Money Saving Expert App

Towser

Most major websites now have an App.

What is the Money Saving Expert App? Is there one?

I like all my favorite websites on an app on my phone so that I can easily look them up when out and about when wifi is available. It is more straightforward than having to go through Google wasting time ect.

Towser

Towser

Money Saving Expert when are you going to give us the app?

pc1271

What do you want from an app?

avantra

It was discussed to death in many threads before over the last 4 years (!!) , and as I can't see any mobile friendly option for one of the largest forums in the UK I thought I'll research this a bit.

I came across something that might works for some and on the other hand might not be what you need and in this case you will need to wait for MSE to enable a Tapatalk API here or make the site mobile friendly.

My solution is to use the Inoreader RSS reader app on your mobile device.
This reader has a button that renders the page or at list the first entry of a thread as mobile friendly one via another service known as 'Readability'. So it will not let you have mobile friendly layout for the entire discussion, for this you will need to press the link showing and go the full blown site, but for the grab it and voucher forums this can be a boon when out and about shopping.



So how does it works?

It's a bit convoluted to setup but once you set it up you have a permanent solution.

Inoreader is an RSS (Real simple syndication or also known as 'news feed') reader that allows you to have a a 'push' update of RSS enabled web pages, luckily most or all the forum threads here has RSS enabled (see this link https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/39711)

This step is done on your PC if you have one but you can do the whole thing on a mobile device as well.

You need to open an account on https://www.inoreader.com/

You can use a Google plus account or Facebook/Twitter if I remember correctly.

Once you have the account open, go to RSS page of MSE and click the link you want to have in your RSS reader.

A page will open and you will need to copy the address, something like this for example : http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/external.html?type=RSS2&forumids=145

Next step is to open Inoreader and press the small + button at the top left, this will allow you to paste the link and this will be added to the list of feeds and you are free to go and add your next link.

Once you added all your links you can go to the App store on Play or Apple (or Chrome) and download the Inoreader app to your mobile device.
https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/inoreader-rss-news-reader/id892355414?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.innologica.inoreader

Log in and you will see your links in a list form, you can create folders if you may wish to organise this a bit.

Click the link you like to see and it will show all the entries to the forum in chronological order, click the entry you like and you will see a header, on the bottom bar you will see the readability button (look like an armchair), press it to see a mobile friendly of that entry.

Hopefully I will add a video later to show a step by step process.

BTW, I'm not related in any shape or form to any of the above tools, they are free to use anyway.