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Any App Like Pulse?
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This app would be perfect but a lot of feeds don't work or they have no pictures
9to5mac has no pictures and the verge is blank
The app hasn't been updated since 2014
Yup, right after I posted, Pulse pretty much died. Yomu is the closest, but is unusable until they fix the feed search, or allow direct entry. I've been trying Ziner now, and it's not like pulse, but it's decent, and I can at least group my feeds so I can read them in a somewhat organized manner.
Really, it boggles my mind that Linked in can be so short sighted, and completely ignore its customers like this. Almost all of the reviews of the new app say it sucks, and that they need to bring the old one back. I actually only have the new app on my phone so I can rate it at 1 star.
Really, it boggles my mind that Linked in can be so short sighted, and completely ignore its customers like this. Almost all of the reviews of the new app say it sucks, and that they need to bring the old one back. I actually only have the new app on my phone so I can rate it at 1 star.
LinkedIn didn't buy an app; they bought a user base. Even if only a small percentage of former Pulse users morphed into LinkedIn users, buying the app was probably faster and cheaper than any other method of getting those people to join up.
What does boggle the mind is that no one has cloned the awesome functionality of Pulse into another app.
So LinkedIn have pulled the plug on the old version of the wonderful Pulse news reading app.
Any advice on a replacement? The main thing I liked about it was it was one page, the news wasn't all mixed together and I could just scroll down and see all the posts from my selected websites in one move. Feedly, Reeder, Flipboard etc don't have this. They all have that mixed together nonsense that app debs (for some bizarre reason) are so fond of these days. Sure, you can select each site one at a time or swipe through them, but it's a hell of a lot more effort than 1 swipe to scroll. Any recommendations?
Any advice on a replacement? The main thing I liked about it was it was one page, the news wasn't all mixed together and I could just scroll down and see all the posts from my selected websites in one move. Feedly, Reeder, Flipboard etc don't have this. They all have that mixed together nonsense that app debs (for some bizarre reason) are so fond of these days. Sure, you can select each site one at a time or swipe through them, but it's a hell of a lot more effort than 1 swipe to scroll. Any recommendations?
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Flipboard and Pulse were my two new feeders. I loved them both but for very different reasons - Flipboard because of the graphic display and way to casually "flip through" various material. Pulse because I could organize pages by sources and quickly look at much of the content from those sources.
It would be great to have a pulse replacement. I agree that most of the others have same features as Flipboard.
P.S. I'm trying feedly now. It's a nice "in between" Pulse and Flipboard. I I can organize my feeds by folder and it has a number of different layouts from lists to magazine. But I have to click on each feed to see what's up, unless I want a mishmash of the sites.
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I used pulse for years but made the jump not long after LinkedIn started improving it.
I tried a few different alternatives before settling on Feedly. It lacks the neat organization of sources that seems to be unique to Pulse but in every other area I prefer Feedly.
Still, it's too bad that things went the way they did for pulse. It would have been interesting to see how it evolved if given the chance.
I tried a few different alternatives before settling on Feedly. It lacks the neat organization of sources that seems to be unique to Pulse but in every other area I prefer Feedly.
Still, it's too bad that things went the way they did for pulse. It would have been interesting to see how it evolved if given the chance.
This app is just like pulse
https://feedmesh.com
But is only on android right now
[doublepost=1453020785][/doublepost]Hey some one on Reddit mentioned an iOS app called "tin nong"
It has the pulse layout
Can one of you try it
The description is all Chinese
https://feedmesh.com
But is only on android right now
[doublepost=1453020785][/doublepost]Hey some one on Reddit mentioned an iOS app called "tin nong"
It has the pulse layout
Can one of you try it
The description is all Chinese
I also loved the grid view in Pulse and discovered only last week why some of the feeds had stopped updating (that is, that Pulse is no longer supported). Couldn't find anything similar so I have now spent the last days writing one myself. A few things left to do, but I already use it myself now and it works fine IMHO. Remaining, before I release it:
- Synch read status of items across devices (I already synch feed list using iCloud)
- Make icon (I suck at that)
- Decide how to charge; plan is to make it possible to try before buying, but not sure if I'll do it with in-app purchase of full functionality or by having a "Lite" version of the app.
And, of course, then waiting for Apple's review. If everything works out smoothly, I would think in a week or two it should be out in the AppStore. Name: FeedReads (sucky name, yes, but I suck at both names & icons!).
Main view (white background = not read):
Not as polished in all respects as Pulse, but with time, I hope to get there
- Synch read status of items across devices (I already synch feed list using iCloud)
- Make icon (I suck at that)
- Decide how to charge; plan is to make it possible to try before buying, but not sure if I'll do it with in-app purchase of full functionality or by having a "Lite" version of the app.
And, of course, then waiting for Apple's review. If everything works out smoothly, I would think in a week or two it should be out in the AppStore. Name: FeedReads (sucky name, yes, but I suck at both names & icons!).
Main view (white background = not read):
Not as polished in all respects as Pulse, but with time, I hope to get there
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I also loved the grid view in Pulse and discovered only last week why some of the feeds had stopped updating (that is, that Pulse is no longer supported). Couldn't find anything similar so I have now spent the last days writing one myself. A few things left to do, but I already use it myself now and it works fine IMHO. Remaining, before I release it:
- Synch read status of items across devices (I already synch feed list using iCloud)
- Make icon (I such at that)
- Decide how to charge; plan is to make it possible to try before buying, but not sure if I'll do it with in-app purchase of full functionality or by having a "Lite" version of the app.
And, of course, then waiting for Apple's review. If everything works out smoothly, I would think in a week or two it should be out in the AppStore. Name: FeedReads (sucky name, yes, but I suck at both names & icons!).
Main view (white background = not read):
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Not as polished in all respects as Pulse, but with time, I hope to get there
This looks great! Would you be able to add categories/tabs too?
This is the exact replacement I've been looking for. Keep up the good work!!
Categories & tabs I've thought about. Won't be in the first version, but I know it is something I'm thinking of adding.
Unfortunately, it seems as if Zite has been shut down as of Dec 2015: http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/19/f...n-127-asks-users-to-migrate-data-before-then/
I suspect as with Pulse, Zite app might still be functioning partially (Pulse update some feeds, others not) but nothing is guaranteed :-/
I also loved the grid view in Pulse and discovered only last week why some of the feeds had stopped updating (that is, that Pulse is no longer supported). Couldn't find anything similar so I have now spent the last days writing one myself. A few things left to do, but I already use it myself now and it works fine IMHO. Remaining, before I release it:
- Synch read status of items across devices (I already synch feed list using iCloud)
- Make icon (I suck at that)
- Decide how to charge; plan is to make it possible to try before buying, but not sure if I'll do it with in-app purchase of full functionality or by having a "Lite" version of the app.
And, of course, then waiting for Apple's review. If everything works out smoothly, I would think in a week or two it should be out in the AppStore. Name: FeedReads (sucky name, yes, but I suck at both names & icons!).
Main view (white background = not read):
View attachment 611406
Not as polished in all respects as Pulse, but with time, I hope to get there
Help us, Simmepi, you are our only hope!
Will do my best
Still missing an icon, and adding new feeds is cumbersome (right now you simply input, manually, the feed URL) and I hope I can make it at least a little simpler. But then I'll be ready for a first version, I think
Still missing an icon, and adding new feeds is cumbersome (right now you simply input, manually, the feed URL) and I hope I can make it at least a little simpler. But then I'll be ready for a first version, I think
Will do my best
Still missing an icon, and adding new feeds is cumbersome (right now you simply input, manually, the feed URL) and I hope I can make it at least a little simpler. But then I'll be ready for a first version, I think
Yep, I've been following Feedmesh since a little while; looks promising! Looking at their pages i see that they e g try hard to find an image to go with each item; I won't do that, at least initially when I'll focus on making sure my app works.
Also noticed that they use their own servers for getting data which I won't since I personally prefer standalone apps where no reliance on other servers are required. There are advantages with both approaches: server-based means you can do things like suggesting feeds and handle buggy RSS feeds smarter, but on the other hand if the company stops support, like LinkedIn with Pulse, the app becomes useless. Plus, of course, I'm doing this on my spare time so I won't have the money to run servers ;-)
But more choice is good, so I hope Feedmesh will turn out great!
Feedmesh and Simmepi's app look promising. Hopefully I'll only have to suffer through Newsify for a few more weeks. (which so far, for me, is the best of the rest). I just signed up for Feedmesh, and added all my feeds to their browser based page. It looks like it will work great. the only problem is that their IOS app still seems like it's a long way out.
A small update: I plan to submit the app to the AppStore sometime this week, once I've written the documentation of how to use the app for the initial start screen; after that it is up to Apple how long it will take. Also, since I've used a few technologies I've never used before (iCloud synching for your feed list & in-app purchase) I might have made some mistakes so the store reviewers might have some issues they'd like me to fix. But hopefully not; in my tests things look fine!
The plan is to make the free app fully functional except for restricting the number of feeds to something like 3-4, to make it possible to test before buying (so buying = unlimited feeds), or in case those feeds are enough, you won't have to pay. I don't plan to have an ad-supported unlimited version, simply because I really dislike ads myself and prefer to buy an app outright instead
I'm feeling pretty happy with it now, in my personal usage at least. The adding of feeds is still not perfect but without server support and requiring users to register accounts for scraping feeds, the current mostly manual input is what I have. Also, due to some RSS feeds having weird stuff in their feeds, I've added 2 alternatives for showing the news items; hopefully at least one of them will work for your feeds.
First version, as mentioned, won't have feed list groups so only one list with feeds will be supported initially, but this is something I know I will add in a later version.
The plan is to make the free app fully functional except for restricting the number of feeds to something like 3-4, to make it possible to test before buying (so buying = unlimited feeds), or in case those feeds are enough, you won't have to pay. I don't plan to have an ad-supported unlimited version, simply because I really dislike ads myself and prefer to buy an app outright instead
I'm feeling pretty happy with it now, in my personal usage at least. The adding of feeds is still not perfect but without server support and requiring users to register accounts for scraping feeds, the current mostly manual input is what I have. Also, due to some RSS feeds having weird stuff in their feeds, I've added 2 alternatives for showing the news items; hopefully at least one of them will work for your feeds.
First version, as mentioned, won't have feed list groups so only one list with feeds will be supported initially, but this is something I know I will add in a later version.
A small update: I plan to submit the app to the AppStore sometime this week, once I've written the documentation of how to use the app for the initial start screen; after that it is up to Apple how long it will take. Also, since I've used a few technologies I've never used before (iCloud synching for your feed list & in-app purchase) I might have made some mistakes so the store reviewers might have some issues they'd like me to fix. But hopefully not; in my tests things look fine!
The plan is to make the free app fully functional except for restricting the number of feeds to something like 3-4, to make it possible to test before buying (so buying = unlimited feeds), or in case those feeds are enough, you won't have to pay. I don't plan to have an ad-supported unlimited version, simply because I really dislike ads myself and prefer to buy an app outright instead
I'm feeling pretty happy with it now, in my personal usage at least. The adding of feeds is still not perfect but without server support and requiring users to register accounts for scraping feeds, the current mostly manual input is what I have. Also, due to some RSS feeds having weird stuff in their feeds, I've added 2 alternatives for showing the news items; hopefully at least one of them will work for your feeds.
First version, as mentioned, won't have feed list groups so only one list with feeds will be supported initially, but this is something I know I will add in a later version.
Fantastic work! Im so excited to use this app and would gladly pay for it.
The app looks barebones as would be expected for a 1.0 version software, but I think you're heading in the right direction. You seem to have the basic layout nailed down and it looks fantastic.
People are going to make a lot of feature requests, but try to not get too far ahead of yourself. Focus on just getting the core functionality right, and then the aesthetics. Once you have something that works great and looks good, then move on to new features.
As for the icon you need for your app, I'm sure myself and others here would be willing to lend a hand, or at least point you in the right direction. Did you have any ideas in mind for what you'd want the icon to be? It might be cool for the app to overall share a color scheme with the original Pulse.