News Explorer

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!