NetNewsWire
RSS reader shows you articles from your favorite blogs and news sites, and it keeps track of what you’ve read.
What is NetNewsWire?
NetNewsWire is a news RSS aggregator for MacOS, iOS and iPadOS.
We value stability, performance, quality, platform-specific design and accessibility.
Features for MacOS include:
- Safari extension for easy feed-adding
- Direct feed-downloading
- Syncing via Feedbin
- Sharing to Mail, MarsEdit, Micro.blog, Notes, Messages, and so on
- Easy keyboard navigation
- Single-key keyboard shortcuts
- AppleScript support
- Dark Mode
- Starred articles
- All Unread and Today smart feeds
- Folders
- Background refreshing
- Importing and exporting OPML feed lists
- Searching
- Help book
- Multiple accounts
- Customizable toolbar
We’ll be adding more in future releases, of course, including support for more syncing services.
Features for iOS/iPadOS include:
- Direct feed-downloading
- Syncing via Feedbin and Feedly
- Multiple accounts
- Dark Mode
- 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
- Support for multiple windows
The version 1.0 was introduced in 2002 by Brent Simmons. It included custom feed views, custom downloading and opening of podcasts, synchronization of feeds and feed status between computers, Bloglines support, and a built-in tabbed browser.
Over the years, new features were added (also support for iPhone and iPad) and it was acquired by NewsGator Technologies in 2005 and later by Black Pixel in 2011.
On August 31, 2018 Black Pixel announced that they have returned the NetNewsWire intellectual property to Brent Simmons, that completely rewrote the program as a Free and Opensource Mac RSS reader.
Now version 5.0 is at a very early stage and supports RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and RSS-in-JSON formats.
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NetNewsWire information
- Developed byBrent Simmons
- LicensingOpen Source (MIT) and Free product.
- Written in
- RatingAverage rating of 4.7
- Alternatives227 alternatives listed
Supported Languages
- English
Apple AppStore
- Updated
- 4.74 avg rating
GitHub repository
- 6,655 Stars
- 451 Forks
- 507 Open Issues
- Updated
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- RSS Reader
- News Reader
- Atom
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Though only available on the Apple ecosystem, it features a functional (and semi-modern) design. I appreciate the way that it is both easily usable and customizable.
NetNewsWire, which was relaunched on the Mac in August 2019, finally is available for iPhone and iPad. It is built on a foundation of fast syncing and sensible, bug-free, accessible design.
Like the Mac app, NetNewsWire is fast and reliable. I follow hundreds of feeds, and NetNewsWire loads new articles as fast and often faster than any other RSS client I’ve used. The app is rock solid. If you’ve followed the development on GitHub, you know they’ve been relentlessly squashing bugs for weeks leading up to the launch and the dedication shows.
Ditch Feedly and all the other data-mining apps, NetNewsWire is open source and free and ready to be your primary RSS client today!
Lately can sync to Google Reader as backend, except for account-related features like sharing and commenting.