NetNewsWire
A free, open source RSS reader for Mac and iPhone
The verdict
Social feeds and their algorithms decide which posts from your favorite sites you ever see. NetNewsWire pulls every new article from the blogs and news sites you follow into one list, in order, and tracks what you've read. It's free and open source on Mac, iPhone and iPad, syncing via iCloud, Feedbin or Feedly, while Reeder costs $14.99 a year for a timeline that also mixes in YouTube and podcasts.
Get it if
You follow lots of blogs and news sites and want every new post in 1 place, in order, with no ads.
Skip it if
You get your news from newsletters and social apps and have no wish to manage a list of sites.
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What it helps you do
- Read every new post from sites you follow
- Sync your feeds across devices with iCloud
- Strip clutter from articles with reader view
- Move your feed list over with OPML
What changed
Version 7.2
New feature: new setting to hide unread counts or replace them with a · , so you don’t have to face the anxiety of treating your RSS reader as yet another app where you have to catch up!
Added to The Useful Apps
Pick something else if
Readwise ReaderPick it if you read dozens of articles and PDFs a week and want every highlight searchable later.From $9.99
ReederPick it if you follow YouTube channels and Mastodon accounts too and want to scroll them as 1 feed.Free to start
MatterPick this if you save more than you read and would rather hear articles on a walk, on iPhone or iPad.Free to start
NetNewsWire head to head
The details
- Runs on
- Mac, iPhone, iPad
- Requires
- iOS 17.0 or later
- Version
- 7.2
- Size
- 28 MB
- Made by
- Brent Simmons
- Rating
- 4.7 from 890 ratings on the App Store
- Open source
- Code is public
- iCloud sync
- Syncs across your devices
- Widgets
- Home and lock screen
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