News Explorer

Always in sync with your news, on all your devices.

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iCloud enabled

iCloud synchronization

News Explorer is exclusively built for the Apple’s ecosystem, with automatic iCloud based synchronization of your feeds and news articles across all your Apple devices.

Easy to read

Streamlined reading

Easy and fast news reading is the core business of News Explorer. Every step and element of the news reading workflow has been tuned to keep you on track with your news with minimal efforts.

Easy to expand

Explore for more

Expanding your news universe has been made really easy. New feeds can be added directly from your browser, or by clicking on a RSS URL, or by simply using the powerful built-in search feature.

All your news. Anywhere, anytime.

News Explorer syncs your RSS, Atom, JSON, Reddit, Mastodon, YouTube and Podcast feeds, folders, articles, read statuses and favorites 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.

News Explorer iCloud

Read, mark, share. And save some for later.

News articles and included images can be easily shared by email, messages and so on, by using the system based share feature.

On top of that, there is built-in support to share items with Instapaper and Pocket. In macOS, you can even assign a shortcut key to each sharing service. Articles can also be saved for later reading by marking them as favorite.

News Explorer Easy Read

Auto Reader view. Automatic full-text retrieval.

After selecting an article, News Explorer downloads the entire original news article from the web if necessary, so you can read it in a clean and easy-to-read format.

News Explorer makes use of multiple Reader view engines, which can be set on feed level, to get the best full-text extraction result for each article.

News Explorer Reader View

Smart filters. Customizable to your personal interests.

With a few clicks, you can create your own sidebar filters, based on criteria like title, content, author, tags, publication date, download date, and more. Filters are synced between all your devices.

News Explorer Full Text Search

Article comments. Read them within the app.

Read article comments from other readers directly in the app. This works with feeds that has comment feeds per article, and with YouTube, Reddit and Hacker News feeds. It also works with most feeds from websites that use Open Web comments.

News Explorer Comments

Prefilters. Prevent downloading unwanted news.

With prefilters you prevent the app from downloading uninteresting news, saving you time, data and stress. Prefilters can be set on feed level in the Feed settings dialog.

Prefilters are synced via iCloud, so all your devices make use of the same prefilters.

News Explorer Prefilters

Timeline view. A new perspective on your news.

The timeline view shows feeds with their stories including large images and text previews, all-in one attractive view, sorted in chronological order. This makes it really easy and fun to find the news articles you're actually interested in for further reading.

News Explorer Timeline

Themes and fonts. Adjustable to your mood and taste.

The look-and-feel of News Explorer is highly customizable. The color scheme of the app can be adjusted by selecting one of the five themes, including an auto-adopting ‘System’ theme and a special ‘Black’ theme optimized for OLED displays.

The font style, weight and size, line height and text width used in the article viewer in the macOS, iOS and iPadOS editions of News Explorer are also fully adjustable.

News Explorer Themes

Easy setup.

News Explorer makes it easy to add new RSS, JSON, Mastodon, Reddit, Podcast and YouTube feeds by offering dedicated addition dialogs for each feed type. The ‘Add to News Explorer’ sharing extension allows you to add feeds to News Explorer directly from the sharing menu of Safari and other browsers.

However, the fastest way to discover new feeds is by using the built-in search feature. Just enter a search phrase and you’ll see a list of matching feeds, including a brief description of each RSS or Mastodon feed.

News Explorer Setup
Article Notes

Article notes

Create rich text notes, directly in the context of the article, optionally linked to a text selection. Notes are synced via iCloud together with the related article.

Local Account

Local account

Use feeds in News Explorer that only exists on your device by activating the Local storage account option. Can be used instead or in addition to syncing with iCloud.

Inspector Panel

Inspector panel

Inspect metadata, view and edit tags, browse and download images, audio and movies, add and edit notes, and view comments of an article in the collapsable Inspector panel.

Feed Settings

Feed settings

All aspects of a feed like title, source link, website, icon, reading and comments options, can be adjusted in the Feed settings dialog. It is also possible to disable the feed.

Article Tags

Article tags

Article categories of articles are displayed in the Inspector panel as tags. You can add your own custom tags and use them as selection criteria in filters.

Native App

Full-text search

You can search for any article in both the iCloud account and the local storage account by using specific words or phrases that exist in the title, summary, or content of the article.

Feed Settings

Customizable toolbars

All toolbar of all main windows in the macOS app can be customized and extended with handy action buttons. When using the iPad app, you can extend the toolbar of the article viewer.

Article Tags

Widgets

On iOS, iPadOS and macOS, News Explorer offers 3 widget sizes, which can be used on the homescreen or desktop, and can use any feed, folder or filter as a data source.

Native App

Native apps

Each platform edition of News Explorer is built using the original frameworks of that platform, such as AppKit for macOS and UIKit for iOS, to ensure optimal performance and user experience.

Feature comparison


News Explorer is available on all Apple platforms. All editions offer the same core features, including iCloud synchronisation. Not all features are supported on all platforms. This table gives some more insight what to expect for each edition.

Feature macOS iOS iPadOS tvOS watchOS
iCloud sync ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
RSS 2.0 feeds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
RDF feeds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
JSON feeds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
ATOM feeds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Mastodon feeds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Download replies on Toots ✓ ✓ ✓
Podcast feeds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
YouTube channel feeds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Reddit feeds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Basic HTTP Authentication ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Digest HTTP Authentication ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Search RSS feeds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Search Mastodon feeds ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Add feeds manually ✓ ✓ ✓
Open Feed URLs ✓ ✓ ✓
Import OPML ✓ ✓ ✓
Export OPML ✓ ✓ ✓
Add and edit feed filters ✓ ✓ ✓
Make use of feed filters ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Add and edit feed prefilters ✓ ✓ ✓
Make use of feed prefilters ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Feed settings dialog ✓ ✓ ✓
Group feeds in folders ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Reorder feeds ✓ ✓ ✓
Reorder folders ✓ ✓ ✓
List view ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Article view ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Reader view ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Automatic full-text ✓ ✓ ✓
Timeline view ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Slideshow view ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Themes ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Adjustable tint color ✓ ✓ ✓
Adjustable font type and size ✓ ✓ ✓
Dynamic Type support ✓ ✓ ✓
Adjustable toolbar ✓ ✓
Adjust sorting news articles ✓ ✓ ✓
Mark as read ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Mark all as read ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Mark above as read ✓ ✓ ✓
Mark below as read ✓ ✓ ✓
Mark as read while scrolling ✓ ✓ ✓
Mark as favorite ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Automatic read status ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Unread feed badges ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Unread app icon badge ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Article Inspector panel ✓ ✓ ✓
Read and add article tags ✓ ✓ ✓
Media browser panel ✓ ✓ ✓
Add notes to articles ✓ ✓ ✓
Read article comments ✓ ✓ ✓
Share news article ✓ ✓ ✓
Share with Instapaper (built-in support) ✓ ✓ ✓
Share with Pocket (built-in support) ✓ ✓ ✓
Share image ✓ ✓ ✓
Smart filters ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Open article in new window ✓ ✓
Global unread filter ✓ ✓ ✓
Global favorites filter ✓ ✓ ✓
Full text search ✓ ✓ ✓
Spotlight support ✓ ✓ ✓
Handoff support ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Notifications ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Custom storage periods ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Add to News Explorer extension ✓ ✓ ✓
Widgets ✓ ✓ ✓
Backup database ✓ ✓ ✓
Restore database ✓

The watchOS edition needs a paired iPhone with News Explorer for feed management and syncing.

The iPadOS edition of News Explorer can be used on Apple Vision Pro. This is not fully tested due to the limited availability of Apple Vision Pro in Europe.


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News Explorer
macOS edition

The macOS version of News Explorer will run on all your Macs with macOS 15.0 Sequoia or later.

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Also available on the Mac App Store.

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News Explorer
universal edition

Runs on all your iOS and iPadOS 18.0 devices and newer, plus Apple Watch and Apple TV.