The only problem is if you use a different service, such as Pocket or Readability, as there is no support for either of them. Just log in to your Instapaper account when saving your first item (complete with 1Password support) and it’s saved for later.
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The only problem is when a feed is truncated, as you only get a few lines before you have to view the full text on the website.įor users who like to use Instapaper to read things later, NetNewsWire has full support for sending articles to the service, which is accessed when you “share” an item.
Articles are displayed as they should be, with block quotes, tappable links using the in-app browser, images, and even videos. The headline is in large text, and you can clearly see the byline information and publish date underneath it. While the standard font used will be Helvetica, users can change the reading font by tapping the “Aa” button at the top. The reading view in NetNewsWire is rather pleasant, as it provides a minimalistic design that makes reading easy. You can also limit the app icon badge, unread and today views to Favorites only, reducing the clutter.
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Marking sites as a favorite is useful when you want to use NetNewsWire’s “Smart Site Refresh” feature, which will only automatically update the feeds for your favorites - everything else has to be updated manually with the pull-to-refresh gesture. There’s also the option for marking an individual item as read.įor Favorite Sites, just swipe left on a feed in the Sites tab and tap the star to mark it as a favorite. You can share the article through a custom share sheet or bookmark it for later. For bookmarks, just swipe to the left on an item and it reveals a contextual menu. NetNewsWire makes use of swiping gestures as a shortcut for adding bookmark items and favorite sites.
The checkmark in the top right corner will mark everything as read, and is accessible from any view. The Unread section is pretty self-explanatory, and the Today tab will only show you items from today, so it’s not cluttered up with old articles. Selecting a feed to view shows you all of the available articles (with thumbnail images), and everything is organized chronologically with timestamps, so you can see how long ago each item was posted. The Sites tab lets you view each feed you’ve added individually, and you can see an unread number count in the right hand column for each. You have five different tabs for viewing your feeds along the bottom: Sites, Unread, Today, Bookmarks, and Favorites. While I’m used to other apps like Reeder and Unread, I still found NetNewsWire to be fairly intuitive to navigate, though the app does suffer from a bit of stuttering when scrolling through a long list of articles.
I like how this is done because it adds a nice splash of color to the app, and it contrasts especially nicely against the night theme. The app has a day and night theme that you can toggle in the app settings, and each site that is added is assigned a text color to match the favicon. The design of NetNewsWire is simple, clean, and rather beautiful. For sites that you don’t see in “Popular,” you can add them manually by entering the address. You can even select entire categories if you like all of the sites that it features. I went through this list of sites and found many that were interesting, so I selected them one-by-one. These sites ranged from well-known sites like CNN and Forbes to indie sites like Six Colors and. In fact, after I created my account and wanted to add feeds, NetNewsWire had a screen with some of the most popular feeds that were categorized by topic, such as Apple, Technology, Science, World, Entertainment, and more. I wish that NetNewsWire synced with other RSS services, because this can be rather tedious.įortunately, if you are starting with a clean slate with RSS, NetNewsWire has a good setup. Since I have had to create a new account for syncing, I have to add my feeds manually, which is a pain when I have over 50 subscriptions in Feedly. The syncing is fairly quick and seamless, but I have only been using the iOS app on a single device.
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Signing up for a free account will sync your feeds on multiple iOS devices, as well as the Mac app ($9.99) if you have it. The first thing I noticed with the new NetNewsWire is that they now use their own syncing service, appropriately dubbed NetNewsWire Cloud Sync.
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