NetNewsWire VS NewsBlur

NetNewsWire is excellent. Clean, responsive, blends into the desktop, and doesn't have memory leak issues like so many macOS RSS readers do. I wish all software could be like it.

https://netnewswire.com/

And like with most multiplatform apps, it doesn't look native at all on iOS. I prefer my current combination of: https://netnewswire.com + https://miniflux.app

Both open source too.

A few apps that are a joy to use:

https://ia.net/writer for writing.

https://usecontrast.com/ for checking contrast.

https://sipapp.io/ for picking colors.

https://nova.app/ for editing code.

https://cleanshot.com/ for screenshots.

https://getpixelsnap.com/ for measuring elements on screen.

https://netnewswire.com/ for reading things via RSS.

https://panic.com/transmit/ for file transfers.

https://usefathom.com/ for web analytics.

https://balsamiq.com/ for wireframes.

What else?

+1 for NetNewsWire. No pushes for engagement, no upsells for premium features, just a simple and rock solid app that does exactly what you want and does it well. I would 100% pay for it as it’s a very high quality app, but the developers would prefer happy users to focus elsewhere.

I’ve completely replaced my Twitter habits with a good ol RSS reader app. https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire they have an iOS app.

I use this as well, source on GitHub:

https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire

If you are using Miniflux for your RSS syncing you can already use it in NetNewsWire too now that Miniflux supports the Google Reader API. Apparently it will be exposed in a more obvious way in the Account dialog in the next version (6.2).

https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues/2859...

I use Newsblur, it’s open source and you can self host, but for the price of the service, I am happy to pay. There are apps for most every platform.

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

A few years (three at the time of this post) ago, I reported an issue I had in the (Open Source) RSS Feedreader of my choice, NewsBlur.

NewsBlur tries to handle this case by comparing stories and if they match up to a certain percentage of the content, considers them duplicates.

Here's the code that does the work:

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/apps/rss_...

https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur - personal news reader bringing people together to talk about the world. A new sound of an old instrument.

NewsBlur (version 12.0): News reader

There is another app, Newsblur (https://www.newsblur.com/) which does the same thing for £32.99 per year (annual subscription). It's not as well designed as Inoreader but is half the price. It also seems to provide notifications without paying for a subscription but they display a 'please upgrade to get full notifications' message. For me, not having the headline in the notification is fine to save almost £33 per year.

I pretty much exclusively use RSS, I saw this post from my RSS reader.

I use NewsBlur. It has a free setting, but I like it so much I pay for the subscription.

https://www.newsblur.com/