Twine: Smart RSS & News Reader
News Aggregator & Feed Reader
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
New: sync with FreshRSS or Miniflux and pick up where you left off on any device. Still no ads, no tracking, no algorithms — just the feeds you choose.
Twine offers a simple and beautiful user experience to browse your RSS feeds without any algorithm and puts you in control
Features:
- Supports multiple feed formats. RDF, RSS, Atom and JSON feeds
- Feed management: Add, Edit, Remove & Pin feeds, Feed grouping
- Access to pinned feeds/groups from bottom bar in the home screen
- Smart fetching: Twine looks for feeds when given any website homepage
- Customizable reader view: Adjust typography and sizes, view articles without any distractions or fetch full article or reader article in the browser.
- Bookmark posts to read later
- Search posts
- Background sync
- Import and exports your feeds with OPML
- Dynamic content theming
- Light/Dark mode support
- Widgets
Privacy:
- No ads and doesn't track your usage data. We only collect crash reports anonymously.
EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
more It’s clean, it’s functional, and actually feels like a news app. Some RSS Feeds can feel a little like “checking your email” but this one actually feels like reading a news or social media feed. Now that they’ve Import/Export it has all the basic functionality I could really ask for.
It’s clean, it’s functional, and actually feels like a news app. Some RSS Feeds can feel a little like “checking your email” but this one actually feels like reading a news or social media feed. Now that they’ve Import/Export it has all the basic functionality I could really ask for.
The app is supper slick, easy to use and very responsive. It needs widgets so you can access the information without having to go directly to the app. I would even pay for that option.
The app is supper slick, easy to use and very responsive. It needs widgets so you can access the information without having to go directly to the app. I would even pay for that option.
I have tried every RSS feeder known to man and this is the first time I’ve ever been amazed at a product right out of the chute…this has the potential to be the best RSS of all time no joke
I have tried every RSS feeder known to man and this is the first time I’ve ever been amazed at a product right out of the chute…this has the potential to be the best RSS of all time no joke
## Features
- **Better YouTube Support**: Video posts now show proper high resolution thumbnails, open directly in the YouTube app, and get a dedicated action bar in the reader.
- **Smarter Feed Links**: Pasting a Reddit, Mastodon, or YouTube link when adding a feed now resolves it to the right feed automatically, including YouTube handle links.
## Changes
- **Themed App Icons**: App icons now match the color schemes, and can be picked right from the appearance settings.
- **Smoother Visuals**: Refined gradients and scrims across the home and reader screens, animated post items in the home feed, and a cleaner background blur transition when swiping through featured posts.
- **Performance Improvements**: Faster feed parsing with lower memory usage, plus smoother home screen scrolling and image loading.
- **Simpler Add Feed**: Removed the feed preference toggles from the add feed screen.
- **No Shorts**: YouTube feeds now come from the channel's uploads playlist, so Shorts stay out of your feed.
## Fixes
- Fixed feeds that nested media inside items showing only a single post.
- Fixed missing images in feeds that put the image URL in the element text.
- Fixed full article fetching failing on sites that block browser-like requests.
- Fixed reading history not being recorded when posts were marked as read while scrolling or paging through the reader.
- Fixed missing channel images for some YouTube feeds.
- Added a fallback message when adding a feed fails without a reason.
3.9.0 Sep 9
## Features
- **Better YouTube Support**: Video posts now show proper high resolution thumbnails, open directly in the YouTube app, and get a dedicated action bar in the reader.
- **Smarter Feed Links**: Pasting a Reddit, Mastodon, or YouTube link when adding a feed now resolves it to the right feed automatically, including YouTube handle links.
## Changes
- **Themed App Icons**: App icons now match the color schemes, and can be picked right from the appearance settings.
- **Smoother Visuals**: Refined gradients and scrims across the home and reader screens, animated post items in the home feed, and a cleaner background blur transition when swiping through featured posts.
- **Performance Improvements**: Faster feed parsing with lower memory usage, plus smoother home screen scrolling and image loading.
- **Simpler Add Feed**: Removed the feed preference toggles from the add feed screen.
- **No Shorts**: YouTube feeds now come from the channel's uploads playlist, so Shorts stay out of your feed.
## Fixes
- Fixed feeds that nested media inside items showing only a single post.
- Fixed missing images in feeds that put the image URL in the element text.
- Fixed full article fetching failing on sites that block browser-like requests.
- Fixed reading history not being recorded when posts were marked as read while scrolling or paging through the reader.
- Fixed missing channel images for some YouTube feeds.
- Added a fallback message when adding a feed fails without a reason.
3.8.0 Aug 30
New Features
- Split-Pane Layout: On large screens, tablets, and desktop windows, browse your posts and read articles side-by-side in a new list-detail layout.
- Google Drive & BazQux Sync: Sync your feeds and articles with two new providers
- New Theme Variants: Choose from three new premium themes - Sepia, Slate, and Lavender
- Confirm Mark All as Read: Added an optional confirmation dialog before marking all articles as read, to help prevent accidental taps.
3.7.0 Aug 20
New Features
- Split-Pane Layout: On large screens, tablets, and desktop windows, browse your posts and read articles side-by-side in a new list-detail layout.
- Google Drive & BazQux Sync: Sync your feeds and articles with two new providers
- New Theme Variants: Choose from three new premium themes - Sepia, Slate, and Lavender
- Confirm Mark All as Read: Added an optional confirmation dialog before marking all articles as read, to help prevent accidental taps.
3.6.0 Aug 10
• Full Screen Image Viewer: Tap on images in articles to view them in full screen, complete with seamless navigation.
• Bookmarks Sync: Keep your saved articles perfectly in sync with new support for syncing bookmarks to FreshRSS and Miniflux.
• Pinned Sources Enhancements: You can now pin all source types, effortlessly reorder pinned sources in the bottom bar via drag-and-drop, and quickly view source names.
• Compact Post List Layout: Introduced a new compact layout for post lists that conditionally hides images to save space, and includes clear unread indicators.
• Fresh New Look: Adopted the elegant Outfit font family and introduced the Forest color scheme as the default theme, bringing a cleaner, modern aesthetic.
• Settings Redesign: The settings screen has been completely refactored with categorized sub-screens and a dedicated App Info & Feedback section.
• Reader Enhancements: Images now intelligently fill the maximum width and automatically load in the highest quality. The reader also smartly exits when no more posts are available.
• Beautiful UI Polish: Enjoy smooth new animations, refined translucent backgrounds, gradient selections, and standardized feed icons.
• Faster Initial Sync: Considerably improved sync performance by optimizing history recording during the initial setup for FreshRSS and Miniflux.
• Fixes & Improvements: Fixed focus management in navigation drawer, corrected blocked word trigger logic, fixed dynamic color contrast issues, and added a toggle for the featured section on the home screen.
3.5.0 Jul 13
## Features
- **Pick Up Where You Left Off**: Twine now remembers your playback position for podcasts and audio posts, so you can resume listening exactly where you stopped.
- **Audio Completion**: You can now set a playback threshold to automatically mark audio posts as read when you're almost finished.
- **Mark All as Read**: Tidying up is easier than ever with new "Mark all as read" options in search results and feed menus.
## Changes
- **Instant Mark as Read**: Articles are now marked as read the moment you open them, keeping your unread count accurate and organized.
- **Enriched History**: Feed icons are now displayed in your reading history and statistics for easier source identification.
- **Better Navigation**: The source you're currently viewing is now highlighted in the pinned bar, making it easier to keep track.
- **Polished Experience**: We've added smooth shadows on Apple devices and improved UI scaling for high-resolution desktop screens.
- **Smoother Performance**: Under-the-hood improvements to how we draw the interface mean a snappier app for everyone.
- **Refined Reader**: We've tweaked the reader view to ensure article content is always complete and well-spaced.
## Fixes
- Fixed an issue where images in the small unread widget were not scaling properly.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when no unread posts were available since the last sync.
- Fixed an issue where posts could sometimes appear in the wrong order while scrolling.
- Fixed alignment glitches in the theme selection screen.
- Improved how we handle articles that appear in multiple feeds to keep your read status in sync.
3.4.0 Jul 6
## Features
- **Pick Up Where You Left Off**: Twine now remembers your playback position for podcasts and audio posts, so you can resume listening exactly where you stopped.
- **Audio Completion**: You can now set a playback threshold to automatically mark audio posts as read when you're almost finished.
- **Mark All as Read**: Tidying up is easier than ever with new "Mark all as read" options in search results and feed menus.
## Changes
- **Instant Mark as Read**: Articles are now marked as read the moment you open them, keeping your unread count accurate and organized.
- **Enriched History**: Feed icons are now displayed in your reading history and statistics for easier source identification.
- **Better Navigation**: The source you're currently viewing is now highlighted in the pinned bar, making it easier to keep track.
- **Polished Experience**: We've added smooth shadows on Apple devices and improved UI scaling for high-resolution desktop screens.
- **Smoother Performance**: Under-the-hood improvements to how we draw the interface mean a snappier app for everyone.
- **Refined Reader**: We've tweaked the reader view to ensure article content is always complete and well-spaced.
## Fixes
- Fixed an issue where images in the small unread widget were not scaling properly.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when no unread posts were available since the last sync.
- Fixed an issue where posts could sometimes appear in the wrong order while scrolling.
- Fixed alignment glitches in the theme selection screen.
- Improved how we handle articles that appear in multiple feeds to keep your read status in sync.
3.3.0 May 18
## Features
- **Pick Up Where You Left Off**: Twine now remembers your playback position for podcasts and audio posts, so you can resume listening exactly where you stopped.
- **Audio Completion**: You can now set a playback threshold to automatically mark audio posts as read when you're almost finished.
- **Personalized Notifications**: Stay updated on what matters most. You can now enable notifications for specific feeds or quickly silence all of them at once.
- **Mark All as Read**: Tidying up is easier than ever with new "Mark all as read" options in search results and feed menus.
## Changes
- **Instant Mark as Read**: Articles are now marked as read the moment you open them, keeping your unread count accurate and organized.
- **Enriched History**: Feed icons are now displayed in your reading history and statistics for easier source identification.
- **Better Navigation**: The source you're currently viewing is now highlighted in the pinned bar, making it easier to keep track.
- **Polished Experience**: We've added smooth shadows on Apple devices and improved UI scaling for high-resolution desktop screens.
- **Smoother Performance**: Under-the-hood improvements to how we draw the interface mean a snappier app for everyone.
- **Refined Reader**: We've tweaked the reader view to ensure article content is always complete and well-spaced.
## Fixes
- Fixed an issue where images in the small unread widget were not scaling properly.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when no unread posts were available since the last sync.
- Fixed an issue where posts could sometimes appear in the wrong order while scrolling.
- Fixed alignment glitches in the theme selection screen.
- Improved how we handle articles that appear in multiple feeds to keep your read status in sync.
3.2.0 Apr 22
## Features
- **Home Screen Widgets**: Added unread posts widgets. Includes support for different widget sizes (small, medium, large).
- **Home Screen Sort**: Introduced sort-aware post management, allowing you to view and navigate posts based on your preferred sort order.
- **Improved Feed Management**: Added the ability to delete feeds directly from the Group screen.
- **Deep Linking**: Enhanced app-wide deep link handling for better navigation from widgets and external sources.
## Changes
- **Improved Sync Performance**:
- Implemented per-feed initial sync and robust offset-based pagination.
- Reduced database load with improved indexes and queries.
- **UI & UX Refinements**:
- Redesigned and stabilized home screen components for a smoother experience.
- Refined navigation drawer and feed list selection styles with new animations.
- Updated typography and UI consistency across the app.
- Added tooltips to post action bar icons.
## Fixes
- Improved empty state handling for widgets.
- Fixed an issue where posts could disappear when marked as read on scroll.
- Fixed JS evaluation in reader view on iOS.
- Fixed race conditions in the Audio Player across platforms.
3.1.1 Apr 2
## Features
- **Home Screen Widgets**: Added unread posts widgets. Includes support for different widget sizes (small, medium, large).
- **Home Screen Sort**: Introduced sort-aware post management, allowing you to view and navigate posts based on your preferred sort order.
- **Improved Feed Management**: Added the ability to delete feeds directly from the Group screen.
- **Deep Linking**: Enhanced app-wide deep link handling for better navigation from widgets and external sources.
## Changes
- **Improved Sync Performance**:
- Implemented per-feed initial sync and robust offset-based pagination.
- Reduced database load with improved indexes and queries.
- **UI & UX Refinements**:
- Redesigned and stabilized home screen components for a smoother experience.
- Refined navigation drawer and feed list selection styles with new animations.
- Updated typography and UI consistency across the app.
- Added tooltips to post action bar icons.
## Fixes
- Improved empty state handling for widgets.
- Fixed an issue where posts could disappear when marked as read on scroll.
- Fixed JS evaluation in reader view on iOS.
- Fixed race conditions in the Audio Player across platforms.
3.1.0 Mar 29
v3.0.0
Features:
- Syncing: Added Miniflux, FreshRSS, and Dropbox.
- UI: New navigation, settings, and theme variants.
- Media and Stats: Audio player with Sleep Timer, reading heatmaps, and full-screen images.
- Discovery: Find new feeds and podcasts.
Improvements and Fixes:
- Limit: Free feed limit doubled to 30.
- Performance: Optimized memory and sync speed.
- Stability: Fixed crashes, sync logic, and iOS reader bugs.
3.0.1 Mar 15
v3.0.0
Features:
- Syncing: Added Miniflux, FreshRSS, and Dropbox.
- UI: New navigation, settings, and theme variants.
- Media and Stats: Audio player with Sleep Timer, reading heatmaps, and full-screen images.
- Discovery: Find new feeds and podcasts.
Improvements and Fixes:
- Limit: Free feed limit doubled to 30.
- Performance: Optimized memory and sync speed.
- Stability: Fixed crashes, sync logic, and iOS reader bugs.
3.0.0 Mar 13
v2.11.0
Features:
- New dropbox sync. Settings > Cloud Sync
- Notifications for unread posts. Settings > Enable notifications
- New customisation options. Alternate app icons (premium), disable dynamic theming
- Setting to download full content during sync
- Add feed specific settings to hide from home, show feed icon and always fetch full article
Changes:
- Reduce bottom bar height to show more content
- Add navigation drawer to access different pagess
- Redesigned add feed screen
Fixes:
- Bug fixes and improvements
2.11.0 Jan 21
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v2.10.0
- New amoled theme
- Setting to block images in posts list and reader
- Change default font to RethinkSans
- UI tweaks in the home screen and feeds sheet
- Hide app bar and bottom bar on scroll in home screen
- Improve reader parsing performance
- Improve mark post/posts as read performance
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
2.10.0 Jan 1
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v2.9.0
- Improve reader UI for XKCD comics
- Add support for media thumbnails in RSS feeds
- Add copy link action in feed settings
- Display feed link in feed settings
- Fix stuttering in featured posts section and feeds sheet
- Improve performance of featured posts loading and color extraction
- Bug fixes and improvements
2.9.0 11/17/2025
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v2.8.0
- Improve large screen layout support
- Improve article parsing when fetching feeds or full article
- Fix app crashing when loading certain post content in the reader screen
- Misc UI changes
v2.7.0
- Fix feeds bottom sheet stuttering
- Fix app marking read articles as unread when post is updated
2.8.0 10/09/2025
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v2.7.0
- Fix feeds bottom sheet stuttering
- Fix app marking read articles as unread when post is updated
v2.6.0
- Add mark as unread option in the reader screen
- Fix a crash in the reader screen
- Bug fixes and improvements
v2.5.0
- Add support for offline reader view. Once a post is opened, app will try to download the full article for offline reading.
- Fix flaky reader view parsing
- Bug fixes and improvements
2.7.0 10/07/2025
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v2.6.0
- Add mark as unread option in the reader screen
- Fix a crash in the reader screen
- Bug fixes and improvements
v2.5.0
- Add support for offline reader view. Once a post is opened, app will try to download the full article for offline reading.
- Fix flaky reader view parsing
- Bug fixes and improvements
2.6.0 09/10/2025
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v2.5.0
- Add support for offline reader view. Once a post is opened, app will try to download the full article for offline reading.
- Fix flaky reader view parsing
- Bug fixes and improvements
2.5.0 08/30/2025
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v2.3.0
- Fix same article from different sources not showing correctly (for example articles from hacker news, lobste.rs)
- Fix crash in reader screen when loading same posts
- Improve performance of feeds bottom sheet
- Improve performance of reader screen
- Updated translations
- Misc bug fixes
2.4.0 08/04/2025
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v2.2.0
Bug fixes and improvements
v2.1.0
Bug fixes and improvements
v2.0.0
Introducing Twine Premium subscription:
Get access to add unlimited feeds, home screen widget, reader customization, access to all future pro and beta features, and supports app development
Features & improvements:
- New home screen UI layouts
- Redesigned UI components
- Improved performance across the app
- Unread posts home screen widget
- Reader customization
2.3.0 07/15/2025
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v2.2.0
Bug fixes and improvements
v2.1.0
Bug fixes and improvements
v2.0.0
Introducing Twine Premium subscription:
Get access to add unlimited feeds, home screen widget, reader customization, access to all future pro and beta features, and supports app development
Features & improvements:
- New home screen UI layouts
- Redesigned UI components
- Improved performance across the app
- Unread posts home screen widget
- Reader customization
2.2.0 07/14/2025
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v2.1.0
Bug fixes and improvements
v2.0.0
Introducing Twine Premium subscription:
Get access to add unlimited feeds, home screen widget, reader customization, access to all future pro and beta features, and supports app development
Features & improvements:
- New home screen UI layouts
- Redesigned UI components
- Improved performance across the app
- Unread posts home screen widget
- Reader customization
2.1.0 07/12/2025
If you like the app, please don't forget to rate and review. If you find any issues, reach out at contact@sasikanth.dev
v2.0.0
Introducing Twine Premium subscription:
Get access to add unlimited feeds, home screen widget, reader customization, access to all future pro and beta features, and supports app development
Features & improvements:
- New home screen UI layouts
- Redesigned UI components
- Improved performance across the app
- Unread posts home screen widget
- Reader customization
2.0.1 07/03/2025
If you like the app, please don't forget to rate and review. If you find any issues, reach out at contact@sasikanth.dev
v2.0.0
Introducing Twine Premium subscription:
Get access to add unlimited feeds, home screen widget, reader customization, access to all future pro and beta features, and supports app development
Features & improvements:
- New home screen UI layouts
- Redesigned UI components
- Improved performance across the app
- Unread posts home screen widget
- Reader customization
2.0.0 07/03/2025
## Features
- **Better YouTube Support**: Video posts now show proper high resolution thumbnails, open directly in the YouTube app, and get a dedicated action bar in the reader.
- **Smarter Feed Links**: Pasting a Reddit, Mastodon, or YouTube link when adding a feed now resolves it to the right feed automatically, including YouTube handle links.
## Changes
- **Themed App Icons**: App icons now match the color schemes, and can be picked right from the appearance settings.
- **Smoother Visuals**: Refined gradients and scrims across the home and reader screens, animated post items in the home feed, and a cleaner background blur transition when swiping through featured posts.
- **Performance Improvements**: Faster feed parsing with lower memory usage, plus smoother home screen scrolling and image loading.
- **Simpler Add Feed**: Removed the feed preference toggles from the add feed screen.
- **No Shorts**: YouTube feeds now come from the channel's uploads playlist, so Shorts stay out of your feed.
## Fixes
- Fixed feeds that nested media inside items showing only a single post.
- Fixed missing images in feeds that put the image URL in the element text.
- Fixed full article fetching failing on sites that block browser-like requests.
- Fixed reading history not being recorded when posts were marked as read while scrolling or paging through the reader.
- Fixed missing channel images for some YouTube feeds.
- Added a fallback message when adding a feed fails without a reason.
more Version 3.9.0 Sep 9
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