The design itself and how Rosselo conceptually works is clearly one of the major differences that make Rosselo special among other RSS readers. Let’s explore and bit explain couple of ideas behind it.

Not exactly a reader

Reading posts inside the application as a basically stripped down plain-text has surely its advantages. However, while most of RSS readers have this capability, we took a different route.

If you’re kept inside the application and not visiting the site yourself, you might be missing something important or useful there. You can eventually also easily feel somewhat isolated from the web, and stucked in one application for too long.

So when you click on news item, we rather redirect you to the site. To experience it all, for good or bad.

Overview is the key

While other readers might be more focused on the detail, we’re trying to focus on the bigger and wider picture, hence comes the overview idea.

Dashboard layout with at least 3 columns (on desktop) allows you to go through 50-60 news titles at once without scrolling, without clicking or any other action. It also enables to organize the content more in 2D, across the board.

This layout can also benefit from features such as highlighed keywords, which make sense to be applied globally across many feeds.

Simplicity is paramount

We strive for keeping Rosselo as simple as possible. That’s why we haven’t introduced either excerpts or images and reduced items only to compact news titles. It surely might feel somewhat crude to some but we’re rather sticking to keep it stupid simple principle.

You’re in control

We deeply believe that user should be fully in control - what feed to add, what to read, when to read it, and what to dismiss. This idea is reflected in multiple features. Rosselo is not trying to think for you in any way, it only does the hard work for you - fetch all news to one place, and let you decide what’s worth to read.

Groups

For easy feeds organization, we offer groups feature - basically tabs or folders on the top of the screen. It’s up to you how you use them, whether for topics and themes, or possibly for content types such as videos, podcasts, forums, or news.