App Detail » News Explorer

What's New

• Fixed a compatibility issue with macOS 14, when using the ‘Add to News Explorer’ share extension in Safari.
• Fixed a parsing issue with feeds without ‘lastPubDate’ and with articles dated in the future.
• Fixed an issue with feed articles containing HTML without any closing tags with forward slashes.
• Fixed an issue with HTML images with referrer policy sub tags.

App Description

News Explorer is a full-featured yet easy-to-use RSS, JSON, Atom, Reddit and Mastodon newsreader with iCloud based synchronisation between Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV.

FULL ICLOUD SYNC
• News Explorer syncs your RSS, JSON, Atom, Reddit and Mastodon feeds, folder setup, news items, read statuses and favorites across all your Apple devices.
• Synchronisation 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.
• Built-in high speed RSS and Atom engine.
• Supports Mastodon user timelines.
• Enhanced support for YouTube feeds.
• Supports Podcast RSS feeds.

PRODUCTIVE INTERFACE
• Clean, stylish and clutter-free user interface.
• Article list with thumbnails, adjustable in visibility, size and alignment.
• Built-in browser for viewing inline links.
• Themes, adaptable to your taste and mood, or according appearance settings in macOS.
• Font of the article viewer is fully adjustable.

STREAMLINED READING
• Use Reader view to download and read the full text version of articles.
• Option to automatically use Reader view for all feeds, or selected feeds.
• Mark items as favorite for later reading.
• Navigate with one click to the original content.
• Reply, retweet and like tweets in Twitter feeds without leaving the app.
• Timeline view shows your news items in an attractive newspaper-like way.
• Full text search.
• Full keyboard navigation.
• Open articles in separate tabs or windows, for maximum focus.
• Built-in image viewer to browse through all images of news items.
• The image viewer can also be used to browse through all images of all articles of a feed.
• Full window YouTube videos.
• Built-in support to share news items with Twitter, Instapaper and Pocket.
• Share news items via email, Messages, Facebook and other sharing services.
• Support for Notification Center widgets.

EASY CONFIGURATION
• Add new RSS, Atom, JSON, Reddit, Mastodon, Podcast and YouTube feeds directly from Safari, using the 'Add to News Explorer' share extension.
• Add RSS and Mastodon feeds via the built-in search form.
• Support to add manually RSS, Atom, JSON, Reddit and Mastodon feeds.
• Feed extension support let you open RSS news feed URL’s.
• Group your subscriptions by using folders.
• Rename and reorder folders and feeds, using drag-and-drop.
• OPML import and export.
• Feed manager let you manage the feeds that should be displayed in the Notification Center.

USABILITY FEATURES
• Assign keyboard shortcuts to sharing services, including Instapaper and Pocket.
• Simply hit the spacebar to open the next article or to scroll the article when needed.
• With full Touch Bar support you have quick access to all essential functions.
• App icon badge with unread items count.

STATE OF THE ART
• Runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
• Supports RSS 2.0, RDF, JSON Feed, Reddit, ATOM, Podcast, YouTube and Mastodon news feeds.
• Supports feeds with Basic and Digest HTTP Authentication.
• Support for displaying articles with RTL text like Arabic or Hebrew.
• Auto Dark Mode and Accent Color support.
• Fully working iCloud sync based on CloudKit.
• Three built-in Reader view engines.
• Spotlight Search.
• Handoff support.
• Notifications with images.

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. Universal purchase allows you to purchase News Explorer once, and then access it on iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and tvOS.

SUPPORT
News Explorer is one of the best documented news apps with an extensive help page on https://betamagic.nl/support/newsexplorer/help.html. If you still have any 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 a lot!

App Changes

• August 18, 2016 Initial release
• August 19, 2016 New version 1.0.1
• November 06, 2016 New version 1.2.2
• November 18, 2016 New version 1.4
• December 06, 2016 New version 1.4.1
• December 29, 2016 New version 1.4.2
• June 14, 2019 New version 1.9.4
• October 05, 2019 New version 1.9.6
• November 12, 2019 New version 1.9.7
• July 15, 2020 New version 1.9.10
• November 12, 2020 New version 1.9.11
• December 10, 2020 New version 1.9.12
• August 06, 2021 New version 1.10
• September 16, 2023 New version 1.20
• November 15, 2023 New version 1.20.4