NewsBar RSS reader 4+
Andras Porffy
Designed for iPad
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- $4.99
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Description
NewsBar, the top-selling Mac newsreader for iPhone and iPad. Simple and clean interface, fast RSS engine, and zero-config iCloud sync across iOS and MacOS devices.
No delays, no waiting: stories appear immediately on your device, just as they are published. You can easily organise, read, follow, mark and search news from your favourite news sources. Stories are read directly from RSS and Twitter sources without delay.
With NewsBar there is no need to create any account or login into any service, news reading easy, safe and private.
Top-seller news app in Mac App Store since 2011.
Features:
◦ High speed, efficient RSS engine
◦ Twitter @user and #hashtag news feed reading
◦ iCloud sync across all Apple devices
◦ Full sync with NewsBar for Mac OS
◦ Clean, intuitive and easy to use interface
◦ Easy swipe between views and stories
◦ Organise feeds into user defined folders
◦ Keyword filter with iOS Notification Center support
◦ Configurable background refresh
◦ User selectable RSS and/or web browser view
◦ Built-in web browser
◦ Auto-hide read items
◦ Share news by Email, iMessage, Twitter, Facebook
◦ Star news for later reading
◦ Feedly and Pocket sync
◦ Quick text search in all feeds
◦ Enable/disable feeds
◦ Read password protected RSS feeds
◦ RSS 2.0, ATOM support
What’s New
Version 1.70
• Core update: NewsBar now compatible with latest
iOS releases
• Dark Mode support: NewsBar now supports dark mode
• Improved iPad support
• Improved sync: iCloud and Feedly sync improved
• Minor bug fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Works, needs a couple of extra features.
This seems to be the only RSS reader that can sync between devices using iCloud, rather than requiring the user to pay for a third party sync service.
The sync works, but it feels laggy at times. Switching quickly between iPad / iPhone can result in read items on one showing up as unread on the other. The app would benefit from a visual indicator to show when sync is happening. A dark / night mode theme would be a welcome addition as all the bright white can get retina-searing on a big screen.
There seems to be a bug in the current version with the built in webview - opening an article's webpage, causes previously read items to be reinserted into the feed, after the item you've just read, when returning to article list view.
Needs Work since iOS 11.4 release
Currently does not seem to be able to retain new feeds, as well as presenting http://null and not allowing a delete.
Good starting point
Been waiting for the iOS version for a while and glad it's finally here. Hoping for keyword push notification to be implemented in a future update.
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Information
- Seller
- Andras Porffy
- Size
- 9.1 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 7.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 7.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Andras Porffy
- Price
- $4.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.