Simple RSS Widget
Features:
- Scrollable
- Resizable (only Android 3.1 and newer)
- lockscreen widget (Android 4.2+)
- multiple feeds in one widget
- text style, size & color changeable
- background color changeable
- icons for reloading & configurating the widget can be hidden
- user defined update interval
- multiple widgets with different configurations
- free & without ads!
If the widget doesn't show up in your launchers widget category, try rebooting your device!
Note: Google Reader will no longer exist after July 1st. Import functionality will be affected
Permissions:
- INTERNET: to receive feed content
- ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: to test if internet connection is available before trying to update
- WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: to cache feeds and display them even when offline
- GET_ACCOUNTS & USE_CREDENTIALS: to request access for importing Google Reader feeds
Category : News & Magazines
Reviews (30)
Works great on my Note 20 Ultra currently on Andriod 10. It's fast and responsive. Easy to add feeds and easy to tweak the appearance as you like. The only thing is thumbnail images don't really show up. Maybe 1 in 100 headlines will show image. Not a big deal since you can turn them off.
Maybe simple, but its also perfect. Recently upgraded to 11 and an rss type widget (glass widgets) stopped working that I'd been relying on for years. Found this and its actually much better. Easy to use, and configurable to just the right level with out being overly fiddly or complicated. Well done dev.
Been on my home screen for years. Easy to setup. Looks great. Works with most feeds. Not sure why some feeds won't though.
i used this app for years and liked it a lot. now it stopped showing the selected feeds, sometimes showing news from june 2018. please fix! the mail adress of the developer is not valid anymore..
Salute to the developer! This is what I'm looking for.The best and simplest RSS reader among the newer apps. Even if was updated a long time ago, it is till working fine in 2020 on my Android Oreo. I really like the costumizable features. I don't mind the design, as long as the app is working and it will satistlfy my needs. Ignore the negative reviews of others, they just don't know how to use RSS properly. Recommended for everyone
Occasionally when I press the refresh button it got stucked and not showing updated news. Can this be resolved? Some news from certain sources cannot see but other can like RSS widget wonder why. Overall is OK.
Just updated to android 10. It does *not* break this app. If your RSS went blank then just place a new widget and load same settings as you had before. I wish they'd add a donate button in the app, or a separate app one can purchase to say thanks.
Still my favorite RSS news reader. With recent Android versions it has some quirks, but it still works and looks great even on Android 11. Hope the developer might update it in the future...
It could be great app if it able to save and load URLs on local sd. Another missed usable feature is ability to select several but not all feeds to show by "check box".
Works beautifully, clean and simple, 1 star off because I can't remove the date-stamp that takes too much screen estate on a phone
Excellent, except for ONE thing-no option to make different feed titles different colors! All my news looks the same! It looks good, though.
This app may have been abandoned, but it is still indispensable. I have the widget displayed prominently on my current device running Android 11.
It's awesome. But if it could hide already read items from the news list, it would be perfect.
This is so far best RSS widget for my need! One suggestion though - Separating the feeds in colors wouldbe great. Please add this customize option.
Can only place one rss widget on samsung s8. Would have paid fir this if it allowed more than one widget. When I attempt to place the second widget on screen nothing appears. Shame that is.
Can't use on pixel 6 pro. Worked great on Pixel 5. I get an error message stating to contact delevoper or update app, which is already updated.
Built-in feeds for NYT and The Verge stopped working. Updated them manually and all is good again.
I like the app but images don't show up anymore. Which is why I switched to this app in the first place. Hopefully this gets fixed.
Just an awesome, simple, HAS TRANSPARENT OPTION, reader widget.
App does not function properly with Note 20 Ultra. Specifically the app's widget. Please solve this issue.
Used to be good. Now a bug ridden mess after the developers abandoned it for almost a decade.
Would be nice to be able to edit a feed URL, not just to add or delete it. 5 stars if it can.
Please update it doesn't show other feeds from othet sources. Only a few selected feeds. 😫
Still my favorite RSS widget. With a little work, it can be made to look very nice.
The app was built for Android version older than 10 and the latest Android update broke it.
Been using this for years. Like all good software it does one job and does it well.
last updated in 2013 but it's perfect. doesn't need one.
This app STILL works flawlessly on my note 10+ running Android 11!!
Still works, but not 100% on latest Android. However I still use it and recommend it.
I use 3 news sources. This widget works perfectly for one of them; on the next one images are not reflected; on the 3rd one images are not shown, and date is not getting picked up so the feeds are not in chronological order. I realise that the app hasn't been updated since 2013 and the last time the developer responded to a comment here was also in 2013. However neither the website nor the email address provided by the dev work anymore, so I thought I'll take my chances and post here.