I’m a big fan of River of News for iPad: it’s a well-designed RSS app that instead of presenting news as a list on unread items inside folders (much like most iPad and iPhone apps do), tries a different approach by enabling you to scroll a constantly updating “stream” (or, yeah, river) of articles. When you reach the bottom of the stream, the app will automatically load the next items until there’s nothing left to load.

A few weeks ago the developer of River of News also posted the results of the app’s sales, fully committing to iOS development as his new day job. Today an update to RoN has been approved: with version 1.3, the apps comes with a new icon (even though I used to like the old one), full iOS 4.2 compatibility and a “save image” feature. You can also open links with the Instapaper Mobilizer, email articles, check on items from people you follow on Google Reader.

As for Evernote integration, the developer writes:

I really wanted to provide Evernote integration but their programming interface isn’t flexible enough. However, Evernote does provide a personal email address to which you can send any rich content. Combine that email address with the features above and you have a low friction way to get articles into your Evernote account.

You can download River of News 1.3 here at $3.99.