![]() The Sites tab lets you view each feed you’ve added individually, and you can see an unread number count in the right hand column for each. You have five different tabs for viewing your feeds along the bottom: Sites, Unread, Today, Bookmarks, and Favorites. While I’m used to other apps like Reeder and Unread, I still found NetNewsWire to be fairly intuitive to navigate, though the app does suffer from a bit of stuttering when scrolling through a long list of articles. I like how this is done because it adds a nice splash of color to the app, and it contrasts especially nicely against the night theme. The app has a day and night theme that you can toggle in the app settings, and each site that is added is assigned a text color to match the favicon. The design of NetNewsWire is simple, clean, and rather beautiful. ![]() For sites that you don’t see in “Popular,” you can add them manually by entering the address. You can even select entire categories if you like all of the sites that it features. I went through this list of sites and found many that were interesting, so I selected them one-by-one. ![]() These sites ranged from well-known sites like CNN and Forbes to indie sites like Six Colors and. In fact, after I created my account and wanted to add feeds, NetNewsWire had a screen with some of the most popular feeds that were categorized by topic, such as Apple, Technology, Science, World, Entertainment, and more. I wish that NetNewsWire synced with other RSS services, because this can be rather tedious.įortunately, if you are starting with a clean slate with RSS, NetNewsWire has a good setup. Since I have had to create a new account for syncing, I have to add my feeds manually, which is a pain when I have over 50 subscriptions in Feedly. The syncing is fairly quick and seamless, but I have only been using the iOS app on a single device. Signing up for a free account will sync your feeds on multiple iOS devices, as well as the Mac app ($9.99) if you have it. Thanks for the feature requests! I’m not sure what you mean by a few of them, though.The first thing I noticed with the new NetNewsWire is that they now use their own syncing service, appropriately dubbed NetNewsWire Cloud Sync. Hopefully, these suggestions will help NNW become better and eventually become THE best RSS Feed reader available, as it once was. Until then it will have to remain a throwback novelty. Unfortunately, NNW feels to be the same app/workflow as it was back then with little evolution other than being on my iDevice.Īdding features such as Category (folder) views, device feed sharing (iCloud Drive), newspaper style view, duplicate elimination/aggregation, recommended feeds, auto category forward, and auto-read would make NNW my go-to news reading solution. When NNW was released, I was hoping that it would significantly improve my news reading experience, as it did years ago. However, over the years have experienced many new ways to consume my news including Feedly and News+. I was excited to hear NNW coming back and that it would be available on my current devices (iPad/iPhone). I used to use NetNewsWire years ago and loved it, I was so disappointed when it went away. Other than that, I think this app is great! Maybe there could be an option to change the app icon for NetNewsWire. For example, the app can be made green with the menu buttons being a lighter green. You should be able to make a custom theme using a main color and an accent color. Speaking of downloads, there should be an option to see how much space your downloaded RSS feed articles take up on your device and manage the ones you no longer need.Ĥ. By “delete”, I mean hide an article from your list and remove the download from your device.ģ. This is different from deleting an entire feed and all of the articles in it. There should be an option to manually “delete” RSS feed items by swiping left instead of right. If I have multiple feeds that relate to the same topic, why can’t I group them? There should be a way to browse through your articles by group and see articles that are only related to a specific topic while maintaining iCloud sync in one account.Ģ. However, there should be some other features too.ġ. I like being able to view RSS feeds in a simple view and access all of the features of a typical feed reader. * Home screen widgets for today, unread, and starred articles * Importing and exporting OPML feed lists ![]() * Syncing via iCloud, Feedbin, Feedly, BazQux, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, and FreshRSS If you’ve been going from page to page in your browser looking for new articles to read, let NetNewsWire bring them to you instead. NetNewsWire shows you articles from your favorite blogs and news sites - and keeps track of what you’ve read. NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader.
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