News Explorer

News Explorer

By Ron Elemans

  • Category: News
  • Release Date: 2016-09-02
  • Current Version: 2.0.4
  • Adult Rating: 17+
  • File Size: 42.13 MB
  • Developer: Ron Elemans
  • Compatibility: Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
Score: 4.6
4.68085
From 611 Ratings

Description

News Explorer is a full-featured yet easy-to-use RSS, JSON, Atom, Reddit, YouTube, Podcast 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 feed articles. • 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 at any time 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 an article 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 as option. • Image viewer to browse through all images of articles or feeds. • Built-in support to share articles with Instapaper or Pocket. • Share news items via Email, Messages and other sharing 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 dialog or Add feed dialogs. • Organize your feeds by assigning them to folders. • Multiple themes, tint colors and app icons. System Features • Option to index articles with Spotlight. • Handover articles between iOS, iPadOS and macOS. • Local notifications for feeds selected in the Feeds Manager. • Widgets: with adjustable sources and font settings. 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 [email protected]. If you like News Explorer then feel free to leave a review or a rating in the App Store, it helps us a lot!

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Reviews

  • Just switched from Reeder

    5
    By outcoldman
    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.
  • New Filters are 👍👍

    5
    By Miles202
    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.
  • Every feature I wanted

    5
    By Car Analogy
    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.
  • New App

    1
    By ExSierra
    Do not like it.
  • What a RSS reader should be

    5
    By Mario O.
    Mind blown with this 2.0 release. I haven’t fully grasped all the new features: it still surprises me. My thanks and blessings to the developer for an outstanding service this app provides! Truly in my opinion: this continues to be the only best RSS reader app!
  • Update: even better

    5
    By DJ Asson
    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.
  • No twitter support

    5
    By afern247
    Great update! I just wish it supported X feed :/
  • 购买后为什么MAC上还需要付费呢

    5
    By CCXYJJ
    购买后为什么MAC上还需要付费呢
  • Love This App

    5
    By Carl S. (nickname taken)
    This app is such an amazing RSS reader. I’m so happy I purchased it. Now if only it had a dark version for the app icon, it would be perfect. Thanks!
  • Used to be leading edge, now trailing in a number of ways.

    1
    By Wicker Park
    When News Explorer came onto the scene many moons ago, it was a terrific example of a world-class RSS reader with support for a variety of things other readers couldn’t touch, and some great ideas behind a self-hosted/iCloud solution with rich notifications. Since then, intermittent, but persistent bugs have eventually crept in as the author updated compatibility from iOS release to iOS release, but never took a step back to rethink things. As a result, you will see persistent issues if you’re a heavy RSS user, where navigating screens between articles will eventually lock up until you force-quit the app, or you notice a now very-dated UI language in the app. Finally, one of the core tenets of this app is that it works across all of Apple’s platforms. That may sound like a good thing, but the support is far from capable. It’s a meaningless feature for tvOS and watchOS, for example - the UX and design is so poor as to make it nothing more than an afterthought. This app was terrific in its heyday. It’s far from that now. It needs a serious redesign and rethink and needs to evolve. I hated leaving News Explorer for other RSS readers…but once you try an actual modern RSS reader with a modern UI paradigms (see Reeder for example), News Explorer just looks so dated. I want to come back to News Explorer - if/when the author takes the time to rethink this app and refocus it. Do NOT support a platform for the sake of saying you support it - provide first-class features.

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