Twine: Smart RSS & News Reader
Sasikanth Miriyampalli News iPhoneiPadiPod touch
Twine: Smart RSS & News Reader is a free News app for iPhone and iPad by Sasikanth Miriyampalli. Rated 4.0/5 from 13 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0.
- Rating
- 4.0
- 13 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 225 MB
- Age 17+
- Updated
- Sep 9
- 2026 · v3.9.0
Screenshots
About Twine: Smart RSS & News Reader
Twine offers a simple and beautiful user experience to browse your RSS feeds without any algorithm and puts you in control Features: - Supports multiple feed formats. RDF, RSS, Atom and JSON feeds - Feed management: Add, Edit, Remove & Pin feeds, Feed grouping - Access to pinned feeds/groups from bottom bar in the home screen - Smart fetching: Twine looks for feeds when given any website homepage - Customizable reader view: Adjust typography and sizes, view articles without any distractions or fetch full article or reader article in the browser. - Bookmark posts to read later - Search posts - Background sync - Import and exports your feeds with OPML - Dynamic content theming - Light/Dark mode support - Widgets Privacy: - No ads and doesn't track your usage data. We only collect crash reports anonymously. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ratings & reviews
4.0
13 ratings
What’s new
Version 3.9.0 · Updated September 9, 2026
## Features - **Better YouTube Support**: Video posts now show proper high resolution thumbnails, open directly in the YouTube app, and get a dedicated action bar in the reader. - **Smarter Feed Links**: Pasting a Reddit, Mastodon, or YouTube link when adding a feed now resolves it to the right feed automatically, including YouTube handle links. ## Changes - **Themed App Icons**: App icons now match the color schemes, and can be picked right from the appearance settings. - **Smoother Visuals**: Refined gradients and scrims across the home and reader screens, animated post items in the home feed, and a cleaner background blur transition when swiping through featured posts. - **Performance Improvements**: Faster feed parsing with lower memory usage, plus smoother home screen scrolling and image loading. - **Simpler Add Feed**: Removed the feed preference toggles from the add feed screen. - **No Shorts**: YouTube feeds now come from the channel's uploads playlist, so Shorts stay out of your feed. ## Fixes - Fixed feeds that nested media inside items showing only a single post. - Fixed missing images in feeds that put the image URL in the element text. - Fixed full article fetching failing on sites that block browser-like requests. - Fixed reading history not being recorded when posts were marked as read while scrolling or paging through the reader. - Fixed missing channel images for some YouTube feeds. - Added a fallback message when adding a feed fails without a reason.
App privacy
The developer, Sasikanth Miriyampalli, 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:
- Diagnostics: Crash Data
Used for: App Functionality
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|---|---|---|---|
| Twine: Smart RSS & News Reader | 4.0 / 5 (13 ratings) | Free | September 9, 2026 |
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