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UnreadSoftware

by Golden Hill Software

Who uses, recommends or left Unread, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Writer of MacSparky and author of the MacSparky Field Guides on Apple productivity software; a former lawyer, he co-hosts the Mac Power Users podcast.
uses

For RSS, I use Unread as my feed reader.

His annual post locking in the tools he will use for the coming year, app by app, with the reasoning for each choice.

2026-01-31·macsparky.com ↗

Indian technology consultant and long-time writer; former editor of Beautiful Pixels, now writing at nuclearbits.com.
uses

I was using Reeder 5 for the longest time, but since that seems to have been abandoned, I’ve switched to Unread as my RSS app recently.

His /uses page, which states it was last updated on October 12, 2025.

2025-10-12·nuclearbits.com ↗

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.