Bulletin is a beautiful RSS news reader app built with iOS design guidelines in mind, and supercharged with powerful AI capabilities. ▼ Smart Summaries: ⁃ Display AI-powered summaries for all articles as an overview (saving time reading all headlines) ⁃ Display AI-powered summaries for any article (saving time reading the full article) ⁃ Option to ‘Explain Like I’m 5’ (for easier understanding of the article) ⁃ From anywhere across the app ▼ Improve Titles: ⁃ AI-powered improvements to article headlines (non-clickbait versions) ▼ More: ⁃ Widgets for your Home and Lock Screens ⁃ Watch app ⁃ Push notifications ⁃ Live Activity news ticker ⁃ Shortcuts ⁃ Read out articles ⁃ Read later ⁃ Manage feeds (add, hide, remove custom RSS feeds and categories) ⁃ Import OPML files ⁃ Multiple article card sizes ⁃ Context Menus across the app ⁃ Variety of settings options to enhance the reading experience ⁃ Variety of alt app icons ⁃ Universal app (available on iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro too) Happy reading! ------- Access to the app’s features requires a monthly/yearly subscription, or a one-off purchase. Your Bulletin subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can go to your Settings > iTunes & App Store > Apple ID > Subscriptions to manage your membership and turn auto-renew off. Your iTunes Account will be charged when the purchase is confirmed. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Terms of Service: https://www.pnguin.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.pnguin.app/privacy
Nope…..
Way too frustrating to try and use. Developer needs to spend more time on this before thinking of charging money.
Nope
No Inoreader/Feedly sync Everything in the UI is just too big. Looks like it was designed for the elderly. Not enough information density. Useless button on the bottom to scroll down when you can just scroll. AI button on the main page is summarizing the top article, not the feed. Super weird to have that button there. Turn off categories disables them, but it looks weird because it doesn’t toggle off all the feeds under them as you would expect. Feels very half-baked. Might revisit in in a year, but it’s just a first draft of an app right now.
I would have paid for artifact
But not for this app
No font size options
So tired of text-centric apps such as this where all you do is read text and yet there is NO WAY to change the font size of the article text, even using iOS app-specific font size feature. What is the deal with these devs? It’s like making a car without the ability to adjust the seats. Unbelievable. Navigation from the tiny text article view is horrible. No way to swipe to next article or even dismiss the pop-up view. No easy way to mark articles as read. No mark read on scroll. This is just horrible… go check out other apps like Inoreader or Readkit and copy their main reading features. Then build off of that with your AI. Add more voice options. The default iOS voice is unbearable. Also your price is too high for what this offers. I like the idea of this which is why I care to leave such a review and it’s a great start to something amazing. It is just unusable… for me. Main gripes are above. Fix the problems and I’ll change this to a glowing 5 star review.
UI is dreadful, no iCloud sync
I have the iOS app (which has its own set of issues) but so does the macOS app. I have iCloud Sync enabled, yet it didn't sync any of my subscriptions from iOS. Why is the settings panel so tiny? Open the tiny settings panel, then click "Go to settings" and there's no way to exit this Siri prompt. I had to force close the app. No font size options. Horrible UI. No way to resize panels. It's like the dev slapped this together and hoped for the best. Stop trying to support every known Apple device and focus on one (iOS) and try to make it usable please. This is just unusable.
Excellent App
So fantastic,so expensive!
Smart summary?
Smart summary is not working, at all. The only thing that sets this apart from other news apps. Also, please consider ditching the subscription model for a single time price, or at least make that an option.
- Added a translation language picker section to settings - Added Context Menu options to translate titles - Improved the voices used when reading out synopsis - Improved various elements under the hood - Improved various phrasing across the app - Improved various layouts and UI - Fixed issue where imported feeds would also be cleared when clearing the cache and associated data via settings - Fixed issue where stopping synopsis from being read out wouldn’t correctly update menus at times - Fixed issue where some OPML/XML files would fail to import their list of feeds If you have any questions or feedback, please get in touch. Bulletin was created by an incredibly small team of one and I’d love to hear your thoughts. I’m available through X (Twitter) @JPEGuin.
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