Byline, others offering anniversary sale prices on Saturday
Saturday! Saturday! Saturday! One day only! You may buy the whole app -- but you'll only need the edge.
Sorry about that. Nevertheless, Byline -- Phantom Fish's flagship Google Reader app and offline browser -- is on sale Saturday only for $1.99. (It goes back to its regular price, $4.99, on July 12.) Not only that, but the first 40 people to forward their sale-price receipt to birthday@phantomfish.com will receive a promo code that entitles them to a free second copy of Byline for a friend.
We've covered Byline before here at TUAW, and version 2.5 includes speed and caching improvements, a spiffy new dark interface, and matching new icon.
In celebration of the App Store's anniversary, Sophiestication Software is also offering 75 percent discounts to their two apps: Groceries (a shopping list app) and Tipulator (a tip calculator) at 99 cents apiece. Both apps are available in the App Store.
Edovia is also offering its six products (Rocket Taxi, Linguo, NumPad, Steps, Find Me!, and Currencies) for 99 cents apiece, down from $1.99. All these are also available in the App Store, as you might imagine.
Have you found more sweet deals today? Let us know by leaving a comment!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Joachim Bean said 11:14AM on 7-10-2009
Thanks for the heads up. Byline is actually on sale right now for $1.99. I just bought it, as I was looking for a good Google Reader client anyway. Thanks :)
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samu said 11:54AM on 7-10-2009
Can someone enlighten me about the benefits of Byline over the web interface? I keep trying it, but can't get it to click. Maybe I need to approach it differently?
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TylerL said 12:17PM on 7-10-2009
You can cache Starred Items for offline viewing with Byline. That's worth the $4.99 by itself.
samu said 1:44PM on 7-10-2009
I tend to send articles to Instapaper for reading later, though I'm dabbling with Read It Later.
Is it possible to have Byline reformat linked pages for the small screen, as the web version can?
Rob E. said 12:28PM on 7-10-2009
I love Byline. If you have an iPhone, it may not present huge benefits over the web version. I don't know because I don't have an iPhone. I have an iPod Touch, and this thing is cool. It doesn't just cache starred items, it will cache a pre-set amount of your regular Google Reader feeds for off-line viewing. Sync it up on the way out the door and catch up on your news feeds on the bus, the plane, the rare, wifi-free coffee place. Once you're back in signal range, turn Byline back on and it syncs again, so if you open up Google Reader, everything you just read in Byline is marked as Read in Reader.
I think the interface is clean and easy to read and, because of caching, it might be quicker then the web version even if you are connected. It's certainly what I use to read my feeds on the iPod even if I'm in a hotspot.
My only wish was that it could update and sync without being opened. Not Byline's fault that Apple doesn't allow background aps, but it just means that you have to anticipate using Byline and sync before you have no signal.
I don't remember what I paid for it, but it's worth it at the full or the sale price point.
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Grant said 1:05PM on 7-10-2009
Exactly - I have an iPod Touch too, and I think I've tried every GReader compatible RSS app in the app store, and I keep coming back to this one. I really hope they (or any GReader app) can figure out a way to use push notifications, though ... I'm thinking of my unread items badge updating on its own, even if the app can't actually download the new items on its own, and perhaps sending me a message letting me know there are new items for download, prompting me to launch the app and cache my new items rather than me just having to remember every time I get back to a wifi zone. I don't know how hard or easy that may be to implement though...
Ron said 3:33PM on 7-10-2009
It's actually up right now for $1.99
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Mike Piontek said 6:37PM on 7-10-2009
Delivery Status touch will be on sale for 99 cents tomorrow. http://junecloud.com/software/iphone/delivery-status-touch.html
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adi said 1:13PM on 7-11-2009
Edovia apps are still $1.99 - I didn't sdee them switch down to $0.99. Bad information?
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Mike Piontek said 1:16PM on 7-11-2009
Unfortunately many of us are having problems updating our prices in the App Store. I changed the price of Delivery Status touch about 15 hours ago, but the price still hasn't updated. Apple seems to be doing some maintenance that's preventing any changes from getting pushed out. We're still planning on doing a 24 hour sale as soon as we're able to.
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Mike Piontek said 3:35PM on 7-11-2009
Prices are finally starting to update! Delivery Status touch is 99 cents now. Edovia's apps are all 99 cents as well. App Cubby's apps are all 50% off. Sophiestication's apps (including the excellent Groceries and Tipulator) are 99 cents.
We're going to extend our sale through Sunday. I think Edovia is extending their sale too.
Happy Birthday, App Store!
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adi said 4:52PM on 7-11-2009
Mike,
I just saw that Edovia's apps updated - buying a few now!
BTW, I love Delivery Status (both on iPhone and Dashboard) - are there any plans to make it so I can push updates to the Dashboard of my Mac? I always forget to launch Dashboard, then sync, then add the new deliveries, etc...
I'd definitely pay for a desktop app or agent that would take care of this.
Thanks for the awesome work!
-dave
Mike Piontek said 1:05AM on 7-12-2009
adi: You're welcome, glad you like it! We're working on a major update to both the iPhone app and the Mac widget that will add a lot of new features and improvements. One of the biggest changes in the widget will be improved syncing that automatically opens synced deliveries.