NewsBar RSS reader app for iPhone and iPad
4.2 (
352 ratings )
News
Finance
Developer:
Andras Porffy
2.99 USD
Current version:
1.70, last update: 1 year ago
First release : 03 May 2013
App size: 8.64 Mb
NewsBar, the top-selling Mac newsreader for iPhone and iPad. Simple and clean interface, fast RSS engine, and zero-config iCloud sync across iOS and MacOS devices.
No delays, no waiting: stories appear immediately on your device, just as they are published. You can easily organise, read, follow, mark and search news from your favourite news sources. Stories are read directly from RSS and Twitter sources without delay.
With NewsBar there is no need to create any account or login into any service, news reading easy, safe and private.
Top-seller news app in Mac App Store since 2011.
Features:
◦ High speed, efficient RSS engine
◦ Twitter @user and #hashtag news feed reading
◦ iCloud sync across all Apple devices
◦ Full sync with NewsBar for Mac OS
◦ Clean, intuitive and easy to use interface
◦ Easy swipe between views and stories
◦ Organise feeds into user defined folders
◦ Keyword filter with iOS Notification Center support
◦ Configurable background refresh
◦ User selectable RSS and/or web browser view
◦ Built-in web browser
◦ Auto-hide read items
◦ Share news by Email, iMessage, Twitter, Facebook
◦ Star news for later reading
◦ Feedly and Pocket sync
◦ Quick text search in all feeds
◦ Enable/disable feeds
◦ Read password protected RSS feeds
◦ RSS 2.0, ATOM support
Pros and cons of NewsBar RSS reader app for iPhone and iPad
NewsBar RSS reader app good for
The primary issue I have that prevents me from awarding 5 stars is that when you are reading an article and scrolling it, you (I) naturally want to move the content near the top of the screen and with NewsBar, it jumps to the next article the moment the last bit of content appears at the bottom of the preview screen. You simply cant scroll the last bit of content to the top of the window.
This makes no sense to me. I can think of no use case where someone is going to read every single article in their feed one after the other (in reverse historical order no less). People scroll not to move on to the next article, they scroll to see more of the article they are reading at a place that is comfortable for their eyes.
Even when I scroll back to the article I was trying to read, 8 times out of 10, I still try to scroll it and end up skipping to the next article AGAIN. Its very frustrating.
I bought this and the desktop app purely and only for the iCloud sync feature.
I need a way to keep my rss feeds the same on mac and iOS, as well as mark as read the same on both.
The GUI is not so great, and the syncing can lag a little at times, but because it does sync without requiring some aggregation service, its a winner for me.
Use newsbar on Mac, iPad and iPhone. iCloud syncing is great.
Love the clean interface and iCloud sync. Makes managing feeds effortless.
Works perfectly on my 2 Macs (home and office), iPhone and iPad! Could not not ask for anything better.
The app runs great, but I wanted to run feeds through kijiji, which it isnt capable of doing, but many other apps are.
Google Readerから移行しました。
iCloudとMAC版のおかげで元と同じように使えています。
Some bad moments
I had bought this specifically for the notification feature and it does not work.
I own NewsBar on Mac and its lovely. However, this app is not optimized for iPhone 6S Plus in terms of screen resolution. Since its a reader, you should update it for larger screens, not just make it compatible with the latest iOS, or at least leave an option of changing font size within the app
Keyboard keeps disappearing when you try to add RSS Feeds and the app crashes on several taps over and over. Cant use it in this state.
Under ios8.02 this app crashes repeatedly. Too annoying to use.... I hope some one fixes it or apple pulls it!
NewBar has been working adequately for quite some time but seems to have “lost touch” with the world. About 2 weeks ago my OS X version of NewsBar stopped updating. Today I’ve noticed the same in my iOS version. No idea what’s happened since it had been working well. I’ve sent in trouble reports.
No sync with Feedly or something similar,
Crashes on reading,
Old-fashion UI.
