Bulletin - AI News Reviews

It would be nice to eliminate stories with the same subject / context from each feed — otherwise it’s a great app!

Tile per story consumes so much space, that even on the smallest setting you are only ever able to see 3 maybe four headlines at a time, so be prepared for tons of scrolling.

Font sizes also too large, and no way to just show headlines without parts of the article.

No way to search

Duplicates and similar topics continue to expand feed. Thought this was about smarts, so should be seeing d duplicates, and similar topics would be combined?

Smart off not RSS readers need to be light mobile and easy to scan lots of headlines quickly, which this app does not support.

meh first impression… lots of loading spinners, no ability to search and add by site name or URL (only by RSS URL), persistent header wasted where it could show what category or source you’re viewing, odd list of default sources, no way to reorder or prioritize categories or sites, no thumbnail images.

It’s like if a music app only had 10 selected bands and no easy way to make your own playlists. The presentation is pleasant so hopefully Bulletin will expand its capabilities.

This is the news best app I’ve ever used! Really good job

I continually do not understand why RSS apps don’t use the full iPad screen in portrait orientation for reading articles. It should at least be an option to hide the sidebar. This issue alone makes it a hard pass from me.

Bulletin looks good at first, but after just a few minutes you realize how restrictive it is. It doesn’t allow you to hide categories and you can’t customize feeds beyond hiding them. It also doesn’t allow adding any feeds either as far as I can tell.

And a personal nitpick of mine: I much prefer opening articles in Safari Reader view by default. It's a better UX in my opinion and provides consistency across the OS. It should at least be offered as option as some other apps do.

When I first installed Bulletin I was a fan of the UI/UX. It’s very clean. At first - I was experiencing several bugs and suboptimal performance. After the past few days, these issues are becoming non existent. The developer seems to ship updates 1-2 times daily and welcomes feedback/suggestions.

Love that this is truly a universal app, even on tvOS. That being said, the tvOS version is pretty weak and close to non-functional.

Still worth four stars and went ahead and bought the life-long option; consider it an investment into future development. 😉

Crearly an MVP. Needs a fremium option instead of a very short trial. Usability is poor to impossible on on an iPad mini but normal on an iPad air or iPhone. Thumbs up for frequent updates to improve features and usability. Didn't really got a chance to test out the AI features.

Wonderful app that works across all devices. Lets you import your own feeds via OPML. Just needs a way to make text larger for those of us with older eyes.

I had VERY high hopes that I could replace Artifact. I read news all day long and need a great news aggregator. With a few tweaks this app could have been it. But now, I’m stuck. I changed some setting that was only for paid I guess and now I can’t click on any article to read it. I sent a request to create a rest button for standard settings, but that has yet to appear. So I’m stuck. I can’t read any articles with out the “pay now” pop up. I would TOTALLY pay for Artifact and was prepared to pay for this app, but I just needed more time to feel comfortable with Bulletin before plunking down the lifetime license. Since Bulletin is essentially bricked with no guidance on how to get out of it, it gets 1 star.

Bulletin on the mac does not have 1/3 of the settings options. Bulletin on ips is low to update and does not retain the read status of articles. The list goes on. If you know the history of this developer with apps such as Planny, (abandoned then sold along with many apps on his website) Aviary, (abandoned then replaced with Aviary 2). You will not trust the developer to continue the development of Bulletin. Think about this, how will they pay for yhe AI features over time if someone purchases a lifetime subscription? The answer can be found in their prior work. Save your money and use feeeed.

Loving Bulletin, exactly what I needed now that Artifact is shutting down. Lot’s of potential and flexibility

If you turn off the other categories and just want your OPML to get the this app treatment, it doesn’t display anything. Not worth paying for something that can’t do its most basic tasks.

It would be nice to be able to set up automatic summaries and beautify the headline language. I need Chinese and Japanese. I would definitely buy it if it was available in both languages.

Smart summary is not working, at all. The only thing that sets this apart from other news apps. Also, please consider ditching the subscription model for a single time price, or at least make that an option.

So tired of text-centric apps such as this where all you do is read text and yet there is NO WAY to change the font size of the article text, even using iOS app-specific font size feature. What is the deal with these devs? It’s like making a car without the ability to adjust the seats. Unbelievable. Navigation from the tiny text article view is horrible. No way to swipe to next article or even dismiss the pop-up view. No easy way to mark articles as read. No mark read on scroll. This is just horrible… go check out other apps like Inoreader or Readkit and copy their main reading features. Then build off of that with your AI. Add more voice options. The default iOS voice is unbearable. Also your price is too high for what this offers. I like the idea of this which is why I care to leave such a review and it’s a great start to something amazing. It is just unusable… for me. Main gripes are above. Fix the problems and I’ll change this to a glowing 5 star review.

But not for Bulletin

So fantastic,so expensive!

No Inoreader/Feedly sync
Everything in the UI is just too big. Looks like it was designed for the elderly. Not enough information density.
Useless button on the bottom to scroll down when you can just scroll.
AI button on the main page is summarizing the top article, not the feed. Super weird to have that button there.
Turn off categories disables them, but it looks weird because it doesn’t toggle off all the feeds under them as you would expect.
Feels very half-baked. Might revisit in in a year, but it’s just a first draft of an app right now.