News Explorer 1.9

News Explorer is a full-featured yet easy-to-use RSS, JSON, Atom and Twitter newsreader with iCloud based synchronisation between Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV.

FULL ICLOUD SYNC

• News Explorer syncs your RSS, JSON, Atom and Twitter subscriptions, folder setup, news items, read statuses and favorites across all your Apple devices.
• Synchronisation 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.
• Builtin high speed RSS and Atom engine.
• Supports Twitter user and hashtags timelines.
• Enhanced support for YouTube feeds.
• Supports Podcast RSS feeds.

PRODUCTIVE INTERFACE

• Clean, stylish and distractionfree user interface.
• Article list with thumbnails, adjustable in size and alignment.
• Builtin browser for viewing inline links and other references.
• Themes, adaptable to your taste and mood.
• Font of the news article body and header are adjustable.

STREAMLINED READING

• Smart filters
• Read your news offline.
• Use Reader view to download and read the full version of articles in a clean and easytoread format.
• Mark items as favorite for later reading.
• Navigate with one click to the original content.
• Reply, retweet and like tweets in Twitter feeds without leaving the app.
• Timeline view shows your news items in an attractive newspaperlike way.
• Full text search.
• Full keyboard navigation.
• Builtin image viewer to browse through all images of news items.
• Full window YouTube videos
• Builtin support to share news items with Instapaper and Pocket.
• Share news items via email, Messages, Twitter, Facebook and other sharing services.

EASY CONFIGURATION

• Add new RSS, Atom, JSON, Podcast and YouTube feeds directly from Safari, using the ‘Add to News Explorer’ share extension.
• Add RSS and Twitter feeds via the builtin search form.
• Support to add manually RSS, Atom, JSON and Twitter feeds.
• Feed extension support let you open RSS news feed URL’s.
• Group your subscriptions by using folders.
• Rename and reorder folders and subscriptions, using draganddrop.
• OPML import and export.
• Feed manager let you manage the feeds that should be displayed in the Notification Center.

USABILITY FEATURES

• Assign keyboard shortcuts to sharing services, including Instapaper and Pocket.
• Simply hit the spacebar to open the next article or to scroll the article when needed.
• Global filters let you filter all subscriptions and related news on unread items and favorites.
• Support for enhanced arrow key navigation with auto expand and collapse of the sidebar and the builtin browser.
• With full Touch Bar support you have quick access to all essential functions.
• App icon badge with unread items count.

STATE OF THE ART

• Supports RSS 2.0, RDF, JSON Feed, ATOM and Twitter news feeds
• Supports feeds with Basic and Digest HTTP Authentication.
• iCloud sync based on CloudKit
• Touch Bar
• Spotlight Search
• Handoff, pick up where you left off
• Notifications with images
• Retina support

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. Universal purchase allows you to purchase News Explorer once, and then access it on all connected platforms.

Compatibility: macOS 10.12.2 or later 64 bit

Web Site: https://betamagic.nl/products/newsexplorer.html

Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/news-explorer/id1032670789?mt=12

What’s New in News Explorer 1.9

Feed level article view options

• You can now set a preferred article view modus for each individual feed.
• For example Mercury Reader view ‘CNN’, Feed Article view for ‘MacRumors’ and Website Article view for ‘Dezeen’.
• Long press the Reader view button to select a primary view.
• The Mercury Reader view engine now works locally.
• The Arc90 Readability performance has been dramatically improved.

Poster article list view

• The article list can now be set to ‘Poster’ view, in addition to the existing view options.
• Poster view shows a preview image under the header and summary of each article.
• The height of the preview image can be adjusted in the Preferences panel.

Improvements, tweaks and fixes

• Automatic detection and correct display of RTL languages.
• Timeline view supports now the same article views as the article list.
• Unread and read items can now be stored forever instead of a limited period.
• Long words in the article viewer are now being hyphenated, if the language of the feed is known.
• Countless other small tweaks and fixes.