What is Manifesto?

In its simplest terms, its the app that I’ve wanted on the iPhone since I got it last year. Its an RSS Reader. More than that, its hopefully a ‘News’ reader to people who aren’t familiar with RSS.

What sets Manifesto apart?

The main goal as I was building Manifesto was to make it an extremely efficient news reader and not just a rehash of whats out there. Most people have a bunch of feeds that are updated several times a day and it can often be extremely tedious to figure out which articles are important and which are not. Manifesto makes that process easy with its aggregate view of new articles and also with quick flagging.

The second, and maybe more important, goal of Manifesto was to make it the best offline news reader. Manifesto makes viewing your news offline seamless.

What is in Manifesto 1.0?

Aggregate Views

At a glance see all of your new or flagged articles. There is no need to go through feed by feed to see what’s new or important.

Quick Flag

You’ve never flagged your important articles so quick. Just tap on the left margin of an article to flag or unflag it. Its never been quicker.

Flagged Article Caching

Now that you’ve marked an article as flagged, wouldn’t it be great to have that article’s web page saved for offline viewing? Manifesto, by default, caches an article as soon as you flag it.

Flip Web

Never leave Manifesto to view the web page for an article. With the touch of a button the article flips over to reveal its web page.

Share

Think an article is great and want your friends to check it out? With 2 taps you can email the link to your friends.

Bulk Operations

Mark all as read. Mark all as flagged. It doesn’t get any easier.

Easy Add

Easy and simple to add new feeds to your collection:

• Auto-discovery: Use a website address like apple.com. Manifesto automatically detects the location of the site’s feed
• Google Reader Import: Have a bunch of feeds in Google Reader? Manifesto will let you import all or just a few of your feeds
• Feed URL: For those hard to find feeds, just enter in the full URL

Supported Feed Formats

All versions of RSS, RDF and Atom.

What is next for Manifesto?

Manifesto is a constantly updating and evolving product. I have a few ideas that I’ll be working into upcoming versions but I’d also like to include your ideas too. The best way to give feedback is here.

As for new features:

• People have a lot of feeds and need a way to search and organize them. There will be some really awesome improvements to this.
• There are some great feed syncing services out there and I know people would love for Manifesto to sync with them. Manifesto was built with this in mind.
• Even better offline functionality