Newsbite: RSS & Social Feeds
Chris Jenkins News iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Newsbite: RSS & Social Feeds is a free News app for iPhone and iPad by Chris Jenkins. Rated 4.5/5 from 4 ratings. Requires iOS 26.0. Updated October 9, 2026.
- Rating
- 4.5
- 4 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 173 MB
- Age 12+
- Updated
- Oct 9
- 2026 · v4.2.2
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About Newsbite: RSS & Social Feeds
A modern RSS and social feed reader for iPhone and iPad, with features to help you find the news you are interested in, and no creepy tracking or advertising: - Add Home Screen widgets showing articles from your feeds or collections. - Discover feeds published by your favourite news website or blog. - Setup notifications to alert you when new articles appear in your feeds. - Create rules to automatically like, read, tag, or hide certain articles. - Filter articles by unread, today only, tag, or media type. - Add articles to the reading list for later, supports Raindrop, Instapaper, and Safari Reading List. - Automatically find the most written about topics from your feeds during the last day, week or month. - Load the full article content for feeds that don't include the full text in the feed. - Multiple image, audio, and video attachment playback. - Sync your feeds and topics, plus article reads and likes using iCloud, no additional account or login needed. - Keep articles indefinitely, even when removed from the feed. - Choose custom font, size, spacing, alignment, and theme for reading articles. - Supports RSS, Atom, and JSON feed formats. - Integrates directly with Mastodon, Bluesky, Reddit, Tumblr and YouTube to show you your feeds and posts in one place. Newsbite is free to use for up to 5 feeds, and has a premium subscription of £1.29 GBP per month to enable unlimited feeds. Prices may vary from country to country. If you choose to subscribe, payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. Subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Terms of Use: https://newsbite.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://newsbite.app/privacyPolicy.html
What’s new
Version 4.2.2 · Updated October 9, 2026
What's New - Open linked articles in a dedicated reader with clearer loading, retry and browser options. - Open linked articles directly in Safari from the reader toolbar. - Enjoy refreshed toolbars for future hardware, more consistent action buttons and smoother selection animations. - See feed updates and iCloud sync activity in one status display. - Get progress feedback when saving feed details. Fixes - Improved iCloud sync reliability and preservation of read and saved states. - Fixed article loading interruptions when navigating between screens. - Fixed media thumbnails opening the wrong image or video, and swipes selecting the wrong page. - Improved small thumbnail quality and face cropping. - Fixed videos continuing to play after leaving the screen. - Fixed missing headers and options in filtered timelines, plus scroll-to-top issues. - Fixed Feed Info opening from the overflow menu and refreshed timelines after saving changes. - Fixed podcast transcripts with certain timestamp, speaker and JSON formats. - Fixed missing article links in some Atom feeds and incorrectly displayed special characters. - Improved app stability.
App privacy
The developer, Chris Jenkins, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Diagnostics: Crash Data, Performance Data, Other Diagnostic Data
Used for: App Functionality
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