United StatesNews Explorer is a powerful yet remarkably easy-to-use RSS, JSON, Atom and Mastodon newsreader with iCloud based synchronisation between iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. FULL iCLOUD SYNC • News Explorer syncs your RSS, JSON, Atom, YouTube, 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, RDF, Atom, JSON, Reddit and Mastodon feed engine. PRODUCTIVE INTERFACE • Clean, 100% native, distraction-free user interface • Article list with resizable thumbnails • Feed level option to automatically open articles in Reader view • Size, alignment and visibility of the thumbnails are adjustable. • Built-in browser for viewing inline links and other references • Themes, adaptable to your taste and mood • Widgets for Home Screen and Today View STREAMLINED READING • Use automatic Reader view to read the full version of articles in a clean and easy-to-read format • Mark items as favorite for later reading • Navigate with one tap to the original content • Timeline view shows your news articles in an attractive newspaper-like way • Full text search • Built-in image viewer to browse through all images of news articles • Share news items via email, Messages, Notes and more • Built-in support to share articles with Instapaper and Pocket EASY CONFIGURATION • Add new RSS, Atom and JSON 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 • Dedicated YouTube channel feed support • Group your subscriptions with collapsible folders • Rename and reorder folders and feeds, using drag-and-drop • OPML import and export. USABILITY FEATURES • Article reader with adjustable title and body font settings • Global filters let you filter all feeds and related news on unread items and favorites • External keyboard support • Perform quick actions with horizontal swipes • Pull subscription list to start a sync session • App icon badge with unread articles count • Navigate to the next or previous article with animated swipe gestures CUSTOMISATION OPTIONS • You can set a default primary article view, such as Mercury Reader view, for all feeds. • The default primary view can be overruled on feed or article level. • Custom storage period for each item status (read, unread and favorite) • Syncing with iCloud can be disabled, to use only the built-in high speed RSS engine • And much more! STATE OF THE ART • Supports RSS 2.0, RDF, ATOM, JSON Feed, Reddit and Mastodon news feeds • Supports RSS feeds with HTTP digest and basic authentication • iCloud sync with CloudKit • Multiple Reader view engines • Supports RTL articles • Background app refresh • Spotlight indexing with images • Handoff support • Notifications with images • Quick Notes support 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 all connected platforms. SUPPORT AND FEEDBACK If you have any questions or need support on News Explorer, then browse to https://betamagic.nl/support/newsexplorer/help.html or email us at [email protected]. If you like News Explorer then feel free to leave a review or a rating in the App Store or to recommend it to a friend. It helps a lot!
Issue with Icon change
Love the app but noticed none of the icon changes are working for me on IPhone 15PM IOS 17.4. Thanks!
United StatestvOS app cannot play YouTube video in app
Which is unfortunately my main reason to use an RSS reader for YouTube. The iOS app works perfectly, but the tvOS app redirects to the YouTube app for video playback, which completely defeats the purpose.
United StatesGreat app, needs some tweaks in latest update?
I’ve had this app for over 5 years and absolutely love it. The presentation and navigation are superb and I love the offerings and customizations I can do. Highly recommend. The latest update seems to have affected some websites being parsed with the Mercury reader. Stuff that used to render fine is either blank or missing text/images. A few examples are on lithub.com, science news.org, sententiaeantiquae.com. All of these rendered fine without using the Mercury reader before this update but now need the reader but still are a little messed up.
United StatesPush notifications never worked
I tried this RSS reader for the push notifications but outside of the test in the settings it never works. The app support has never responded to my request for assistance. I would like a refund.
United StatesNo twitter support
Lowering my rating from 5 to 4 because they just removed the twitter support. Keeping up with twitter without RSS is impossible. If it’s too expensive put a membership or something just for it but don’t cut users out of it. I’m looking for another RSS now just because of this… 🙄
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Big pros: 1. Everything is just smooth, clean, and works so well. 2. Keyboard functionality on Mac is handy. 3. The appearance customization is excellent. Menu bar, dock icon, notifications, thumbnails, lines of text, spacing, etc is all so great. 3. The timeline view is handy for certain use cases, like viewing news broadly or browsing movie releases. Features I'd request for the future (to keep up with other reader apps and the personal knowledge management trend): 1. Custom read/unread keep dates for different folders. 2. Subfolders, please!!! You'd be a pioneer for RSS readers. 3. Bionic reading. 4. PDF import. 5. Highlights/annotations, with a smart folder of all highlighted articles. 6. The ability to copy all highlights or sync them to note apps like Obsidian. 7. Rules/filtering, like including or excluding specific keywords. 8. Newsletter functionality, like an auto-generated email to be able to send newsletters to the app. 9. Text to speech audio that works during phone lock. Auto-jumps to next post. 10. Tagging, such as manually setting them when adding the RSS. 11. Reading progress for abandoned articles. Maybe in the post preview or in their own top folder/section, with the percentage that is complete for the post. Thanks again for everything in the app so far, it's a pleasure to use!
United StatesInternet Zen
Big pros: 1. Everything is just smooth, clean, and works so well. 2. Keyboard functionality on Mac is handy. 3. The appearance customization is excellent. Menu bar, dock icon, notifications, thumbnails, lines of text, spacing, etc is all so great. 3. The timeline view is handy for certain use cases, like viewing news broadly or browsing movie releases. Features I'd request for the future (to keep up with other reader apps and the personal knowledge management trend): 1. Custom read/unread keep dates for different folders. 2. Subfolders, please!!! You'd be a pioneer for RSS readers. 3. Bionic reading. 4. PDF import. 5. Highlights/annotations, with a smart folder of all highlighted articles. 6. The ability to copy all highlights or sync them to note apps like Obsidian. 7. Rules/filtering, like including or excluding specific keywords. 8. Newsletter functionality, like an auto-generated email to be able to send newsletters to the app. 9. Text to speech audio that works during phone lock. Auto-jumps to next post. 10. Tagging, such as manually setting them when adding the RSS. 11. Reading progress for abandoned articles. Maybe in the post preview or in their own top folder/section, with the percentage that is complete for the post. Thanks again for everything in the app so far, it's a pleasure to use!
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