I am a voracious reader and when it comes to latest updates and news, I am even hungrier. I want my iPad to be filled with current streams of updates and stories from my top favorite blogs and news sites. So, RSS feeder apps are the perfect sources to fetch stream of contents to quench my appetite for news and stories. And while I was searching for top most RSS feeder apps for my iPad, I discovered these apps. These RSS feeder apps for iPad bring up extensive online news reading experience on Smartphone and Tablet PCs. While some give me offline access, some integrate Google Reader, some let me access my social network profile and share through networks, some are expensive while some are free. Thus, my extensive hours of research on RSS feeder apps for iPad had a happy ending with following shortlisted apps.
Feeddler RSS Reader Pro
Platform: iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
Price: Free
Being rated at a top iPad app, Feeddler RSS Reader Pro can sync with Google Reader app. The app is capable of displaying more than 1000 unread updates and integrating multiple accounts. I can even get to filter the unread items, also can add, remove and rename folders and subscriptions, sort news items from oldest to newest and vice versa, let me share favorite items through Facebook and e-mails. I can open and read full article on Safari browser on my iPad too. The pro version even includes advanced features like syncing a;; subscriptions, customized syncing, supports Twitter and Bit.ly accounts, Pinboard, Delicious, Instapaper, Tumblr and saving for reading later. Check it out now.
Platform: iPhone, iPod touch and iPad running iOS 4.0 or later.
Price: Free
Coined the fame of one of TIME’s Top 50 Innovations and Apple’s iPad App of the year, the app becomes your own personalized magazine that garners all News feeds from Facebook, tweets from your Twitter and also images from your Instagram contacts. The app fetches topic based stories (like technology, fashion, Autos, Travel, Editor’s Picks etc.) from my favorite magazines automatically including Lonely Planet, Rolling Stone. The app uses ‘Read it Later’ tool and ‘Instapaper’ so that I can choose to read the most important instantly and store some for reading later. The app also supports Google Reader, Tumblr, 500px, Flickr, LinkedIn. Get it here.
The Early Edition
Platform: iPad running iOS 5.0 or later.
Price: $2.99
You want an RSS feeder app for iPad that gets you jumpstart your morning with freshly brewed news and a hot cup of Earl Grey tea? Then, The Early Edition is for you to get up-to-date newspaper feeds and can also be used to sync with Google Reader. The app presents news in a newspaper like column based layout giving the feel of reading newspaper in the morning. The design of the app is gorgeous and I can actually turn pages with my finger by swiping horizontally. The newspaper view removes clutter like buttons from all sides thus bringing you only content to my focus. The app caches all the images making me load and read offline as well. Get it here.
In addition to these, I have shortlisted some more RSS feeder apps for iPad such as NewsRack ($4.99), Reeder for iPad ($4.99), FLUD ($3.99), MobileRSS HD ($4.99), GoReader Pro ($6.99), Fluent News (Free, universal).
