Newsbite 17+

Feeds & Fediverse together‪.‬

Chris Jenkins

Designed for iPad

    • 4.5 • 4 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

A modern RSS newsreader for iPhone and iPad, with features to help you find the news you are interested in, and no creepy tracking or advertising:

- Add Home Screen widgets showing articles from your folders, feeds, topics, tags or searches.
- Discover feeds published by your favourite news website or blog using the built-in browser.
- Setup notifications to alert you when new articles appear in your feeds.
- Create rules to automatically like, read, tag, or hide certain articles.
- Filter articles by unread, today only, tag, or media type.
- Add articles to the Reading List for later.
- Use the built-in reading list or external services, supports Pocket, Instapaper, and Safari Reading List.
- Automatically find the most written about topics from your feeds during the last day, week or month.
- Load the full article content for feeds that don't include the full text in the feed.
- Multiple image, audio, and video attachment playback.
- 3 column layout on iPad with new sidebar, redesigned for iPadOS 14.
- Pointer support from iPadOS 13.4 onwards.
- Sync your feeds and topics, plus article reads and likes using iCloud, no additional account or login needed.
- If you have more than one device synced to the same iCloud account you can nominate one of them to be the ‘Primary Device’. The primary device is responsible for downloading new articles from your feeds, other devices will sync via iCloud. This can help preserve battery life on other devices, and improve sync reliability.
- Keep articles indefinitely, even when removed from the feed.
- Organise your feeds into folders using drag and drop.
- Choose custom font, size, spacing, alignment, and theme for reading articles.
- Supports RSS, Atom, and JSON feed formats.
- Integrates directly with Mastodon to show you your feeds and posts in one place.
- Updates feeds in the background.

Newsbite is free to use for up to 5 feeds, and has a premium subscription of £0.79 GBP per month to enable notifications, saved topics, and unlimited feeds. Prices may vary from country to country.

If you choose to subscribe, payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase.

Terms of Use: https://newsbite.app/terms.html
Privacy Policy: https://newsbite.app/privacyPolicy.html

What’s New

Version 3.1.3

- Fixed a bug that made it appear not to save feed settings if opening the settings window immediately after closing it. Settings were being saved, it just wasn't reflected in the app until after reopening the timeline.
- Fixed a bug that showed an erroneous error message when unable to load the full content for an article.
- Added support for inline YouTube videos, in both the article view and timeline.
- Added the ability to open an article in the system browser or associated app directly from the article timeline, this can be set globally or per feed.
- Added floating action button to the article view for quick access to the external URLs for that article.
- Added a setting to let you specify whether to try and load the full content for every article in a feed, or only for summary-style articles.
- Added tabs to show the original and full article content.
- iOS Tips if running on iOS 17!
- MUCH improved support for Dynamic Type, I thought I'd done this but evidently something got broken somewhere along the way, anyway now the article view adjusts to the system text size. As a consequence the setting to control the headline scale has been removed in favour of an overall font scaling setting that operates on top of the system setting.
- Lots of little layout tweaks to the article view.

Ratings and Reviews

4.5 out of 5
4 Ratings

4 Ratings

SudoVoodoo ,

Great RSS feed reader

Really low cost subscription offering that competes in my opinion with big name rss solutions. Dev is very responsive to inquiries and makes regular updates to this product. Thank you!

heygarrett ,

Great RSS reader

Update: The app now syncs with iCloud much more reliably after recent updates.



Unique and well designed RSS reader. The dev is also extremely receptive to feedback. Great user experience overall.

I have had some trouble getting it to sync with iCloud, but I only rely on that as a backup of my feeds since I mostly read the news on one device.

tg8035 ,

You almost had me as a user

Until I realized there is no way to sort article lists from oldest to new date. Why are rss developers suddenly deciding that everyone doesn’t need this feature?? Also YouTube media don’t embed or play within the app

App Privacy

The developer, Chris Jenkins, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

  • Usage Data
  • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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