Kelson Reviews Stuff - Page 17

Assistant for No Man’s Sky

★★★★★

Very useful for looking up crafting recipes and other reference while playing the game on my PC. Updated quickly when the game adds new features.

Target (app)

★★★★★

Well-designed, runs smoothly, great for ordering items to pick up in-store or for shipping. Cart syncs with the website, so you can do some of your shopping on a bigger screen and some of it on your phone. They really refined curbside pickup during the early part of the pandemic, and it’s able to handle complex situations like picking up different parts of your order at different locations, or picking up two orders at once at the same store.

Clusterduck

★★★★☆

Fun and weird, good for killing time while you’re waiting in line. Eventually it gets monotonous, but it takes a while to get there.

NetNewsWire

★★★★★

Clean, stable, fast, free, no-clutter and no-nonsense RSS/Atom newsfeed reader for macOS and iOS. You can read articles in the application or open them in the web browser of your choice.

It’s an app, not a service, so it’s not tracking you or inserting ads. That also means there’s no web version. But it can sync over iCloud, and with a variety of web-based newsreaders (including Feedly, Feedbin, InoReader, and FreshRSS), so you can keep track of your subscriptions and read/unread articles across devices. External actions can be set up with any Share extensions installed on the system, and you can choose an alternate web browser to open posts.

Unfortunately it doesn’t sync with Nextcloud News (yet).

I haven’t used the iOS version, but I highly recommend the macOS application!

Nextcloud News

★★★★★

Simple web-based news reader for Nextcloud. Feels faster in the browser than some desktop apps I’ve used. Took me all of a minute to install on my Nextcloud server, and a few more to find the export button on Feedly. (Nextcloud imported my subscriptions perfectly, by the way.) In addition to running smoothly on the website, there are multiple clients for desktop or mobile access. RSS Guard is a solid option on Windows, macOS and Linux, and I quite like NewsFlash on Linux. Just be sure to use an app-specific password on each client – some won’t sync properly with the main login.

Mobile App

For my phone I went with NextCloud News for Android. Lightweight, fast, and stable. Works exactly like you’d expect, down to swiping gestures to save/archive posts from the list view, or flip through article view, and matches the system light/dark theme by default.

Super easy to set up if you already have the Nextcloud app on your phone.

You can also manage your subscriptions through the app, including autodetecting feeds on websites that support it, and importing subscriptions from an OPML file.