We’re coming up on the 6-month anniversary of the shutdown of Google Reader; and while some people might still be a little jaded about losing the beloved service, most have moved on to one of the many alternatives that popped up to replace it. Several great feed aggregators exist, many offering innovative improvements over Reader, but their mobile apps may not fit your needs. The developer of gReader, noinnion, intends to solve that with the release of News+, a feature-rich and very customizable news reader app with support for several services.

Development on News+ started over 6 months ago, around the same time gReader added support for Feedly. Users of gReader should feel right at home with the new app since many of its features can be found in both. News+ includes podcast support, text-to-speech, notifications, multiple viewing modes, offline reading, 2-way sync, and even a Tasker plugin.

The interface is both phone and tablet optimized, and it shares Night Mode and many of the same themes with its predecessor. Widgets aren't currently available, but they will be coming with a future update.

News+ was designed to enable reading content from all of your news aggregators and Read Later services. The only service included out-of-the-box is Google News, but additional extensions can be installed from the Play Store or sideloaded to gain access to many other sources. There is also an API on Github for building extensions, so we'll surely see more options in the future. Aside from the mysterious absence of Feedly, the list of extensions is already pretty good:

You can pick up News+ free on the Play Store, and it's even open-source on Github, but an unlock key is required to remove the ads and enable all of the features. Without the premium key you'll be limited to a single extension (in addition to Google News) and you won't have podcast support or the Voice Reading mode. Of course, paying for the unlock key will also help to fund future development.

If you like gReader but want to try out one of the other services out there, you should definitely give News+ a try!

Sources: News+, Github