About News Explorer
News Explorer is a powerful yet remarkably easy-to-use RSS, JSON, Atom and Mastodon newsreader with iCloud based synchronisation between iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. FULL iCLOUD SYNC • News...
News Explorer is a powerful yet remarkably easy-to-use RSS, JSON, Atom and Mastodon newsreader with iCloud based synchronisation between iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
FULL iCLOUD SYNC
• News Explorer syncs your RSS, JSON, Atom, YouTube, Reddit and Mastodon feeds, folder setup, news items, read statuses and favorites across all your Apple devices.
• Synchronisation 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.
• Built-in high speed RSS, RDF, Atom, JSON, Reddit and Mastodon feed engine.
PRODUCTIVE INTERFACE
• Clean, 100% native, distraction-free user interface
• Article list with resizable thumbnails
• Feed level option to automatically open articles in Reader view
• Size, alignment and visibility of the thumbnails are adjustable.
• Built-in browser for viewing inline links and other references
• Themes, adaptable to your taste and mood
• Widgets for Home Screen and Today View
STREAMLINED READING
• Use automatic Reader view to read the full version of articles in a clean and easy-to-read format
• Mark items as favorite for later reading
• Navigate with one tap to the original content
• Timeline view shows your news articles in an attractive newspaper-like way
• Full text search
• Built-in image viewer to browse through all images of news articles
• Share news items via email, Messages, Notes and more
• Built-in support to share articles with Instapaper and Pocket
EASY CONFIGURATION
• Add new RSS, Atom and JSON feeds directly from Safari, using the 'Add to News Explorer' share extension
• Add RSS and Mastodon feeds via the built-in search form
• Support to add manually RSS, Atom, JSON, Reddit and Mastodon feeds
• Dedicated YouTube channel feed support
• Group your subscriptions with collapsible folders
• Rename and reorder folders and feeds, using drag-and-drop
• OPML import and export.
USABILITY FEATURES
• Article reader with adjustable title and body font settings
• Global filters let you filter all feeds and related news on unread items and favorites
• External keyboard support
• Perform quick actions with horizontal swipes
• Pull subscription list to start a sync session
• App icon badge with unread articles count
• Navigate to the next or previous article with animated swipe gestures
CUSTOMISATION OPTIONS
• You can set a default primary article view, such as Mercury Reader view, for all feeds.
• The default primary view can be overruled on feed or article level.
• Custom storage period for each item status (read, unread and favorite)
• Syncing with iCloud can be disabled, to use only the built-in high speed RSS engine
• And much more!
STATE OF THE ART
• Supports RSS 2.0, RDF, ATOM, JSON Feed, Reddit and Mastodon news feeds
• Supports RSS feeds with HTTP digest and basic authentication
• iCloud sync with CloudKit
• Multiple Reader view engines
• Supports RTL articles
• Background app refresh
• Spotlight indexing with images
• Handoff support
• Notifications with images
• Quick Notes support
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. Universal purchase allows you to purchase News Explorer once, and then access it on all connected platforms.
SUPPORT AND FEEDBACK
If you have any questions or need support on News Explorer, then browse to https://betamagic.nl/support/newsexplorer/help.html or email us at
[email protected].
If you like News Explorer then feel free to leave a review or a rating in the App Store or to recommend it to a friend. It helps a lot!
Jan 17, 2024
Version 1.20.5
• Replaced OneSignal with a self-hosted solution.
• Fixed a serious issue when running the app in ‘Designed for iPad’ modus on visionOS.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of News Explorer since it was posted on our website on 2016-11-03 03:05:15.
The latest version is 1.20.5 and it was updated on 2024-04-19 20:25:45. See below the changes in each version.
News Explorer version 1.20.5
Updated At: 2024-01-17
Changes: Jan 17, 2024
Version 1.20.5
. Replaced OneSignal with a self-hosted solution.
. Fixed a serious issue when running the app in ‘Designed for iPad’ modus on visionOS.
News Explorer version 1.20.5
Updated At: 2024-01-17
Changes: Jan 17, 2024
Version 1.20.5
• Replaced OneSignal with a self-hosted solution.
• Fixed a serious issue when running the app in ‘Designed for iPad’ modus on visionOS.
News Explorer version 1.20.4
Updated At: 2023-10-19
Changes: Oct 19, 2023
Version 1.20.4
. Fixed a compatibility issue with iOS 17, when using the ‘Add to News Explorer’ share extension in Safari.
. Fixed another compatibility issue with iOS 17, when sharing to Pocket or Instapaper via the Share Sheet.
. Fixed a parsing issue with feeds without ‘lastPubDate’ and with articles dated in the future.
. Fixed an issue with feed articles containing HTML without any closing tags with forward slashes.
. Fixed an issue with HTML images with referrer policy sub tags.
News Explorer version 1.20.3
Updated At: 2023-08-15
Changes: Aug 15, 2023
Version 1.20.3
. Fixed an issue where article summaries were downloaded as main content.
. Fixed a feed parser issue with self closing HTML tags.
News Explorer version 1.20.1
Updated At: 2023-06-26
Changes: Jun 26, 2023
Version 1.20.1
. Fixed alignment of RTL text in the article list.
. Improved detection of deleted app data in CloudKit storage settings.
News Explorer version 1.20
Updated At: 2023-06-15
Changes: Jun 15, 2023
Version 1.20
. Added native support for Mastodon feeds, including beautifully rendered ‘Toots’.
. Replies, parent posts and cards of Mastodon posts are automatically downloaded.
. Mastodon feeds can be added via the Search New Feeds or Add New Feed dialogs.
. Unfortunately, Twitter integration has been removed due to recent Twitter API limitations.
. Already downloaded Tweets remain available in the app and iCloud.
. Improved reliability of initial sync with iCloud.
News Explorer version 1.11.3
Updated At: 2022-10-05
Changes: Oct 5, 2022
Version 1.11.3
. Auto high contrast when using Dark or System theme with max screen brightness.
. You can now search within an article with the new ‘Find on Page’ share sheet action (iOS 16).
. Restored the Print share sheet action in the Article viewer.
. An iOS 16 specific crash has been fixed related to incorrectly encoded feeds.
News Explorer version 1.11.2
Updated At: 2022-05-24
Changes: May 24, 2022 Version 1.11.2
. Fixed missing sound of non-YouTube videos in Reddit feeds.
. Improved resetting of the default icon in the App icon selector.
. Changed default for setting 'Auto-switch themes', to prevent unexpected theme changes.
News Explorer version 1.11.1
Updated At: 2022-05-16
Changes: May 16, 2022 Version 1.11.1
. Full text search now includes the title, summary, content and reader view text.
. The Reddit parser now supports search feeds.
. Improved detection of videos with the Reddit parser.
. Opening the website of a subreddit opens now the correct page.
. Fixed a custom icon issue.
. Improved handling of offline feed deletions.
News Explorer version 1.11
Updated At: 2022-04-18
Changes: Apr 18, 2022 Version 1.11
. Data snapshots speed up syncing with iCloud when syncing on a new device or one that has not been used for a while.
. Standard initial syncing performance has been improved as well.
. Browse through all images of a feed by using the new Slideshow context menu item in the Feeds list.
. Reddit feeds are now parsed by a dedicated parser, resulting in cleaner and better looking articles.
. Articles marked as Favorite are now stored forever locally and in iCloud.
. New alternative app icons in the Viewing section of the preferences.
