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lire: RSS Reader

Submitted by Simone Dal Maso, 3 April, 2013
Last updated on 28 June, 2022
Category
News

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.

Version

5.0.16

Free or Paid

Paid

Apple Watch Support

No

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

15.5

Accessibility Comments

All is fully accessible with VoiceOver.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.

Other Comments

This is my favourite app for managing feeds. First of all, you can read the articles also offline, because the app retrieves all full text of a feed. this is the most comfortable service I know about this kind of app. Second, it run as a standalone app, managing feeds without need of third party app. Anyway, from version 2.0 it supports Feedly and many other third party services. If necessary, you can convert the article in ebook format, or share also with evernote, and obviously with main social networks and services. Anyway, when you read an article, you have only the text, because the app has cached it, so no images, no ads or links, just all the complete article.
And finally, if there is a difficult feed to parse and text is not available, you can use Mercury service that process text and formats it well for you.

App Store Link

https://apps.apple.com/app/lire/id1531976425?ls=1

Developer's Website

http://lireapp.com/support.html

Developer's Twitter Username

@LireApp

Related Podcast

http://www.applevis.com/podcast/episodes/extra-extra-get-your-news-lire-full-te…

Recommendations

12 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Michael Hansen 6 months 2 weeks ago

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Comments

question regarding push notifications

By alex wallis

7 years 4 months ago

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

By Apple Khmer

6 years 4 months ago

So far, I'm liking this app better than BWRSS and Newsify.

Thank you for recommending this to me on another topic.

By lelia

6 years 4 months ago

In reply to So Far by Apple Khmer

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

By Apple Khmer

6 years 4 months ago

Hope you found al the feeds to the sites you wanted.

Yes I did!

By lelia

6 years 4 months ago

In reply to Yeah by Apple Khmer

Yes I did!

Lire

By Chris

6 years 2 months ago

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

By AnonyMouse

6 years 2 months ago

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

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

By Simone Dal Maso

6 years 2 months ago

In reply to Lire by Chris

Hello, yes Lire is still working and don't worry, 3.0 is almost ready.

Mine is not wirking

By Godwin adoyi Agada

6 years 2 months ago

In reply to Hello, yes Lire is still by Simone Dal Maso

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

By Chris

6 years 2 months ago

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

By splyt

6 years 2 months ago

Try to look for subscriptions in the app main screen .. there you go and do have fun!

Figured it out

By Chris

6 years 2 months ago

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

By Amir

6 years 2 months ago

Member of the AppleVis Blog Team

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

By Michael Hansen

6 years 2 months ago

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

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.

Major 3.0 update..

  • New sync services: FeedHQ, The Old Reader, Inoreader, BazQux Reader.
  • Completely redesigned UI.
  • Several new fonts.
  • State Restoration (lire will now start where you left it when you were last using it).
  • Standalone feed engine is completely rebuilt from the ground up.
  • New background refresh/sync engine: You can now set the minimum amount of time that must elapse after a background refresh/sync before another background refresh/sync can me initiated.
  • Get notifications when a successful background refresh/sync downloads new articles.
  • New, and more efficient full-text fetching engine.
  • New OPML import engine: Besides being able to import file via 'Open with:' from other apps, you can now import OPML files from iCloud drive, and other apps that offer file providers, from right within the OPML Import/Export screen.
  • New section in Accessibility/VoiceOver Options: VoiceOver users can now change the order in which VoiceOver will speak different attributes of each article in a list of articles.
  • New Fast Read Later option: This is different from 'Fast Read Later' in previous versions: Go to Settings > Article Options > Fast Read Later, and select what you want Fast Read Later to do. This actions will basically replace the second button on the bottom bar in the main article view.
  • New Swipe To Left Action option in article lists: Go to Settings > Article Options > Swipe To Left Action, and select what you want Swipe To Left Action to do. Which in a list of articles swipe/slide an article to the left to perform this actions. VoiceOver users can perform this action from the rotor.
  • New Swipe To Right Action option in article lists: Go to Settings > Article Options > Swipe To Right Action, and select what you want Swipe To Right Action to do. Which in a list of articles swipe/slide an article to the right to perform this actions. VoiceOver users can perform this action from the rotor.
  • Easy way to report problems with specific feeds that the new standalone feed engine may have trouble with: Go to view articles of specific feeds, from the article list, open Subscription Details, and tap on 'Report a problem' button at the bottom of the Subscription Details view. (This button is only visible if you’re using the app in Standalone mode).
  • Easy way to report problems with full-text extraction of specific articles: Tap 'Report a problem' link at the bottom of the full-text view if the specific article.
  • Easy way to report problems with Cache: Go to Settings > Caching Options > Report a problem.
  • Tons of other new features, improvements, and bug fixes..

If you enjoy using lire, please leave a review and tell a friend about it. That helps a lot!

Background refresh not working for me with lire 3

By Dalia

6 years 2 months ago

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

By alex wallis

6 years 1 month ago

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?

By Jesse the K

6 years 1 month ago

Club AppleVis Member

I read lots of Dreamwidth blogs which require me to login before displaying the RSS feed. Has anyone done this successfully?

Adding subscriptions

By lelia

6 years 1 month ago

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

By taichong

6 years 1 month ago

Why I can't subscribe to applevis using Lire. It does not give an article automatically

Adding Feeds

By Xandross

5 years 8 months ago

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

By jeremy jeffers

5 years 2 months ago

can't add subscriptions for some strange reason. is this still possible?

adding new subscription problems

By jeremy jeffers

5 years 2 months ago

having dificulties adding new subscripttions can can we still do this?

Lire vs feeddler pro 2

By Moses Gitari

4 years 11 months ago

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

By Moses Gitari

4 years 11 months ago

In reply to Slight bug with braille input by Leseguenni

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

By That Blind Canuck

4 years 11 months ago

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,

By Moses Gitari

4 years 11 months ago

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

By Lysette Chaproniere

4 years 9 months ago

Member of the AppleVis Blog Team

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

By cool cat

3 years 7 months ago

In reply to Hi, I have a question about by alex wallis

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?

By KE8UPE

2 years 4 months ago

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

By Mike S

1 year 11 months ago

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

By Mike S

1 year 11 months ago

In reply to Trouble downloading full text after updating to iOs 14.5 by Mike S

The developer responded to my issue and quickly fixed the problem. Lire is now able to download full text on iOs 14.5

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