Plus, anecdotally speaking, there seems to be an increasing number of individuals moving to RSS from social networks like Twitter or Facebook to better filter out junk news.
Quite the opposite in fact searching RSS in the Mac App Store yields well over a dozen applications for sale. Unread our favorite app for reading RSS feeds on the iPad doesnt have a desktop version, but that doesnt mean the genre is dead. RSS Didnt Google kill that off a long, long time ago The closure of Google Reader had many predicting the death of RSS, but in its wake, numerous services have sprung up, and theres been a resurgence in RSS applications for both iOS and macOS. It syncs with a slew of third-party services, looks good, and makes it easy to share content with others. It takes a few minuets to set up and get all the feeds you’re interested in added - not to mention a change in habits from visiting all the various websites to looking at one app - but it can be done! And once NetNewsWire is configured to your liking, I’ll bet you have a hard time going back to what you used before.Syncing with a web service also means that the speed at which an article will appear in Reeder isnt up to the app itself, but the service in question. RSS feeds aren’t for everyone but if you haven’t tried them before and you do a lot of news reading, I’d highly recommend you give NetNewsWire a shot. Finally, there is newfound support for Home Screen widgets that can show starred articles, unread articles, or stories from the day. Contextual menus when long pressing on iPhone or right-clicking with a mouse. Keyboard shortcuts when using a keyboard on iPad. The devs have supported a treasure-trove of native iOS features. Those features are great and all, but it is the other touches that elevate NetNewsWire as a great app. Articles are automatically updated in the background and can be sorted into folders for added convenience. Any story that you’ve read will be denoted as such as hid from your feed (though you can still revisit it if you’d like). There are smart feeds available for “Today” stories and “unread” stories. Love when apps take advantage of those native services! NetNewsWire also helps organization and status. Everyone who uses an iPhone or iPad has an iCloud account and this streamlines the syncing process and requires no outside services.
If you’ve got the app on your iPhone, Mac, or iPad, now everything you download or read on one, will sync to the others with Apple’s native data solution. Such a great way to consume content from so many different places.īesides syncing via common services such as Feedly and Feedbin, NetNewsWire now can sync across your devices with iCloud.
Once set up, your Reddit feed and Twitter feed will now show alongside your news. This is a darn-cool new feature that we don’t typically see with RSS feeds. With the shiny new version 6, NetNewsWire brought support for both Reddit and Twitter. The big sell for RSS is that rather than going to individual websites and checking for new stories, an RSS reader will automatically retrieve stories as they’ve publish and present them to you in one central location. Key to an RSS app is content, as well as syncing that content and keeping track of what you’ve read.
The newly launched version 6 adds a wealth of new features including iCloud synchronization and much more. NetNewsWire is a popular preference and offers many compelling features. RSS readers are still somewhat surprisingly common and there are many apps to choose from that can handle this task.