Fiery Feeds is known to be very configurable, and there a quite a few settings to be found in the settings view. What is maybe less known, is that you can long press the settings icon, to open the Expert Settings, instead of the regular Settings view.

The Expert Settings screen contains a bunch of settings, that are not important enough to make it into the regular Settings view, since I don’t want to the settings screen to become unwieldy, with too many options, that hardly anyone uses. It also contains some more experimental options, that I might remove at some point later.

The All Settings group simply lists all available settings in the app, unless you know what you’re looking for, this is probably not very useful to you.

I want to highlight some of the more interesting options in the Expert Settings view.

Sharing & Dragging

Share Full Text : This option allows you to share the full article text, instead of just the title, when using the system share sheet. Note that not all apps support this, and some apps will not show up in the share sheet, if this option is enabled.

Article View

Open Web View Links in Safari View : Opens links clicked in an article in web mode in Safari View. Links opened from article or text mode are always opened in Safari View. This setting is disabled by default, since the web view and Safari View do not share their cookies, and it would be impossible to login to a paywalled website, if the login link opened in Safari.

Article View Web Mode Reset Cookies : Automatically clears the cookies whenever an article is opened in web mode. Useful for some websites that only allow to view a limited number of articles.

Zooming in Article View : Zooming in web mode is always enabled, this settings allows you to zoom in article or text mode as well.

Article View Presentation : Open the article view fullscreen (default on iPhone) or small spaces left and right (default on iPad).

Article List

Dynamic Height in Articles : Disabling this causes each article to use the exact same height in the article list. This increases performance, and might be easier to read for some, but it can leave empty spaces, if there is not enough preview text for some articles.

Show Micro Blog Titles : Displays the blog name instead of the post title for titleless posts. This makes a list of microblog posts feel more like Twitter. On by default.

General

Reduce Visual Effects : Removes a couple of animations, and visual effects like the blurred background in lots of places. Disabling can increase the performance, especially on older devices.

Prefer AMP Pages : Shows the AMP page in web mode, if available. AMP pages are a lot faster to load, but this requires a call to Google’s repository of AMP sites before opening a website, which has privacy implications (it’s off by default).

New

• Expert option to hide the title for microblog posts
• Premium subscription status screen (if subscription is active)
• Option to change the app language in expert settings > debug
• Option to keep tagged articles on device (Feedly, Inoreader)
• Added a tip jar in the app

Improved

• Improved Localisations
• Increased image download performance
• Improved smart view settings
• Improved article list sort options
• Improved syncing (Feedbin)
• Fixed translation issues in status messages
• Fixed tap outside article view to dismiss gesture
• Fixed swipe from right edge to dismiss article view gesture
• Fixed issues with article toolbar animations
• Improved rss feed search when subscribing via an url
• Hides Smart Views header if there are no smart views.
• Improved UI when there are no accounts set up
• Fixed footnote icon colors
• Fixed tagged articles (Inoreader)
• Improved syncing (Feedly)

New

• Added French, Chinese localizations
• Button to clear to log file (in the log file viewer)
• Now downloads full text for downloaded before switching the display mode automatically too
• The account switch gesture (swipe left / right on the navbar) now also works in the article list
• Swipe left / right on the bottom toolbar in feed or article list to switch between saved / unread / all articles
• Option for mark all read confirmation only above 100 articles
• Support folder groups when renaming feeds and folders
• Option to display the author in the article list
• Keyboard short cuts for alert views
• Improved keyboard navigation in main view
• Improved German localisation
• New iPad support

Fixed

• Improved keyboard shortcuts
• Retries failing instapaper articles
• Always shows the toolbar after launching the app
• Parallel downloading favicons, hotlinks and full text versions
• Fixed an issue with downloading full text while downloading images was disabled
• Fixed reloading article list after mark all read below or above an article without confirmation
• Only shows notifications for newly found unread articles
• Fixed keyboard shortcuts in accounts list
• No longer treats feeds or folder with more then one slash as folder groups
• Maps “/” to ” — ” in feed and folder names to make folder groups work properly (Inoreader)
• No longer download images for already read articles in some situations
• Fixed URL label dismiss animation in sharing sheet
• Fixed 0 days ago instead of x hours ago
• Performance Improvements

New

• The selected quick action is now also accessible via VoiceOver in the article list
• Display author in article option moved to regular settings
• Option to automatically update the article list after marking all read
• Improved grouping in article view and article list settings
• VoiceOver can now announces notifications in the app
• Options what to read for each article (VoiceOver)
• Updated show / hide sidebar icon
• Expert Setting: Article list paging size (how many articles are loaded before the load more button is shown)
• Configurable double tap gesture in article view

Fixed

• Fixed an issue with sorting folders by unread count
• Improved german localisation
• Improved VoiceOver labels
• Status field after signing in to Pocket
• Fixed potential crash in the article list
• Stability Improvements
• Fixed mark all read from 3D touching a feed
• Fixed OneNote session expiration (You have to signin again)
• Fixed issue with alternate icons on (iPad)
• Improved error logging
• Improved network connection (retries individual requests if they fail)
• Fixed an issue with FreshRSS syncing stuck at pushing changes
• Fixed an issue with navigationbars no snapping correctly
• Fixed an issue with restoring the app state on relaunch

New

• Rename folder (Feedbin)
• Improved delete folder (Feedbin)
• Option to disable downloading Hot Links
• Expert option: Disable drag & drop on iPad
• Expert option: Always use absolute dates
• Added font Lato

Fixed

• Fixed article view scroll indicators
• Fixed notification progress view after rotation
• Disabled large titles in iPhone landscape mode
• Fixed long press to share link in article view on iOS 12
• Fixed potential crash on opening links
• Fixed potential crash on marking above / below as read
• Fixed potential crash on renaming feeds
• Removed animation when restoring the state after relaunch
• Fixed potential crash on sharing using a url scheme
• Fixed crash with an invalid theme file
• Updated the included “Black” theme
• Improved taptic feedback
• Restored FeedHQ support
• Improved theme switching, if both manual and automatic switching are enabled

New

• Dynamic height in the article list
• Option to prefer AMP sites in web mode
• Double Tap Gesture to dismiss the article view
• Folder Groups: Rename your folders or tags or toplevel feeds in the form of “Group/Folder”, to group them
• Editable Hotlinks Blacklist
• Option to display the word count in the article list
• Star article action now properly shows star / unstar icon based on the article state
• Swipe left on a feed or folder to open the article view directly
• Continuing to swipe left / right in the first / last article now dismisses the article view
• Configurable article view toolbar (incl. safari and quickshare buttons)
• Long Press on the article view selection opens the text parser selection
• Sharing urls now display the url in the share sheet
• Double tap to zoom (image viewer)
• Today Smart View
• Long / Short Articles Smart View
• Redrawn most icons for a bolder look
• Improved app icon picker
• Improved theme picker
• Improved font picker
• New article style dialog
• Automatic dark / light themes
• Double tap to change themes
• Export installed themes by long pressing the theme name
• Account Option to disable the all articles folder
• New option to go to the next folder after marking a folder read
• Rouded corners on entries if safe area is active (only iPhone X(s) landscape)
• Buttons to insert tags into custom url / email templates
• Added fonts: Menlo, Futura, Palatino, Ping Fang
• Support for password autofill (iOS 12)
• Added Siri Shortcuts for opening accounts
• Separate article font option
• Support for FreshRSS
• Support for Pinboard
• Support for iPhone Xs Max

Changed

• Hotlinks now show title and link
• The linked website’s text is now downloaded offline for hotlinks
• Hotlinks open directly in the hotlinks view from the feed list
• Hotlinks now use °C or °F depending on system setting
• Swipe right on a hotlink to reveal additional option (blacklist domain, safari view, share)
• Flicking images off screen now works regardless of zoom (image viewer)
• Alert views now use a scrollview instead of a picker
• Redesigned Hotlinks View
• Improved state restore on iPad
• Revised hotlinks view
• Improved for Micro Feed support
• Cleaner account settings screen
• Uses relative dates in the article list
• Full width preview images are now at the bottom
• Changed date, feed title and author strings in article view
• Show author in article is now a separate option
• Redesigned in app notification view
• Moved feedtitle, date above article title
• Moved a few settings from expert to advanced
• Only shows hotlinks if hotlinks are available
• Feed list keeps selected folder / feed visibly selected
• Edit Button in accounts list
• Feed List Sort: Alphabetically, Unread Asc, Unread Desc
• Icons in quick action selection screen
• Increased font weight for some fonts- Reduced some corner radii
• Must Read Folder now hidden in the folder list, if the smart view is enabled
• Now shows the account list also in the settings view
• Reordered article view toolbar items
• Now uses the proper article preview text if available
• Sync Notifications are now per account settings
• Lowered the toolbar on iPhone X
• Expert option to disable the dynamic height
• Added write review button to settings view
• Image Viewer improvements
• Improved icons for URL schemes

Fixed

• Fixed bottom toolbar placeholder (iPhone X)
• Fixed alert after logging out from a sharing service
• Fixed Safari Icon in web view

Version 2.1 adds a couple of new features, but the primary focus was on really polishing the design and making it feel right at home on iOS 12, after the layout and architecture changes in 2.0.

New Smart Views

There are three new smart views in this release.

First there is the “Today” view, which simply shows all articles published today (this actually means this day, and not the last 24h period). If you look closely, you’ll notice that the today icon even shows the current date.

Then there are the long and short article smart views, which show particularly long or short article, based on the word count. The exact threshold can be changed in the expert settings. Building on this there is now also the (per-account) option to display article word counts in the article list, which is especially useful for read-it-later accounts.

New Services

There is now full two-way sync support for Pinboard, it is primarily meant to be used as a read-it-later service, but Fiery Feeds still downloads all bookmarks. They are filtered by read / favorite status like all other articles though (Favorites are simply tagged with ★).

There is also official support for FreshRSS, which just uses their new Fever style API, but uses the regular “All Articles” folder, instead of the Fever specific “Sparks” and “Kindling” folders.

iOS 12 Support

Siri Shortcuts for opening specific accounts. These shortcuts are available in the Settings.app > Siri & Search > All Shortcuts, Apple’s shortcuts app and they should appear automatically in the notification center and search view, if iOS detects some kind of pattern in your usage.

You can now use the iCloud keychain or the new 1Password extension to fill in passwords when adding new accounts or sharing services.

Fiery Feeds also fully supports the new iPhone XS Max. Not only is the splitview enabled in landscape, the individual entries now feature rounded corners, if there is some spacing required because of the notch.

Design Improvements

Bolder Look

All icons in 2.1 have been redrawn for a bolder look that fits better with iOS 12. Fiery Feeds now also sports large titles like most system apps. You can now group your folders in the feed list and there is now the option to sort your feeds and folders by unread count instead of alphabetically.

Article View Improvements

The article view now shows the main image as header image, and uses it as a blurred background, to give the whole article a bit of a tint. The rest of the article layout has been cleaned up, and the toolbar is now configurable by account. For example, read-it-later accounts now use a mark-read-and-close button instead of the standard read button, which feels much more natural.

The article design picker has also been completely redesigned. It now takes less space, and you can see a live preview of your changes. (And it just looks a whole lot better).

New Hot Links View

The Hot Links view has been much improved. Text versions of all hot links are now downloaded for offline use, and the found titles are used in the list view. It’s now possible to sort the Hot Links by number of articles or by temperature. You can blacklist domains directly from the Hot Links list (or any other part of the url in the blacklist options). And filtering read articles now happens independent of the main list.

All New Theme Picker

Version 2.1 features a completely new theme picker. The main theme colors are now previewed. It’s easier to import themes from the directory or your iCloud Drive. It’s now possible to export themes by long pressing the theme you want to export and you can delete individual themes by left swiping on them.

You can also now pick two separate themes as your dark and light theme. Fiery Feeds will switch between them either automatically based on the screen brightness or when you double tap the navigation bar on any screen.

Improved Font Picker

Like in the theme picker, the font picker also shows you how a font looks without selecting it first. You can now select a separate font for the article view and the rest of the app. There are also a couple new fonts available, including Futura, Palatino and Ping Fang (the first CJK font in Fiery Feeds).

Custom Action Tags

It’s now much easier to create your custom url actions and email templates. Fiery Feeds now has a bar with all available tags right above the keyboard, instead of just listing them in the footer below the textfield.

Better App Icon Picker

The new app icon picker view previews the icons and there are a couple new icons, like the black and white icons, or the circle icon.

New

• Option to hide the preview images in the today widget

Fixed

• Fixed potential app freeze

Fixed

• Crash on share selection in article view
• Account settings are no longer resetted on database upgrade

New

• New expert option to prevent the display from sleeping
• New expert option to hide date and feed title in the article view
• Now uses the extracted article text for sharing, if text mode is active
• {content-plain} tag in custom url actions
• Improved preview image selection
• Untagged folder (Pocket)

Fixed

• Improved tags loading (Feedly)
• Removed support for Feedja
• Fixed creating new folders (Feedly)
• Fixed on demand loading of preview images
• Renaming a feed no longer removes it from folders (Feedly)
• Reverted to slower, but more reliable sync (Wallabag)
• Fixed possible authentication error (Feed Wrangler)
• Increased number of tagged articles (Inoreader)
• Fixed UI issues in the integrated web view
• Fixed voice over back gesture in article list
• No longer shows “Logged In” state after token expired (Inoreader)

New

• Improvements to the about screen
• Added an error message if the login token has expired (Inoreader)
• It’s now possible to change the color theme using a url scheme fiery://changeSetting?key=colorTheme&value={theme name}
• Option to change the One Note section name (in the one note action settings)
• Excluded the cache directory from iCloud / iTunes backups
• New “Open Share Sheet” quick action

Fixed

• No more hyphens in code blocks
• Better handling of network timeouts
• Error message if a custom url action results in an invalid url
• Fixed opening an article from the today widget, while an article is already open
• Today widgets now shows “no articles” instead of “no accounts” if there are no unread articles
• No longer possible to add custom url actions via url scheme, unless premium is active
• No longer keeps downloading image when leaving wifi during sync
• Fixed opening the article view from a feed in a folder (feed list)
• Fixed an issue opening some links in Fiery Feed’s web view
• Fixed an issue with the fiery://x-callback-url/subscribe url
• Fixed an issue loging in to One Note
• Fixed a scrolling issue in settings
• Workaround for invalid article links
• Privacy Policy link in settings
• Fixed Sharing to Evernote

New

• Hide Toolbars on Scroll now affects the Safari View Controller as well (requires iOS 11)
• Added 12 hours, 3 days as options when marking old articles as read
• Expert option: Reduce Article Motion now also applies to the initial appear animation
• Reduce article motion is automatically turned on, if the system wide reduced motion option is on
• A URL scheme to reset the changes queue for debugging
• x-callback-url for subscribing to new feeds: fiery://x-callback-url/subscribe?x-source=app&url=http://blog.cocoacake.net&x-success=sourceapp://x-callback-url/success
• Expert option: Disable swipe to next or previous article
• Expert option: Disable hyphenating words in article
• Expert option: Disable pull to refresh
• Moved “All Articles” to Smart Views group
• Blacklisted ycombinator in Hot Links

Fixed

• Fixed Image View toolbar in portrait
• Fixed loading starred articles (TT-RSS)
• Force feedback on swiping to show feed options
• Fixed force feedback while pull to refresh is disabled
• Workaround for sharing links via long tap in web mode
• Searches without articles now show up in all article mode
• Workaround for connection issues with some servers (TT-RSS)
• Disabled add feed button if no account is set up
• Privacy Policy Link in the about screen

New

• Slighly dimmed preview text in article list in some themes
• Theme files now include a color for the preview text. See blog for details
• Now uses gray scrollbars in while in web mode, regardless of theme settings
• Tweaked hotlinks to put more emphasis on link count, and less on newness
• Dim read starred articles option has moved from the expert settings to the regular article list settings
• Support for much faster TTRSS sync. See account settings for details.
• Uses full width buttons is mark read confirmation for better reachability
• Support for active searches (Inoreader)
• Increased maximum full text articles to 500 per sync
• Now fetches preview images from Feedbin

Fixed

• Improved Feedbin Sync
• Improved TTRSS Sync Speed without API plugin
• Fixed an issue when entering text into an alert (iPhone SE)
• Fixed issue when folders were deleted on the server (Instapaper)
• Fixed issue when articles were moved on the server (Instapaper)
• Fixed issue where tags would not be applied if the article was already downloaded (Inoreader)
• Fixed expanding low frequency in all article mode
• Fixed a bug that caused wrong new article counts
• Fixed an issue with protocol relative links
• No longer shows “not connected to the internet” push notifications
• Fixed issue with preview images that used html escaped chars in their url
• Automatically updates the feed list after changing the feed list sort order setting
• Fixed an issue with slightly off article dates (Feedly)

New

• iPhone X support

Changed

• Removed all ads and “remove ad” purchase

• Removed all ads in free version

New

• New “Add Feed” button in the feed list
• Changed open articles in Safari option to open articles in safari view and the open links in safari instead of safari view option now affects opening articles as well
• Links opened for the web mode now open in a custom view that shares cookies with the web view mode to allow logging in to web sites. This can be disabled in the expert settings.
• Expert setting to not dim read, but starred articles
• Long press the sync button to reset local changes and perform a full sync.
• Option to sync on server automatically when syncing the app (TT-RSS)
• Now shows the archived, fresh and published feeds (TT-RSS)

Fixed

• Fixed sharing title and url
• Fixed starred articles appearing as unread (Pocket)
• Fixed saving animated GIFs from the image viewer
• Fixed an issue with the top margin in the artcle view
• No longer grays out starred articles, regardless of read status
• CMD – W keyboard shortcut while the app is in split view
• Slightly improved Sync Speed (TT-RSS)

New

• Expert option to open links in Safari instead of Safari View
• Expert option to open articles directly in Safari
• Added “All” option to the mark read older then dialog
• Arrow keys now scroll in the article view

Fixed

• Fixed a layout issue in in-app notifications
• Fixed a layout issue in the hotlinks view on iPhone X
• Statusbar no longer disappearing (if enabled) after opening a website
• Improved feedlist updating/app startup with a large number of articles (>20k)
• Fixed 3D Touch preview being dismissed on moving your finger
• Fixed app badge number not being updated in certain situations
• Switched back keyboard shortcut from esc to cmd+w since a bunch of keyboards don’t have an esc key
• No longer shows an empty screen when tapping a summary notification
• Fixed an issue where typing an R would cause a sync
• Fixed top / bottom color in scrollable footnote tooltips
• Fixed encoding issue with feed titles in the subscribe screen
• All / Unread / Starred keyboard shortcuts while
• Fixed article title being cut off in some circumstances
• Fixed HTML entities in feed title in notifications
• Fixed code block format in articles
• Slightly improved TTRSS sync speed
• Improved colors in Feedbin newsletters

New

• Automatically tries to restore an action subscription if subscribing failed.
• New tag {date-long} and {date-short} in custom url actions
• New tag {date-long} and {date-short} in custom email actions
• Grouped and cleaned up expert settings
• Expert Option: Disable parallax scrolling
• Expert Option: Reducing article motion

Fixed

• Improved article image search
• Improved feed list layout with longer titles
• Fixed alert views being cut off an smaller devices
• No longer inverts the feed icon colors (smart invert)
• Fixed not being able to dismiss safari extension if there is no account
• Feed order in article list is now case insensitive
• Now highlights the selected view mode even when the article is opened from the today widget
• Fixed “you can select a quick share action” being display when long swiping on an article
• Strips HTML from article title if needed (Today widget)
• Fixed an issue with line breaks in article view
• Fixed visual bug in quick share selection
• Fixed a couple of potential crashes

New

• Show the image caption / alt text in the image viewer
• Support for Smart Invert (accessibility option)
• Option to disable Sparks (Fever)

Fixed

• Hides preview image if the preview image failed to load (full width previews)
• Tapping an article notification now opens the article
• Fixed footnote popups being cut of at the sides
• Fixed footnote popup color issue in dark themes
• Updates the feed list immediately on disabling/enabling smart views
• Fixed URL actions with old {callback} and {source} tags
• Enforce a bit of space between images and text in the article view
• Placeholder feed icon in the article list now uses the correct color
• Correct highlight color for the article count in the article list
• Fixed alert popup background colors (Reduced transparency, dark theme)
• Fixed not scrolling when navigating in the article list using the keyboard
• Fixed potential crash when navigating through articles using the keyboard
• Improved Hot Links

New

• New Copy Article sharing action
• Return after mark read now also works on the iPad (with hidden feed list)
• New Expert Option: Open links in article mode in Safari View. (Defaults to yes, should be disabled if you have problems with paywalled sites or cookie notices)
• New Expert Option: Update article list after sync automatically
• New Expert Option: Hide feed icons in the feed list
• Added Sync account keyboard shortcut while focused on feed list

Fixed

• Disabling confirm mark all read now also prevents the mark all above or below dialogs
• Fixed a possible crash when subscribing in a folder (Inoreader)
• Improved handling of renewing subscriptions
• Now scrolls to the top of the article list after updating
• Fixed an issue where the article list toolbar would disappear
• Fixed an issue where the feed icon would not appear when showing only the article title
• Fixed an issue that could cause the app to freeze on a bad network connection
• Fixed a potential crash on mark all read below
• Fixed potential crashes during sync
• Show Feed Icon in article list if no favicon is available
• Improved article loading if preloading is set to 0

Fixed

• Fix an issue generating hotlinks
• Updated changelog URL
• Made is slightly easier to trigger the expert settings
• Fixed app badge option (Wallabag)
• Fixed Safari View action from article view
• Fixed preview image url / article url switch up in mail actions
• Fixed a potential crash when opening a list with a large number of articles
• Fixed issue with dismissing the article view
• Show ungrouped feeds at the bottom (Feed Wrangler)
• Improved scroll performance with mark read on scroll enabled
• Display tags as a group (Inoreader)
• Fixed a possible issue with TT-RSS servers
• Fixed a potential crash (BazQux)
• Fixed a potential crash (Fever)
• Fixed a potential crash when dismissing an article
• Fixed a potential crash when opening an article
• Fixed typos

One of the new features in Fiery Feeds 2.0 are the Smart Views. I want to go a bit more into detail in this blog post.
The big one among the Smart Views is definitely the Hot Links view.

Hot Links

Fiery Feeds calculates as score for every link, the temperature if you will. This was inspired by the now defunct self hosted feed reader Fever. This temperature is based on both how many of your articles and feeds link to given website and how old these articles are.

That means that the most important news are always on top, and cool down over time. Additionally links to the same domain are not counted, and it takes a least links from two different feeds to get a link into the Hot Links view.

If you’re really into a specific topic, and subscribed to most of the important feeds, there is even an option in the middle of toolbar to limit the Hot Links to your articles. That is only links to any of your articles will be shown, and these links can are treated a little differently: Instead of the url the title of the article will be displayed.

Low Frequency View

The Low Frequency view that shows only feeds that do not post often. It’s akin to the Infrequent Stories feature recently launched by Newsblur, only that everything happens on device and that it’s available for all services.

Most news feeds are always up to date and publish new articles whenever something happens. But then there are the blogs and authors, who post thoughtful pieces, but only post a few times per month. The Low Frequency view highlights these articles, by showing only article from feeds that post less than 0.1 articles per day, or one article every ten days. You can change this threshold in the new Expert Settings.

High Frequency View

The High Frequency view is the exact opposite of the Low Frequency view. It shows posts from all feeds that post more than two articles per day. (This too can be changed in the Expert Settings). You might ask yourself how this can possibly help catching up with your news.

This folder allows you to mark old news articles read, and to get back to a manageable number of articles, without losing any of the articles from slower feeds.

Must Read Folder

The Must Read folder is probably the least interesting thing in the Smart Views section: If you create a regular folder and name it “Must Read”, any feed in this folder will also be highlighted in the Must Read view.

This view is not especially smart, but I find it really useful to have a couple of hand selected feeds at the top of the list. It means that when I finished the smart views section, I’ve already read all of the important stories of the day.

As I previously said, the focus of version 2.0 is on new layout and modernising the app, so I have a good foundation to build on for the next couple of years. I also said there wouldn’t be any new features, but I just couldn’t help myself when I had the idea to add what I call Smart Views.

New Layout

The first thing about the new layout is, the new, larger article view. The article list is still as configurable as always, but it now has a lot more space to shine.

The article view also gets a lot more space. It’s now displayed modally above the article list and can be dismissed by simply swiping down. Or from the edge on either side. Or by tapping on the blurred content. What I’m saying is, it’s easily dismissed, making getting through a lot of articles easy.

There are also a ton of smaller UI improvements across the app, for example you can drag the article view toolbar from the bottom to either side, or the parallax effect when scrolling in the article list. You should really just see it yourself.

Modernized App

Aside from the new layout, the app now supports everything you’d expect from a modern iOS app.

3D Touch

Full support for 3D Touch and Peek / Pop on devices with 3D Touch support. You can press to preview article lists, hot links, articles or preview images to jump directly to the image viewer (quite useful for comics). Yes, I know I’m late on that one.

Drag and Drop

On the iPad you can now drag articles right from article list to other apps. You can even choose whether the preview image or the HTML content is included.

Continuity

Also new: Support for Hand off / Continuity. I’m surprised, that this has not been implemented by other apps yet. If you’re reading an article on your phone, your other devices, including iPads and Macs will no offer to open the corresponding website, so you can continue reading on another device if you want.

Haptic Feedback

On newer iPhones, Fiery Feeds will also respond using the taptic engine to your taps and swipes. Apps without this just feel a bit flat in my opinion.

State Restoration

If the app quits in the background, the next time you launch it, Fiery Feeds will continue right where you left off. Yep, late on that one too.

iPhone X support

And of course the new app is optimized for the iPhone X.

Smart Views

There are four Smart Views in Fiery Feeds, but the most notable is probably the Hot Links view.

Hot Links

Hot Links searches all your articles for links, and ranks them based on how many articles link to a given website and how old these articles are. It gives you a quick overview of the most important events.

Frequency Folders

There are also two folders based on posting frequency.

The first is the Low Frequency Folder that shows only feeds that do not post often. It’s akin to the Infrequent Stories feature recently launched by Newsblur, only that everything happens on device and that it’s available for all services.

The second folder is the polar opposite, the high frequency folder. I usually use this folder to mark older articles read, if I’m behind of my feeds. Using this folder I can reduce the number of articles, without losing any of the articles from slower feeds.

Must Read

The fourth folder is the least exciting. It’s a specially highlighted folder with your most important feeds. Simply create a folder and name it “Must Read”. It’ll be shown in the Smart Views section above all other folders.

Pricing

I released a new, free version of Fiery Feeds about a year ago with an optional subscription, that unlocked a few additional features. That version eventually replaced the paid version. Fiery Feeds 2.0 will be an update to the subscription based app, at no additional cost (That’s why it’s a subscription).

I have also updated the paid version up to now, despite it not being for sale anymore. Version 2.0 marks the first update, that the paid version will not receive. As a sort of upgrade pricing, the premium subscription is currently 50% off, that is $4.99 per year. Anyone who subscribes until the end of February will stay at this rate until they unsubscribe.

Fiery Feeds 2.0 is available as a free download.

New

• Added haptic feedback
• New Option: Left Preview Images
• Footnote popups
• Drag (and drop in another app) article from the article list
• 3D Touch: Peek & Pop in Feed and Article List
• Option to mark article read when sharing using URL action
• You can now do a long drag on an article (to the left) to trigger your selected quick action
• Hidden Options (Long Press the settings icon for some additional options noone really needs)
• Shows Update List Button after sync in article list (until list is reloaded)
• Unsubscribing now has a confirmation dialog
• Option to select “None” as Quick Share Action
• Tap Statusbar to Show Navigationbar and Toolbar in Article View
• Account Option to cache already read articles
• Theme import from iCloud Drive
• Separate article list font size option
• Restores App State after relaunch
• Added Fira Sans as Font
• Parallax effect in preview images when scrolling
• Settings now show their units (pt, px, %, …)
• Long swipe for quick action in article list
• Open Links to images in image view instead of safari view
• Accessory Action Setting (Open Feed, Open article view directly)
• Now also hides the toolbar in article and feed list on scroll
• Unread Count in Article List in the top right corner
• Unread Count in article list & article view can now be disabled for a cleaner view (default: disabled)
• Article Padding is now in % insetad of pixel. You may have to adjust the selected value.
• Summary notifications (x new articles found) now count per account
• Fiery Feeds now downloads and caches the text version of articles if the feed is set to text and remember view mode is turned on.
• Fiery Feeds now download already read articles as well as far as the API allows for all feed reader services
• There is now an option for a notification for each indiviual new article.
• Improved Wallabag Sync
• Drag and Drop Reordering in Account List
• Improved Article Caching Options
• New, custom notification sound
• Quick Share Keyboard Shortcut
• Support for Continuity / Hand off
• Draggable toolbar in article view
• High Frequency Folder
• Low Frequency Folder
• Hot Links Folder
• New App Icon
• Support for iPhone X

Fixed

• Improved Instapaper Sync
• Fixed a crash when syncing with Wallabag
• Fixed error on initial sync with Feedbin
• One Note Sharing Login uses Safari View
• Fixed swipe to delete user actions in action lists.
• Force-enabled playback controls on video elements in articles
• No longer retrys downloading images if the download fails
• AM/PM time in accounts list (depending on device settings)
• Uses crawled date instead of published date (Feedly)
• Fixed adding feed to multiple folders (Feedly)
• Removed Minimal Reader (as the service is shutting down)
• Faster left / right swipe in article view
• One Note Sharing Login uses Safari View
• Buffer Sharing Login uses Safari View
• Buffer Sharing Login uses Safari View
• Improved article list scrolling

Changed

• Removed AOL Reader (as it’s being shut down)
• Removed Custom Sharing Sheet
• Removed Custom Web View
• Removed Open Groups as Option
• Removed “More” Button in long lists
• Custom themes require a subscription
• Account Settings moved to Accounts List
• Updated Predefined articles list styles
• Removed Twitter / Facebook actions (no longer available in iOS 11)
• Moved a few settings around: “Pull to mark all read”,” Return after mark all read” and “hide toolbars on scroll” are now be found in “More”
• Account option: Number of read articles to keep (instead of number of days to keep read articles for)
• Requires iOS 10

• Fixed a bug that prevented Tidur Pro purchases from completing. Tidur Pro would be locked again after restart, since no purchase actually happened.
• Fixed bug where timer alarm and color would reset when editing them (Apple Watch)
• Added an option for a second alarm sound when a repeating timer restarts
• Fix possible data error editing timers while offline with enabled cloud sync
• Added Haptic Feedback
• Support for iPhone X

• Support for iPhone X
• Fixed bug where the timer title would reset when editing the timer
• Fixed no notifications, when a timer was started from the notification widget
• Updated URL schemes to use tidur:// instead of multitimers://

A little update on Fiery Feeds 2.0: It’s going to be a redesign without adding new capabilities.

Instead I’m going to focus on removing old code and no longer needed options like the custom share sheet (since third party apps can only be integrated using the system share sheet) or the old web view (in favour of SFSafariWebView – Note: I’m not talking about the web mode in the article view) and lots of custom navigation code, which will be the biggest chunk of work.

The plan is to make Fiery Feeds feel like a modern app again, with 3D Touch, Peek & Pop, Drag & Drop, Taptic feedback and to have a modern codebase on which I can build for the coming years.

The new layout focuses much more on the article list.

And the article view now uses much more of the screen by default.

Please note that these are only mockups. While I am working on the update the current dev build looks nothing like them yet.

Fiery Feeds will be available as a subscription based app for a year next week and version 2.0 will be a free update to this app.

The next big update to Tidur is here with a couple of small improvements and bug fixes and a big new feature: Cloud Sync.

You can now sign up for Tidur Cloud and sync all your timers between your devices. It can even push changes like starting a timer to all other devices. This is not yet enabled server side, but everything in the app is already setup. If everything goes according to plan I’ll activate this feature in the coming weeks.

Why a custom solution instead of iCloud? For one, it enables things like push notifications, or Alexa integration (potentially – no promises yet). It is why easier to debug if anything does go wrong. Buy the biggest reason, if I’m honest, is that I simply wanted to build a small web service, because I haven’t done that in a long time and Tidur is a nice, simple app that allows me to play with new tech.

Cloud Sync is a new in-app purchase in Tidur, and is included in the full unlock, now called Tidur Pro.

You can download Tidur for free at https://geo.itunes.apple.com/de/app/multi-timers-2/id720812035?mt=8&at=10l5Fg&ct=cc

• Cloud Sync on iOS Devices
• Cloud Sync on Apple Watch
• Improved Purchase Screen
• Fixed bouncy scrolling
• Fixed light theme reseting on launch
• Displays number of repetions on watch app
• Fixed hiding finished timers in widget

• Opens changelog in Safari View
• Error messages are now displayed as notification banner
• Improved onboarding and premium screen
• The subscribe extension now also works when long pressing an RSS link in Safari.
• Reduced minimum preview image file size
• Properly changed Login to Safari View (Feedly)
• Fixes UI issue with load images setting
• Improved FeedHQ syncing

New

• You can pause timers
• Repeating Timers: Set a number of repeatitions and a pause between each interval.
• You can now toggle between a light and a dark theme.
• New Color Purple for Timers
• 13 additional new alert sounds available
• Redesigned and polished every inch of the user interface.
• Multi Timers is now called Tidur – which is Swedish for timers.

Fixed

• Fixed wrong alert sound whenn starting a timer from the today widget
• You can now also change the alarm sound in the watch app. (The watch app stil only supports the default sound, but this is in preparation for cloud sync.)

• Article view in web mode now opens links to the same domain inline
• Also fades feed icon, read icon and preview image for read articles in the list
• Properly changed Login to Safari View (InoReader)
• Improved condensed article list layout
• Removed all ads from free version

It’s not a complete redesign, but it could almost be. I’ve polished every corner on the iPhone and Watch app, and added a bunch of new features and a new name (Tidur is Swedish for Timer). Enough to warrant calling it a new major version: 3.0.

New Free Features

A new feature for everyone is pausing timers. It’s exactly what it sounds like: You can pause and resume a running timer, also I’ve added a fifth color: Purple.

Premium Features

But this version also includes a bunch of new premium features. They can be unlocked individually or as a complete package. As a thank you to those who have already purchased the “Remove Ads” in app purchase, the complete package is unlocked automatically.

Repeating Timers

You can now choose how often a timer should repeat, and you can specify a pause between each repetition. This is especially useful if you’re doing workouts with the app.

Light Theme

If you want a lighter design, it’s now very easy to switch between the light and the dark theme.

Additional Sounds

In addition to the two free alert sounds, you can unlock 13 new alert tones, for a total of 15.

Last year I started offering Fiery Feeds in a new version, a free download with a subscription for premium features. In the linked post I outlined why I believe that (reasonably priced) subscriptions are a better option than paid up front apps in the App Store.

Subscriptions

In the coming months I will be moving completely to the subscription model: The paid up front app Fiery Feeds Premium is no longer available to purchase. (If you have previously purchased the paid app, it is still available to download in the Purchased Section in the App Store. I will keep Fiery Feeds Premium updated and working for a while longer, at least until after iOS 11 is released.)

It seems Fiery Feeds lives in a niche much to small to offer an ad-supported version. The ads never brought in any meaningful revenue (less then $20 in a year), partly because Fiery Feeds doesn’t (and doesn’t aim to) appeal to a mass audience, and partly because the ads very not placed very prominently. Since I simply don’t want to add more obtrusive ads, I’ve decided to removed all ads, for everyone, and instead focus more on new features for premium.

If you’re not already a premium subscriber, I would like to ask you to become one, if not for the additional features, then to support the ongoing development of the app. I am going to raise the price of the subscription to $10 / year once version 2.0 hits the store and existing subscribers will keep their current price as long as they’re subscribed to premium.

Version 2.0

Fiery Feeds is now almost four years old, and while I’ve added a lot of features, the design hasn’t changed much in that time. Some design decision, like having everything in the navigation bar made sense when the iPhone 5 was the largest device available. I believe it’s time to go back to the drawing board and think carefully about what still makes sense and what to change. I will talk more about this in a future blog post.

Thank you all for your support over the years

Fixed

• Article List Problems with enabled preview images
• Slightly increased minimum preview image size

New

• More obvious dimming of read articles
• Option to hide article status icons in list
• Shows status icon and feed icons separately if both are enabled
• Tweaked predefined list styles

Fixed

• Crash on launch for some users
• Increased preview image resolution
• Prevent tiny preview images
• Fixed only downloading 1000 starred items (Inoreader)

New

• Support for sync with FeedHQ
• You can now change the mobilizer per feed if the pages is displayed incorrectly (use the link at the bottom of the mobilized article)
• Automatic Mode for mobilizer… tries to automatically pick the best mobilizer service
• More mobilizer services available (Mercury, Graby, Goose and Boilerpipe)
• Support for Firefox as external browser

Changed

• Removed global article mode and mobilizer settings in favor of per feed settings.

Fixed

• The subscribe action is now also supported in 3rd party browser apps like Chrome, Firefox and iCab.
• Fixed a problem where allow all certificates wouldn’t allow some certification.
• You can now mark all articles as read in searches (Feedbin)
• Improved inline video playback while fullscren on scroll is enabled.
• Fixed problem with toolbar in Fiery’s integrated web view.
• Fixed potential crash in Today Widget

Fixed

• Fixed a layout issue

New

• New Soundscape: Mountain Creek
• Increased maximum time to 120 minutes
• Restores the last selected playback duration on launch
• Clear All Button is now displayed at the top of the playlist
• Moved repeat and shuffle options to music view

Fixed

• Fixed a UI problem with very long playlists
• Fixed situation where repeat would not work correctly
• Now properly filters unplayable tracks in music mode

Fixed

• Fixes a bug where purchases would not be saved

New

• Completely rewritten from scratch in Swift 3
• Completely new design for iPhone and iPad
• Music playback no longer shows the volume overlay
• New: External Mode: Reduces the volume while any other app is playing music
• New: Soundscapes: Sleep with the sound of rain, a campfire, thunderstorm and more

A new version of Dozzzer is now available. It is completely rewritten from scratch in Swift 3 and completely redesigned, with a couple new features throw in.

Music

The new music mode plays your selected songs right in the app. It no longer relies on Apple’s music app for playback (which was kind of a hack), which means it no longer has to display the volume bezel while it’s running and it works much more reliable now.

However these improvements come with a drawback, namely it can no longer play DRM protected media (Apple Music), not yet downloaded songs and it no longer updates the playback position if you listen to a podcast.

External

That’s where the first of the new modes in Dozzzer 4 comes in. The external mode works essentially the same way as the music mode in previous versions: Dozzzer runs in the background, reduces the system volume and send a stop command to the music app when it’s done.

You’ll just have to start the playback in the music or podcast app of you choice. (If you’re using Spotify or a 3rd party podcast player, instead of sending the stop command to the music app, Dozzzer will first start playback in the music app – which cancels the 3rd party app – and then stop it. That means it works with and app now.)

Soundscapes

The second new mode is called soundscapes. Dozzzer comes bundled with soundscapes like “Mountain Creek”, “Thunderstorm” and “Campfire”.

These are not just single audio files played on repeat, instead they’re using tens of different sound files, that are layered in multiple tracks on top of each other and played randomly. All in all Dozzzer uses 90 different file for 6 soundscapes at the moment. You can try a different soundscape everyday for free or unlock all soundscapes forever with a one time purchase.

Download Dozzzer 4.0 now for free.

New

• You can now set a minimum interval between syncs
• Option to reset cookies on opening the web view
• Option whether the article list should be updated with new articles while it’s open or not

Changed

• Always use white background for websites – some websites appear broken otherwise
• The star article action now toggles the article state on and off
• Improved error logging (Wallabag)
• Improved syncing (Fever)

Fixed

• Fixed Article list text color after swipe to mark read
• Fixed a problem where not all articles were downloaded (Feed Wrangler)
• Fixed a bug, where the wrong group may be expanded (Feedly)
• Fixed a problem with pinboard settings
• Fixed a layout bug in the article list
• Fixed a bug where the today widget would display the wrong preview images

Changed

• No longer shows the loading indicator while in article mode
• Width of “normal” sidebar increased – especially on the larger iPad Pro
• Disabled autocorrect in URL and mail action editor

Fixed

• Fix unread count in article view off by one
• More reliable and stable article cache
• Fixed swiping on articles in the article list in quick succession
• Fixed Pinboard action tags and title options

New

• Full support for bazqux (sync, subscribe, move feed, rename feed, unsubscribe, create folder, delete folder, rename folder)
• Full support for wallabag (sync, add, archive)
• Support for preview images supplied by the server (Feedly, Pocket, Wallabag)
• Preview images are now downloaded on demand, if preview images are enabled
• Autohide Sidebar has now the options always / only portrait / never
• Tapping the already selected article filter (favorites/unread/all) or article sort type (date/feed) now changes the sort order within that type from oldest first to newest first and vice versa
• Pulling up in the feed list now also marks all items read (if enabled in settings)
• The “Add To Fiery Feeds” extension is now also available within Fiery Feeds

Changed

• Advanced Settings are now split into multiple groups
• Slightly increased the favicon size in the article list
• Much improved scroll performance in the article list

Fixed

• Auto Open First Article Option now actually works
• Fixed disappearing favicons in the article list
• Fixed a probleme where the statusbar would stay hidden
• Fixed article highlight in the article list
• Fixed sync status messages
• Fixed Pinboard title (null) when shared through the system share sheet
• Fixed typos

New

• Option if the first article should be opened automatically
• Added Video/Image/Article groups to pocket accounts
• Added Iowan font to the selection
• New URL scheme fiery://resetSettings to reset global settings to defaults

Changed

• Tweaked a few default values
• Less obtrusive colors in the status bar
• Updated App Transport Security rules
• A few tweaks to the appearance and article settings panes
• Improved performance marking multiple articles as read
• No longer removes articles after a sync from the article list while it’s open
• Removed patronage to avoid confusion with the premium subscription

Fixed

• Fixed swipe to show sidebar gesture (iPad)
• Fixed missing … in long titles when only one line was displayed
• Fixed a problem updating the app badge after a background sync
• Now respects the 24h/12h time setting for voiceover as well
• Fixed problems with protocol-relative URLs

New

• Support for mercury text extractor
• You can look at the log file in the about screen

Changed

• Changelog, Shortcuts, Acknowledgement and other info pages now also use the theme colors
• Clearing the image cache now also clears cached webpages in the app.
• Improved handling of broken images

Fixed

• Fixed a problem where images would not show up in an article
• Fixed a potential crash when marking articles below or above as read
• Fixed animation direction when using buttons to switch articles
• Fixed the appearance of preformatted blocks in articles
• Fixed layout issue with double height statusbar
• Fixed no folders showing up (Minimalreader)
• Fixed problem when the server response contained invalid characters
• Fixed problem with UTF-8 characters in the article view
• Fixed unread counter in article view

New

• Option if errors should display an alert. (Default off)
• Number of title lines is now configurablex
• Dismiss Article View On Leaving Article List option

Changed

• Improved horizontal article scrolling
• Dismisses the refresh indicator at the top of the list immediately

Fixed

• Fixed a bug where the article list would not correctly update the colors after changing the theme
• Fixed a bug where headers in the article list would be displayed multiple times
• Fixed a bug where the sync status in the article list would not be updated
• Fixed error when syncing with Inoreader
• Fixed a couple of potential crashes
• Slightly improved launch time

Multi Timers 2.4 was just released with full support for iOS 10.

The today widget is now adapted to the new design in iOS 10, and you can restart or stop timers right from the widget without launching the app. Additionally you can now launch the app right into editing a timer from the widget.

Support for Siri: Just say “Start ” or “Stop ” to – you guessed it – start or stop a specific timer.

The Apple watch app now supports watchOS 3, and works as a standalone app. You can add, remove and edit all timers right on your watch.

New

• Start existing timers using Siri
• Option to keep the display awake
• Updated widget for iOS 10
• Displays the total duration
• Launch into editing a timer from the widget
• Widget no longer needs to launch the app to start, stop or delete a timer
• URL Scheme multitimers://editTimer?title
• Bolder fonts
• Slightly better notifications
• Requires iOS 10
• Renamed app on device to “Timers”

Fixed

• Fixed: Layout problem when rotating the device