News Explorer

Description

News Explorer is a full-featured yet easy-to-use RSS, JSON, Atom, Reddit, YouTube, Podcast, Bluesky and Mastodon news reader with iCloud synchronization between Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV. Full iCloud Sync • News Explorer syncs your feeds, filters, folders, articles including statuses, notes and tags, across all your Apple devices. • Synchronization 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. Smart Filters • Filter your news according your own conditions and preferences, easily accessible from the feeds list. • Filters customizations are synced across all your devices. Automatic Reader View • Use automatic Reader view to download and read the full text version of truncated articles from supported sources. • News Explorer makes use of multiple parsers to offer the best Reader view results. Article Comments • Read article comments from other readers directly in the app. • Works with RSS feeds that has comment feeds per article, YouTube feeds, Reddit feeds and Hacker News feeds. • Also works with most feeds from websites that use Open Web comments. Article Notes • Create rich text notes, directly in the context of the article. • Notes are synced via iCloud together with the related article. Feed Settings • All aspects of a feed like title, source link or icon, can be adjusted in the Feed settings dialog. • Disable the feed temporarily or permanently. • Override app settings for syncing, downloading comments and reading articles. Feed Prefilters • Prevent the app from downloading articles you don’t want to see or read. • Prefilters are synced via iCloud, and can be easily configured on feed level in the Feed settings dialog. Article Inspector • Inspect metadata, tags, media, notes and comments of articles in the Inspector panel. • View and add custom tags in the Metadata panel. • Browse and download media, including podcasts, in the Media panel. Article Tags • Article categories of RSS articles are displayed in the Inspector panel as tags. • Can be extended with your own tags. • Custom tags are easily recognizable, and are synced via iCloud. • Tags can be used as conditions in filters. Local Account • Add feeds to News Explorer that only exists on your device by activating the Local account option. • The local account option can be used in addition to or instead of syncing with iCloud. Reading Features • Mark items as favorite for later reading. • Navigate with one click to the original content. • Full keyboard navigation. • Full text search in the List and Timeline view. • Mark as read while scrolling option. • Image viewer to browse through all images of articles or feeds. • Built-in sharing to Instapaper, Raindrop and Readwise. • Share news items via Email, Messages and other services. Configuration Features • Countless settings to tweak layout, fonts, behaviors and more. • Import and export feeds via OPML. • Add new feeds via the Search new feeds or Add feed dialogs. • Organize your feeds by assigning them to folders. • Multiple themes, tint colors and app icons. System Features • Create automations with News Explorer actions in the Shortcuts app. • Option to index articles with Spotlight. • Local notifications for feeds selected in the Feeds Manager. • Widgets with adjustable sources and fonts. 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. On visionOS you can use the iPadOS edition of News Explorer. Support • News Explorer has an extensive help page on https://betamagic.nl/support/newsexplorer/help.html. • If you still have questions or need support, email us at support@betamagic.nl. If you like News Explorer then feel free to leave a review or a rating in the App Store, it helps us a lot!

Recent Reviews

• ★★★★★soundneedle

  frustrating on ipad

  constantly closes itself out on ipad. don’t think the developer uses ipad at all. Also no AI summarization like modern readers. think development has stopped unfortunately.

• ★★★★★XBayrab

  Great app, but one problem

  It’s the perfect app, but one thing I wish it did: if I try to add a specific YouTube channel to this newsreader, it cannot find the YouTube channel sometimes. I type in the exact channel name, and it brings me to some other YouTube channel or says the channel doesn’t exist. I wish it would let me add whatever YouTube channel I want

• ★★★★★JJJJJJJ

  Very nice

  Lots of useful features, especially the full text retrieval. Would love to see a dedicated “read later” feed in a future update.

• ★★★★★scootermcgee317

  Won’t accept url

  I really want to like this app, however, it will not accept my self-hosted URL while other apps will. NE states it is an invalid URL. I then logged into the RSS feed on Safari and attempted to use the ‘add to news explorer’ extension, but that is nowhere to be found. There is a News Explorer button under ‘more’ that takes me to NE, but doesn’t load the feed. The extension also does not show up in Safari as available or needing enabled.

• ★★★★★Grberk

  Finally, a worthy contender

  I’ve been looking everywhere and trying so many different RSS reader apps. I’ve been on a quest to replace Inoreader since the price went up. It’s a great tool, but it’s just not worth that much to me. I don’t need all of the fancy bells and whistles they’ve added to it. I don’t need the AI. What News Explorer gives me is the right balance of features and functionality that work for me on all of my devices. It’s been a great tool for me. The interface is great. I’m so glad I found this!

• ★★★★★roguefunction

  Great but for God’s sake, please change the next story button to the right side.

  I just downloaded this on my Mac and phone. I absolutely love it except for one issue. I’m right handed and when I hold my gigantic iPhone, I can’t use my right thumb to reach all the way across to the left side to hit up and down to show next or previous stories. It would be amazing if you could build in the ability to switch that based on whether you’re right handed or left-handed. Otherwise, this is the one app that stole me away from Reeder Classic ❤️😵‍💫

• ★★★★★NerdTechno

  Liquid Glass

  Hi could you adopt Liquid Glass design?

• ★★★★★shiningsee

  The Best Way to Follow All Kinds of News

  News Explorer is ten times more powerful and customizable and infinitely more affordable than our favorite fruit company’s expensive News+ service.

• ★★★★★jrmyr

  Fantastic

  News Explorer is the new best RSS client in the Apple ecosystem, and my unexpected personal favorite when it comes to consuming content from Youtube and Reddit as well.

• ★★★★★some1uneverheardof

  Best RSS Reader

  Hands down the best reader app, with updates coming often as of v2.x. Having tried every other major reader/rss app from “best rss reader” lists, this is the only one that I actually like. Also respects your privacy, which is so important these days.