What's new in this version of Newsbin A small update with a new way to repair broken feeds, a filter in Connections, and fixes for the reader closing itself on macOS. New - Repair a broken feed: the sidebar error alert and the Connections row menu now offer a Repair action. It opens the feed editor and searches the site for working feeds — pick one and save to clear the error and refresh. - The feed editor also has a "Find feeds for this site" option you can use any time. - Connections now has a search field and a problems-only toggle, so you can narrow a long list to just the feeds that need attention. Select All and Edit apply to what you've filtered. Improvements - Feeds discovered from a site are now named from the feed itself, rather than picking up a "page denied" message from sites that block automated requests. - Correcting a feed or Smart Group now re-enables Save right away instead of leaving the old error in place. Fixes - macOS: fixed the reader closing on its own while you were reading, which could happen after waking the app, during background cleanup, or when an open article matched a blocked tag. - macOS: fixed a crash during onboarding when your first iCloud sync arrived partway through setup. - Fixed crashes on large libraries caused by the article index being copied in full on every save.

What's new in this version of Newsbin This update makes large libraries dramatically faster, brings back detailed refresh progress, and fixes several feeds that were showing no articles at all. New - Update All Favicons: a new button in Sidebar settings refreshes every feed icon at once. Newsbin also quietly upgrades generic icons in the background. - New portrait extra-large widget, with a refreshed widget header. - macOS: click the activity area in the sidebar to see a timestamped log of recent refresh activity. - Apple Intelligence now works on Vision Pro. Improvements - Much faster and lighter with large libraries. The article list now loads in pages and grows as you scroll, so opening a tab with tens of thousands of articles no longer loads them all at once. - Detailed refresh progress is back: per-feed validation, a live count of new articles as they arrive, and a real progress bar. - Article counts in the header now describe the whole tab rather than the portion currently loaded. - Mark Above and Mark Below now cover the entire tab, not just the loaded articles. - Smoother pinch-to-zoom on article images. - iPad: the sidebar now stays open or closed the way you left it, instead of collapsing on every launch. - Articles older than your expiration setting are no longer re-imported as new and unread on every refresh. - Less background work on iPhone and iPad when no Apple Watch is set up to receive it. Fixes - Fixed Google Alerts feeds showing only a single article. Alert feeds now get sensible names, and their links open the publisher's story instead of a Google redirect. - Fixed feed entries silently going missing, including YouTube Shorts and music videos, large full-text feeds that timed out mid-download, and Atom feeds with older dates. - Fixed articles appearing as unreadable garbled characters when a site sent compressed data Newsbin didn't ask for. - Fixed "Clear all" appearing to do nothing, and the scroll-to-top button not working, at the bottom of a long unread list. The list now refills itself as you read down it. - Fixed summaries failing with "Summary unavailable" when Apple's Private Cloud Compute had trouble. Newsbin now falls back to the on-device model, and a genuine Apple outage is named as such in the reader. - Fixed Vision Pro showing "Summary unavailable" on every article. - Fixed a typed feed icon URL not being saved when editing a feed. Clearing the field now re-detects the icon. - Fixed duplicate Edit buttons in Settings → Connections, and moved the Edit controls to the trailing edge. - Fixed paging back and forth in the reader stopping partway through a large library. - Keyboard shortcut settings are now hidden on platforms that don't support them.

What's new in this version of Newsbin This update makes large libraries dramatically faster, brings back detailed refresh progress, and fixes several feeds that were showing no articles at all. New - Update All Favicons: a new button in Sidebar settings refreshes every feed icon at once. Newsbin also quietly upgrades generic icons in the background. - New portrait extra-large widget, with a refreshed widget header. - macOS: click the activity area in the sidebar to see a timestamped log of recent refresh activity. - Apple Intelligence now works on Vision Pro. Improvements - Much faster and lighter with large libraries. The article list now loads in pages and grows as you scroll, so opening a tab with tens of thousands of articles no longer loads them all at once. - Detailed refresh progress is back: per-feed validation, a live count of new articles as they arrive, and a real progress bar. - Article counts in the header now describe the whole tab rather than the portion currently loaded. - Mark Above and Mark Below now cover the entire tab, not just the loaded articles. - Smoother pinch-to-zoom on article images. - iPad: the sidebar now stays open or closed the way you left it, instead of collapsing on every launch. - Articles older than your expiration setting are no longer re-imported as new and unread on every refresh. - Less background work on iPhone and iPad when no Apple Watch is set up to receive it. Fixes - Fixed Google Alerts feeds showing only a single article. Alert feeds now get sensible names, and their links open the publisher's story instead of a Google redirect. - Fixed feed entries silently going missing, including YouTube Shorts and music videos, large full-text feeds that timed out mid-download, and Atom feeds with older dates. - Fixed articles appearing as unreadable garbled characters when a site sent compressed data Newsbin didn't ask for. - Fixed "Clear all" appearing to do nothing, and the scroll-to-top button not working, at the bottom of a long unread list. The list now refills itself as you read down it. - Fixed summaries failing with "Summary unavailable" when Apple's Private Cloud Compute had trouble. Newsbin now falls back to the on-device model, and a genuine Apple outage is named as such in the reader. - Fixed Vision Pro showing "Summary unavailable" on every article. - Fixed a typed feed icon URL not being saved when editing a feed. Clearing the field now re-detects the icon. - Fixed duplicate Edit buttons in Settings → Connections, and moved the Edit controls to the trailing edge. - Fixed paging back and forth in the reader stopping partway through a large library. - Keyboard shortcut settings are now hidden on platforms that don't support them.

What's new in this version of Newsbin This update brings custom feed icons, pinch-to-zoom for article images, a full accessibility pass, and keyboard shortcuts to move between articles, along with smoother scrolling and a few fixes. New - Custom feed icons: the Add and Edit Feed sheets now have a Favicon URL field with a live preview. Newsbin also finds better icons on its own, using the feed's own icon or the site's high-resolution icon first. - Pinch to zoom: tap an image in an article to open it, then pinch to zoom and drag to look around. Pinch back in to close it. - Accessibility: VoiceOver now reads each article row as one item, including its unread and bookmark state. Icon-only buttons have spoken labels, and badge counts are announced with context. - Larger Text now scales more of the interface, and long titles wrap instead of getting cut off at accessibility sizes. - Higher contrast for dimmed text, color chips, tag pills, and the badges on thumbnails. Keyboard shortcuts - Next and previous article have shortcuts again: arrow keys in the Newsbin and NetNewsWire templates, and J/K in the Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, and Reeder templates. They work from both the article list and the reader. - New: toggle read or unread (Command-U, plus the matching key in each template), now also in the Articles menu. - New: toggle bookmark (Command-D, plus the matching key in each template). - The NetNewsWire template's Add Folder shortcut now matches NetNewsWire. Improvements - Smoother scrolling on iPhone and iPad with auto-read on, especially when grouping by website. - macOS: the Dock icon now changes right away when you switch between light and dark mode or change the icon style, without restarting. - Better stability during refreshes. Fixes - Fixed newsletter relay feeds, such as Kill the Newsletter, showing no articles. - Fixed tags you had just created not showing up when you reopened a Smart Group to edit it.

What's new in this version of Newsbin A follow-up to 2.3: Apple Intelligence gets a more capable model, any article can now be loaded in full with one tap, and Newsbin is faster and much steadier, especially with large libraries. New - Improved Apple Intelligence: where available, summaries and briefs now run on Apple's Private Cloud Compute. It's a more capable model with the same privacy, free and with no setup. - Show Full Article: on a summary-only feed, load the complete story for just the article you're reading. The toolbar icon fills in while the full article is shown; tap it again to go back to the feed's version. - Custom feed icons: the Add and Edit Feed sheets now have a Favicon URL field with a live preview. Newsbin also finds better icons automatically, using the feed's own icon or the site's high-resolution icon before falling back. - Choose how Newsbin looks during setup: pick your reader font size and article list style (list, small thumbnails, or large thumbnails). - More haptic feedback in Settings, the Display menu, and the "Clear all" button, and a firmer feel on article row actions. - macOS: What's New can be reopened from the Window menu. Improvements - Smoother scrolling: sync work and AI preview updates now wait until you stop scrolling, and preview text updates in place without reloading the list. - Much lower memory use on large libraries, and Newsbin now clears caches and pauses background work when memory runs low. - Feed warnings no longer cry wolf. A feed is flagged only after three failed refreshes in a row, rate limits and temporary server errors don't count, and being offline never flags anything. Feeds that really fail to parse now show their error in the sidebar. - With the unread filter on, articles you've opened stay in the list until you change lists, instead of disappearing when you go back. - Letter-only keyboard shortcuts on macOS, like the ones in the Feedbin template, now work instead of jumping to a feed by name. - Deleting and editing feeds is faster. - The model picker and Apple Intelligence labels are now translated. Fixes - Fixed feeds sometimes moving out of their folders and back to the top level on all your devices. - Fixed a new or untouched device resetting settings you had chosen on another device, such as which article row fields to show. - Fixed newsletter relay feeds (such as Kill the Newsletter) showing no articles. - Fixed synced articles sometimes opening blank while many articles were preloading. - With "Refresh on startup" turned off, Newsbin no longer starts a refresh a few seconds after launch. - Fixed multiple out-of-memory crashes during and after refreshes on large libraries. - Fixed a crash caused by malformed images. - Fixed the Edit Feed sheet in Settings → Connections closing itself. - Fixed the confirmation for clearing reads in large lists not appearing when started from a menu. - Tag management sheets in Settings now open more reliably. - Corrupted compressed responses are now rejected instead of being shown as unreadable text.

What's new in this version of Newsbin Newsbin 2.3 is all about organizing. Rearrange your sidebar with drag and drop, select several feeds and folders at once, give folders their own icon and color, and remap every keyboard shortcut to match the reader you came from. Folders, made easy - Give any folder its own SF Symbol or emoji and a color — synced across all your devices, and included in backups. - File feeds into folders from any menu, with nested destinations shown as full "Parent > Child" paths. - Create a new folder right where you need it: at the top level, or beside an item and move it in at the same time. - Drag folders themselves to re-parent them or drop them back to the root. - Re-importing an OPML now adopts your existing folders and keeps their icons, colors, and order instead of overwriting them. Select several at once - Choose multiple feeds and folders together, then move, refresh, mark as read, or delete them in one go. - Selected rows in a run join into a single continuous highlight, and dragging a selection shows a stacked multi-item preview. - The title shows "N Selected" with a combined unread count, and the article list shows every selected feed together. - Batch delete confirms first, expands folders recursively, and cleans up properly afterward. Shortcuts, your way (Mac and iPad) - A new Shortcuts panel in Settings lets you rebind every command — press to record, Esc to cancel, Backspace to unassign. - Start from a template: Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, NetNewsWire, or Reeder. - Your shortcut setup syncs across your devices. - New bindings for Mark list as read and Select all, plus Clear reads, Archive all, and Export OPML available to assign. Also new - Custom AI providers now fetch their own model list, so you can pick a model instead of typing its name. - More reader font sizes, and the size setting now scales every part of the article. Font size is per-device now, like the system text size. - Top-level sidebar icons are slightly larger than nested ones, giving the hierarchy a clearer shape. Reading improvements - The list returns to the top after clearing reads instead of leaving you at the bottom. - Breaking News cards hold their position instead of reshuffling as new articles land. - Cleaner articles: author-bio cards, duplicate bylines, "Follow us on Google News" promos, and oversized YouTube embed placeholders are stripped. - Articles that previously lost their lead image, or fell back to a stripped-down view, now render properly on more sites. - Fixed broken YouTube videos in the reader. - Dismissing the in-app browser now returns you to the article you were reading rather than the list. - Smoother scrolling: auto-read no longer recalculates on every frame. Self-hosted AI - Plaintext endpoints reached over a VPN now work: Tailscale (ts.net) hostnames, home.arpa, .internal, and private or carrier-grade NAT addresses reached through a tunnel. Fixes - Fixed articles reverting to unread when switching tabs. - Fixed reader font size having no effect on macOS. - Fixed a long-standing cause of feeds gradually disappearing: a device left unused for a while could wake up and broadcast its stale state to the rest of your devices. Dormant devices no longer propagate deletions or overwrite newer folder assignments. - Fixed memory crashes on very large libraries when saving sync state, and cleaned up stale records that had no way to be evicted. - Hardened the reader against malicious feed content, and feed connections now prefer HTTPS. - Fixed Newsbin failing to quit its previous copy on macOS when relaunched. - Non-square feed icons now fit rather than being cropped. - Numerous smaller stability and layout fixes.

What's new in this version of Newsbin Newsbin 2.2 rebuilds sync from the ground up. Feeds, folders, tags, smart groups, articles, and read status now stay in step across every device — and setting up a new device dependably brings your whole library back. Sync, rebuilt - An all-new sync engine replaces the previous iCloud pipeline. Feeds, folders, tags, and smart groups now converge reliably instead of drifting apart. - Articles sync: every device shows the same list and the same unread count. - Article text syncs too, so an article opened on one device is readable — and summarizable — on the others, even offline. - Read state now propagates in seconds instead of minutes, with an immediate send on change, a sync when you switch back to the app, and a flush when you leave it. - "Mark all read" now lands everywhere, including on devices that never had those articles. - A "Synced" indicator appears in the status bar when changes arrive, so you can tell sync is alive. Restore and backups - Setting up a new device now reliably restores your entire library, with visible progress instead of an empty list. - Automatic iCloud backups are now on by default. (If you turned them off, that choice is kept.) - Backup retention now keeps the newest snapshot from each age band — now, a day ago, a week ago, a month ago — kept separately per device, so your history spans a month instead of a few hours. - The backups list shows which device made each snapshot. - If your library unexpectedly shrinks, Newsbin now tells you and offers a one-tap route to your backups. Tidier all around - Duplicate feeds, stray folders, empty "No Title" smart groups, and blank tags are cleaned up automatically, on every device. - Folders now derive their identity from their name and parent, so importing an OPML adopts your existing folders instead of creating rivals. This fixes folders "hopping" or reverting between devices. - Folder renames and promoted feed suggestions now propagate over sync. - Fixed a long-running issue where feeds could gradually disappear from large libraries. Reading - The list now stays put when new articles arrive, with a button to load new unread items when you're ready. - New swipe-to-delete action, and links can be opened in the background. - YouTube feeds imported via OPML now show real channel avatars instead of the generic red play button, healed a few at a time in the background. - Video and audio badges are fixed for scraped articles, with support for more embed types including Dailymotion, Twitch, Spotify, and Apple Podcasts. - Switching tabs no longer briefly flashes the previous tab's articles. - Fixed auto-read-on-scroll not working in App Store builds. - Numerous article scraping and reader improvements. Localization - All 24 languages are now properly registered, with Slovak newly added. - Counts now use correct plural forms in every language, including Czech, Slovak, Polish, and Russian. - The menu bar unread count and Breaking News source counts are now translated. Changed - Device-to-device Nearby sync has been retired — iCloud now handles this reliably and with less latency. Newsbin no longer requests local network or Bluetooth permission. Apple Watch sync is unaffected. Fixes - Fixed unread badges drifting out of step with your library. - Fixed a sparse Breaking News rail after a sync import, and made clustering faster. - Fixed an infinite loop in the media scanner. - Fixed the list header claiming "No unread" when unread badges were hidden. - OPML import now repairs unescaped ampersands and respects manual-only refresh mode. - Top Story notifications are now evaluated after background syncs. - Feed dates in the future are clamped so articles can't pin themselves to the top of your list. - Many additional stability and layout fixes.

2.1.2 includes a critical fix for background crashes that might cause the app to fail to launch A focused follow-up to 2.1 with sharper Breaking News, more reliable auto-read, YouTube live and Shorts support, a proper Vision Pro icon, and important fixes for archived-article resurrection during sync. New - YouTube: live streams and Shorts are now supported, with the video embedded inline for video-only items. - Redeem an offer code from Paywall or Settings — entitlements refresh immediately after redemption. - End-of-list auto-read: when you reach the bottom of a list, the remaining unread items are queued to be marked read. - visionOS: proper flat platform app icon on Vision Pro. Improvements - Sharper Breaking News clustering: entity-aware title tokenization, a temporal-boilerplate veto, and a lone-word guard to prevent false groupings. - Breaking News actions now behave as a story: unread-first display, story-scoped read and delete, and a proper "mark story read" behavior. - Breaking reader sheets are hosted at the home level so cards can reorder without dismissing what you're reading. - Scroll auto-read is now id-keyed and survives in-place relists and long refreshes, preventing rare stalls. - Hardened cleanup of AI-generated summaries and excerpts: hallucinated "tool result" transcripts and bare-identifier outputs are rejected, and Siri intents surface a clear "unusable summary" error instead of returning garbage. Existing summaries and excerpts are repaired in a one-time pass. - Reader/scrape pipeline: adaptive scrape-skipping, better image-post heuristics, image caption injection for image-only articles, and site-specific fixes (Gizmodo). - Low Power Mode gating for AI scanners and List Overview to reduce battery use on the go. - List Overview briefings now honor your device language, and unsupported-language errors are surfaced clearly instead of retrying. - Top Story notification throttle relaxed to 30 minutes. - Tag inline renames now persist reliably, and Select All on iOS single-panel devices enters edit mode first. - Time-based tabs (Today, Week) are hidden when your article expiry window would make them redundant. - New installs default to a 5-day expiry and auto-read on scroll; existing installs keep their current settings. Fixes - Fixed a bug where "Mark all archived" articles could reappear as unread after an iCloud or Nearby sync. Archived state is now reasserted after CloudKit imports, and Nearby reconciliation filters out recently-archived items. - Prevented stale iCloud badge snapshots from being seeded on device. - Fixed a NearbyHistory crash caused by resolving persistent-history rows that had already been deleted. - Fixed network decompression memory crashes by removing manual Accept-Encoding headers and using safer buffer handling. - Numerous small stability, layout, and localization fixes.

A focused follow-up to 2.1 with sharper Breaking News, more reliable auto-read, YouTube live and Shorts support, a proper Vision Pro icon, and important fixes for archived-article resurrection during sync. New - YouTube: live streams and Shorts are now supported, with the video embedded inline for video-only items. - Redeem an offer code from Paywall or Settings — entitlements refresh immediately after redemption. - End-of-list auto-read: when you reach the bottom of a list, the remaining unread items are queued to be marked read. - visionOS: proper flat platform app icon on Vision Pro. Improvements - Sharper Breaking News clustering: entity-aware title tokenization, a temporal-boilerplate veto, and a lone-word guard to prevent false groupings. - Breaking News actions now behave as a story: unread-first display, story-scoped read and delete, and a proper "mark story read" behavior. - Breaking reader sheets are hosted at the home level so cards can reorder without dismissing what you're reading. - Scroll auto-read is now id-keyed and survives in-place relists and long refreshes, preventing rare stalls. - Hardened cleanup of AI-generated summaries and excerpts: hallucinated "tool result" transcripts and bare-identifier outputs are rejected, and Siri intents surface a clear "unusable summary" error instead of returning garbage. Existing summaries and excerpts are repaired in a one-time pass. - Reader/scrape pipeline: adaptive scrape-skipping, better image-post heuristics, image caption injection for image-only articles, and site-specific fixes (Gizmodo). - Low Power Mode gating for AI scanners and List Overview to reduce battery use on the go. - List Overview briefings now honor your device language, and unsupported-language errors are surfaced clearly instead of retrying. - Top Story notification throttle relaxed to 30 minutes. - Tag inline renames now persist reliably, and Select All on iOS single-panel devices enters edit mode first. - Time-based tabs (Today, Week) are hidden when your article expiry window would make them redundant. - New installs default to a 5-day expiry and auto-read on scroll; existing installs keep their current settings. Fixes - Fixed a bug where "Mark all archived" articles could reappear as unread after an iCloud or Nearby sync. Archived state is now reasserted after CloudKit imports, and Nearby reconciliation filters out recently-archived items. - Prevented stale iCloud badge snapshots from being seeded on device. - Fixed a NearbyHistory crash caused by resolving persistent-history rows that had already been deleted. - Fixed network decompression memory crashes by removing manual Accept-Encoding headers and using safer buffer handling. - Numerous small stability, layout, and localization fixes.

What's new in this version of Newsbin Newsbin 2.1 brings new reading modes, a redesigned Settings, dramatically smoother scrolling in large libraries, and important background-refresh and stability fixes. New - Reading Modes: Bionic Reading, Dyslexic Mode, and Invert Article Colors, all available in Reading settings. - Appearance settings: a new panel for accent color and app icon, separate from General. - Settings redesign: reorganized into 12 focused panels, including new Articles, Notifications, and Data panels; Backups/Import/Sync are now grouped together, and Models fold into Intelligence. - End-of-list auto-read: when you reach the bottom of an article list, the remaining unread items are queued to be marked read. - Redeem an offer code from Paywall, Settings, or the debug tools; entitlements refresh immediately on redemption. - macOS: sidebar and content column widths are now remembered across launches. Improvements - Dramatically smoother scrolling in large lists thanks to lazy read/unread computation, an in-place unread-filter fast path, and unread state that's derived from a live query instead of refetched. - Sidebar feed rows are now their own invalidation boundary, so badge recounts no longer rebuild every row on every scroll batch. - Kingfisher thumbnail and favicon loads now run disk decode off the main thread, eliminating a common source of scroll hitches. - Coalesced CloudKit imports and interruptible maintenance sweeps to prevent launch-window hitches. - Backup encoding, compression, and iCloud writes moved off the main thread. - AI background scanners now limit backlog work to unread and saved articles to avoid churning large libraries on-device. - Section Brief now properly builds for tag-based Smart Groups with wide age windows. - Bookmark actions and tabs are hidden when the Bookmarked tab is disabled. - New installs default to a 5-day expiry and auto-read on scroll; existing installs keep their current settings. Fixes - Restored background feed refresh on iOS: sync tasks are now re-armed on backgrounding, so Top Story and other notifications can actually fire. - Fixed launch crashes on prewarmed iOS launches by deferring the SwiftData store open until it's needed. - Fixed lost Top Story notifications caused by cancelling all background task requests instead of just sync. - Fixed a NearbyHistory crash by resolving persistent history rows via fetch instead of raw model lookup. - Fixed undeletable "zombie" duplicate tags that shared the same id. - Fixed a Progress KVO race in Nearby transfers. - Fixed 0xdead10cc WAL-lock crashes in List Overview reads. - Various small stability, localization, and settings-navigation fixes.

What's new in this version of Newsbin A follow-up to 2.0 focused on stability, faster scrolling in large lists, better auto-read behavior, and Watch and Widget fixes. New - Per-article auto-read on scroll: articles are marked read as they leave the top of your list, with new "Read Above" and "Read Below" swipe actions. - Preview Top Story notification from Intelligence settings to see exactly how alerts will appear. - Watch → Phone Smart Group editing: create and edit Smart Groups on the Watch and have them saved back to your library. - Breaking News now always has content: falls back to a Top Stories rail (newest per source) when embeddings aren't yet available. Improvements - Much smoother scrolling in large article lists thanks to lazy Read/Unread computation and a phase-only remap fast path. - Widget deep-linking is more reliable: article IDs with slashes are properly encoded, and Watch accessory widgets tap through correctly. - Smart Group badges now respect your tag filters. - Refresh no longer overwrites AI fields (like summaries) with parser data. - Single-source Breaking News cards hide the multi-source footer. - AI summaries are cleaned of hallucinated "Tool Results" transcripts and stray "Summary:" prefixes, and existing summaries are migrated on next maintenance. Fixes - Fixed background terminations (0xdead10cc) caused by CloudKit imports during suspension and a duplicate NearbyState created at launch. - Fixed an out-of-memory crash caused by unbounded gzip buffer growth in the media scanner. - Fixed iOS launch wiring so notification delegates and the CloudKit guard start reliably. - Fixed tag edits from the article view that appeared to do nothing (tag saves are now persisted before relist). - Fixed several small crashes reported from TestFlight builds. - Fixed iCloud key-value sync round-trip on watchOS.

Newsbin 2.0: AI, on your terms. A major update that adds AI to Newsbin without changing what you love about it. Every AI feature is opt-in, runs on-device with Apple Intelligence (or your own API key), and never routes through our servers. When you're done reading, the AI gets out of the way. New: For You & discovery - For You: a personalized feed learned on-device from what you actually read — no ad networks, no algorithmic manipulation. - Discover: suggested feeds and "Who to Follow" recommendations based on the subscriptions you already have. - Suggested Feed Preview: try a suggested source before committing. New: Breaking News & Top Stories - Breaking News: automatically clusters duplicate coverage of the same event from different outlets into a single story, with sources you can expand. - Top Stories: a daily digest of the most significant articles across your feeds, with optional notifications when something big breaks. - Home tab: a single place for Breaking News, Top Stories, and For You. New: AI reading tools - Article Summaries: AI-generated abstracts so you can decide what's worth reading in full. - Section Brief: a read-only overview of any article list, clustered by topic and filterable. - Smart Tags: automatic topic categorization that plugs into your existing tag and blocklist workflows. - Topics: extract and filter story threads from any list — no manual setup. New: Your AI, your choice - Choose Apple Intelligence, or bring your own API key (Claude and other providers) — everything is opt-in. - Private Cloud Compute is guarded and controllable per feature. - Nothing is shared with us. New: Platform & integration - Full watchOS support with a redesigned Watch app and reliable snapshot sync. - Mail-style article windows on macOS with a Reader toolbar. - New Shortcuts actions, including "Summarize News by Topic." - Browser chooser with an in-app Safari option. - Manage Followed (formerly Connection Doctor): diagnose stale feeds and self-heal YouTube channel discovery. Improvements - iCloud backups now use LZFSE compression, with automatic detection on read. - CloudKit schema mismatches surface as a clear "Sync paused" status instead of failing silently. - Faster on-device AI generation and better clustering thanks to complete-link merging and a discriminative keyword guard. - Language-aware summarization and natural-language keywording. - Refined welcome, article, and settings screens across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, and Apple Watch. Fixes - Fixed a background crash (0xdead10cc) and switched to a more reliable contextual-first embedding path. - Prevented deleted follows from reappearing after a feed refresh. - Resolved SwiftUI presentation and large-title navigation crashes. - Fixed Watch snapshot sync using transferFile instead of application context. - Numerous stability, localization, and layout refinements.

What's new in this version of Newsbin A small update focused on YouTube feed reliability and Apple Watch refresh. Fixes - YouTube feeds: restored proper channel discovery after YouTube's mobile page changes. Feeds now correctly use the channel's real display name and avatar instead of falling back to a generic "YouTube" title and icon. - YouTube: view and like stat icons are visible again in the article view. - Prevented feed-level metadata (channel homepage, feed publication dates) from leaking into individual articles, which had been creating bogus entries in YouTube and similar feeds. - Apple Watch: Watch-initiated refreshes now correctly push results back to the Watch, so the list no longer stays empty after asking the Watch to refresh.

What's new in this version of Newsbin A small fix-up release. Fixes - Resolved an issue with a deprecated web view that could affect article rendering. - Minor localization and build target updates.

What's new in this version of Newsbin A small fix-up release focused on grouped reading behavior, macOS Nearby sync, and better diagnostics for background terminations. Improvements - Grouped article lists no longer immediately re-mark items as read after "Clear all" or "Mark all read." Auto-read is briefly suppressed while the list settles. - Added runtime detection and telemetry for suspended-with-locked-file terminations to help diagnose rare background crashes in future updates. Fixes - macOS: added the missing entitlements needed for Nearby sync to work reliably. - Smart Groups: fixed an issue where all tags were incorrectly flagged when editing a group.

What's new in this version of Newsbin Thanks for supporting Newsbin! This is a small fix-up release focused on Smart Groups. Fixes - Smart Groups with their age filter set to "Off" now correctly show all articles instead of falling back to the global expiry window. - Smart Group unread badges only appear when iCloud unread tracking and badge preferences are enabled. - Folder and Smart Group changes now trigger a more reliable sidebar refresh.

What's new in this version of Newsbin Thanks for using Newsbin! This is a substantial update: ten free articles a day, smarter thumbnail discovery, more reliable Nearby reconciliation, and important background stability fixes on iOS. What's changed - Free reading allowance increased from 5 to 10 articles per day. - Refreshed paywall and welcome copy with clearer messaging. Improvements - Thumbnail Discovery now picks up new articles mid-session: scanners restart when new content arrives, fresh thumbnails appear in the list immediately, and the article list properly diffs late-written thumbnails and media kinds. - More robust thumbnail extraction from real-world web pages, with stronger handling of Open Graph, Twitter, and YouTube meta tags and a larger scan window for heavy pages. - Blocked tags are now applied immediately after a refresh or iCloud sync, so filtered content never briefly appears. - Manual refresh mode is now fully honored — peer- and nearby-triggered refreshes are also skipped when you've set refresh to Manual. - Nearby sync gained a reconcile acknowledgement step so history tokens only advance once the receiver confirms, improving cross-device consistency. - Sound playback runs on a dedicated background queue to avoid stutters on the main thread. - Faster date and regex parsing during feed imports thanks to cached compilation and a shared lookup tables. - Maintenance and import pipelines were consolidated for fewer duplicate writes and clearer logging. Fixes - Resolved iOS background silent terminations caused by SQLite WAL locks during suspension by applying NSFileProtectionCompleteUntilFirstUserAuthentication to the database files. - Fixed thumbnail visibility races where background-scanned images could be overwritten by an in-flight refresh. - Various small stability, logging, and localization fixes.

What's new in this version of Newsbin This release adds thumbnail customization, automatic thumbnail discovery for feeds that don't include images, smarter refresh-on-open behavior, and important stability fixes for launch and backup. New - Thumbnail Discovery: an opt-in background scanner finds and attaches thumbnails for articles whose feeds don't provide one, such as TechCrunch. Enable it in Reading settings. - Thumbnail position: choose leading, trailing, or off in the article list. - Article row size has moved to Reading settings alongside the new Thumbnails section for easier customization. Improvements - Refresh-on-open now reliably triggers each time Newsbin becomes active, not just on cold launch, with throttling so it won't fire too often. - Manual refresh mode is now fully honored — Newsbin no longer auto-refreshes on activation if you've chosen Manual. - Changing your refresh interval reschedules sync across devices through iCloud. - Long feed refreshes now show a "Checking for articles… / Still working…" status if they run more than 15 seconds. - More responsive sidebar and list updates with centralized blocked-tag handling, reducing background database work during sync. - On macOS, the article list selection highlight uses a native, version-proof implementation instead of a third-party workaround. Fixes - Resolved launch crashes (RunningBoard "0xdead10cc") caused by database work and SQLite locking during init. - CloudKit imports are now debounced and skipped while the app is backgrounded to prevent rapid-fire work. - Fixed corrupt JSON in large backup exports caused by partial stream writes; backup writes now loop until the full buffer is committed and report errors instead of silently truncating. - Minor localization and layout cleanups across the article row and settings screens.

What's new in this version of Newsbin Thanks for supporting Newsbin! A sync-focused release: reads and unread changes now persist more reliably across devices, the iCloud Reader is enabled by default, and RSS parsing is safer and more transparent when feeds fail. New - Full articles are now enabled by default for new installs. - Updated "Refresh on startup" option in General settings to pull the latest articles every time Newsbin opens. - Session read overlay: sidebar badges and the app icon count update the moment you mark items read by scrolling, even before reads are cleared. Improvements - Sync overhaul: session reads and unreads now write directly to the database as the single source of truth, eliminating parallel queues and duplicate broadcasts. - Pending session reads are cleared on quit so nothing is lost when closing Newsbin during a sync. - Folder deletions are now broadcast to nearby devices before they happen locally, preventing deleted folders and feeds from being resurrected. - Clear Reads confirmation includes pending in-memory reads in the affected count. - Hardened RSS parsing: feed HTML is sanitized against unsafe scripts and schemes, image URLs are restricted to http(s), and per-feed timeouts now use a single unified timer. - Failed feeds are surfaced in the refresh status message so you can see when a source isn't loading. - StoreKit restores are more reliable: unfinished transactions are drained on launch, refreshes are coalesced, and product lists are preserved during transient network errors. - Faster Subscription screen: entitlement state is cached to avoid frequent Keychain reads. Fixes - Prevented conflicting writes during peer history reconciliation that could resurrect deleted items. - Repeated App Store redelivery and auth prompts caused by leftover transactions are now resolved on launch. - Various small localization and UI fixes.

What's new in this version of Newsbin Thanks for using Newsbin! This is a small follow-up release focused on better YouTube handling, more accurate timestamps and item counts, and a few UI refinements. Improvements - YouTube feeds: alternate video links are now detected and promoted to first-class YouTube video items when an entry has no on-host link. - "Time ago" labels now use a rolling 24-hour and 7-day window, so an article from 22 hours ago shows the actual time instead of jumping to "yesterday." - New item counts on refresh only include items that actually pass your filters, so totals match what you see in the list. - Smoother sidebar rendering: root folders are computed once and reused across rows and menus. - Faster, more consistent badge updates after read/unread changes. Fixes - iPad: removed a duplicate subtitle that appeared in the navigation bar alongside the toolbar status. - "Mark all read" now properly clears the focused article so it isn't restored after the refresh. - Minor localization and spacing cleanups.

What's new in this version of Newsbin A stability release with faster list refreshes, fewer duplicate items, and important fixes to keep Newsbin reliable when the app is backgrounded. Improvements - Article lists now refresh promptly after update-only syncs (e.g. when read state changes upstream) so unread counts and ordering stay accurate. - Import batches collapse same-id duplicates as they arrive, preventing duplicate rows after large refreshes. - Faster, lighter UI updates: AppView now reacts to lightweight registry change counters instead of repeatedly scanning the database. - New per-folder and per-feed Archive action in the article toolbar to quickly clear out a single source or folder. Fixes - Resolved background crashes (RunningBoard "0xdead10cc") by guarding SwiftData work and watch updates while the app is suspended. - Fixed orphaned feeds and metadata that could remain after deleting a folder; folder deletion is now performed as an awaited batch. - Collapses duplicate folders that share the same name and parent, remapping their feeds to a single keeper. - Detail view now loads articles via the JavaScript bridge after navigation finishes, avoiding crashes on very large articles. - Various small fixes to persistence consistency, watch sync debouncing, and UI styling.

What's new in this version of Newsbin This update adds website grouping with smart auto-read, a refreshed Unreads settings panel, haptic feedback across the app, and major improvements to Nearby and iCloud sync reliability. New - Group by Website: organize the article list into sections by source, with a favicon header and a one-tap action to mark an entire website as read. - Automatically mark website sections as read as you scroll past them. Toggle this on or off in the new Unreads settings. - New Unreads settings panel to control unread indicators and auto-read behavior. - Haptic feedback on common actions for a more responsive feel. Improvements - Nearby sync now uses history-based reconciliation, so deleted items stay deleted and peers reliably catch up after being offline. Read/unread changes propagate faster between nearby devices. - More stable iCloud sync with fewer race conditions, smarter import debouncing, and reduced background work. - Faster startup and refreshes thanks to coalesced batch saves and async persistence. - Article detail view loads more efficiently with targeted fetching of nearby entries, lowering memory use. - Broader localization coverage and refined UI copy across settings and the welcome screen. Fixes - Prevented a duplicate app instance from opening the same iCloud store. - iCloud-synced icon preferences no longer trigger the "Icon Changed" alert on launch. - User-set read/unread state is preserved when feeds are re-parsed. - Article and feed IDs are preserved on deletion to avoid resurrected items during sync. - visionOS: guarded an unsupported sensory feedback API and refined section header styling. - Web links are now opened only for http(s) schemes. - Various small UI, localization, and stability fixes.

What's new in this version of Newsbin This update introduces an in-app browser, smoother scrolling, faster badge updates, and big improvements to iCloud sync reliability and background performance. New - In-app browser: tap an article link to open it in Newsbin instead of leaving the app. Toggle "Open links in new window" in General Settings if you prefer the old behavior. Improvements - Snappier scrolling with a shorter throttle cooldown and faster response when reaching the end of a list. - Faster, more accurate unread badges across folders and smart groups, with consistent counts on nested folders. - Article refreshes and database maintenance now run in the background, keeping the UI responsive during large syncs. - Smoother sidebar and image loading: smarter favicon prefetching, fewer redundant updates, and reduced animation flicker. - More efficient CloudKit sync batching and broadcast of read state to nearby devices. Fixes - Fixed crashes caused by database writes while the app was suspended in the background on iOS. - Fixed memory crashes during backup encoding when quitting the app. - Fixed a hang and high memory use when syncing with nearby devices. - Fixed leading whitespace in parsed RSS content. - Various small bug fixes for unread badges and sub-navigation.

Newsbin 1.16.4 Fixes • Fixed an issue where grandfathered users could not restore purchase after reinstalling Newsbin. If you're still having this issue please send an email to support@xetabit.com.

Newsbin 1.16.2 Fixes • Fixed an issue where grandfathered users could not restore purchase. If you're still having this issue please send an email to support@xetabit.com. Newsbin 1.16.0 New • Apple Watch companion: browse feeds on your wrist with WatchConnectivity sync and background file transfer. • Revamped Contact settings with social links. • Nearby sync: resource-based transport, mutual invites, KV broadcast, and phase sync between devices. • Import deduplication powered by a new ID registry — no more duplicate articles when importing OPML or syncing. • Scroll throttling defers heavy work while you scroll for smoother lists. • Toggle for the in-app logger so you can quiet things down. Improvements • CloudKit background sync is more reliable, with automatic change token recovery. • Smarter RSS parsing, better Accept headers, and fallback link handling for cross-domain feeds. • Unified Blogger and Reddit parsers with a new feed builder. • Deferred Spotlight reindex and initial prefetch for faster launches. • Import batching keeps the app responsive on large feeds. • TestFlight, audio, and media playback improvements. • Photo library permissions for saving images from articles. • Window deminiaturizes correctly on reopen (macOS). • Background task handling refined; CloudKit disabled on watchOS. • Migrated app state, themes, tags, discovery, and WebKit to Swift's new Observation API for lower overhead and snappier UI. • visionOS tuning and refreshed app icons. Fixes • Fixed article deletions not propagating across devices. • Fixed sync timeouts and several sync edge cases. • Fixed StoreKit log spam and thumbnail parsing issues. • Fixed lifecycle and emoji rendering glitches. • Removed stale feed-id regeneration that caused duplicates. • Numerous small UI, tint, and localization polish items. Thanks for using Newsbin! As always, please reach out from Settings → Contact if you run into anything.