BetterNews Reader
Your feeds, without the noise
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Add any site, sort it into sections, and read the story itself — not the pop-ups, the cookie banners or the newsletter overlay. No account, no ads, no tracking.
BetterNews is a quiet, fast news reader. Point it at the sites you already read, and it gathers their headlines into one list — no account, no algorithm deciding what you see, and no advertising.
ADD ANY SITE
Paste a site's address and BetterNews finds its feed for you. Point it at a section like supersport.com/rugby and you get that section, not the whole site. If a site publishes no feed at all, BetterNews reads the page itself and builds one.
SORT IT YOUR WAY
File each site under Tech, World, Sport, Finance or General, then tap a section to filter the list. Everything stays in the order it was published — newest first, always.
READ THE ARTICLE, NOT THE PAGE
Open a story and BetterNews shows the text and the full-resolution lead image, without the pop-ups, cookie banners and newsletter overlays. The original page is one tap away whenever you want it.
BUILT FOR IPAD
On iPad the list becomes a grid — two columns in portrait, four in landscape — with artwork shown at its own proportions rather than cropped to fit a box.
YOUR SETTINGS FOLLOW YOU
Your list of sites is stored in your own iCloud Drive, under Apps/BettrNews, as a plain readable file. Add a site on the iPad and it appears on the iPhone. It is your file: you can open it, back it up, or edit it yourself.
LIGHT OR DARK, YOUR CHOICE
Follow the system appearance or pin the app to light or dark. The setting is per device, so your iPhone and iPad can differ.
PRIVATE BY DEFAULT
No account to create. No analytics, no advertising identifiers, no third-party SDKs of any kind. BetterNews talks to the sites you have added and to your own iCloud Drive — nothing else. Headlines and summaries already fetched stay readable when you lose signal.
Ratings & Reviews
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You can now rename the news sections to whatever suits you, in Settings.
New installs start with a site in every section: Gizmodo, BBC World, SuperSport and Yahoo Finance.
The developer, Kobus Marneweck, 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 Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Kobus Marneweck
- Size
- 1 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
16+
- 16+
- Contains
Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2026 Kobus Marneweck