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Reader Ultra

A clean, ultra fast RSS reader

Jonathan Clarke
Download on theApp Store
Store ratingNo rating
Price$9.99Listed price
Age12+Store age rating
Size126 MBiPhone download
CategoryLifestyle
DeveloperJonathan Clarke

What we found

Full report

Too little checked to say Store information only. We haven’t analysed this app or read its reviews yet.

Money

  • $9.99 to download.

Not yet tested.

The store currently lists version 1.49, updated 2026-10-29.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Reader Ultra is RSS the way it should be: fast, clean, and completely free of nonsense.

No cluttered timelines. No ads dressed up as articles. No algorithm deciding what you see. Just your feeds, your folders, and a reading experience built for speed and focus — on iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

GET STARTED IN SECONDS

Fill your reader your way. Add feeds by hand, paste in your own feed URLs, import an existing OPML file to bring your whole library across in one step — or skip the setup entirely and pick from a specially curated selection of quality feeds to get you reading straight away. However you start, you're only a tap or two from your first article.

FAST, FROM LAUNCH TO LAST ARTICLE

Reader Ultra opens instantly and stays out of your way. Scrolling is smooth, articles load clean, and everything is designed to get you reading in seconds — not fighting a busy interface.…

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

Not yet tested
Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app. A missing label is not a clean bill of health.

What reviewers report

No review coverage

No review analysis published for this app.

Measurements

2 measured · 6 not assessed

“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Not assessed
Fewer than 50 reviews scanned — too few to state a rate
Price in the store description
The store description doesn’t list prices (most don’t)
Cancelling, in the store description
The store description doesn’t say how to cancel (most don’t)
Themes reported by reviewers
Not assessed
This app's reviews have not been assessed yet
Five-star share of ratings
Not assessed
No rating histogram has been captured for this app

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
How we know

Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Not yet tested

Not yet tested. No analysis has been run for this app, so there is no version or date to report.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 1.49 · 2026-10-29
- iPhone Duo: Reader Ultra is fully updated and optimised for iPhone Duo - Improvements to the system share sheet behaviour - Minor optimisations In previous updates: - Performance optimisations - Improved search: search for multiple terms with spaces or combinations enclosed in quotes - New Copy Article feature in the Share menu: copy the entire article body including all images to the clipboard - Improvements to article swipe and pull gesture reliability in certain edge cases - Smart Feeds can now apply key word searches against the RSS article body as well as the article title - More options in Settings > Reading allow control over how you navigate through feeds with gestures - Improved…

Shortened here; the full notes are on the store listing.

Assessment record

Status
Not yet tested
App identifier
reader-ultra
Sources used
None recorded
Reviews read
None recorded
Package examined
No package scan
Human inspection
Not completed
How we know
Measurement vocabulary
1.4

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
Not supplied
Version
1.49
Updated
29 Oct 2026
Price
$9.99
Age rating
12+
Size
126 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
Jonathan Clarke
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
$9.99

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

What a missing label means

Not yet tested. No analysis has been published for this app, so there is no method to describe for it yet. A missing label is not a clean bill of health: it means nothing has been read, not that nothing is wrong.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A human review gives an app hands-on, recorded measurements. None has been run for this app. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.
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