Unread 4.4 Makes It Easier to Subscribe to Feeds Offered by Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, and YouTube

John Brayton

January 16, 2025

Unread 4.4 makes it easier to subscribe to feeds offered by Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit, and YouTube. This update is available now from the App Store.

Unread now lets you search for a feed as follows:

  • Search for any feed by entering a website URL or feed URL.
  • Search for the Bluesky feed of a user by entering their Bluesky handle.
  • Search for the Mastodon feed of a user by entering their Mastodon handle.
  • Search for the feed of a subreddit by entering its name – such as “r/macapps”, or even just “macapps”.
  • Search for the feed of a YouTube channel by searching for it by name.

These changes make it even easier to follow Bluesky users, Mastodon users, subreddits, and YouTube channels with Unread.

New Subscription window on Mac, showing feed search results for a YouTube Channel with the search criteria “Saturday Night Live”.
New Subscription window on Mac
Add Subscription window on iPad, showing feed search results for a YouTube Channel with the search criteria “Colbert Late Show”.
Add Subscription screen on iPad

YouTube

Webpage text for YouTube videos includes the author’s notes about the video. Unread is great for following YouTube channels without the distractions of comments and other suggested videos.

Unread showing a YouTube video from “A Better Computer”. The view includes the author’s summary.
Webpage text for a YouTube video

Bluesky

The webpage text for a Bluesky post includes the links to Bluesky handles, hashtags, and link previews that you would see on Bluesky.

Unread showing a Bluesky post. The view includes references to other Bluesky handles that are links, hashtags that are links, and a preview of the linked article.
Webpage text for a Bluesky post

Additional Improvements

  • This update fixes a bug that affected the layout of some MacRumors articles.
  • When deleting old articles, Unread will no longer delete an article that is currently open — even if it otherwise meets criteria for being deleted.
  • This update improves article list summaries of articles from Bluesky feeds.
  • This update fixes an animation bug around switching panes in the Settings window on Mac.

The Privacy Policy and Terms of Use have been updated to reflect that Unread’s servers use YouTube’s APIs. The servers use YouTube’s APIs for webpage text generation for YouTube videos and for finding YouTube channels.

This update is available now from the App Store. If you enjoy using Unread, please consider subscribing to its premium features.