News Explorer

Ron Elemans

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 [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!