Get notified about new posts
Pick the feeds worth interrupting you for, and choose how and when you hear.
Available on the Paid and Premium plans.
How notifications work
Reader checks your feeds in the background, every 30 min on Paid and every 5 min on Premium. When a check finds posts in a feed you picked, you get one notification about all of them. Nothing is ever sent about a feed you have not picked.
Set them up
Pick a feed
On the feed's page, choose More actions → Notify me about this feed. Repeat for each feed worth hearing about.
Choose how you are reached
In Settings → Notifications, under How you are reached, turn on On the browsers you allow, By email, or both, and press Save.
Allow this browser
For push, press Allow notifications in this browser and accept your browser's prompt. It asks once, and nothing is sent until you allow it.
Quiet hours
Under Quiet hours, turn on Leave me alone between these hours, choose From and Until, and save. The hours are in the time zone your browser reports. A notification held back is not lost: the next check outside the window carries it.
Your browsers
Browsers lists every browser you allowed, with when it last got a notification. Press Forget to stop notifying one.
Questions
Does it work on my phone?
Yes, in a browser that supports web push, including an iPhone with Reader added to the home screen.
How do I stop the emails?
Every email has a link that stops them. Turn them back on in Settings.
Why don't I get notifications on Free?
Notifications come from the background checks, which Paid and Premium run. On Free, new posts arrive when you open Reader.