What's new in this version of Newsbin A targeted patch: reads stay read, Blogger feeds work again, and the reader no longer clips text on iPhone. New - Help articles are now a tap away. The Help menu, Settings, and individual settings panels link to the matching article on the Newsbin help site. - The tag editor shows how many articles a tag currently matches, so you can see what a tag will catch before you save it. Fixes - Reads stay read. A blocked article no longer lingers in the list as unread, marking one read no longer bounces back, and a read on one device is no longer lost to another device. - Blogger feeds that showed no articles now work. Blogger and Reddit feeds that Newsbin can't read with its specialized handling now fall back to standard parsing instead of coming up empty. - Blogger thumbnails load at full size rather than as small cropped versions. - iPhone: fixed article text being cut off beside a wide code block or table. - Suggested feeds no longer stall partway through. Each candidate is now checked against a time limit, and the status line names the site being checked. - Keyboard shortcuts no longer fire while you're typing a question in the reader, so Command-A selects your text instead of triggering Select All. - The blocklist now matches the words its chips actually show. - Returning to Newsbin from the background is smoother and no longer pauses on a large library. - Settings panel headings are now translated in every language.

What's new in this version of Newsbin A stability and performance release. Refreshes are faster, the Mac feels more responsive, and a number of long-standing problems with lost reads, OPML export and Breaking News are fixed. New - Ask Siri for "Show Today's News" to open the news card. It understands ten phrasings, including ones with a time window, such as "Show the news from the last 24 hours in Newsbin". - Setting up Newsbin now offers a short list of starter feeds, so a new install has something to read straight away. - Medium and small rows now carry the unread dot inline in the title, matching the large card, and medium rows move the site icon into the banner. Improvements - Faster refreshes: the feeds you're looking at fetch first, feeds that haven't changed answer without downloading anything, and only feeds that previously errored are checked ahead of time. - The Mac feels noticeably quicker. Maintenance, index loading and sync reads now run in the background, and the toolbar and folder menus no longer query your library to draw themselves. - Thumbnails Newsbin finds for you now appear on the rows in front of you right away instead of waiting for a batch to fill. - Summaries and translations are produced for what's on screen first. - Faster Breaking News grouping. - Background AI work now stops once there's nothing left to do, instead of running out its whole window. - Writing a compressed backup now streams to disk rather than holding the whole backup in memory. Fixes - Fixed sync failing on very large libraries, where Newsbin's own sync state had outgrown the space available to store it. - Fixed reads being lost when Newsbin closed. Reads are now mirrored as you go and replayed at launch, and the Mac saves pending reads when you close the window. - Fixed Breaking News emptying itself after a temporary read error, which could also discard every story grouping it had cached. - Fixed Home Screen quick actions running twice when Newsbin was already open. - Fixed editing a feed failing to save in some cases. - OPML export now includes nested folders and feeds that aren't in any folder, with each feed written exactly once, and import reads folders at any depth. - Fixed blocked tags not being applied to articles that arrived while Newsbin was in the background, and fixed a blocked article reappearing when you marked something else read. - Fixed duplicate articles when an import and a refresh landed at the same time. - Fixed some feeds showing their lead image twice. - iPad: the list header's title and unread count now update as you read. - iPhone: in landscape with the list beside the reader, the article now runs edge to edge. - iPhone Duo: reader content runs out to the rail, and the open pose keeps the reader controls in the same order as the closed display. - macOS: fixed an empty box drawn behind empty lists on macOS 27.2. - Fixed a crash when Breaking News warmed up at launch and Newsbin was put in the background mid-read. - Fixed a refresh that was cut short in the background marking a feed as failed. - Fixed temporary files being left behind after each Apple Watch update. Changed - Newsbin now requires iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26 or visionOS 26.

What's new in this version of Newsbin Newsbin 2.7 lets you ask questions about what you're reading, choose exactly which feeds filter to unread, and brings a fresh look to cards and rows. New - Ask About the Article: every summary now ends with a question field. Ask anything and the answer streams in, drawn only from the article itself, so it will tell you plainly when the article doesn't say. Follow-up questions are kept in the conversation, and the whole thing clears when you move on. Turn it off in Settings, Intelligence. - Customize Unreads: turn off "Unread filters all articles" in Articles settings and pick which tabs, feeds, folders and smart groups filter to unread. Folder choices cascade to everything inside them, and your setup syncs through iCloud. - Subtle selection highlight: selected rows now use a neutral translucent fill rather than your accent color. The old look is a toggle away in Appearance settings. - A new look for large rows, with an inset fully rounded image and the source above the headline, in the style of the App Store. - Breaking News cards take their background color from the story's own image. Improvements - The blocklist now matches article authors as well as titles and tags, so you can mute a byline. - Tags match whole words instead of fragments, so a tag like "Revolut" no longer catches "revolution". End a tag with an asterisk to match the start of a word instead. - Tag filters now match accented spellings and names written with punctuation, and tags keep working after you rename them. - Smoother scrolling, with background sweeps, cache writes and Apple Watch transfers moved off the main thread and unread syncing done incrementally. - Medium thumbnails now stay in place in narrower columns instead of dropping to the small size too early. - Destructive actions read red throughout, including confirmations, Connections, the list toolbar and macOS sidebar swipes. - iPhone Duo: the reader insets its content beside the fold divider. - Feed URLs pasted with stray spaces are now trimmed instead of failing. Fixes - Fixed YouTube videos jumping back to the top of your list when a channel re-stamps an item, by preferring the original publish date. - Fixed a Smart Group with "Include all RSS feeds" turned back on saving only the feeds you had previously picked. - The empty article list now names the folder you're looking at.

What's new in this version of Newsbin Newsbin 2.6 can translate the feeds you read. Turn it on and articles, headlines and excerpts appear in your language, translated on your device as you read. New - Translate Articles: a new toggle and language picker in Settings, Reading, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Articles in another language are translated as they render, with layout, images and links left exactly where they were. Translation runs on your device, and the article's own text is never altered. - Translations stream in as they finish, with the headline flipping first, so you can start reading right away. - Titles and excerpts in the article list are translated too, by a background pass that runs as you go. - Top Stories, Breaking News cards and their sources sheet, Top Story notifications, Siri article results and the Today's News headlines all follow your translation setting. - Summaries, briefs and Smart Tags are written in your reading language, with proper names kept as they appear. - iPhone Duo: unfold the device and the reader now fills the wider display edge to edge. - Update All Favicons now reports what it did in place, and the Add and Edit Feed sheets have a reload button next to the Favicon URL field to re-detect an icon. Improvements - YouTube channel icons now resolve to the channel's real avatar, and no longer revert to a generic icon after another device syncs. - Webcomics show the full strip from the page even when the feed carries a small cropped copy of the same image. - Reader polish: the article backdrop spans the full width of the column, with rounded corners on macOS. - Better handling of older and malformed text encodings, so pages with stray bytes or an unusual character set read correctly instead of showing replacement characters. - Sites that answer individual articles with an "enable JavaScript" page no longer count against that site's background fetch budget or put it in a cooldown. Fixes - Fixed crashes during long sessions on iPad, caused by Newsbin exhausting its available address space. - Fixed articles that showed only their first paragraph while the summary had the whole story. - The sidebar's manual order now survives relaunching. - Deleting a single feed now asks you to confirm. - Fixed a story you mark read staying pinned among the unread cards in Breaking News and For You. - "Read all" now reads as marking articles read in every language, and the Add to Folder and Move to Folder labels are translated.

What's new in this version of Newsbin Newsbin 2.5 adds a Sidebar Order sort that turns your whole library into one reading queue, a redesigned Large Thumbnails view, webcomics that actually show the comic, inline podcast playback, and support for iPhone Duo. New - Read in Sidebar Order: sort articles the way your sidebar is arranged, with a section for every source and folder. Clear a section from its header and Newsbin moves on to the next one with unread articles. - Clearing a feed now advances to the next item below it in the sidebar, instead of jumping back up to its folder. - A beautiful new Large Thumbnails view: articles appear as cards with edge-to-edge imagery, the source banner over a soft gradient, and the headline and excerpt beneath, matching the Breaking News style. Articles without an image keep the same card shape. - Webcomics now show the strip, not the site's navigation or footer, with its hover text included, even when the feed only carries a link. - Podcast episodes get a native audio player above the show notes. - Article audio and video now appear in the system Now Playing card, with the title, source, and artwork, so you can control playback from the Lock Screen or Control Center. - iPhone Duo: the reader toolbar adapts when the device is unfolded. The unread count now draws as a symbol so it stays in the vertical toolbar rail instead of being pushed aside, and compact numbers keep large counts readable. - Folder-aware list headers show each source's folder beneath its name, with the folder's own icon and color. - Widget: extra-large rows now give titles two lines instead of showing an excerpt. Improvements - Pull to refresh now waits for the refresh to actually finish instead of snapping back immediately, and the status names the feed when you refresh just one. - The Breaking News rail holds still during a refresh or sync instead of reshuffling, and cards keep their position when the same stories stay on the rail. Top Stories now has a proper empty state. - Unread badges update right away after you read, instead of lagging behind when you return to the sidebar. - A faster, lighter article list: the heavy work now runs off the main thread, so scrolling and switching feeds stay smooth on big libraries. - Lower memory use while Newsbin is in the background, which means fewer reloads when you come back to it. - Background image and thumbnail fetching is now paced per site and backs off when a site starts blocking requests, so a newly added feed can't get your connection flagged. Newsbin can also read AMP versions of pages that block normal requests. - Many real article images that were previously hidden or discarded now appear, across a range of publisher image services. Fixes - The reader keeps your scroll position when you switch away from Newsbin and come back, instead of jumping to the top. - iPhone: background refreshes now actually save the articles they fetch. - iPad: the article you were reading reopens after the system closes Newsbin in the background. - Fixed feeds whose audio came before the article link showing a page of garbled characters instead of the episode. - Newsbin now refuses to add a feed URL you already follow, whether you add it by hand or change an existing feed's URL. Two copies of one feed previously split its articles between them. - macOS: fixed clicking an already-selected row doing nothing after an accidental range selection. - Fixed opening the Tags settings panel interrupting Apple Watch sync.

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.