Feedly and Feed Wrangler (No support for smart streams yet in Reeder) in version 3.2, which is pending approval. Also standalone/local RSS without syncing. Reeder for iPhone Syncs with Feedbin and Fever now. Reader Syncs with BazQux Reader, Feedbin, FeedHQ, Feedly, Feed Wrangler and Fever.
Here is a list of popular third-party RSS reading software and their current syncing status: iOS Reader Apps
Still others have decided to become a standalone reader with no syncing until they have time to evaluate which syncing service is the best for their customers. Some third-party apps have selected Feedly or Feedbin to drive their syncing, while others have decided to go it alone with their own syncing solution. But splitting it up this way is my call - it’s easier for me personally to manage, and I ask for your understanding.The Google Reader shut down is imminent, and RSS app developers are scrambling to move their apps away from the Google sync service. Our wonderful, remarkable team of volunteers - working during their spare time during a pandemic and multiple other crises - could have handled shipping both at the same time.
You might ask why we’re not shipping Mac and iOS at the same time.
The good news: the iCloud sync code is shared between the two apps, which means it’s already getting a thorough test.
Our plan is to ship NetNewsWire 6 for Mac first, and then start TestFlight builds for the iOS app, and then ship NetNewsWire 6 for iOS. This feature will come to NetNewsWire for iOS too, of course. We’re Shipping the Mac App Before the iOS App So: be patient right at first and whenever you’re adding a bunch of feeds to your iCloud account. This can be especially noticeable when you’re just starting off with iCloud in NetNewsWire, or whenever you add a big number of feeds, because there will be a ton of data to upload. But syncing happens at the speed of iCloud - and iCloud sometimes throttles the app: it tells NetNewsWire to back off and try again later.
(Because of how iCloud works.) It May Be Slow at First NetNewsWire is designed for this, just as Mail is designed for multiple email accounts.īeing able to choose which feeds are synced where is powerful.īut do note that you can have only one iCloud account in NetNewsWire. This is not new in NetNewsWire 6, but it’s worth pointing out: you can have an iCloud sync account and (for instance) a Feedbin account. (Which shouldn’t be difficult.) NetNewsWire Supports Multiple Accounts If you want to use NetNewsWire on one machine and another app on another, you’ll need to choose an RSS syncing system that both apps support. Each app gets its own storage, and other apps can’t see that storage. But you can’t sync those apps with NetNewsWire via iCloud - Apple’s CloudKit doesn’t allow for that. Other RSS readers include iCloud syncing. If you used an online system you would not miss those, because online systems never take a day off. By Tuesday, when you launch NetNewsWire, some of the articles from Monday have already fallen off the feed. Say you take a Monday off and don’t launch NetNewsWire on any device. Imagine a feed that updates a hundred times a day. (This is true for both iCloud and On My Mac accounts.) This way the sources don’t see their requests.Ĭonsider your own preference when choosing to use iCloud sync or not.Īnother issue with this model: you could miss articles in fast-moving feeds. Many people prefer this, for privacy reasons - it means their feeds list isn’t stored on some RSS syncing system.īut some people prefer - also for privacy reasons - not to read feeds directly: they like having a system that goes directly to the sources. Here are some things to know… It Reads Feeds DirectlyĪn iCloud sync account is like an On My Mac account in that it reads feeds directly from the sources instead of going through a separate RSS system such as Feedbin or Feedly. This is great for people who use only NetNewsWire for reading feeds - it means you don’t need an additional service or login aside from iCloud itself, which you’re almost certainly already using.
(Latest beta 6.0b3 is recommended at this writing.) We’ve added - in addition to support for a bunch of online RSS systems - iCloud syncing in NetNewsWire 6.