NetNewsWire: RSS Reader

More news, less junk. Faster.

Free

It’s like podcasts, but for reading. NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader. It’s fast, stable, and accessible. NetNewsWire shows you articles from your favorite blogs and news sites — and keeps track of what you’ve read. If you’ve been going from page to page in your browser looking for new articles to read, let NetNewsWire bring them to you instead. It’s easy and fun — and it puts you in control of your news. Features: * Direct feed-downloading * Syncing via iCloud, Feedbin, Feedly, BazQux, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, and FreshRSS * Multiple accounts * Custom article themes * Reader view * Share sheet * Starred articles * All Unread and Today smart feeds * Folders * Importing and exporting OPML feed lists * Background refreshing * Searching * Hiding read articles * Timeline customization * Keyboard shortcuts * Context menus * Home screen widgets for today, unread, and starred articles * Share extension

  • 4.8
    out of 5
    795 Ratings

- Added support for Markdown in RSS via the source:markdown element. When present, the Markdown is rendered as HTML - Made several performance enhancements, most notably in scrolling the timeline - Added a dotted underline to links in the Sepia theme, to make links more visible - Added new setting: you can now enable/disable JavaScript (in the Settings screen) - Improved http/https caching, reducing bandwidth and battery use - Fixed bug where a feed could be read twice on being added - Fixed bug where the initial download for a new feed didn’t store conditional GET info - Added some special cases where we can and should avoid doing some specific work (such as downloading the home page to find a feed icon) - Worked around a server bug where a server would always respond with a 304 when any conditional GET info is sent (the app drops conditional GET info every 8 days) - Fixed a possible cause of feeds not updating by caching (non-429) 4xx responses for some hours rather than for the duration of the app run - Fixed a couple Atom parser bugs (one with relative URLs, one with root level author elements) - Fixed bug where contextual menu in timeline could be slow to appear - Fixed a possible cause of app icon unread count badge to be out of date - Fixed bug where timeline text could be truncated early when showing max number of lines in timeline and small text - Fixed a bug where images that are links could get underlined in the default theme - Fixed a bug finding a feed in a page that has no body tag - Fixed bug with some favicons rendering weird, with dark vertical lines. Note: due to caching, the fix may take a few days to take effect - Improved iCloud error dialog - Fixed some cosmetic UI glitches - Removed support for multiple windows

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  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

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  • Seller
    • Brent Simmons
  • Size
    • 26.8 MB
  • Category
    • News
  • Compatibility
    Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
  • Languages
    • English
  • Age Rating
    16+
    • 16+
    • Infrequent
      Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References

      Contains
      Unrestricted Web Access
  • Copyright
    • © 2002-2025 Brent Simmons