Big News - Smart Reader 4+
Newsletters & Feeds
The Not So Big Company
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Big News blends your newsletters and feeds together into one super-smart reading experience.
- Combine newsletters and RSS feeds together
- Get your very own @bignews.app email address
- Sort stories by the day's biggest news
- Enjoy a beautiful fullscreen, distraction-free reading experience
- Realtime push notifications from your favourite channels
- Add the news to your home screen with our Widgets
- Search hundreds of thousands of stories in a snap
One place for your newsletters and feeds:
Big News combines different sources from across the web – like newsletters and RSS feeds – into one unified reading experience. So it doesn't matter what you're reading, or where it's from, you can find it all in Big News.
An email address just for newsletters:
With your very own @bignews.app email address, newsletters skip your regular inbox and instead are sent directly to Big News. That means less stuff mixed in with your daily emails and more great reads for when you want them.
Not just another inbox:
We didn't want to create another list of things in an inbox to be managed. That's why Big News uses dozens of signals to intelligently prioritise the stories that matter to you today, all in one inviting layout. There's no endless pile of unread badges or month-old news. Just the Big News, today.
Sources you already know and trust:
Add your existing newsletters and feeds to Big News in just a few taps. Plus, the Big News directory contains hundreds of channels, so you're sure to find the sites and newsletters you already love – as well as discover something altogether new.
RSS. SMTP. OMG:
We built Big News upon the open standards of the web – like RSS and SMTP – so it already works with thousands of sources today, as well as thousands more in the future.
And now for the legal bits:
Payment will be charged on either a monthly or annual basis to your Apple ID account. Your monthly or annual subscription automatically renews unless you cancel before the end of the current billing period. You can manage and cancel your subscription at any time by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. For our full Terms of Service please visit: https://bignews.app/terms. For our Privacy Policy visit https://bignews.app/privacy
Ratings and Reviews
Surprise Features?
I like this RSS reader a lot, though it’s a bit buggy. The gesture to zoom in is dodgy, often causing stories to be accidentally swiped away. I also wish you could tap on embedded images to open them, and then use a zoom gesture if needed, similar to the way Reeder does it. Too many stories display tons of blank space above the content as well. Automatic marking of stories as read once they’ve been scrolled past would be an appreciated feature. Maybe some of these things are available in the “Surprise Features” the developers promise as part of the $4.99/mo “Max” subscription, but I’m not willing to sign up just to find out. If anyone out there has paid for that and can disclose the surprises, it would be helpful to know if they’re worth upgrading for.
Shares content as its own, rather than as its publisher’s
Tragically, if you share a story with another app or a person, this app shares it as a “Big News” story, and not as a story produced by its original publisher. This makes it impossible to use with active reading or bookmarking apps like Pocket, Instapaper, Raindrop.io or Readwise Reader. That’s a real drag, and a huge knock against other independent app developers.
Developer Response ,
Hey there! You can turn off Smart Links by going to App Settings > Smart Links which will give you the original story URL (we do this so if you share a story with someone it’ll offer to open it in Big News, but we know this isn’t for everyone!). Hope that helps!
Subscriptions
App Privacy
The developer, The Not So Big Company, 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:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Not So Big Tech Limited
- Size
- 5.1 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © The Not So Big Company 2023
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Plus Monthly $2.49
- Max Monthly $4.99
- Max Yearly $38.99
- Plus Yearly $19.49
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.