News Explorer 17+

Newsreader with iCloud sync

Ron Elemans

    • $7.99

Description

News Explorer is a powerful yet remarkably easy-to-use RSS, JSON, Atom and Mastodon newsreader with iCloud based synchronisation between iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.

FULL iCLOUD SYNC
• News Explorer syncs your RSS, JSON, Atom, YouTube, Reddit and Mastodon feeds, folder setup, news items, read statuses and favorites across all your Apple devices.
• Synchronisation is based on iCloud, so there is no need to login or to sign up into any other service, it just works out of the box.
• Built-in high speed RSS, RDF, Atom, JSON, Reddit and Mastodon feed engine.

PRODUCTIVE INTERFACE
• Clean, 100% native, distraction-free user interface
• Article list with resizable thumbnails
• Feed level option to automatically open articles in Reader view
• Size, alignment and visibility of the thumbnails are adjustable.
• Built-in browser for viewing inline links and other references
• Themes, adaptable to your taste and mood
• Widgets for Home Screen and Today View

STREAMLINED READING
• Use automatic Reader view to read the full version of articles in a clean and easy-to-read format
• Mark items as favorite for later reading
• Navigate with one tap to the original content
• Timeline view shows your news articles in an attractive newspaper-like way
• Full text search
• Built-in image viewer to browse through all images of news articles
• Share news items via email, Messages, Notes and more
• Built-in support to share articles with Instapaper and Pocket

EASY CONFIGURATION
• Add new RSS, Atom and JSON feeds directly from Safari, using the 'Add to News Explorer' share extension
• Add RSS and Mastodon feeds via the built-in search form
• Support to add manually RSS, Atom, JSON, Reddit and Mastodon feeds
• Dedicated YouTube channel feed support
• Group your subscriptions with collapsible folders
• Rename and reorder folders and feeds, using drag-and-drop
• OPML import and export.

USABILITY FEATURES
• Article reader with adjustable title and body font settings
• Global filters let you filter all feeds and related news on unread items and favorites
• External keyboard support
• Perform quick actions with horizontal swipes
• Pull subscription list to start a sync session
• App icon badge with unread articles count
• Navigate to the next or previous article with animated swipe gestures

CUSTOMISATION OPTIONS
• You can set a default primary article view, such as Mercury Reader view, for all feeds.
• The default primary view can be overruled on feed or article level.
• Custom storage period for each item status (read, unread and favorite)
• Syncing with iCloud can be disabled, to use only the built-in high speed RSS engine
• And much more!

STATE OF THE ART
• Supports RSS 2.0, RDF, ATOM, JSON Feed, Reddit and Mastodon news feeds
• Supports RSS feeds with HTTP digest and basic authentication
• iCloud sync with CloudKit
• Multiple Reader view engines
• Supports RTL articles
• Background app refresh
• Spotlight indexing with images
• Handoff support
• Notifications with images
• Quick Notes support

MULTI-PLATFORM
You only need to buy two apps to cover all Apple platforms:
• News Explorer for Mac is available on the Mac App Store.
• News Explorer for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV is a universal purchase app, available on the App Store of the mentioned devices. Universal purchase allows you to purchase News Explorer once, and then access it on all connected platforms.

SUPPORT AND FEEDBACK
If you have any questions or need support on News Explorer, then browse to https://betamagic.nl/support/newsexplorer/help.html or email us at support@betamagic.nl.

If you like News Explorer then feel free to leave a review or a rating in the App Store or to recommend it to a friend. It helps a lot!

What’s New

Version 1.20.5

• Replaced OneSignal with a self-hosted solution.
• Fixed a serious issue when running the app in ‘Designed for iPad’ modus on visionOS.

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5
35 Ratings

35 Ratings

Slartibartfastwashere ,

Almost Perfect

Great RSS reader. It does everything I want it to and more. I bought it for the iCloud sync, which works great. I was fed up with either paying for a syncing service or giving away my data to the likes of Feedly. Think about it. With a list of the feeds you subscribe to and which articles you save and star, they can build a pretty good profile to sell your data to advertisers and who knows what else. With News Reader you don’t need any third parties collecting your data. It’s all within iCloud. The only thing I don’t like, and as petty as it sounds, it does drive me a bit insane, is that the app icon is horrendous. Seriously, get a good designer to create something nice. This one is the worst looking icon on my devices.

Tangential11 ,

best feed reader for me

after using for a couple of months now, I think the overall functions and appearance of this reader is best suited to me than other readers. I love the design which nicely balances tailoring to individual preferences with overall appearance. It is my preferred news & feed content consumption on the ipad. The apple-orientated design principles are there in way that surpasses other cluttered and unnecessarily complex readers.

acsplinky ,

Great non-server solution for RSS reading

The reading experience of the app is quite good, but it is let down by an unreliable and opaque sync system. It seems I can never get this iOS version to accurately sync article status with the Mac version.

I hope some further refinement will improve this, as this app seems the best option for getting away from a subscription-based server-side solution.

*UPDATE*: Based on developer response and improved subsequent performance I have upgraded my rating. A few interface enhancements and beautification would push this to 5 stars.

App Privacy

The developer, Ron Elemans, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

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

  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.

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