RSS Beacon, is a socially-enhanced RSS Reader for the iPhone and iPod touch, now available for the iPad.
It is a fully featured RSS Reader that gives you full RSS manageability from your mobile device, but, more importantly, helps you save and share news articles based on common interests with friends from your iPhone, iPod touch and iPad's address book!
Utilizing our unique “Beacon” sharing mechanism, it allows you to create personalized feeds, invite contacts from your address book to follow them and makes it really easy to add articles as you read them, even when you are offline.
RSS Beacon provides extensive offline usage, integration with Twitter®, Google® blog search, easily adding feeds from our frequently updated list of major online news sources or the web site scanning function, customizable settings and many more.
Our free, dedicated back-end service enhances the user experience by providing automated email notifications to all your followers that don’t own a copy of RSS Beacon, back-up of your full user profile (including saved articles), importing feeds from other readers, and many more exciting features.
RSS Beacon HD, specifically designed for the iPad is now available in the iTunes Stores worldwide.
New Features
- Completely redesigned UI, providing an experience designed just for the iPad
- Unique social features with support for up to 2 different Twitter® accounts, integration with Instapaper® and our unique “Beacon” sharing mechanism
- Faster updating of RSS feeds through our dedicated, back end service, utilizing our compression algorithms for faster data transfer
- Automatic feed syncing while you are using the application, so waiting time is minimal
- Increased offline support for reading up to 7000 articles and sharing them (with our “Beacon” mechanism)
- Viewing the full article copy including iPad compatible video, in our built in web browser
- Rolling headlines mode if you are using a stand /cradle / case with your iPad in landscape mode, that gives you the latest news headlines from a selected feed
