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If you do get stuck, the help files ( macOS, iOS), which I glanced through for the purposes of this review, will set you on the right path.įurthermore, all of this is completely free and open source. That speaks volumes for the app’s design. I’m a blithering idiot and I had it sussed in under five minutes using only The Force for guidance.
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There are logical keyboard shortcuts too, but I’m not going to explain any more about how to use NetNewsWire. This is useful because it saves you from having to click out to the feed’s website to read the complete article.
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Some sites only distribute a partial feed to RSS but Reader View will try to fetch the full version of the article if it can. There is also a Reader View for feed posts. On iOS and iPadOS you can also just swipe right on the post itself to go to the next one. I just use the down arrow in the middle pane to click through the feed posts until I find one I want to read. I stay on Unread most of the time, either manually refreshing or letting a timed refresh (configurable via settings) run. There are three ‘smart feeds’ for Today, All Unread and Starred, the latter being feed posts you’ve manually starred to perhaps revisit later. Selecting something displays its contents on the next screen and you can either swipe right or push a button to go back. You can collapse the home screen down to two panes if that tickles your fancy. Just like you get with Apple’s mail apps. There are ‘folders’, for want of a better name, on the left, titles and brief descriptions of feed posts in the middle and then the contents of selected feed post on the right. On macOS and iPadOS you’ll get the three-pane configuration you’re probably used to. What you get on either macOS, iPadOS or iOS is something that behaves exactly as you’d expect a modern app to behave on those platforms. It’s what I would have tried to make if I was creating a feed reader app. NetNewsWire feels just like Apple’s email apps on both macOS and iOS, which is exactly what I want. A feed is read-only whereas an email is read/write. I approach feed reading with a different mindset to email, and of course they’re functionally different too. What I want for that is something that’s like my email app (Apple’s own variants) but, crucially, isn’t my email app. However, I do believe my RSS feeds are better suited to an app. So I'm not rigid in these matters, it's just that an app has to give me a good reason to favour it over the website. I am nothing if not inconsistent, though, because I have an app that switches my kettle on.
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I like the protection it gives me from tracking and advertising, and I like denying companies the ability to circumvent that with an app.
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I like the browser to be my app for a lot of things. I shun most apps at the outset, resisting all calls to switch from a website to an app that will often just read that website in a different way. I shun banking apps, for example, and much prefer to access the bank’s website directly via a browser. I use plenty, but I suspect not as many as most folk. NetNewswire on macOS.Īs it goes, I’m not an app fanatic. The thing is, whilst the iOS app had Feedly support from the outset, I had to wait until this month, with NetNewsWire 5.1, to get Feedly support on macOS. The macOS app was released first and then the iOS/iPadOS app. Brent was already working on a new RSS reader called EverGreen, but instead of releasing that under its own name, it was released as NetNewsWire 5.0. In August 2018 it returned to Brent Simmons, or at least its name did. It was bought by NewsGator in the mid 2000s and then bought by Black Pixel in the early 2010s. NetNewsWire has been around in one form or another since the early 2000s and it was the brainchild of a chap called Brent Simmons. I have been waiting for a while to switch from ‘raw’ Feedly, by which I mean Feedly’s web interface, to Ranchero’s NetNewsWire, which, for the uninitiated, is an app for reading RSS feeds. It is well-designed, intuitive to use and it's absolutely free. NetNewsWire is a fast, reliable RSS reader for macOS, iPadOS and iOS. Gordon Ansell 27th September 2020, 07:50 Tech, Software, Review, iOS, iPadOS, macOS 1030 words