I’ve used RSS for a long time, but over time my actual “feeds” ended up scattered across three different places:
RSS for websites
Reddit for communities
YouTube for channels
That always felt a bit ridiculous to me. They’re fundamentally doing the same job: show me new things from sources I chose to follow.
So I started building RSSum for myself as a normal RSS reader, and eventually decided to treat Reddit communities and YouTube channels as first-class feeds too.
Now I can have an unified RSS feed, a subreddit and a YouTube channel sitting next to each other in the same library, rather than jumping between three different apps.
It still behaves like an RSS reader: I choose what I subscribe to, I can organize sources, import/export OPML, and there’s no recommendation feed deciding what I should see.
I’ve also been experimenting with summaries/Q&A, including using the actual transcript for YouTube videos, all reddit comments analyzes, etc.
It’s whether RSS should remain strictly about RSS/Atom URLs, or whether the RSS-reader model itself is useful for following other sources too.
RSSum is free and open source, currently on the app store and TestFlight for iPhone/iPad.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rssum/id6743862589
TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/DByXE2ZU
Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/iosapps/comments/1vkw2ge/freeopen_source_rss_reddit_and_youtube_reader/
Curious what people here think: would having Reddit and YouTube alongside RSS make your reader more useful, or do you specifically want your RSS reader to stay RSS-only?
submitted by /u/John_val