![]() ![]() Feeds that require you to click through to the Website for the complete article work well, too the in-app browser supports all of Safari’s key features, including offering both landscape and portrait mode. Tapping into folders and blogs works quickly, and reading full feeds in NetNewsWire is a snap. I tend to launch the app about two minutes before I plan to start perusing my feeds-that’s plenty of time for it to sync with Google for the 350 or so feeds I subscribe to. iPhone apps just aren’t afforded such a luxury. On the desktop, you can switch away to another window, checking in when all the new headlines have been downloaded. His review of the original NetNewsWire for the iPhone, a key difference with the mobile app is that you’re forced to sit and wait while your feeds get updated. As my colleague Dan Frakes pointed out in That means when you read an article on your iPhone, it’s marked as read when you get back to your desktop, and vice-versa. NetNewsWire-along with all the other newsreaders in the NewsGator family-syncs via Google Reader. The premium version is a solid improvement, and though there are some flaws, it’s a strong feed reading app that feels more at home on the iPhone than the previous iteration. NewsGator Technologies has since rolled out version 2.0 of its NetNewsWire Premium app (while also maintaining the free version of NetNewsWire). (RSS readers, for those of you woefully out of the Internet loop, are special applications that are specially designed to suck in all your productivity, and the latest stories from Websites you subscribe to.) The application arrived in iPhone form as Apple opened its mobile platform to third-party developers. Thanks for the feature requests! I’m not sure what you mean by a few of them, though.NetNewsWire started life as a Mac app seven years ago, making it one of the oldest RSS readers around. 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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