NetNewsWire
By NewsGator Technologies, Inc.
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Description
NetNewsWire is an RSS reader for iPhone — you can read news from the millions of weblogs and sites that publish RSS feeds.
Because NetNewsWire syncs with Google Reader (Google account required) — and with NetNewsWire for Macintosh and FeedDemon for Windows by NewsGator — if you read an item on your iPhone, you don’t have to read it again on your Macintosh or other computer. It’s automatically marked as read everywhere.
You can star items or send them to Instapaper to save them for later. You can email articles or post links to Twitter to share with friends.
Going through your articles is easy: just tap the Next Unread button.
And if there are feeds you don’t want to read on your iPhone, you can hide them.
(This version of NetNewsWire displays ads from The Deck. The premium version does not.)
What's New in Version 2.0.2
- Fixed several crashing bugs.
- Fixed the "confused navigation" bug.
Customer Reviews
Disappointing, virtually unusable for lots of feeds
I have been a NetNewsWire user on my Mac for about as long as the application has existed, paying for the application back when it was a commercial product. And I really like it, on the desktop.
But as a newsreader on the iPhone, it's, well, not very good. First of all, my list of newsfeeds is in the hundreds, and unread news items in the thousands. That's usable in the desktop version. But on the iPhone version, it gets really, really, really slow. When loading the application my iPhone pretty much locks up for 10-15 seconds, and has long pauses to think when trying to scroll through the feeds, etc. If it wasn't for the progress spinner in the bottom right corner, I might think my iPhone was locked up totally.
Worse, for some reason NetNewsWire (like NewsGator on the web) seems to think that my feeds should be listed in alphabetical order. That makes the application unusable. I have way too many feeds, I *need* the organization that I put a lot of effort into on the desktop version. I don't know why that organization (folders, manually ordered feeds, etc.) is completely discarded by the iPhone version.
What I want is to have one or two folders from the desktop version be marked as syncable to the iPhone, so that I can get just a dozen or two feeds on the portable device. That'll make the list managable, and no doubt also deal with the lockups that come from so much network access. What I'll probably do is create an entirely different account at NewsGator, and add those feeds to that account. But that will totally lose the usefulness that syncing read/unread status, clippings, etc. between iPhone and desktop could give me.
I'm sure the answers are not easy; the user interface issues are complicated, and NewsGator I'm sure wanted to have something ready for the opening of the App Store. So hopefully NetNewsWire will get better. But as it stands, it's just not the tool to use for newsreading on an iPhone, unless you give up all syncing back to your desktop.
Nice idea, but
Those of us who are power users of NetNewsWire on the mac and have a lot of subscriptions, the iPhone application gets so bogged down downloading feeds that it is virtually unusable. I'm hoping they give us some more options for at least choosing a smaller subset of subscriptions or at least make it snappier with the larger set. I have yet to be able to successfully use it as it spends freezes up while waiting to download the hundreds of feeds I have.
It was a five star app.
This was a five star app then the developer started the switch from newsgator to google reader syncing and during that time it became pretty unusable and now that the new version is available the developer has done what so many other developers have done, shafted long time customers. Instead of grandfathering the users that have been there since the beginning and put up with the virtually unusable app and upgrading them to the premium version and introducing the now "premium" version as the ad-supported version and upgrading the version that was previously available to the premium and changing it from free to pay. Now they want current users to pay to remove ads from the iPhone version and pay again to remove them from the desktop version as well, even those who paid for the desktop app before it was freeware. I understand the need/want to make money from apps but when you alienate loyal customers like this it kind if makes us want to seek out different solutions.
- Category: News
- Updated Nov 09, 2009
- Current Version: 2.0.2
- 0.4 MB
- Languages: English
- Seller: NewsGator Technologies, Inc.
- © 2005 NewsGator Technologies, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.
