Bringing RSS to the iPhone

This morning we announced the release of NewsGator Mobile for iPhone, a free newsreader that takes advantage of the unique design and user interface of Apple's wildly popular new device. The free service, which works with iPhones and other mobile devices is accessible at http://m.newsgator.com.

Like it's client-based NewsGator Go! cousins, NewsGator Mobile for iPhone is specifically designed for the mobile user and synchronizes with NewsGator Online and all of the other NewsGator RSS readers and tools.

Lots of coverage already from the blogosphere including stories and reviews from MobileCrunch, Wired News, Solsie.com and Mashable.

If you have an iPhone or want a free, no install reader for any other HTML-capable mobile device, go give it a whirl.

Technorati Tags:  rss, NewsGator, iPhone, mobile

Comments

[Scott]

I am a NewsGator subscriber now and use the "NewsGator Mobile Edition" that I can configure in the Edit Locations section. Is this any different? Or is it the same thing, but you login rather than go to a special URL?

[TjL]

Scott - it's different, but one annoying thing is that it doesn't seem to remember my password as well as the Mobile Edition.

It is, however, formatted more specifically for the iPhone... except that blessedly it is black on white instead of white on black as so many other "iPhone-friendly" sites are doing (hello 1998!)

I stumbled across this today and have to say that I prefer the http://m.newsgator.com to the mobile version I have been using, even in my regular browser.

Now if NNW would just sync read/unread messages reliably, this would be the equivalent of IMAP for RSS. As it is, I find a lot of stuff in NNW marked UNREAD even when I've read it on the mobile version... and NetNewsWire doesn't have enough controls to let me tell it to check again.

[TjL]

Scott - it's different, but one annoying thing is that it doesn't seem to remember my password as well as the Mobile Edition.

It is, however, formatted more specifically for the iPhone... except that blessedly it is black on white instead of white on black as so many other "iPhone-friendly" sites are doing (hello 1998!)

I stumbled across this today and have to say that I prefer the http://m.newsgator.com to the mobile version I have been using, even in my regular browser.

Now if NNW would just sync read/unread messages reliably, this would be the equivalent of IMAP for RSS. As it is, I find a lot of stuff in NNW marked UNREAD even when I've read it on the mobile version... and NetNewsWire doesn't have enough controls to let me tell it to check again.

((Note: tried to post this once already but got a timeout and didn't see it on the site))

[Stephen W. Carson]

I've been waiting to see what NewsGator would do for the iPhone. I am very pleased! I really like how if I click "Mark Read" on an article, then it quickly disappears and the next article slides up. This allows for the kind of fast moving through articles that I can do with the space bar in NetNewsWire.

You have done a marvelous job on this. Thank you and bravo!

[Josh]

Hey guys,

Thank you thank you thank you! I kept checking to see when NewsGator would bring feeds to my iPhone, and now you have! It works excellently.

One tiny thing that could make it even better and faster to access: add a checkbox on the login page to keep a user logged in (with a cookie), since the iPhone doesn't store info like that. Then I would only be one bookmark away from my feeds at all times!

[Wood]

I second the "remember me" option. I just found out about the iPhone optimized version a few minutes ago and I am VERY pleased and impressed. I've never been fond of any of the web based aggregators--sorry, but while I appreciate getting NewsGator with NNW, I never use it. That's going to change, I think.

[Alex]

Been using this for a couple days and really liking it!

My one change would be giving me a way to open items in my feed in a new tab. The javascript bookmarklet floating around that lets me work around this limitation seems to cause some trouble with subsequent page loads in your guys' reader.

All I want to do is not lose my place in my feeds! (And be able to mark the item read with ease!)

[Todd Howard]

Great job guys, I love it.

How much would it be to ask for a version of MarsEdit to run on mobile (I have an iPhone) so I can truly blog on the go. This would be a godsend. I am constantly on the go, and being able to blog, and even add pics taken right them and there from the iPhone would be a massive blessing. How far off are we? Thanks!

[Stephen]

Todd, I think newsgator is the wrong company to inquire about MarsEdit at this point, you would want to contact RedSweaterSoftware owned and operated by a one Daniel Jalkut.

To save some time though, you should expect an iPhone native version of MarsEdit after Apple starts allowing native application development on the phone itself. This is why newsgator made a web app for the iPhone, rather than releasing NetNewsWire for iPhones which currently is not possible. The ball is in Apple's court on that one.

Cheers to the newsgator team for releasing a really great web app optimized for the iPhone, I love it! Now we need NNW 3 final.

[mattymatt]

This feature is awesome - or at least, it WAS. Did it get disabled? For the last week, the iphone version of Newsgator has only been half-working. The main menu works fine, but when I go to an individual feed, it's suddenly in the Blackberry version. Ack.

[Greg Yorke]

Nice job!

Let me pile on the suggested improvements list ... I subscribe to an ungodly number of feeds on NNW, many of which I only check occasionally. It would be great if I could use NNW to flag a subset to sync w/ Newsgator and thus the iPhone reader. That way I would only look at key feeds w/ the iPhone.

(Retaining manual folder hierarchy -- instead of the alpha sort -- would be nice too, but I understand why that would be a bear to store)