---
title: "NetNewsWire: RSS Reader - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United Kingdom | Apple App Store"
description: "It’s like podcasts, but for reading.  NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader. It shows you articles from your favorite blogs and news sites and keeps track of what you’ve read. It’s fast, st"
---

# NetNewsWire: RSS Reader — United Kingdom
> More news, less junk. Faster.

![NetNewsWire App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/e1/02/8b/e1028b7e-5ca9-dcfe-bc2c-ac1933fe6161/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007epad-0-0-0-1-0-0-sRGB-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Brent Simmons](https://apptail.io/developer/brent-simmons-vAgb)
**Category:** News
**Rating:** 4.7/5 (151 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.ranchero.NetNewsWire.iOS
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United Kingdom
**Version:** 7.0.4 (released 2026-04-04)
**Original Release:** 2020-03-08
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/app/id1480640210)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/netnewswire-rss-reader-ujN/united-kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/netnewswire-rss-reader-ujN/united-kingdom)

## NetNewsWire Description
It’s like podcasts, but for reading.

NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader. It shows you articles from your favorite blogs and news sites and keeps track of what you’ve read. It’s fast, stable, and accessible.

If you’ve been going from site to site in your browser looking for new articles to read — or counting on the unreliable algorithms of corporate social media — let NetNewsWire bring you the news you want.

It’s easy and fun. And it puts you, not billionaires, in control of your news.

Features:

* Direct feed downloading
* Syncing via iCloud, Feedbin, Feedly, BazQux, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, and FreshRSS
* Multiple accounts
* Custom article themes
* Reader view
* Share sheet
* Starred articles
* All Unread and Today smart feeds
* Folders
* Importing and exporting OPML feed lists
* Background refreshing
* Searching
* Hiding read articles
* Timeline customization
* Keyboard shortcuts
* Context menus
* Home screen widgets for today, unread, and starred articles
* Share extension

## NetNewsWire Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/95/6c/c6/956cc6f4-8c59-b1e0-26b2-328b9c424780/iPad13-Dark.png/2752x2064.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/bc/cf/b7/bccfb7f3-65e3-d9f4-9e92-be73ce3f78e0/iPad13-Light.png/2752x2064.png)

## NetNewsWire Rating Breakdown in United Kingdom
- 5 stars: 125 (83%)
- 4 stars: 17 (11%)
- 3 stars: 2 (1%)
- 2 stars: 3 (2%)
- 1 stars: 4 (3%)

## NetNewsWire Reviews in United Kingdom

### **--- "Poor interface design"
The interface on ipad is hopeless. I only see a few words of the titles. It would be better if the list and article panes were separate rather than combined.
-- kpa99, 2024-11-18

### ***** "NetNewsWire - if the 💯 emoji was an app"
Fantastic app, easy to use, the developers are great. RSS solves a lot of problems :)
-- stressica-ataraxia, 2024-10-07

### ***** "Excellent RSS reader"
NetNewsWire is a free and open source newsreader that is a pleasure to use. Thoroughly recommended.
-- Aspells, 2024-07-02

### ***** "Flawless"
Simple and functional. Best-in-class performance. Open source. Supports multiple backends. What more could you want?
-- gclves, 2024-05-28

### ***** "Great app across all devices"
I use this on my iPhone and Mac, and it all keeps in sync via iCloud. It works so perfectly I don’t even think about it!
-- citizenrichard, 2023-11-15

### ***** "Amazing"
Very well designed and clearly a labour of love from the Dev(s). I’ve looked for an easy to use, reliable RSS reader for ages and this is without a doubt; the One!
-- Ebbs-, 2023-10-29

### ***** "Support open web"
Appreciate everyone who take part in this app. Clean interface and lightning fast speed.
-- AkumaVox, 2023-02-27

### *---- "Gave up"
Not sure where the 5* reviews come from. The app loads with about 20 feeds you never asked for. Have to manually delete them, one by one. Tried to create new folders, which simply didn’t work - nor did the first RTS feed I added
-- jslusdbhcsiaocn, 2022-11-26

### ***** "Simply Wonderful!"
The perfect RSS newsreader for me. Love it!
-- kidglove57, 2022-05-18

### ***** "The gold standard RSS reader"
I rarely write app reviews but I really do want to support NetNewsWire. I’ve been using it an old version on the Mac for years and I’m so grateful for the time and effort that Brent and the wider development team have invested in bringing the iPhone and Mac app back to life. New features such as iCloud sync are awesome!
-- ChrisageUK, 2021-06-26

### ***** "v6 a winner"
top app now with iCloud sync: great show Brent and all!
-- R33qqq, 2021-06-22

### **--- "Will we ever get thumbnails?"
I’d love to make this app my default RSS Reader, but the lack of thumbnails in the feed is a massive annoyance :(
-- SM Miah, 2021-06-22

### ***-- "It’s fine, but major usability flaw with Deleting feeds"
All the reviews praising the app are accurate. But it has a massive usability flaw I can’t believe got through to the release.

You perform functions on the feeds by sliding to the left to reveal a menu of three options, one of which reveals a submenu with useful things like Mark All Read.

Unfortunately if you slide ever so slightly too far to the left you’ll trigger DELETE FEED and boom, your feed is deleted.

There’s no warning, and they don’t ask if youre sure you want to do that. They just delete the feed.

This is really bad design. 

If you manage to trigger the submenu to mark all as read, they ask if youre sure you want to mark all as read. You can turn this safety feature off in the settings. 

And yet you can’t turn on the same safety feature for deleting feeds.

Complained about this and was told, quite condescendingly, that I can undo deleted feeds by shaking my phone to undo.

But this isn’t taught to the user anywhere, and honestly Shake To Undo is the most embarrassingly weak feature of the iOS interface. 

Why isn’t there an undo button prominently displayed after deleting a feed?

Why is there no option to turn in warnings after deleting a feed?

Why is there no option to change the function that’s triggered if you swipe one pixel too far to the left?

Why trigger the far right action at all if you swipe too far? Why not just leave the options on screen for us to tap?

Why isn’t the sub menu on the far right, instead of delete?

So many questions. All of them a very, very basic usability problem. I expected better from Brent Simmons.
-- face of jack, 2021-05-03

### ***** "Excellent App"
I don’t think I,ve written a review on an app in years. I have been using NetNewsWire on my iPad Pro for a few weeks now and it is such a good app that I just have to write about it.

I used to have NatNewsWire years ago on my Macs. That long before I got my iPad. It worked well. For some reason I got out of the habit of reading blogs regularly. Then a few weeks ago I idly thought I might like to get back into blog reading on my iPad and I had a look to see if NetNewsWire was available for it and yes, it is and it is really quite excellent. It is so fast and slick, it is an absolute joy to use.

When I used it on my Macs I had it synced so I could read on my Mac Pro and my MacBook Pro however I don’t need any sync set up with the iPad because I cam read on it anywhere.

The iPad really is perfect for blog reading and NetNewsWire works so well on it.

NetNewsWire is such a valuable app to have on your iPad!
-- Fitz Blitz, 2020-06-27

### ****- "Just needs server push notifications"
It's a really nice clean app, well done.

The only issue I have is I only get push notifications for new posts when I open the app and it refreshes feeds, which makes them a little pointless. This is due to the app using local notifications, which requires background app refresh to be switched on, but fails to work at all for me even when BAR is enabled, so there is an additional bug here. Ideally the app should move to server push notifications like most other apps, which can be received predictably and without BAR needing to be enabled. I've flagged this on the GitHub bug tracker.
-- nickgovier, 2020-05-13

### ***** "Open source"
Finally a great open source rss reader on iOS! Fast, smooth, beautiful and minimal. Just needs iCloud sync or something (perhaps even a self hosted option) to share the feed between iOS, iPadOS and macOS so that it’s possible to leave one device pick up on another without losing your place, or just to be able to control your database of feeds from any device. That would make it perfect.
-- Skallywags Inc, 2020-03-11

### ***** "A beautifully refined and functional app"
This is what happens when expert software developers pour their time and effort into making a near perfect mobile app. 

Makes catching up on blogs and website content an absolute pleasure.

Hard to believe it’s completely free. Made for the love of the craft.
-- paul7664, 2020-03-11

### ****- "Amazing app"
Absolutely love it, it spares me from looking at ads. I would only improve the list of articles by adding either thumbnails or descriptions because it’s a bit unattractive right now.
-- kaloangel, 2020-03-10

### ***** "Wow"
This is super quick and wonderful to use.
-- MatthewJN, 2020-03-10

### ***** "Fast, pretty, free"
This app gets rid of a lot of fluff and unnecessary animations that apps these days use to make everything shinier. This app is a good-looking, ultra-responsive RSS reader that just works well.
-- Raphael9214, 2020-03-10

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## NetNewsWire Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Free | Ukraine | News | #45 |
| Top Free | Kuwait | News | #46 |
| Top Free | Poland | News | #48 |
| Top Free | Hungary | News | #54 |
| Top Free | Canada | News | #62 |
| Top Free | Portugal | News | #64 |
| Top Free | Chile | News | #74 |
| Top Free | Thailand | News | #75 |
| Top Free | Romania | News | #80 |
| Top Free | Russia | News | #82 |
| Top Free | United Kingdom | News | #84 |
| Top Free | Belgium | News | #85 |
| Top Free | South Korea | News | #96 |
| Top Free | Sweden | News | #101 |
| Top Free | Vietnam | News | #101 |
| Top Free | Australia | News | #102 |
| Top Free | Spain | News | #102 |
| Top Free | Philippines | News | #109 |
| Top Free | Finland | News | #109 |
| Top Free | Czechia | News | #110 |
| Top Free | United Arab Emirates | News | #121 |
| Top Free | New Zealand | News | #122 |
| Top Free | Ireland | News | #123 |
| Top Free | Netherlands | News | #124 |
| Top Free | Japan | News | #130 |
| Top Free | Saudi Arabia | News | #131 |
| Top Free | Hong Kong SAR China | News | #132 |
| Top Free | Germany | News | #142 |
| Top Free | Nigeria | News | #142 |
| Top Free | Taiwan | News | #147 |
| Top Free | Norway | News | #150 |
| Top Free | Argentina | News | #151 |
| Top Free | Austria | News | #160 |
| Top Free | Switzerland | News | #175 |
| Top Free | Brazil | News | #178 |
| Top Free | Italy | News | #179 |
| Top Free | Mexico | News | #180 |
| Top Free | United States | News | #189 |
| Top Free | France | News | #191 |
| Top Free | Belarus | News | #200 |
| Top Free | Türkiye | News | #202 |
| Top Free | Indonesia | News | #212 |
| Top Free | India | News | #227 |
| Top Free | Israel | News | #237 |
| Top Free | Colombia | News | #238 |
| Top Free | Peru | News | #283 |
| Top Free | Greece | News | #305 |
| Top Free | Singapore | News | #313 |
| Top Free | Dominican Republic | News | #342 |
| Top Free | Ecuador | News | #358 |
| Top Free | Denmark | News | #369 |
| Top Free | Kazakhstan | News | #370 |
| Top Free | Egypt | News | #443 |
| Top Free | South Africa | News | #455 |
| Top Free | Pakistan | News | #466 |

## NetNewsWire Discovered Keywords
- feedly
- feedly smart news reader
- rss reader
- rss feed
- rss
- netnewswire
- netnewswire rss reader
- rss radio
- reeder
- inoreader

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- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/netnewswire-rss-reader-ujN/united-states)
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