lire: RSS Reader

Description

Love RSS feeds? So do we!! RSS feeds are a great way to follow updates on your favorite website. However, some sites set up their feeds to only show a portion of each entry, you know, to get you to click through to their actual website. We find that really annoying, and we're sure you do too. Which is why, unlike other RSS feed readers, that either push you into a browser (in-app or otherwise), or depend on third party text parsing services and require you to be online to fetch the full text of one article at a time (which makes it no different from having to click/tap through to a website), in lire, you get your favorite RSS feeds as they should've been. You don't need to click through to any website (though, you do still have the option to, if you really wanted). It takes your favorite partial feeds, does its magic, and converts them in to full feeds, so you don't have to click/tap on those annoying 'Read more' or 'Continue reading' links. Once they're cached, you don't even need to be connected to read your full-text feeds. Use as a standalone feed reader, sync with iCloud, or, sync with any of the several services: Feedly, Feedbin, FeedHQ, The Old Reader, Inoreader, BazQux Reader, Newsblur, Feed Wrangler, FreshRSS, Miniflux, Nextcloud News, Tiny Tiny RSS.

Recent Reviews

• ★★★★★GaretBo

  Better Hot Links and Calm Feed Options

  App is great and really enjoy how it offers additional features like hot links and calm feeds. However there could be a few improvements like excluding feeds from the calm list and better integration of X.com links in Hot feed. Right now if many articles use the same X post in the article the link to the post won’t open or it doesn’t show what the post is about.

• ★★★★★soundneedle

  Awful AI summaries

  That’s what you get for relying on Apple “AI”. They are notoriously incapable of anythjng AI related. You need to do byok or self host options. Ridiculous, but I guess this does let you check the “now with AI!” box.

• ★★★★★zen-xu

  Looking forward to AI-powered summary

  This RSS app is excellent—clean, fast, and genuinely enjoyable to use. The reading experience feels thoughtfully designed. That said, I’d really love to see support for configuring third-party AI for summaries. Being able to plug in custom models or services would make it far more powerful and flexible for different workflows.

• ★★★★★bigballerbanana

  Buggy on iOS 26 still

  I have an iPhone 14 Pro Max. iOS 26 hasn’t been entirely stable but Lire is the most unstable app by far. It just crashes every other time I open the app (no refresh) or when I refresh and literally wait or open an error notice. There really needs to be a real manual clear cache button because this is wild to be this unstable this long after iOS 26 dropped.

• ★★★★★shy-9527

  Offten causes the iPhone to become very hot

  Offten causes the iPhone to become very hot

• ★★★★★Caesar113

  Bloody mess

  This app was my favorite RSS reader supporting iCloud sync for quite a long time. Sometime in the past month or two, it has turned into a bloody mess. It almost always crashes on launch and then will launch on the next attempt. Navigating to feeds frequently results in a different feed showing. Or the right feed showing under the wrong feed’s heading. Sometimes articles simply won’t open but change from unread to read. Sometimes it overlays multiple section headers overtop of themselves making them appear as a jumble of overlaid text. Just insane behavior! Happening on multiple devices even after reinstalls. I thought it was a bug that would get fixed quickly but it has been at least 45 days since these issues started. Looking for a new client now.

• ★★★★★meminius

  Crash!!!

  Return after opening webview

• ★★★★★McWetty

  Good features but crashes constantly

  I got this to replace Reeder but I’m having issues with constant crashing. Every time I open the app, it crashes. It can’t keep articles in memory and when I switch back from another app it crashes, I change a setting… it crashes. It’s annoying for such a well appointed RSS app. I hope the crashes are fixed so I can 5 star it.

• ★★★★★HenriDupont

  Crashes on Open

  Newest update crashes on update. App is unusable.

• ★★★★★Haftydoesit

  I wanted to love it

  Lire was my pick in the middle of 2025 when I needed a new RSS reader. I had been swapping Reeder 5 and then the new Reeder throughout 2024-2025 and neither really fit my needs. Lire looked elegant and had most of the features I wanted without a subscription. However, this thing is a storage space hog and takes forever to sync. I opened the app today (Dec 3) to find that it had reverted back to September 2025 articles. I can’t do anything in the app until it finishes syncing and can’t see if it’s making progress. I’ll come back one day if there’s an improvement.