Bloglines gets a native iPhone application from a third-party; Still work in progress?

David Hinson, who doesn’t seem affiliated with Ask.com (owner of Bloglines), launched an application called MyBloglines to allow iPhone and iPod Touch users to grab their feeds from Bloglines using a dedicated native app. While it’s far from perfect, it’s definitely faster way to browse feeds than through Bloglines’ iPhone-optimized website. However, there are few things I don’t like about it:

• It’s designed as a “pure news reader” and I use Bloglines for research purposes as well. In that sense, I like to “pin” some news for reading them later. That feature, however, is not supported with MyBloglines.
• You can’t read multiple news articles at once. The ability to see multiple news items at once saves me tons of time while going through my daily news.
• You can’t mark individual items as “Read”/”Not read” — there’s only “Mark all as read” option, or at least I’ve missed these.
• It’s not free (costs $1.99), as opposed to Bloglines’ optimized-for-iPhone website.

Now, this is not to say I’m totally against MyBloglines. While it’s definitely not suiting my needs, it doesn’t mean it’s not for you, too. At this point I hope David will re-think its work and make it better. Only then I would be willing to jump on board.

Here’s an AppStore link from where you can get more details about the app. Alternatively, you may want to check out a short video demoing the app, which follows after the jump.

UPDATE: Got the email from David. He needs some additional help from Ask regarding Bloglines’ API to make the application even better. David also mentioned his same-named Facebook application, which you can use to share your feeds with your friends…

[Via: JustAnotherIphoneBlog]