Cream App Reviews

This app is full of bugs and doesn’t work as advertised. Save your money. Update - in Sierra all you can do is force quit the app — what garbage!

this news reader is really neat but without a picture thumbnail its slightly impractical. I often read RSS-Feeds about visual things like design, typography etc. and without a little picture preview its like groping in the dark.

I like the idea of having a newsreader that "knows" what I want to read … Ive got more than 200 feeds so very useful idea ! But what I would URGENTLY need are two things: 1) Pictures A news feed / article is way more compelling with a picture and I sometimes only read articles with a good picture (Flipboard is good here !) 2) visual read indicator Even if the number of "creamy articles" is limited to e.g. 200, not seeing which one Ive read already is a pain. If that gets fixed soon, Im happy to recommend it further !

"…as a companion to full-featured news reader…" OMG, useless! Was man wissen sollte bevor man zu eilig (wie ich) zugreift: Es ist kein Reader, der den Status mit Google Reader synchronisiert! Die Rss Feed werden nur abgerufen. Die App lernt dabei den jeweiligen Geschmack und kann die News nach den - mutmaßlichen - Prioritäten des Users sortieren. Mehr aber auch nicht. Es gibt gratis Apps wie Moka, die leider viel viel mehr können. Ich muss mir den Schuh selber anziehen, die Beschreibung habe ich nur überflogen. Von der Support Seite: "Why doesnt Cream sync via Google Reader? Most newsreaders these days are Google Reader client apps. That is, they actually require you to use Google Reader, because they rely on Google Readers handling of your feeds. Cream is not a Google Reader client app. It is completely independent of Google Reader, though it does allow importing of feeds to aid migration to Cream. Cream also works differently to other apps. The read status is a bit different in Cream than in other apps. Read in cream means you liked the story, not just that you have seen it. So syncing this status back to Google Reader would require some extra thought. We would like to support syncing of read status with Google Reader, and we are considering how we could do this with the restrictions placed on us by how Cream works."

A beautiful app, stylish and simple. Detail popover is comfortably readable, often enough to make use of the article without opening the site, just as it should be. Seems to do the intelligent selection/promotion that it promises, though that will only become apparent with time.

The only "bug" Ive noticed is some articles with stupidly long titles may wrap at character level, rather than word level. Meaning I saw something like this: This is a really, really stupidly long arti cle title that is not wrapping right The interface is gorgeous and it appears to be using the Readability mobilizer (THANK YOU!!!) One major deficiency: I understand not live-syncing with Google (Im used to that, but hooray just the same). HOWEVER, a serious feature request I BEG you, Mr. Developer to put to the top of your list: iCloud syncing between devices. I use my newsreader on my laptop at the office, but also on my iMac at home when I telecommute. So, its a pain in the rear-end to have to "filter" through the stuff I already have read through the last eight or ten hours through the day when I get home onto my iMac and look for updated feeds, etc. So: iCloud sync would solve the headache switching between my Macbook Air and my desktop iMac. For potential buyers of this app: its beautiful, functional, easy to use. Awesome little app at this price. NOTE: It does not have the ability to share to your social services, but the big ones are already built into OS X M.Lion (and I personally already use "Sharetastic" - available in Mac App Store). This little app is spot-on. I give it FIVE STARS. However, I deduct ONE STAR for lack of iCloud syncing between devices.

I really wish that I could give this application more than three stars. The developer has a very innovative idea and is definitely on the right track. Unfortunately the application lacks one very key feature - the ability to mark all messages as read (but not a selection that marks these messages as "HAM") so that they are not there when you next load the application.It also needs the ability to retrieve new articles at a selectable time interval. If it had the first thing I would have given this 5 stars!

I think most would be comparing this to Reeder, so heres my impression. After trying it, Im missing the arrow navigation and picture loading behavior of Reeder. All of my articles were popping up over the list instead of off to the side, preventing me from clicking on other articles. It is a bit too simple for my RSS scanning preferences, and my overall impression is frustration. 3 Stars because it works, and Im sure theres some good aggregation engine in it, but for the same price as Reeder, it should be better.

Cream is a great start toward tackling one of the most daunting problems we face today, and with some improvements, I think it is up to the task. Putting the science of latent semantic mapping behind feed reading is one of the best ideas Ive heard in this space for a long time. There are some limitations though in this 1.0. First, its not exactly clear how Cream is going to know which stories are creamy. As far as I can tell, its based on which items you clicked on, and theres no way to say, "This wasnt what I thought it was." It would be great if it took the route of Pandora where you can thumbs up, thumbs down, or just let it ride. I cant fault the laissez fair approach entirely—its admirable to want to do the work just by observation—but it makes each click and scroll a little more consequential than I would like. Second, Id like to see Cream understand more about what various feeds are linking to so that it can infer whether I would care about that linked article, wont particularly care but should see it because its relevant in the zeitgeist, or wont care regardless. Thats a hard problem that apps like Fever have tried to solve but so far I havent encountered a real champion of that cause. This is probably beyond the scope of a 1.0 release, but its a good goal for the future. Finally, the user interface, while pretty, is definitely a 1.0. The window for listing subscribed feeds feels tacked on and poorly considered. Also, the popover approach to reading articles is frustrating because the article disappears when the list of articles scrolls. I would prefer a more conventional three-panel widescreen or traditional master-detail layout. This would also make it easier to have a list of subscriptions that would take the place of the feeds list window, thus solving that clumsy interaction as well. Cream is probably not going to replace your conventional feed reader just yet, but it is a worthy 1.0 with a lot of potential and a worthwhile companion to your current reader of choice.

This is the simple newsreader Ive been waiting for on the Mac for years!

Maybe a good concept, but half-baked with lot of bugs: Erratic scrolling, no visible read status, no time display, duplicate feeds after opml import, bugging visual effect on RSS window opening. No feed icons, no pictures, no auto refresh ... Cant recommend it.

Look, theyre on the right track, but its not there. I gave it a shot and I was disappointed - I like my news always available and in the background, not in a windowed application that I have to switch to. Ill stick to NewsBar for now - that’s what i call simple. Attached to my desktop and always there if I want to use it. If cream were to use that type of model for the interface so its attached or even docked constantly Id consider giving it another shot. I feel misled mecause the pictures of the app look like that’s exactly what the interface was, and I was excited about it. I know that refunds cannot be had, but Ill be honest I wish I had my 5 bucks back - straight to AppDelete, enjoy my $5 and another lesson learned. Sorry guys.

I like the idea of it. Sort of like "Fever" without having to run your own server. The problem is, I currently use Reeder on the desktop and on my iOS devices; often starring things on iOS that I want to read on the desktop when I get back to a computer. Cream doesnt really work with this workflow at all because it doesnt support favorites/stars. So really how I currently organize things doesnt work here at all. So its mostly an issue with how I currently do RSS; this may be good for someone who doesnt have such an established workflow.

A good beginning, but it needs improvement. Keyboard shortcuts would be a welcome addition. Navigating the app is a bit rough, as is. Its also not entirely clear how the app should work and theres no indication of when a post is read or unread. As things stand now, I would not recommend this as a replacement for Reeder or Caffeinated. Perhaps thats how things will always be, however. Cream is attempting something rather ambitious that is beyond the scope of other feed readers to date. Im looking forward to seeing how this app matures.

Recently been looking for a way to get at the "cream" of my RSS feeds. Cream promises to solve that, but the interface at this iteration is a bit clunky for navigating between stories. For me, its so much of a problem that I cant quite make use of the app yet unless I am able to quickly navigate through stories with the arrow keys (Reeder). That solved, this would be a welcomed new addition to my apps. Excited for whats to come!

A news reader that learns what youre interested in and brings relevant articles to the front of your list is a fantastic idea, but Cream just isnt ready for prime time. Theres no visible indication that youve read an article, and the otherwise-beautiful article pop-out omits embedded images and videos. With those two huge functionality holes, Cream just isnt very usable. Im hopeful the developer will fix this quickly as its a beautiful app and a great concept.

The app wont accept my Google account password so I cant sync from Google Reader at all. I realize the devs are probably busy trying to get features added and all that too, but seems like they would be trying to push out updates quick to fix all the bugs. Its useless to me in the current state. A waste of $5 so far..

if the developer had put as much thought into functionality as the UI this might be more than a half-baked cupcake. needs a bit of work, ok, a lot of work. but this is a 1.0 version, so i have hopes.

I love the look and feel of this app but I was a bit frustrated with it. With keyboard navigation added to this version, I could not be more pleased. I recommend it unequivocally.

It looks like the developers bet the ranch on this "creaminess" concept, and if that is working for you, consider my rating a three or four star. But that feature (which I have no interest in, but thats just me), even if it works, comes at a significant cost. Consider the comparison to Headline, a long-available app of similar nature, that Cream in fact helpfully offers to import feeds from (it succeeds partially at that). Below are things (most of which you can do in Headline circa 2008) and which you would expect to work in any such quick reader, but do not: * Menubar icon * Preference setting for font and font size * Navigation in the Stories list using keyboard or trackpad gestures * Autorefresh with user preference for frequency, and notification of new articles Cream is a well crafted app and a promising one. Add a menubar with visual indicator of new items (or better, autopop), keyboard navigation (or better, gesture based navigation), and configurability for font (especially size), and it would be compelling. Update on 1.1: this update gives hope that the developers are not only listening but also busy working to add featuers. Keyboard navigation was much needed and is welcome. At the cost of sounding churlish, I will point out that it is imperfect: navigating to a new article with the keyboard causes the article popup to disappear, which means you need two keystrokes (one arrow up or down to move to the next article, and one right arrow to pop the message window out again). There is still a good bit missing, in my book, as listed in the bullet list above. But there seems to be hope on the horizon.