News Explorer
macOS / Actualités
News Explorer is a full-featured yet easy-to-use RSS, JSON, Atom, Reddit, YouTube, Podcast and Mastodon news reader with iCloud synchronization between Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV.
Full iCloud Sync
• News Explorer syncs your feeds, filters, folders, articles including statuses, notes and tags, 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.
Smart Filters
• Filter your news according your own conditions and preferences, easily accessible from the sidebar.
• Filters customizations are synced across all your devices.
Automatic Reader View
• Use automatic Reader view to download and read the full text version of truncated feed articles.
• News Explorer makes use of multiple parsers to offer the best Reader view results.
Article Comments
• Read article comments from other readers directly in the app.
• Works with RSS feeds that has comment feeds per article, YouTube feeds, Reddit feeds and HackerNews feeds.
• Also works with most feeds from websites that use Open Web comments.
Article Notes
• Add rich text notes to news, directly in the context of the article.
• Notes are synced via iCloud together with the related article.
Feed Settings
• All aspects of a feed like title, source link or icon, can be adjusted at any time in the Feed settings dialog.
• Disable the feed temporarily or permanently.
• Override app settings for syncing, downloading comments and reading articles.
Feed Prefilters
• Prevent the app from downloading articles you don’t want to see or read.
• Prefilters are synced via iCloud, and can be easily configured on feed level in the Feed settings dialog.
Article Inspector
• Inspect metadata, tags, media, notes and comments of an article in the Inspector panel.
• View and add custom tags in the Metadata panel.
• Browse and download media, including podcasts, in the Media panel.
Article Tags
• Article categories of RSS articles are displayed in the Inspector panel as tags.
• Can be extended with your own tags.
• Custom tags are easily recognizable, and are synced via iCloud.
• Tags can be used as conditions in filters.
Local Account
• Add feeds to News Explorer that only exists on your device by activating the Local account option.
• The local account option can be used in addition to or instead of syncing with iCloud.
Reading Features
• Mark items as favorite for later reading.
• Navigate with one click to the original content.
• Full keyboard navigation.
• Full text search in the List and Timeline view.
• Mark as read while scrolling as option.
• Image viewer to browse through all images of articles or feeds.
• Built-in support to share articles with Instapaper or Pocket.
• Share news items via Email, Messages and other sharing services.
Configuration Features
• Countless settings to tweak layout, fonts, behaviors and more.
• Import and export feeds via OPML.
• Add new feeds via the Search new feeds dialog or special Add feed dialogs.
• Organize your feeds by assigning them to folders.
• Multiple themes, tint colors and app icons.
System Features
• Option to index articles with Spotlight.
• Handover articles between iOS, iPadOS and macOS.
• Local notifications for feeds selected in the Feeds Manager.
• Widgets: with adjustable sources and font settings.
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. On visionOS you can use the iPadOS edition of News Explorer.
Support
News Explorer has an extensive help page on https://betamagic.nl/support/newsexplorer/help.html. If you still have questions or need support, email us at support@betamagic.nl.
If you like News Explorer then feel free to leave a review or a rating in the App Store, it helps a lot!
Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
Version 2.0.1 fixes an issue for some users with the Quick Setup dialog, which appears when running version 2.0 for the first time.
This fix contains all new features from version 2.0:
Sidebar
• Smart filters are fully customizable and extendable.
• The sidebar is now used for both the List and Timeline view.
• Use the filter field at the bottom of the sidebar to easily find a feed if you have a lot of them.
• Feed problems are displayed in the sidebar with warning badges.
Article viewer
• Read comments of other readers on articles directly in the app.
• Add notes to articles, which are synced via iCloud.
Feed settings
• The new Feed settings dialog let you adjust every aspect of a feed.
• Use Feed prefilters to prevent downloading uninteresting news.
• Inactive feeds can now be deactivated, to speed up syncing time.
Inspector panel
• The new Inspector panel let you inspect article metadata, tags, media, notes and comments.
• Article categories are displayed in the inspector as tags and can be extended by your own custom tags.
And more
• Syncing with iCloud has now a Modus setting which can be set to Standard, Client or Server.
• Instead or in addition to iCloud syncing, you can now also use a local storage account.
• Themes are completely rewritten and include now a new Sepia theme.
• The tint color used by each theme can be overruled in the app settings.
• Mark as read while scrolling is now also available as option for the Timeline view.
• Toolbars of all main windows are customizable and can be extended with quick access buttons.
• Media including podcast audio can be downloaded in the Media tab of the inspector.
• Last sync date is now always visible at the bottom of the article list.
• Last but not least, a new app icon!
