4th Estate

If you're satisfied with the dominant RSS readers, Fourth Estate isn't for you.

Those apps share the same premise: your subscriptions are an inbox. Reading is a queue to drain. Unread counts are guilt counters. The goal is zero.

Fourth Estate rejects all of that.

Your feeds aren't an inbox. They're raw material for a newspaper you publish to yourself. You're the editor. You design the sections. You place the hero stories. You decide the front page. Apple Intelligence reads new arrivals on your Mac, entirely on-device, and assigns every piece a priority — breaking, deep read, skim, or skip. You read what matters. You skim what's worth a glance. You skip the rest without guilt. That's what editors do.

The reader is slow on purpose. Serif type. Generous margins. 48 fonts. 11 themes. Articles are meant to be finished, not processed.

This is RSS reimagined as journalism — not productivity software.

Three modes coexist: a Paper you design like a broadsheet, an AI-triaged Today briefing, and a Wire for the moments you actually do want the firehose.

THE PAPER • Front Page with hero card, continue reading grid, and two-column headlines • Custom newspaper sections — swipe between them like pages of a broadsheet • Assign any feeds to any section, reorder freely

TODAY • Apple Intelligence triages new articles on your Mac, entirely on-device • Each piece gets a priority — breaking, deep read, skim, or skip • Plus a 3-5 sentence summary, topic tag, and auto-applied content tags • Triage syncs to iPhone and iPad via iCloud • Breaking-article notifications keep you on top of what matters

THE WIRE • Quick views: All, Unread, Read, Favorites, Archived — for when you want the queue • Categories, smart filters with 13 rule fields, and full feed management • Blocklist rules auto-hide articles you never want to see — by title, author, source, content, or any combination • OPML import/export to migrate from other readers

THE VAULT • Library for favorites, saved articles, and archived pieces • Tag-based filtering with untagged article support • Paper-style card layouts for browsing your collection

ARTICLE READER • 48 fonts: New York, Baskerville, Palatino, Helvetica Neue, Futura, and more • 11 app-wide themes including Sepia, Forest, Ocean, and OLED Black • Typography controls: size, spacing, alignment, margins, content width • Full-text extraction when feeds provide only summaries

ALSO INCLUDES • iCloud sync for articles, feeds, sections, tags, smart filters, and reading positions • Share Extension to save articles from Safari • Background refresh at configurable intervals • Soft-delete trash with recovery

PREMIUM 4th Estate is free to download with 4 feeds and 10 saved articles included. Upgrade to Premium for unlimited feeds, unlimited saved articles, AI triage with breaking-article notifications, and sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac — through a single annual subscription. One subscription covers every Apple device on your Apple ID.

Built with SwiftUI and SwiftData for iOS 26+ and macOS 26+.

PRIVACY FIRST: All your data stays on your devices and syncs via your personal iCloud account. AI triage runs entirely on-device with Apple Intelligence — no servers, no tracking, no data collection.

SUBSCRIPTION TERMS

Fourth Estate Premium is a single annual auto-renewable subscription. After the 2-month free trial, payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase, and will auto-renew at the same price each year unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel subscriptions in your Apple ID account settings after purchase.

Privacy Policy: https://www.termsfeed.com/live/475c4de9-ef7b-4c7e-980a-aad808043eae Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/