We analyzed 18 negative reviews of lire: RSS Reader from the App Store. Here's what users are saying.
Offten causes the iPhone to become very hot
This app was my favorite RSS reader supporting iCloud sync for quite a long time. Sometime in the past month or two, it has turned into a bloody mess. It almost always crashes on launch and then will launch on the next attempt. Navigating to feeds frequently results in a different feed showing. Or t...
Return after opening webview
I got this to replace Reeder but I’m having issues with constant crashing. Every time I open the app, it crashes. It can’t keep articles in memory and when I switch back from another app it crashes, I change a setting… it crashes. It’s annoying for such a well appointed RSS app. I hope the crashes a...
Newest update crashes on update. App is unusable.
Lire was my pick in the middle of 2025 when I needed a new RSS reader. I had been swapping Reeder 5 and then the new Reeder throughout 2024-2025 and neither really fit my needs. Lire looked elegant and had most of the features I wanted without a subscription. However, this thing is a storage space h...
Decent app overall, but there are a couple of issues that prevent me from recommending it. I have >100 feeds and get constant iCloud sync errors. Even when I don’t get the yellow error banner I still notice articles on my iPad that I read earlier in the day on my iPhone. Also, the background syn...
The new interface is awful. The old version was much cleaner and easier to navigate. Now that this has been updated for ios26, it’s a mess and the old version is no longer functional at all. Fortunately I have an older iPad with iOS 18.7 where the older version still works well and is easy to use...
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