Newsify: RSS Reader

Name: Newsify: RSS Reader
Rating: 4.6 (4437 reviews)
Author: Ben Alexander

By: Ben Alexander

News, Blog & Feed Reader

Features & Capabilities

Newsify: RSS Reader Chrome extension provides a unified, newspaper-style RSS experience. Read, share, and organize news from your favorite sites and blogs with offline support, syncing with Feedly or Newsify, and a variety of layouts for comfortable browsing.

Key features include background updates, full-text and offline viewing, night mode and themes, article search, multiple subscriptions, and easy sharing to social services. This extension keeps your feeds accessible, customizable, and ready to read anytime, anywhere.

User Growth & Download Statistics

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By:

Ben Alexander

Rating:

4.60

(4,437) 2 new ratings

Version:

8.0.4 Last updated: 2025-12-03

Version code:

880284251

Creation date:

2012-04-22

Compatible devices:

Size:

111.85MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-04

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 28,292 ▼ 50

Other rankings

#28 in reader keyword 75 ▲ 2#35 in blog keyword 6 ▼ 2

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Developed by:

Ben Alexander

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsify-rss-reader/id510153374

Website:

https://newsify.co

User Reviews

Newsify is praised for its polished, newspaper-style layout, easy customization, offline article downloads, and responsive support, making it a longtime favorite for RSS management. Users appreciate the intuitive design and reliable updates, along with strong value from a subscription. However, recurring issues across platforms and OS versions—performance slowdowns, syncing and cross-device portability limits (OPML import, iCloud absence, 30-day unread window), and multiple stability/UI bugs—keep the app from being ideal. Accessibility gaps (small fonts, no zoom) and some recent UI changes also frustrate users. Overall, powerful but with notable reliability and UX trade-offs.

Pros

Excellent newspaper-style layout and readability.
Strong customization and features for reading (offline downloads, folders, feed customization).
Developer responsiveness and support.
Longevity and reliability; strong value from a subscription.

Cons

Performance issues and slowdowns on macOS and across devices; occasional lag or long load times.
Sync and data portability limitations (OPML import not available on iOS, inability to add custom URLs, no iCloud sync, 30-day unread window, sign-in issues).
Accessibility/UI usability issues (small fonts on Mac, no zoom, controls shrinking with OS updates, reading-mode compatibility issues).
Stability bugs and reliability concerns (image save errors, feed syncing failures after OS updates, reset/reinstall issues).

Recent reviews

Best RSS reader ever.

by Ca*****, 2026-05-25

I like this app but its key bindings on macOS is driving me crazy. Page up/down should scroll the article by a page. Instead, they just beep and you have to use space/shift-space. Also, home/end should go to top/bottom of the article. I will keep my rating at one star until the dev fixes this annoying problem.