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I can deal with slower, but reliability is an absolute must.Īnd that reason alone was enough for me to dump NetNewsWire, because while the rest of things I will mention are annoying, they are not deal breakers.
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I had several instances where all the feeds would update and forget read states, showing over 3,000 unread items - other times no new items would show up despite FeedWranlger showing new items.īesides the fact that the refresh was an order of magnitude slower, it was also highly unreliable. All of a sudden not all of your feeds are updating at once (sometimes they time out), and you are constantly waiting on the refresh to happen - basically shit is getting screwed up all the time. (The NetNewsWires cloud sync is just to sync subscriptions, bookmarks, and read states.)Īnd thus, it feels like stepping back a decade when using NetNewsWire. This is a dramatic difference in functionality. This means that hitting refresh in NetNewsWire can take minutes as it has to check each feed for an update - whereas hitting refresh in with FeedWrangler will take seconds as it just has check with one server for updates because the FeedWrangler servers have already polled the RSS feeds. Whereas with services like FeedWrangler a server sitting in the proverbial cloud is polling those services. The biggest difference with NetNewsWire and most RSS services is that your Mac or iPhone is the device polling the RSS feeds for updates. (For comparison, here’s what Reeder 3 beta looks like.)Īnd then on September 6th I got fed up and switched back to FeedWrangler. I didn’t even bother to try it before buying the iPhone and Mac version and making the switch over to it. On September 3rd, Black Pixel announced that NetNewsWire 4 was out. While FeedWrangler isn’t the prettiest offering, it is the fastest, and it is damn reliable. A while back I went through the plethora of great RSS services before deciding on FeedWrangler + Reeder + Unread. For quite sometime that was Fever, a self-hosted RSS reader, but that too started to get long in the tooth. But years of stagnation meant I had to try other services. It was quite something, and so it took a lot for me to move away from it.
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And here we are, many years later, and the app is still great, whether you’re using it on the Mac, iPhone, or iPad.When I first got a Mac, one of the first pieces of software that I fell in love with was NetNewsWire - it was a revolution in how to keep up with news. NetNewsWire has been around a while, in fact we recommended it nearly a decade ago as the best RSS reader for the Mac, and again when the wildly popular Google Reader met its unwanted demise. NetNewsWire RSS reader Home Screen widget on iPhone or iPad: NetNewsWire for iPad and iPhone reader interface, with integrated webkit view: The app is similar across all of the Apple OS platforms, so if you get used to one you’ll have no issue seamlessly transitioning to another. If you’re curious about the interface, here are a few screenshots for the Mac, iPad, and iPhone version.
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NetNewsWire for iPhone and iPad will pull the full RSS feed from any site that is offering it (which most sites publishing article do), has a webkit window to visit the full site article for partial RSS feeds, and offers the familiar Safari reader mode for tidying up the reading experience, while NetNewsWire for Mac will also pull the RSS feed, but launch into the Safari app for reading the full article from shortened RSS feeds.
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Get NetNewsWire free for iPhone or iPad hereĭon’t forget to add to NetNewsWire if you download it, and you’ll be able to keep track of our latest articles from there too.Downloading NetNewsWire for Mac, iPhone, iPad Many power-users rely on RSS readers, though they’ve fallen out of favor for some users who would rather just follow a sites content through social media.

If you find yourself checking out many different sites for their articles, an RSS reader makes this much easier, since you can scan through them all from the RSS reader app. For the unfamiliar, RSS readers allow you to keep track of a variety of websites article feeds and publications all from a single source, allowing you to quickly scan the news or latest content from sites that you want to follow.
