News Explorer 17+
Your one-stop news center
Ron Elemans
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- $14.99
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Description
News Explorer is a full-featured yet easy-to-use RSS, JSON, Atom, Reddit and Mastodon newsreader with iCloud based synchronisation between Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
FULL ICLOUD SYNC
• News Explorer syncs your RSS, JSON, Atom, 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 and Atom engine.
• Supports Mastodon user timelines.
• Enhanced support for YouTube feeds.
• Supports Podcast RSS feeds.
PRODUCTIVE INTERFACE
• Clean, stylish and clutter-free user interface.
• Article list with thumbnails, adjustable in visibility, size and alignment.
• Built-in browser for viewing inline links.
• Themes, adaptable to your taste and mood, or according appearance settings in macOS.
• Font of the article viewer is fully adjustable.
STREAMLINED READING
• Use Reader view to download and read the full text version of articles.
• Option to automatically use Reader view for all feeds, or selected feeds.
• Mark items as favorite for later reading.
• Navigate with one click to the original content.
• Reply, retweet and like tweets in Twitter feeds without leaving the app.
• Timeline view shows your news items in an attractive newspaper-like way.
• Full text search.
• Full keyboard navigation.
• Open articles in separate tabs or windows, for maximum focus.
• Built-in image viewer to browse through all images of news items.
• The image viewer can also be used to browse through all images of all articles of a feed.
• Full window YouTube videos.
• Built-in support to share news items with Twitter, Instapaper and Pocket.
• Share news items via email, Messages, Facebook and other sharing services.
• Support for Notification Center widgets.
EASY CONFIGURATION
• Add new RSS, Atom, JSON, Reddit, Mastodon, Podcast and YouTube 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.
• Feed extension support let you open RSS news feed URL’s.
• Group your subscriptions by using folders.
• Rename and reorder folders and feeds, using drag-and-drop.
• OPML import and export.
• Feed manager let you manage the feeds that should be displayed in the Notification Center.
USABILITY FEATURES
• Assign keyboard shortcuts to sharing services, including Instapaper and Pocket.
• Simply hit the spacebar to open the next article or to scroll the article when needed.
• With full Touch Bar support you have quick access to all essential functions.
• App icon badge with unread items count.
STATE OF THE ART
• Runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
• Supports RSS 2.0, RDF, JSON Feed, Reddit, ATOM, Podcast, YouTube and Mastodon news feeds.
• Supports feeds with Basic and Digest HTTP Authentication.
• Support for displaying articles with RTL text like Arabic or Hebrew.
• Auto Dark Mode and Accent Color support.
• Fully working iCloud sync based on CloudKit.
• Three built-in Reader view engines.
• Spotlight Search.
• Handoff support.
• Notifications with images.
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 iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and tvOS.
SUPPORT
News Explorer is one of the best documented news apps with an extensive help page on https://betamagic.nl/support/newsexplorer/help.html. If you still have any questions or need support, 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, it helps a lot!
What’s New
Version 1.20.4
• Fixed a compatibility issue with macOS 14, when using the ‘Add to News Explorer’ share extension in Safari.
• Fixed a parsing issue with feeds without ‘lastPubDate’ and with articles dated in the future.
• Fixed an issue with feed articles containing HTML without any closing tags with forward slashes.
• Fixed an issue with HTML images with referrer policy sub tags.
Ratings and Reviews
I Love It!
Used to use NetNewsWire and it was ok but it stopped getting better; i.e. no new updates and a down grade of the synching abilities. Still I persisted until I saw News Explorer. The interface is fantastic and it does what a news reader should - red the news. The build-in synch is something that I long ago forgot how great it can be. Thanks!
Closes the loop on iOS and Mac RSS
I’d tried a few RSS readers that had Mac and iOS options - Reeder is nice, but its developer refuses to impliment iCloud sync, requiring users to cover the cost of a 3rd party sync service. Newsbar syncs via iCloud, but its Mac client is an (In my opinion) needlessly experimental user interface exercise.
News Explorer does things (IMHO) correctly - the Mac client is a simple to comprehend 3 column view, which works overall in the way Mac users would expect an app, whose function is to allow them to categorise and consume information in any arbitrary way they see fit, to operate.
There are some issues with the Mac version:
- The categories view on the left column collapses category lists with hide / view button which is only visible when moused over, and entangles with the unread items count, rather than the vastly superior traditional disclosure triangle (the iOS version uses the iOS style of disclosure arrows).
- *removed* Edit: See the developer’s response - a problem I’d had, is addressed in a preference that I hadn’t explored sufficiently at the time of writing - my bad. Full marks to the developer for making so much of the application’s behaviour user-configurable. That’s perhaps not something we’re as used to in these “a designer’s job is to say no" days, but it’s a very welcome return.
- The “Toggle Reader View” button, which either swtches a fully rendered webpage to something like Safari-reader-view mode, or switches from extract to full text when viewing the RSS feed article, doesn’t function as a toggle - insofar as the setting doesn’t stick, it applies only to the currently viewed article. *edit* It would be nice to be able to have an option for that to be a global setting - perhaps a customisable toolbar similar to Finder with extra function buttons would bring a boost to what is already a very “power user” style of app.
In short: This is the app you want, if you want a “normal” Mac app for RSS reading, that also has iOS versions, and syncs via iCloud. It has chronological viewing of time-based content, and that rarest of birds, a manual sync button - something that more iCloud apps should feature.
There’s some room for it to improve, but thankfully, that’s for making good things better.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for your feedback! If you want to open the current article in an external browser, you must change setting 'Clicking the article title' in the Behaviors section of the News Explorer Preferences to 'Opens article in the default browser'.
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
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Information
- Seller
- Ron Elemans
- Size
- 14.6 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 10.15 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2024 Betamagic
- Price
- $14.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.