Time saver! Processing power issue.

UPDATE: While I insist on keeping this a 4-star review I have to report that RSS Bot has become completely unusable because of some sort of sluggishness and “beachballing” along with high processing use. Unfortunately I have had to basically abandon it until this is fixed.

The ability to bring the information to you that you want and/or need is the biggest time-saver for me.

I have noticed that for some odd reason RSS Bot consumes 100-percent of my processing power and shows up in the battery menu under “apps using significant energy.” Not sure why this is, but obviously this is the place for immediate improvement.

A suggestion would be the ability to individually set retrieval times for individual feeds. For example, breaking news would be better at 5-minute intervals while a tech-related article might be hourly. This might immediately factor into an energy-saving improvement.

Lastly, and I kind of wonder why Apple hasn’t thought of this, but in their Notification Center, why not include a “ticker bar” option—where important notifications scroll across the bottom fo the screen? My other often running RSS app that does this is ZipLine, which used to be in the App Store but isn’t anymore.

Anyway, keep up the improvements!

geoffreyalanholliday about RSS Bot - News Notifier