Reeder
Reeder is a macOS reading app for tracking articles, videos, podcasts, and social posts in one unified timeline.
What is Reeder?
Reeder is a macOS app published by Reederapp for following and saving content from multiple online sources. Its official website describes it as an inbox for reading, watching, and listening, with a unified timeline that can combine RSS feeds, videos, podcasts, and social media posts. The app syncs subscriptions, timeline position, and tagged items across devices using iCloud, and it also supports saving links through the macOS share extension. Reeder includes filtering tools for building custom timelines and can open content in other apps when deeper interaction is needed. The publisher states that Reeder does not collect personal information or usage data, aside from Apple-provided data that may be shared through Apple platform settings. Users commonly encounter it as a dedicated reading and feed-management app installed from the Mac App Store.
Key features
- Combines RSS feeds, videos, podcasts, and social posts in one timeline
- Syncs subscriptions, timeline position, and tagged items through iCloud
- Saves links from other apps with the macOS share extension
- Creates custom timelines with filters based on keywords and content types
- Opens supported content in other apps for deeper interaction
- Lets users turn tags into public shared feeds
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Safety overview
Status: Safe
Reeder is a legitimate end-user content reader for macOS. It handles subscriptions, saved links, and optional iCloud-synced data, so the main privacy consideration is the reading data you choose to sync or share, plus any third-party services you connect.
Recommendation: Keep if you use Reeder for RSS, saved links, podcasts, videos, or social content tracking. Remove it if you no longer use the app or its synced reading workflow.
Common paths
/Applications/Reeder.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/com.reederapp.5.macOS
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/com.reederapp.5.macOS.plist
Container paths
~/Library/Containers/com.reederapp.5.macOS
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