News Explorer

Just the best app I have ever owned. Version 2.0 is just incredible. Thank you so much for making this.

There is a bug in the app. Several times a day, the back button will stop working, and I can’t make my way back to the starting screen from the post list. Extremely annoying, kind of a deal breaker actually. I hope the dev fixes this, if they do I’ll easily bump the score.

I have now been using News Reader for half a year, and can say hands down that this is the best option I’ve found if you use iOS and macOS. Features I love: - It syncs via iCloud, instead of requiring you to sign up with yet another cloud service; - Both the iOS and macOS apps are native apps, no more annoying Electron/WebGUI; - You can set feeds to automatically open in Reader Mode, so you get a dark mode view if you like to read articles before bedtime; - The YouTube integration is superb – it is in fact better than the official YouTube app, works well with AirPlay if you like to browse feeds on an iPhone but watch it on Apple TV, and you don’t need a Google account since you can subscribe to YouTube channels just as conveniently via RSS in this reader.

For whatever reason most RSS readers, don’t let you filter your feed unless you pay a monthly or yearly subscription fee. News Explorer lets you filter out parts of the RSS feed! That simple feature is key in eliminating ads or sponsorship content and irrelevant posts.

I recently switched to this one after a decade or more with Feedly. Got fed up with Feedly's shift toward an elusive corporate market. News Explorer works great and has most of the features of Feedly. Thankfully no AI, which produced the weirdest nonsense with Feedly. Couple of things and I would be as happy as can be: * Separate view options per feed. For some feeds I just want to see the headline, for others a magazine view works best * Ability to forward newsletters to the app. This is a Feedly feature I'm sorely missing. * Streamline the viewer engines. I don't really get why there are three or so options for viewing a page.

Great app! Definitely a fresh quick and nice UI. Takes time to adjust to some things after switching from reeder. Some suggestions: 1. Allow to sync the settings. For example I like to mark as read right after I open the article. I have a few macs, and just going through the settings is a bit annoying. 2. Everything is about AI, I believe you can just get very small ML Model like llama 3.2 1b and use it to summarize the articles similar how Safari does it. Will be a great feature.

I really like News Explorer, but started exploring other options recently because I was looking for the filtering. Well, I found some other options that included this. I was super excited when News Explorer released a new version that has fantastic filtering. This really helps me refining my newsfeeds and I’ve abandoned exploring other options and double down with News Explorer. It’s an excellent News reading app and has great formatting option. The only thing that would make this better is text to voice.

Swipe controls, excellent full screen view, multiple reader modes, article view, pinch to zoom, options for everything I want to customize, I could go on. There are a couple other good news readers. I've used them. This one has all their best features and then some.

Do not like it.

Updated review: wow. Just wow. The 2.0 update is insanely wonderful so far. It’s faster, smoother, and it looks great (fonts, layout, interface). Well done! Still my reigning champion RSS reader. Original review: 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.