Newsbite
Feeds & Fediverse together.
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
A modern RSS and social feed reader for iPhone and iPad, with features to help you find the news you are interested in, and no creepy tracking or advertising:
- Add Home Screen widgets showing articles from your feeds or collections.
- Discover feeds published by your favourite news website or blog.
- Setup notifications to alert you when new articles appear in your feeds.
- Create rules to automatically like, read, tag, or hide certain articles.
- Filter articles by unread, today only, tag, or media type.
- Add articles to the reading list for later, supports Raindrop, Instapaper, and Safari Reading List.
- Automatically find the most written about topics from your feeds during the last day, week or month.
- Load the full article content for feeds that don't include the full text in the feed.
- Multiple image, audio, and video attachment playback.
- Sync your feeds and topics, plus article reads and likes using iCloud, no additional account or login needed.
- Keep articles indefinitely, even when removed from the feed.
- Choose custom font, size, spacing, alignment, and theme for reading articles.
- Supports RSS, Atom, and JSON feed formats.
- Integrates directly with Mastodon, Bluesky, Reddit, Tumblr and YouTube to show you your feeds and posts in one place.
Newsbite is free to use for up to 5 feeds, and has a premium subscription of £1.29 GBP per month to enable unlimited feeds. Prices may vary from country to country.
If you choose to subscribe, payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase.
Terms of Use: https://newsbite.app/terms.html
Privacy Policy: https://newsbite.app/privacyPolicy.html
more Really low cost subscription offering that competes in my opinion with big name rss solutions. Dev is very responsive to inquiries and makes regular updates to this product. Thank you!
Really low cost subscription offering that competes in my opinion with big name rss solutions. Dev is very responsive to inquiries and makes regular updates to this product. Thank you!
Update: The app now syncs with iCloud much more reliably after recent updates.—Unique and well designed RSS reader. The dev is also extremely receptive to feedback. Great user experience overall.I have had some trouble getting it to sync with iCloud, but I only rely on that as a backup of my feeds since I mostly read the news on one device.
Update: The app now syncs with iCloud much more reliably after recent updates.—Unique and well designed RSS reader. The dev is also extremely receptive to feedback. Great user experience overall.I have had some trouble getting it to sync with iCloud, but I only rely on that as a backup of my feeds since I mostly read the news on one device.
Until I realized there is no way to sort article lists from oldest to new date. Why are rss developers suddenly deciding that everyone doesn’t need this feature?? Also YouTube media don’t embed or play within the app
Until I realized there is no way to sort article lists from oldest to new date. Why are rss developers suddenly deciding that everyone doesn’t need this feature?? Also YouTube media don’t embed or play within the app
- Added age checks before connecting to social, Reddit, and YouTube feeds.
- Made it easier to redeem Premium offer codes in Settings.
- Improved organisation of older articles by grouping them by calendar year.
- Kept collection item counts up to date after feeds refresh.
- Improved Tumblr sensitivity handling and sign-in reliability.
- Reduced background resource use and automatically pruned old backup data.
- Added the app version to the Settings footer.
4.0.1 4d ago
- Completely rebuilt and redesigned for iOS 26.
- Support for feeds from Mastodon, Bluesky, Reddit, Tumblr, YouTube, and more.
- Support for GeoRSS, can show location within an article on a map.
- Fully rebuilt social post view, with support for polls and inline media.
- New podcast playback view, with chapter list.
- Rules are now more powerful than ever, add a duration, exclude certain feeds, and apply to your feeds on the fly.
4.0 Jul 9
- Additional dark mode themes 'Cool' and 'Warm', which affect all colours used throughout the app and can optionally tint image thumbnails.
- The alt text and highlighting UI in the full screen image view is now hidden by default so that the buttons don't interfere with the image.
- Multiple image attachments to an article are now shown as a small stack of thumbnails.
- Cleaned up the article summary view, removing the clutter of icons in the footer and emphasising the date published.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when scrolling to the next unread article.
- Removed an unnecessary reload of the article detail view when full content is enabled.
3.1.7 08/10/2024
- Group articles by date published, length, feed, author or tag.
- Caption text accompanying an image that is too long to fit in the box can be expanded by swiping upward on it.
- Image captions use a condensed font in order to fit more text.
- Improved compatibility with feeds that are encoded in a non-standard way, including when encountering malformed UTF8 encoding.
- YouTube links are no longer converted to inline videos, this caused formatting issues with some feeds so perhaps wasn't the best idea.
- Hidden articles are now also hidden in the favorites view.
- Tagged articles now display the tag color as a bar down the side of the article summary and can optionally apply a tint of the color to the whole article.
3.1.6 07/02/2024
- Improved support for feeds encoded with less common encoding formats.
- Improved compatibility with malformed feeds where the stated encoding doesn't match the feed content.
3.1.5 05/08/2024
- Fixed the widgets, can't really believe I hadn't noticed they were broken before now so sorry about that.
- Gave the widgets a bit of a design spruce up, tightened the fonts and spacing a little to make better use of space.
- Adopted new widget APIs so that they still look good in standby mode.
3.1.4 04/24/2024
- Fixed a bug that made it appear not to save feed settings if opening the settings window immediately after closing it. Settings were being saved, it just wasn't reflected in the app until after reopening the timeline.
- Fixed a bug that showed an erroneous error message when unable to load the full content for an article.
- Added support for inline YouTube videos, in both the article view and timeline.
- Added the ability to open an article in the system browser or associated app directly from the article timeline, this can be set globally or per feed.
- Added floating action button to the article view for quick access to the external URLs for that article.
- Added a setting to let you specify whether to try and load the full content for every article in a feed, or only for summary-style articles.
- Added tabs to show the original and full article content.
- iOS Tips if running on iOS 17!
- MUCH improved support for Dynamic Type, I thought I'd done this but evidently something got broken somewhere along the way, anyway now the article view adjusts to the system text size. As a consequence the setting to control the headline scale has been removed in favour of an overall font scaling setting that operates on top of the system setting.
- Lots of little layout tweaks to the article view.
3.1.3 04/19/2024
- Added support for the feed: protocol, which enables the app to respond to opening feed URLs in Safari.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent feeds being added when hosted at a custom sub-domain that isn't accessible at the root of that domain (e.g. The WSJ feeds), thanks to Mark W for bringing this to my attention.
- Better support for running when offline, images are preloaded and cached locally.
3.1.2 02/14/2024
- Fixed bug that would cause articles to fail to be loaded under some rare circumstances.
- Fixed bug whereby a new feed added to the sidebar wouldn't appear immediately.
- Fixed bug whereby Mastodon posts wouldn't refresh the replies if previously loaded.
- Images uploaded to Mastodon have their EXIF and geolocation data stripped before sending.
- Images uploaded to Mastodon can now have alt text added.
3.1.1 12/26/2023
- Added Mastodon support: sign in to your instance and add feeds for your timeline, hashtags, search, and more.
- Removed Twitter support (sorry about that).
- Improved performance: updating feeds is much faster.
- Redesigned interface: more streamlined and overall much tidier.
3.1.0 12/02/2023
- Condensed and compressed system fonts are slightly larger as compared to the regular versions to increase legibility at small sizes.
- A progress spinner is shown during in-app purchases and while restoring purchases.
3.0.1 11/30/2022
- New and improved look and feel: alternate font glyphs for maximum readability.
- Support for condensed and expanded system fonts.
- Rewritten and expanded settings screens: choose app icon, accent color and much more.
- New filter and search options.
- Code blocks in articles are now syntax highlighted, choose a theme from the Highlight.js library.
- Add podcast feeds from iTunes.
- Improved podcast audio playback, now with speed selector and equalizer.
3.0.0 10/17/2022
- iOS 15 compatibility and performance increases.
- New extra large widget size on iPadOS 15.
- Settings to avoid using the Newsbite Readability engine for certain feeds and/or domains. Find this feature in the app: Settings > Web Links, or by long pressing on a link in an article: "Always open in Safari".
- Convert text images in the full-screen image view to actual text, this is useful if the image contains very small text that is hard to read, or if you just prefer your font choice.
- Increased the speed of feed updates by doubling the number that can be downloaded and imported simultaneously (only on devices with larger amounts of memory).
2.5.0 10/12/2021
- Fixed issue that caused the article content to be reloaded when the navigation bars were set to hide.
2.3.2 07/07/2021
A few bug fixes, mostly for iPad, including:
- Avoid overlapping the keyboard when searching.
- Improved sidebar icon alignment.
- The mini progress spinner is now colour matched to other similar controls.
- Restored the bar button on the detail view, which were sometimes missing.
- Restored line returns in Twitter feed articles, which were sometimes missing.
2.3.1 06/11/2021
- Advanced Twitter search feeds. Search for a combination of criteria, include or exclude text, images, video and more.
- Exclude replies from the home, mentions, and retweets timelines.
- Load linked tweets or web pages using the built-in readability engine and display them using the same template as for feed articles.
- Save web pages loaded via the readability engine as articles grouped by domain. Web page feeds have their own sidebar group.
- Load the full article content using pull-to-refresh.
2.3.0 06/08/2021
- Restored "hide bars on tap" functionality.
- Automatically loading the full content will now refresh the article shown in the article list view.
- Fixed a bug with certain feeds not displaying the full content the first time an article was viewed.
- Full-screen image view now uses a page control (dots) for multiple images instead of thumbnails, this is more compact.
- In the full-screen image view: swipe left/right to view multiple images, swipe down to dismiss, tap to show/hide the bars, double tap to zoom in, two finger tap to zoom out.
- Added haptics when opening the full-screen image view to mirror the "force-press" haptics.
2.2.2 05/13/2021
- Fixed crash on iOS 14.5 when signing in to Twitter.
- Improved scroll performance for Twitter feeds.
- Tapping an image in the article view now opens full screen like on the article list view.
- New setting to allow the full tweet text to be displayed in the article list.
- Tweets shown in the full screen image view are no longer truncated.
- Hashtags, user names and links in Twitter feed articles are highlighted in the article list.
- Linking to third party Twitter apps is more reliable.
- Added new option for linking to web pages that uses the built-in readability engine (premium subscribers only).
2.2.1 04/30/2021
Twitter integration!:
- Twitter feeds can show your timeline, mentions, or retweets.
- Alternatively, follow another users tweets, perform a search, or view a list.
- Use the iOS context menus to follow, mute, or block Twitter users.
- Open links to tweets in your favourite Twitter client (supports Tweetbot and Twitterrific at this time).
Improved media handling:
- Opening an image full screen shows a preview of the enclosing article as a caption.
- A row of thumbnail images is shown if an article has more than one image.
- Using the iOS context menu on a video plays that video.
2.2.0 04/20/2021
- Added a new top level view of your articles. Favorites combines all articles from feeds that you have favorited.
- Introducing the new Feed Bar! This is a tabbed bar that sits at the top of a list of articles when viewing a folder of feeds, or the new Favorites view, that lets you quickly filter the article list to just one feed at a time.
- Adjusted notification processing to (hopefully) avoid sending notifications for old articles.
- Videos playing full screen no longer stop playing when rotating your iPhone.
- Links in articles to images hosted somewhere relative to the feed are now able to be opened.
- Tweaked visual appearance in dark mode, the dark grey background is now the default.
- Fixed issue detecting changes to feeds/articles that may have caused unread count to appear out of date, or article status to not be updated immediately.
2.1.7 03/04/2021
- Support for custom fonts.
- Added support for Apple's serif system font: New York.
- Fixed a crash that could occur if pressing the "next unread article" button after going back from an article to the unread articles list, if a feed update was in-progress.
- Tweaked the article list layout when large attachment thumbnails are displayed.
- Adjusted the schedule for updating feeds so that in-app updates initiated by you happen immediately.
- Improved background stability which should result in having to relaunch the app less.
2.1.6 02/05/2021
- Inline videos, such as those from YouTube, are now supported in the article view, so long as "Show Media in Articles" is enabled for that feed.
- Fixed a crash that would occur if attempting to save an image in an article to your photo library.
- Articles with no content now fall back to the article summary, if one exists.
- Changes to nested folders in the sidebar are now displayed immediately.
- The relative date/time next to each article in the article list is periodically updated to remain correct.
2.1.5 01/08/2021
- Reduced memory consumption when downloading updated feeds.
- Improved the stability of background updates, making it less likely the app will be closed.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash on the app notifications settings screen.
- Added a warning if trying to manually refresh feeds on a non-primary device.
2.1.4 12/17/2020
- If you have more than one device synced to the same iCloud account you can now nominate one of them to be the ‘Primary Device’. The primary device is responsible for downloading new articles from your feeds, other devices will sync via iCloud. This can help preserve battery life on other devices, and improve sync reliability.
- Improved sync reliability when duplicate articles are encountered.
- Fixed a bug that prevented being able to move a feed or folder to the top level.
- Fixed a bug that prevented moved feeds or folders from appearing in the right location until after an app relaunch.
- Fixed a bug whereby a feed that was added wouldn't immediately download articles.
- Fixed a bug whereby a feed that was deleted and then added again wouldn't download articles for a while.
2.1.3 12/08/2020
- Sidebar swipe actions now work better.
- Show an alert when deleting a feed or folder.
- Minor improvements to header image insertion.
- Minor performance improvements when updating the sidebar.
2.1.2 11/11/2020
- Added age checks before connecting to social, Reddit, and YouTube feeds.
- Made it easier to redeem Premium offer codes in Settings.
- Improved organisation of older articles by grouping them by calendar year.
- Kept collection item counts up to date after feeds refresh.
- Improved Tumblr sensitivity handling and sign-in reliability.
- Reduced background resource use and automatically pruned old backup data.
- Added the app version to the Settings footer.
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