Reeder 2026.6 — Mac version

Follow feeds from your existing service

If you already use an RSS sync service, you can plug Reeder straight into it. It skips the faff of starting from scratch — just sign in and your subscriptions appear.

Catch up with the reader view

Open an article and tap the reader button. It strips out sidebars and ads, leaving clean text and images. Good for sites that bury the story in clutter.

Pick a layout that fits your window

Morning skim for a volunteer coordinator

Sophie runs a small charity and needs to spot funding opportunities, local authority updates, and sector news without it eating her morning. She set up a Feedbin account with about forty subscriptions — council feeds, trust newsletters, a few policy blogs — and pointed Reeder at it. Now her Tuesday routine takes twelve minutes: open the Mac, let Reeder pull in the overnight updates, and swipe through the unread list with a three-finger gesture. Image previews mean she can spot a grant announcement from the logo before reading the headline. Anything that needs a proper look gets sent to Reeder’s Read Later pile, which syncs to her phone via iCloud for the bus ride into town.

Workflow: from feed item to shared brief

1. Scan the list. In the default compact layout, scroll through new items. YouTube video previews now show inline, so you can tell a vlog from a written piece without opening it.
2. Open in reader view. Tap the reader button on anything that looks messy. The improved viewer pulls out the body text and lead image, leaving the donation widgets and sidebar menus behind.
3. Build a reading stack. Swipe right on four or five promising pieces to send them to the Read Later queue. They’ll wait there, organised by feed, no inbox noise.
4. Work through the queue. Open the Read Later tab. Read each article in reader view. For the policy briefing Sophie actually needs to share, copy the cleaned text and paste it into a Slack message for the trustees.
5. Archive and move on. Mark everything as read in one go. The queue clears, the sync pushes the read status back to Feedbin, and Sophie’s phone shows the same empty pile when she checks later.

List loading got snappier with filters

The 2026.6 release tidied up a few friction points that regular users had been grumbling about. List loading feels snappier now, especially if you lean heavily on filters — switching between “Unread” and a folder of health-policy feeds no longer comes with a pause. Scrolling through a long morning catch-up is smoother too, which matters when you’re flicking past a hundred headlines.

A small but handy fix: the podcast player controls actually work now, so if your feeds include audio, the inline player won’t leave you stuck mid-episode. YouTube video detection has also sharpened up — Reeder spots them in the items list and shows a preview thumbnail rather than a blank square. It’s the sort of quiet improvement that saves you opening a link you didn’t want.

Comics search is fixed as well, which is niche but welcome if you follow webcomic RSS feeds and like to find old strips by title. Nothing flashy in this update, just a set of tweaks that make the app feel less like it’s in your way.

Reeder can switch between a compact list and a wider magazine-style view on its own as you resize the window. Less tweaking, more reading.

• List loading is snappier, especially when you use filters.
• Scrolling and animations feel smoother across the app.
• Fixed a few gremlins: podcast player controls now behave, and comics search actually finds things again.
• YouTube video previews appear more reliably in the items list.

• macOS 14 or later
• Works on Intel and Apple Silicon Macs