It took over 3 months but I had finally the first beta version ready. It was quite a journey for those 3 months. I wanted to make sure that the initial version had a rich feature set to make sure that early adopters don't miss some of the important features in other RSS aggregators. It was a bumpy ride with all my nights and weekends getting marked as RSS research days but I released first beta version with following features
β π Recommended Feeds : 400 top RSS feeds curated by me in 30+ popular categories i.e. Business, Finance, Food, Gaming, History, Movies, Music, News, Programming, Sports, Technology & TV
β πΆ Full offline support : Feeds will be synced at your preferred interval if you are connected to the internet & you can access them anywhere offline. Ability to save the entire content of an article by tapping the save button to use the app as an offline news reader.
β π No Ads/Trackers: Absolutely zero tracking of user actions. Everything the app does, from fetching feeds to aggregating them and saving them is done on the device. All the data of feeds & downloaded articles is stored in the local storage.
β π¨ Multiple themes: Choose from three base themes - light, dark & sepia and ability to change accent color from available options
β π Auto sync feeds: Option to auto sync feeds at regular intervals with multiple choices available ranging from 15 minutes to 1 day
β π¬ TTS(Text To Speech): Listen to a feed article or saved article using text to speech.
β Other features included full OPML support, Search feeds online through Feedly API, categories of feed & fully customizable reader experience (font, text size, themes etc)