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Readability
Created by Readability
Licence
Free
Android version
2.1 and up
Team note
7 / 10
Users note
7 / 10
Downloads
about 100000
Size
7 Mo
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" Clean for reading. "
The application has not yet detailed description, however the team assigned the note of 7 / 10. This note is based on the following criteria: Quality, Usefulness, Ease of Use, Privacy Concerns of user data (depending on the permissions required)..
The app is compatible from version 2.1 of Android. Any supperior OS version will support it.
Its weight is light enough, less than ten MB (7 MB exactly) are needed to save to their device and use it.
Its number of downloads in the Android Market (Google Play) makes it a popular application. Over a hundred thousand users have downloaded on their smartphone or tablet.
The application has not yet detailed description, however the team assigned the note of 7 / 10. This note is based on the following criteria: Quality, Usefulness, Ease of Use, Privacy Concerns of user data (depending on the permissions required)..
The app is compatible from version 2.1 of Android. Any supperior OS version will support it.
Its weight is light enough, less than ten MB (7 MB exactly) are needed to save to their device and use it.
Its number of downloads in the Android Market (Google Play) makes it a popular application. Over a hundred thousand users have downloaded on their smartphone or tablet.
User reviews
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Syncing issues by anonymI really want to love this app, as I think Readability on Chrome is brilliant. However, the reading list takes forever to sync. :( 3/5
Catch up with your competitors ! by anonymI love the web-based Readability service, especially the Top-Reads section. The problem is: look at the version history, it's been almost a year since the last update! The much reported syncing problem is still at large and unaddressed. And just comparing it with the Pocket service shows how much more active the Pocket team is. Come on! Make this better! We believe you could do it! 3/5
Video playback issue by anonymCould you fix issue with video playback. I see black screen while sound is playing? 4/5
No custom fonts, no "send to kindle" and bad refreshing. by anonymReadability used to be perfect but now I cannot use the fonts provided by readability. All my articles open in some random hideous font and which has forced me to switch to Pocket. Moreover the inability to send your articles to kindle, something present in the website, has made this an even more disappointing app. And refreshing is very slow, as compared to even your own iOS version of the app. You guys have an amazing iOS app, make this one like that too. 1/5
GREAT app but fonts are not Big enough by anonymI'll start this off by saying I'm visually impaired, and on the highest text setting it's WAY too small. For most things I use Big Font and I'm on Gingerbread so no root needed. If you could DOUBLE the largest text size three would be amazing and I'll IMMEDIATELY give you 5 stars because you really deserve it, but as it stands it's incredibly difficult to read in the app. For reference I have big font set to 175% bigger words so I think you get the idea, thanks for a great program though! 3/5
Shoddy, crashes within a minute of starting by anonymIt used to be stable, with the worst problem being premature jumping to the next article. Now it simply crashes between 30 seconds to one minute after starting, no matter once. Basicslly useless at this point. I hope the developers fix it. 1/5
Beautiful, but Imptracticle by anonymReadability got a major overhaul this winter. Its parsing engine remains top notch. A tool that transmorgifies webpages, stripping away distractions - returns legibility, usability, and dignity to the World Wide Web. Unfortunately Readability no longer reliably caches content to the user's device. The app spends more time pinging servers and juggling graphically intense transitions than displaying the desired article. "If it ain't broke, Don t fix it" -Buddha 1/5
Good but missing features by anonymVery handy app in combination with browser plugin and website. App makes for pleasant and convenient reading on tablet. Nice clean, quiet design and simple to use. Main complaint is that the app has no tagging feature. I mainly use this for articles archived after reading (rather than when saving to reading list), having to do this on a different device is a pain. Would also like annotation abilities. 3/5
Great App by anonymThere are some problems though... Don't Sync nicelly. If we are seen multiple pages (chapters of a book), it don't sync with itself. Sometimes don't remember where I left. And the updates are very infrequently, (january? Come on!) 2/5
Junk! Junk! Junk! by anonymThis is such a lousy app, it's such a pain in the neck! I've installed and uninstalled and reinstalled this app many times and I just couldn't get it to work on my android devices. Is it just this stupid update that I've happened to install? Are there any previous good apk that I can download? This stupid app sucks!!!!! The read later tab never work, no matter what I do, idiot app!!! 1/5
Current version not functional by anonymThe Readability Android app (v. 1.0.3) is very clean and nice for making articles easier to read on mobile, but it will not retrieve or add to my Reading List?a core feature?or even archived articles. I've logged in and out, uninstalled and re-installed it several times, and tried removing and adding articles. Nothing syncs. I would rather use Readability than any of the alternatives, but the app does me no good. On ZTE Supreme running 4.1.2. 1/5
Great on computer and getting better on Android by anonymA must have for anyone who enjoys reading. The app is running much better now than earlier versions. Can sometimes be slow to load but I have 1k+ articles in my queue so that is understandable. Makea idle time much better with the ability to read from my saved files instead of wasting time with a zynga game. 5/5
Article fetching problem by anonymit takes quite some time to view saved article in the app.while it was already there on the web.but thanks for a non intrusive app.I switched to your service because your competitor trying become a social network with a very intrusive apk. 3/5
Hmmm... by anonymbeen trying out different "read it later" apps and i think i like this one. the problem is the lack of support for multiple websites. it rarely shows images from Tumblr, especially when viewing photosets. Since I use that site a lot, I'm definitely frustrated with this photoset/webpage viewing problem. And just today, I've noticed the app taking soooooo long to load articles. im starting to lose patience. it's a good app, but needs a lot of improvement in my opinion. 3/5
The buggiest most crashing app ever! by anonymWhat a horrible app. Multiple crashes day after day. Can hardly get through a story. It even crashes when not in use. As soon as I find one that I can use for my readability list I'll delete this and never look back. Terrible! 1/5
Read better by anonymThis app help me read better any article from the web. Improving reading experience, but has an annoying background service. Mostly i kill the update service. 4/5
Big fan earlier ... but data usage issues now by anonymHave had readibility app for quite some time and love it. But last couple I have had some serious data consumption issues with readability. These last 15 days or so it consumed 1.43 Gb of my data from my plan! I have only enabled it on wifi now. But no idea why it would need to consume that much data. Seems like a serious bug! Fix it! 1/5
Flawed... by anonymSyncing is screwed up, saving articles doesn't always work (Which is a big fail since that is the whole point of this app), it crashes frequently. Overall very disappointing app. Considering iOS version, they are capable of creating a good app but decided not to do that on android for whatever reason. 3/5
Syncing problems prevent it from being as good as it could be by anonymVisually appealing, makes articles a joy to read. Unfortunately it has issues synchronizing my reading list. There is usually a 6-8 hour window between when I see queue the article to my reading list (and can read it in my web browser) and the time the app manages to download it. 3/5
Unstable by anonymNice but very frequent crashs. Just updated today Jan 8th & got a string if crashes. The resultant page render is really nice but the app performs so poorly. Reluctantly uninstall & sticking with pocket :( 3/5
Is This App Supposed to Work? by anonymIf this app is supposed to work, I certainly can't make it do so. I've loaded versions on both my Note 2 and Ipad and neither will load the articles in my reading list. I've also loaded and re-loaded the app and started it over several times. It seems the best I can get is a constant 'syncing' animation on the Ipad version. That's pretty disappointing especially since I only have 5 articles in my list. JUNK! 1/5
Will not sync with site. by anonymThe Readability website provides a fantastic service that I've been making use of for years.The Android app, unfortunately, refuses to sync with its parent site. Rather, it will sync (or says it does), but my reading list remains empty. Fix this issue, and I'd give it five-stars, but until then, I'll need to look elsewhere. 1/5
Great potential by anonymReadability is an amazing product but the app does not sync articles reliably. 1/5
Got the potential but very very buggy by anonymDo I like the application? Resounding yes! Can I use the application? Hell NO. It crashes like there is no tomorrow. I stopped using the app and started using the web site itself. I use the app as a means to share and save it to my profile. Such a shame! 3/5
Major bug keeping this from the flawless 5 it deserves by anonymThe Readability site itself still remains my favorite resource for distraction-free reading. The only fault with the Android app is how long it takes to pull new items to the reading list: articles added to the Reading List appear right away on the website, but it takes a few hours to show up on the app (even after swiping down to refresh or using the Re-Download All Articles function.) If this gets fixed it gets a 5 from me, because otherwise this is only good as an archive. 3/5
Good app but still has bugs by anonymSo it's a great so for reading articles of the web and it does clear the junk out. The bug comes with the syncing, I see an article on my laptop browser, use the addons to copy the article to my readability list. I see it on the server, I open the app on my tablet and phone, is not there. I sync it, refresh, click download all articles nothing. It's been a 3 hours on one article, 5 mins on the other, neither one. This is annoying because I can see the tabs on my devices synced browser tabs, I'll read those 2/5
Constantly crashes by anonymUsing Nexus 7, this app would be great but is slow to update when I add new links, constantly crashes, I even get a crash notification from it *every time* I switch on my tablet, even though I haven't been using it. 1/5
Just Awful by anonymI send items from the desktop and they don't show up. Items in my list won't load. I sent a support email and the response back was basically "yeah, we have sync issues with Android." REALLY? I knew that already, that's why I sent the email -- tell me something I don't already know. When will it be fixed? Save yourself aggravation, use Pocket. (giving it 1 star because I can't give it a ZERO). 1/5
Good, Until I had Syncing Problems by anonymReadability on the desktop is great, and this app was working great until I added a few new articles (10) to my desktop reading list. The new articles are there in the desktop version, but won't sync to my Nexus 4. The phone app updates the articles I have archived, but not the new unread articles I've added via the desktop. Tried the pull-down refresh method, and logging out and back in multiple times, but nothing seems to work. I'd rather not have to find (and export all my articles to) a new reader, but Readability is pretty useless to me if I can't use it on my phone. 2/5
Upstaged by their own web app! by anonymReadability is an essential service. It makes aggregation and consumption of content a breeze. I also consider it essential because Chrome lacks the"reader" mode iOS Safari users enjoy. This so has has problem though. It doesn't sync with the reading list in a timely fashion. It can take hours for a newly added article to appear in the app but it's available on the mobile website immediately. This is backward. Users prefer native apps because they're faster and more stable than web apps. 2/5
So so by anonymThe app doesn't crash for me, or freeze my phone, but it definitely is very slow in downloading newly added articles from the reading list. I keep telling it to refresh, but it just doesn't seem to notice the article I added a few minutes ago, despite the fact that it is visible via the web interface... Most of the time it takes *hours* to download it! Apart from that annoying fact works ok for me. 2/5
Had potential, but why always running background service? by anonymUseful to save pages on Chrome desktop and read them later on the app. Two key issues: 1. The constantly running Readability background service sometimes eats 30% of battery, even if I've never opened the app. 2. scrolling down an article, it will jump to the next article when the bottom of the current one is reached. This is annoying. I don't know when an article will finish, so I ALWAYS have to scroll back to the original article to finish it. 1/5
Buggy, but good idea by anonymI have a bit more than 100 articles in my collection and I love the formatting of Readability. Though the app is rubbish from time to time: when I come out of airplane mode (i.e. regain internet) it crashes. It also doesn't download new articles when I drag down the list to refresh, but some random time later when the background service decided it's time. Furthermore, when I rotate the device I lose my progress in the article. And when I come back to an article after other tasks, there's just a loading anim 3/5
Great app by anonym..now I'm able to save wonderful articles I come across on the web in a hurry and read them seamless ly. across all my devices be it phone, p c. or iPad. ..this Android version is very good and compatible with Tecno P3 and it uses less of system resources and very fast in loading 5/5
Good idea, poor implementation by anonymI found an article on my pc that I wanted to read later on my phone. However, no matter how much i refresh, the article is a no show on the app. It shows up on the website but not the app. Fix this and you may have yourself a 5 star rating... 2/5
Broken by anonymJust keep flashing with "checking for updates". Not showing reading list at all, not even the welcome article, which does show up on my pic browser. Terrible. 1/5
don't bother downloading: constantly crashes, freezes my device by anonymYou'll notice that there aren't any recent reviews- I don't think that they've updated this app for new versions of Android. It causes my device to freeze when using the share link in Firefox & it doesn't fully load my reading list. Just use readability within your web browser- there it works perfectly. Just like it does on desktop 1/5
Did not seem to work as I expected by anonymI installed this on my phone. Refresh the Web page I was viewing which was a slideshow type article. It did not work. I did open this app though, it wanted me to sign in. That's all I need, another account. Why not just save the article on my phone, in local storage? I uninstalled it. 1/5
Super buggy; has potential by anonymI love readability on the web. I want to love it on my phone. Two bugs prevent me from using it as much as I would like to: 1) it doesn't download new articles reliably. You can still re-download *all* the articles via the settings menu, but who wants to do that? 2) when you reach the bottom of an article, it automatically goes to the next one, robbing you of the opportunity to read the last paragraph. How about you just let me decide when to go to the next article? 2/5
Refresh no so refreshing by anonymEverytime I refresh so I can load in articles to read on my phone they never load in. I always have to wind up having to log out and log back in for it to update my list. Please work on fixing this bug. 4/5
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