optional thumbnails and summaries, and set independent font design, size, weight, and line limits for title, summary, and source — with a live preview.
Give every folder its own glyph from a wide range of SF Symbol icons, and set the sort order with drag-to-reorder. Your expanded and collapsed folders are persisted and synced across your devices — so your sidebar always looks exactly how you left it.
A feed analytics dashboard right in the feed list shows feed counts, read rate, and flags dead or stale feeds — so you always know what's still worth following. Prefer a cleaner list? Hide the analytics pane whenever you like.
Stacked 24-hour and 24-day views break down read, skipped, and unread articles at a glance, with per-feed analytics, selectable time windows, and engagement ranking.
Sync status lights show how fresh your data is, and unread badges at feed, folder, and app level keep the numbers that matter always in view.
Switch the whole app between Light, Dark, or System, with independent accents for the stats dashboard and the activity chart if you want them to stand apart.
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100% SwiftUI and SwiftData with async/await throughout — no cross-platform wrappers, no web shell. It adopts Liquid Glass, adaptive colours, and platform-correct layouts on each device.
A bottom tab bar for Starred, Unread, All, and Search, with pull-to-refresh and swipe actions — everything within thumb's reach.
A three-column split view with a floating Liquid Glass scope selector, so your feeds, articles, and reader sit side by side.
Window and column-width persistence, a dedicated Settings window, a customisable Dock icon, and a close button that keeps the app resident in the Dock.
A blazing-fast, highly optimised, native RSS reader that syncs privately across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Available now on the App Store.
