Pulse vs Reeder for Mac and iPhone

I love RSS.  I read dozens of RSS feeds every day.  Pulse has been my favorite RSS app, free and pretty.  It made great looking emails too, so when I post a blog entry from my iPhone via email it came out well.

Well, that has changed.  Pulse went for more power, and now it has lost its stripped down, graphical charm for me.  The one thing Pulse could have done to keep me using would have been to add multitasking or saved state.  I don't like leaving it to do another task and coming back to the home screen.  I began playing with Reeder, the originator of the look MobileRSS was famously "inspired" to copy.  I always lean to originality when it retains functionality.  

So this is about Reeder.  I first set it up on the MBP.  And I was then inspired to fix up my Google Reader feeds to be better organized, and broader.  I hadn't given it a lot of thought lately, since Google Reader makes my head ache with it's messy interface- which seems to me to be the Google software trademark look.  

So now, I had Reeder looking good, and feeds organized, and I liked what I saw.  This is a great client to use with an RSS aggregator like Google Reader.  It is clean, minimal, yet lets me get into stories as much as I want, and share them the way I want.  When not being powerful, it is minimal.  Cool.  

So next up, the iPhone app.  Because I had followed this protocol, the installation and set-up were non events, and now I find myself going to Reeder more than Pulse.  One of my favorite uses of an RSS reader is to email content to my blogs.  Reeder does this as well as Pulse, so it is the only other RSS aggregator that passes this key test.

The new power of Pulse enables me to make it as deep in content, and organized like Reeder, but with all that content it is too much for the interface.  So the current state?  Reeder is my new number one, and I will keep Pulse to play with it as a light use RSS aggregator.  I want to see how all this changes on an iPad.