GoodNews (Google Reader | RSS)

Google announce to shutdown Google Reader on July 1. On this date GoodNews will also be discontinued. Read my full announcement and about the podcast successor at http://www.goodnews-mobile.com/release/descision-regarding-google-reader-shutdown

If you are a developer you may want to help to bring GoodNews to a new backend. I've released GoodNews as open source for this: http://www.goodnews-mobile.com/release/goodnews-goes-open-source

GoodNews is a news reader (RSS/Atom) and audio podcast player which fully synchronizes with the famous Google Reader. GoodNews has a modern user interface which provides a lot of professional and unique news reader features including offline support (incl. images), the automatic push of local changes, read list, subscription grouping in the article list, mark read on scroll over, automatically closing views, volume button navigation and a lot more. More than 50 options allow you to tailor GoodNews exactly to your needs.

If you are a podcast listener you will also love GoodNews due to it's comfortable podcast features including a play list, downloads for offline listening, live streaming, headset controls and — of course — individually stored playback positions for all of your episodes.

And to give you the choice, GoodNews is available as a free version or as a professional version which omits the ad banners and adds some enhanced features (e.g. dark theme).

Basic Features
★ fully Android 4 (ICS) compatible
★ dark theme (pro license)
★ synchronization with Google Reader
★ innovative immediate push synchronization
★ Locale and Tasker integration
★ 50+ settings for perfect customization
★ introduction tips for quick start
★ supports Android 1.6 and higher
★ supports all screen sizes
★ English and German language
★ available for free with ads
★ payed add-on to remove ads
★ ... and a lot more

News Reading
★ offline reading including images
★ read list for later reading
★ group articles by feed
★ edit article tags
★ quick tag buttons in article list
★ auto close read lists
★ volume key navigation
★ mark read on scroll over
★ ... and a lot more

Audio Podcast
★ easy migration from Google Listen
★ play list
★ extended headset controls
★ lock screen controls on ICS
★ stop and resume downloads
★ download complete play list
★ adaptive live streaming
★ ... and a lot more

You can find the full list of features and a comparison with the pro edition at http://www.goodnews-mobile.com/features/

You should also check out the GoodNews Pro License: It removes the advertisements and adds some features for the power user.

STAY TUNED: Subscribe to the GoodNews blog (see website) or follow me (@GettingMobile) on twitter.

IMPORTANT: You need a Google Reader account to use GoodNews.

Recent changes:
Information regarding Google Reader shutdown