Basically, there’s no big differences. It’s like using Mail instead of a webmail. You don’t need a browser, it’s a native app, so for example you can have the number of unread feeds in the app icon. The interface is more “Mac-Like” and will work with dark mode later for example. You can leave your feeds in fullscreen so you can just swap between spaces like others app.
Just like the iOS app, a click on a headlines show excerpt locally (from TTRSS). You can click “Source” to access to the article. In full screen, I think it more useful to stay in the app rather than opening the default browser and switching back to the reader. But I suppose this could be a setting.
Well, the screenshot shows a test account with many posts. As far as I’m concerned, most of the time I read news from my iPhone ou my iPad 3 or 4 times a day, so the number of posts less important. The number in the ion app could be also an option. Again, when using the app own fullscreen, you can only switch to to the reader when there are enough post to read.
I’m writing this app for myself (as the iOS counterpart), and I’ll release it for free to the community, so perhaps the way of using the app will be mostly the way I want to use it
I don’t mean headlines, I mean links in the body of the post. You made the comparison with Mail.app; when I click a link in an email I receive, Mail.app doesn’t load the page, it hands the url off to the application set as the handler for that protocol. A desktop feed reader should do the same, otherwise it’s basically a browser in a container.
So there is no difference. A lot of my feeds are from sites like Slashdot or Ars Technica and I am interested in the comments. I have to open a browser anyway. There is no advantage for me.
looks like a great app!
Do you still plan to update the iOS app also? For example it would be great if you add a custom css option and make the articles fit always with word-wrap: break-word;.
I use your app every day and it would be great if you could enhance it.
I am looking forward to the desktop app… do you also plan a beta release here?
I’m working on updating counters without calling API each time (not always accurate, but avoid too many calls).
The sequence is not the same as iOS, because on iOS I prefer exchanging less data, but on macOS, all the panels are always visible (categories, feeds, headline and articles)
I’ve also implemented an auto-loading when reaching the bottom of the headlines list, to fetch next 200 headlines. Perhaps this is something I’ll add to the iOS version later.
Thanks a lot for this handy application! Would it be possible to add an option to open an RSS post in the default OSX browser? I like the internal browser feature as well, but for some things it might be handy to open it in the default one (sharing, referencing, … using brower add-ons).
Tiny Reader macOS 1.2 is available, with a new button to open the article in your default browser and another button to share using the default sharing menu