Newsbite
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About Newsbite
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
- 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
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What's New in the Latest Version 3.1.2
Last updated on Feb 14, 2024
Old Versions
- Added support for the feed: protocol, which enables the app to respond to opening feed URLs in Safari.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent feeds being added when hosted at a custom sub-domain that isn't accessible at the root of that domain (e.g. The WSJ feeds), thanks to Mark W for bringing this to my attention.
- Better support for running when offline, images are preloaded and cached locally.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent feeds being added when hosted at a custom sub-domain that isn't accessible at the root of that domain (e.g. The WSJ feeds), thanks to Mark W for bringing this to my attention.
- Better support for running when offline, images are preloaded and cached locally.
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Version History
3.1.2
Feb 14, 2024
- Added support for the feed: protocol, which enables the app to respond to opening feed URLs in Safari.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent feeds being added when hosted at a custom sub-domain that isn't accessible at the root of that domain (e.g. The WSJ feeds), thanks to Mark W for bringing this to my attention.
- Better support for running when offline, images are preloaded and cached locally.
- Fixed a bug that would prevent feeds being added when hosted at a custom sub-domain that isn't accessible at the root of that domain (e.g. The WSJ feeds), thanks to Mark W for bringing this to my attention.
- Better support for running when offline, images are preloaded and cached locally.
3.1.1
Dec 26, 2023
- Fixed bug that would cause articles to fail to be loaded under some rare circumstances.
- Fixed bug whereby a new feed added to the sidebar wouldn't appear immediately.
- Fixed bug whereby Mastodon posts wouldn't refresh the replies if previously loaded.
- Images uploaded to Mastodon have their EXIF and geolocation data stripped before sending.
- Images uploaded to Mastodon can now have alt text added.
- Fixed bug whereby a new feed added to the sidebar wouldn't appear immediately.
- Fixed bug whereby Mastodon posts wouldn't refresh the replies if previously loaded.
- Images uploaded to Mastodon have their EXIF and geolocation data stripped before sending.
- Images uploaded to Mastodon can now have alt text added.
3.1.0
Dec 2, 2023
- Added Mastodon support: sign in to your instance and add feeds for your timeline, hashtags, search, and more.
- Removed Twitter support (sorry about that).
- Improved performance: updating feeds is much faster.
- Redesigned interface: more streamlined and overall much tidier.
- Removed Twitter support (sorry about that).
- Improved performance: updating feeds is much faster.
- Redesigned interface: more streamlined and overall much tidier.
3.0.1
Nov 30, 2022
- Condensed and compressed system fonts are slightly larger as compared to the regular versions to increase legibility at small sizes.
- A progress spinner is shown during in-app purchases and while restoring purchases.
- A progress spinner is shown during in-app purchases and while restoring purchases.
3.0.0
Oct 17, 2022
- New and improved look and feel: alternate font glyphs for maximum readability.
- Support for condensed and expanded system fonts.
- Rewritten and expanded settings screens: choose app icon, accent color and much more.
- New filter and search options.
- Code blocks in articles are now syntax highlighted, choose a theme from the Highlight.js library.
- Add podcast feeds from iTunes.
- Improved podcast audio playback, now with speed selector and equalizer.
- Support for condensed and expanded system fonts.
- Rewritten and expanded settings screens: choose app icon, accent color and much more.
- New filter and search options.
- Code blocks in articles are now syntax highlighted, choose a theme from the Highlight.js library.
- Add podcast feeds from iTunes.
- Improved podcast audio playback, now with speed selector and equalizer.
2.5.0
Oct 12, 2021
- iOS 15 compatibility and performance increases.
- New extra large widget size on iPadOS 15.
- Settings to avoid using the Newsbite Readability engine for certain feeds and/or domains. Find this feature in the app: Settings > Web Links, or by long pressing on a link in an article: "Always open in Safari".
- Convert text images in the full-screen image view to actual text, this is useful if the image contains very small text that is hard to read, or if you just prefer your font choice.
- Increased the speed of feed updates by doubling the number that can be downloaded and imported simultaneously (only on devices with larger amounts of memory).
- New extra large widget size on iPadOS 15.
- Settings to avoid using the Newsbite Readability engine for certain feeds and/or domains. Find this feature in the app: Settings > Web Links, or by long pressing on a link in an article: "Always open in Safari".
- Convert text images in the full-screen image view to actual text, this is useful if the image contains very small text that is hard to read, or if you just prefer your font choice.
- Increased the speed of feed updates by doubling the number that can be downloaded and imported simultaneously (only on devices with larger amounts of memory).
2.3.2
Jul 7, 2021
- Fixed issue that caused the article content to be reloaded when the navigation bars were set to hide.
2.3.1
Jun 11, 2021
A few bug fixes, mostly for iPad, including:
- Avoid overlapping the keyboard when searching.
- Improved sidebar icon alignment.
- The mini progress spinner is now colour matched to other similar controls.
- Restored the bar button on the detail view, which were sometimes missing.
- Restored line returns in Twitter feed articles, which were sometimes missing.
- Avoid overlapping the keyboard when searching.
- Improved sidebar icon alignment.
- The mini progress spinner is now colour matched to other similar controls.
- Restored the bar button on the detail view, which were sometimes missing.
- Restored line returns in Twitter feed articles, which were sometimes missing.
2.3.0
Jun 8, 2021
- Advanced Twitter search feeds. Search for a combination of criteria, include or exclude text, images, video and more.
- Exclude replies from the home, mentions, and retweets timelines.
- Load linked tweets or web pages using the built-in readability engine and display them using the same template as for feed articles.
- Save web pages loaded via the readability engine as articles grouped by domain. Web page feeds have their own sidebar group.
- Load the full article content using pull-to-refresh.
- Exclude replies from the home, mentions, and retweets timelines.
- Load linked tweets or web pages using the built-in readability engine and display them using the same template as for feed articles.
- Save web pages loaded via the readability engine as articles grouped by domain. Web page feeds have their own sidebar group.
- Load the full article content using pull-to-refresh.
2.2.2
May 13, 2021
- Restored "hide bars on tap" functionality.
- Automatically loading the full content will now refresh the article shown in the article list view.
- Fixed a bug with certain feeds not displaying the full content the first time an article was viewed.
- Full-screen image view now uses a page control (dots) for multiple images instead of thumbnails, this is more compact.
- In the full-screen image view: swipe left/right to view multiple images, swipe down to dismiss, tap to show/hide the bars, double tap to zoom in, two finger tap to zoom out.
- Added haptics when opening the full-screen image view to mirror the "force-press" haptics.
- Automatically loading the full content will now refresh the article shown in the article list view.
- Fixed a bug with certain feeds not displaying the full content the first time an article was viewed.
- Full-screen image view now uses a page control (dots) for multiple images instead of thumbnails, this is more compact.
- In the full-screen image view: swipe left/right to view multiple images, swipe down to dismiss, tap to show/hide the bars, double tap to zoom in, two finger tap to zoom out.
- Added haptics when opening the full-screen image view to mirror the "force-press" haptics.
2.2.1
Apr 30, 2021
- Fixed crash on iOS 14.5 when signing in to Twitter.
- Improved scroll performance for Twitter feeds.
- Tapping an image in the article view now opens full screen like on the article list view.
- New setting to allow the full tweet text to be displayed in the article list.
- Tweets shown in the full screen image view are no longer truncated.
- Hashtags, user names and links in Twitter feed articles are highlighted in the article list.
- Linking to third party Twitter apps is more reliable.
- Added new option for linking to web pages that uses the built-in readability engine (premium subscribers only).
- Improved scroll performance for Twitter feeds.
- Tapping an image in the article view now opens full screen like on the article list view.
- New setting to allow the full tweet text to be displayed in the article list.
- Tweets shown in the full screen image view are no longer truncated.
- Hashtags, user names and links in Twitter feed articles are highlighted in the article list.
- Linking to third party Twitter apps is more reliable.
- Added new option for linking to web pages that uses the built-in readability engine (premium subscribers only).
2.2.0
Apr 20, 2021
Twitter integration!:
- Twitter feeds can show your timeline, mentions, or retweets.
- Alternatively, follow another users tweets, perform a search, or view a list.
- Use the iOS context menus to follow, mute, or block Twitter users.
- Open links to tweets in your favourite Twitter client (supports Tweetbot and Twitterrific at this time).
Improved media handling:
- Opening an image full screen shows a preview of the enclosing article as a caption.
- A row of thumbnail images is shown if an article has more than one image.
- Using the iOS context menu on a video plays that video.
- Twitter feeds can show your timeline, mentions, or retweets.
- Alternatively, follow another users tweets, perform a search, or view a list.
- Use the iOS context menus to follow, mute, or block Twitter users.
- Open links to tweets in your favourite Twitter client (supports Tweetbot and Twitterrific at this time).
Improved media handling:
- Opening an image full screen shows a preview of the enclosing article as a caption.
- A row of thumbnail images is shown if an article has more than one image.
- Using the iOS context menu on a video plays that video.
2.1.7
Mar 4, 2021
- Added a new top level view of your articles. Favorites combines all articles from feeds that you have favorited.
- Introducing the new Feed Bar! This is a tabbed bar that sits at the top of a list of articles when viewing a folder of feeds, or the new Favorites view, that lets you quickly filter the article list to just one feed at a time.
- Adjusted notification processing to (hopefully) avoid sending notifications for old articles.
- Videos playing full screen no longer stop playing when rotating your iPhone.
- Links in articles to images hosted somewhere relative to the feed are now able to be opened.
- Tweaked visual appearance in dark mode, the dark grey background is now the default.
- Fixed issue detecting changes to feeds/articles that may have caused unread count to appear out of date, or article status to not be updated immediately.
- Introducing the new Feed Bar! This is a tabbed bar that sits at the top of a list of articles when viewing a folder of feeds, or the new Favorites view, that lets you quickly filter the article list to just one feed at a time.
- Adjusted notification processing to (hopefully) avoid sending notifications for old articles.
- Videos playing full screen no longer stop playing when rotating your iPhone.
- Links in articles to images hosted somewhere relative to the feed are now able to be opened.
- Tweaked visual appearance in dark mode, the dark grey background is now the default.
- Fixed issue detecting changes to feeds/articles that may have caused unread count to appear out of date, or article status to not be updated immediately.
2.1.6
Feb 5, 2021
- Support for custom fonts.
- Added support for Apple's serif system font: New York.
- Fixed a crash that could occur if pressing the "next unread article" button after going back from an article to the unread articles list, if a feed update was in-progress.
- Tweaked the article list layout when large attachment thumbnails are displayed.
- Adjusted the schedule for updating feeds so that in-app updates initiated by you happen immediately.
- Improved background stability which should result in having to relaunch the app less.
- Added support for Apple's serif system font: New York.
- Fixed a crash that could occur if pressing the "next unread article" button after going back from an article to the unread articles list, if a feed update was in-progress.
- Tweaked the article list layout when large attachment thumbnails are displayed.
- Adjusted the schedule for updating feeds so that in-app updates initiated by you happen immediately.
- Improved background stability which should result in having to relaunch the app less.
2.1.5
Jan 8, 2021
- Inline videos, such as those from YouTube, are now supported in the article view, so long as "Show Media in Articles" is enabled for that feed.
- Fixed a crash that would occur if attempting to save an image in an article to your photo library.
- Articles with no content now fall back to the article summary, if one exists.
- Changes to nested folders in the sidebar are now displayed immediately.
- The relative date/time next to each article in the article list is periodically updated to remain correct.
- Fixed a crash that would occur if attempting to save an image in an article to your photo library.
- Articles with no content now fall back to the article summary, if one exists.
- Changes to nested folders in the sidebar are now displayed immediately.
- The relative date/time next to each article in the article list is periodically updated to remain correct.
2.1.4
Dec 17, 2020
- Reduced memory consumption when downloading updated feeds.
- Improved the stability of background updates, making it less likely the app will be closed.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash on the app notifications settings screen.
- Added a warning if trying to manually refresh feeds on a non-primary device.
- Improved the stability of background updates, making it less likely the app will be closed.
- Fixed a bug that could cause a crash on the app notifications settings screen.
- Added a warning if trying to manually refresh feeds on a non-primary device.
2.1.3
Dec 8, 2020
- If you have more than one device synced to the same iCloud account you can now 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.
- Improved sync reliability when duplicate articles are encountered.
- Fixed a bug that prevented being able to move a feed or folder to the top level.
- Fixed a bug that prevented moved feeds or folders from appearing in the right location until after an app relaunch.
- Fixed a bug whereby a feed that was added wouldn't immediately download articles.
- Fixed a bug whereby a feed that was deleted and then added again wouldn't download articles for a while.
- Improved sync reliability when duplicate articles are encountered.
- Fixed a bug that prevented being able to move a feed or folder to the top level.
- Fixed a bug that prevented moved feeds or folders from appearing in the right location until after an app relaunch.
- Fixed a bug whereby a feed that was added wouldn't immediately download articles.
- Fixed a bug whereby a feed that was deleted and then added again wouldn't download articles for a while.
2.1.2
Nov 11, 2020
- Sidebar swipe actions now work better.
- Show an alert when deleting a feed or folder.
- Minor improvements to header image insertion.
- Minor performance improvements when updating the sidebar.
- Show an alert when deleting a feed or folder.
- Minor improvements to header image insertion.
- Minor performance improvements when updating the sidebar.
2.1.1
Nov 8, 2020
- Images included as the article media are now rendered in the article details view.
- The main image found when loading the full article content is now rendered in the main article view, and as a thumbnail in the article list.
- When adding an article to the reading list the app now respects the "automatically load full content" setting for that feed, rather than loading the full content regardless.
- Empty media attachments, which are included by some feeds, are now ignored.
- Rules are only applied to new articles found when updating each feed, this prevents rules that notify from sending a notification for the same article more than once.
- Improved swipe handling on the article list to avoid 'phantom' swipes.
- Notifications now use Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold for the headline font.
- The feed title is now an active link that, if pressed, will display all articles for that feed.
- The context menu for the feed is included as a sub-menu in the article context menu.
- Images shown in widgets are resized and cached locally to speed up subsequent use.
- The main image found when loading the full article content is now rendered in the main article view, and as a thumbnail in the article list.
- When adding an article to the reading list the app now respects the "automatically load full content" setting for that feed, rather than loading the full content regardless.
- Empty media attachments, which are included by some feeds, are now ignored.
- Rules are only applied to new articles found when updating each feed, this prevents rules that notify from sending a notification for the same article more than once.
- Improved swipe handling on the article list to avoid 'phantom' swipes.
- Notifications now use Helvetica Neue Condensed Bold for the headline font.
- The feed title is now an active link that, if pressed, will display all articles for that feed.
- The context menu for the feed is included as a sub-menu in the article context menu.
- Images shown in widgets are resized and cached locally to speed up subsequent use.
2.1.0
Oct 21, 2020
Widgets! - add home screen widgets showing articles from your folders, feeds, tags, topics, or searches.
Improved font choices - now choose individual faces from within a family, and choose which fonts should be used in the article list.
Fixed a bug that would prevent feed icons from being loaded for some feeds.
Improved font choices - now choose individual faces from within a family, and choose which fonts should be used in the article list.
Fixed a bug that would prevent feed icons from being loaded for some feeds.
2.0.1
Oct 7, 2020
- Faster loading of article lists.
- An animated placeholder is shown if loading the article list takes a long time.
- The default screen now works on iPad.
- Article counts now use thousand separators.
- An animated placeholder is shown if loading the article list takes a long time.
- The default screen now works on iPad.
- Article counts now use thousand separators.
2.0.0
Sep 29, 2020
- Redesigned for iOS 14 and iPadOS 14.
- New sidebar lets you group, filter, and sort your feeds the way you want. Hide the items you don't want to see, drag and drop items into the order you prefer. Choose which feeds are shown and how they are sorted.
- Sidebar sections and folders can be collapsed and expanded.
- View articles by feed, folder, search, topic, or tag.
- Titlebar menu to make switching amongst smart folders quick, especially on iPhone.
- Rename your tags, organise them in the sidebar.
- Streamlined and decluttered the interface using context menus.
- New 'All Articles' view, for when you need to see absolutely everything in one list.
- 'Scroll to Next Unread' button now marks the previously selected article as read.
- New sidebar lets you group, filter, and sort your feeds the way you want. Hide the items you don't want to see, drag and drop items into the order you prefer. Choose which feeds are shown and how they are sorted.
- Sidebar sections and folders can be collapsed and expanded.
- View articles by feed, folder, search, topic, or tag.
- Titlebar menu to make switching amongst smart folders quick, especially on iPhone.
- Rename your tags, organise them in the sidebar.
- Streamlined and decluttered the interface using context menus.
- New 'All Articles' view, for when you need to see absolutely everything in one list.
- 'Scroll to Next Unread' button now marks the previously selected article as read.
1.9.3
Aug 14, 2020
- Fixed issue with bold & italic font styling in articles.
- Fixed issue for feeds that lack article IDs, they will now load properly.
- Fixed the display of feed titles that include HTML encoded characters.
- Fixed issue for feeds that lack article IDs, they will now load properly.
- Fixed the display of feed titles that include HTML encoded characters.
1.9.2
Jul 11, 2020
- Fixed crash that could occur during a background update.
- Improved logic for updating feeds to avoid updating the same feed multiple times.
- Feeds are now automatically updated upon entering the Today or Unread article lists.
- Added pull-to-refresh.
- The search bar is now hidden whilst scrolling.
- Improved logic for updating feeds to avoid updating the same feed multiple times.
- Feeds are now automatically updated upon entering the Today or Unread article lists.
- Added pull-to-refresh.
- The search bar is now hidden whilst scrolling.
1.9.1
Jun 21, 2020
Fixed a crash that could occur when running in the background during an update.
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