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 1.8.8

• Behaviors preferences tab with lots of new useful settings
• Articles are now also searchable via Spotlight Search
• Strongly improved sidebar, with unread badges on folder level
• Sharper text in the inapp browser thanks to subpixel antialiasing
• Implemented Next and Previous menu items for articles, with short cuts J and K
• The feed icon can now be adjusted via feed context menu
• Inapp browser options like private inapp browsing
• Option to delete the inapp browser cache
• Support for opening YouTube video’s full window, in all feeds
• Support for the system sidebar icon size setting
• Option to cancel syncing when the apps is terminating
• Option to automatically limit ui updates during sync, based on CPU usage
• Option to block updates during feed downloads
• Option not to automatically focus the viewer when using the Enter key
• Timeline items can be opened with the spacebar, or with shift + spacebar, to open the Reader view
• Added a Folder Manager, accessible via the Window menu

IMPROVED

• Support for opening bookmark links
• Improved resizing of the article list
• Enhanced correction of incorrectly encoded feeds
• Added support for feeds with dates with two digits year numbers
• Extended support for RDF feeds
• Feeds with too many white spaces in URLs are now also supported
• An activity indicator is now visible during the rendering of the Reader view
• Improved persistence of the last selected folder in the Add new feed dialog

TWEAKED

• Feeds are now downloaded in order of type and last publication date
• Simplified the Mark as Read and Mark as Favorite context menus
• Handling of key presses in the inapp web browser has been extended, to prevent problems with input controls
• When there are more than 10 operations during closing of the app, the sync is canceled
• Animated change of global content filter
• Updated Readability engine
• Images in article viewer are now only using 100% width when the image is large enough
• Improved twitter setting, it shows now the correct status, even when there is no any twitter feed defined
• Removed support for force touch in the articles list and Timeline view
• Share menu will now try to share the current presented URL

FIXED

• Fixed a printing issue which resulted sometimes in an empty output
• Solved a crash when exporting to PDF via the print dialog
• Fixed the ‘Download replies’ Twitter setting

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Name: News Explorer
Version: 1.0.2
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Language: English
Developer: Ron Elemans
MAS Rating: 17+
Mac Platform: Intel
OS Version: OS X 10.11 or later
Processor type(s) & speed: 64-bit processor


Web Site: http://betamagic.nl/products/newsexplorer.html
Mac App Store: https://itunes.apple.com/app/news-explorer/id1032670789?mt=12



Overview:
News Explorer is an innovative easy-to-use news reader exclusively built for the Apple’s ecosystem, with iCloud based synchronisation between iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV. 

FULL SYNC
• News Explorer syncs your 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.
• Built-in high speed RSS engine.

PRODUCTIVE INTERFACE
• Clean, 100% native, distraction-free user interface
• Built-in browser for viewing inline links and other references
• Themes
   ◦ Default: carefully designed light coloured interface
   ◦ Dark: useful ’night mode’ interface
   ◦ System: based on standard system colours and controls
   ◦ YinYang: combines dark sidebar with light toned interface
• Split View support
• Full Screen support

STREAMLINED READING
• Smart filters
   ◦ Latest News: all news items of the last 2 days
   ◦ Unread News: all unread news
   ◦ Favorites: all news items marked as favorite
• Read your news offline
• Mark items as favorite for later reading
• Navigate with one click to the original content
• Timeline view shows your news items in an attractive newspaper-like way
• Full text search
• Full keyboard navigation
• Built-in image viewer to browse through all images of news items
• Share news items via email, Messages, Twitter, Facebook and more

ORGANISATIONAL SUPPORT
• Add new RSS feeds manually or use the built-in search feature
• Feed extension support let you open RSS news feed URL’s
• Group your subscriptions by using folders
• Rename and reorder folders and subscriptions, using drag-and-drop
• OPML import and export

USABILITY FEATURES
• 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 built-in browser.
• With Force click, you can easily perform frequently used actions on selected news items.
• Perform quick actions with horizontal swipes in the news items list.
• Pull subscription list to start a sync session.
• App icon badge with unread items count.

CUSTOMISATION OPTIONS
• Custom storage period for each item status (read, unread and favorite).
• Opened items can be set automatically to read, immediately or after a custom period.
• Set all items within a filter or feed as read with one click, with an option to ask for confirmation above a particular number of unread messages.
• News item links can be opened in the built-in browser based on the Safari-view controller, or as external URL which includes support for external apps.
• Syncing with iCloud can be disabled, to use only the built-in high speed RSS engine.
• And much more

STATE OF THE ART
• Supports RSS 2.0 and ATOM news feeds
• iCloud sync with CloudKit
• Swift 2.2
• Force Touch
• Handoff, pick up where you left off
• Notifications
• 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.

SUPPORT AND FEEDBACK
If you have any questions or need support on News Explorer, then browse to http://betamagic.nl/support/newsexplorer/help.html or email us at support@betamagic.nl 

Please share your thoughts and ideas about News Explorer with us via feedback@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!



What's New in Version 1.0.2:
Added support for feed sources that are picky with user-agents.
Enhanced the compatibility of the OPML import routine.
Improved the RSS download engine, to prevent processing of news items outside the global storage settings.
Fixed a bug related to drag-and-drop of subscriptions.

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