NetNewsWire - free, open source, FreshRSS integration
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2026
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Holy shit NetNewsWire is still around. I was using it on 10.5 almost two decades ago.
I didn’t realize it was that old. Whoever is maintaining it is doing a good job making it look modern
I survived the Newsfire and NetNewsWire war of the early 2000s 👴🏻
I came from Nextnews which was great (but works only with nextcloud)
I made that app! Glad you liked it and I wish I had more time for it.
it would be great if it could connect also with freshrss (no idea how hard would that be... but I was very happy with it and I would love to continue using it) :)
Reeder Classic. I’ve been a fan of this app for years, and love it. Lots of configuration options. I actually discovered FreshRSS while using this app.
I am a huge fan of lire (lireapp.com) - wonderful offline reading abilities. Great for long airplane rides!
This is also my favorite mobile RSS app. I am currently using it with Miniflux.
I’ve been using Reeder for more than a decade, it does exactly what I need, I dread moving to /e/OS once my iPhone X dies because this’ll be what breaks my muscle reflexes the most.
I went through many rss self hosted reader and now use commafeed, use java and quarkus and run beautifuly in docker, the client is web based and is responsive. In iOS i can’t tell it is not a native app.
Why do you feel uncomfortable with NNW?
Is nothing about NNW, is just that I was very confortable with the way nextnews presented things, which is more like a stream in which you can "mark read while scrolling" (checking ~100 entries a day, but not interested on reading all of them, is very useful).
Ah I see, that’s a long dreamed feature of mine. To be honest, I haven’t seen that feature work reliably in apps that do have it (eg otterrss)
Lire, for years now.
Any RSS reader will work with RSS feeds. It's an open standard.
FreshRSS is an aggregator that handles multiple feeds, organizes them and syncs read-status across multiple devices and its own web app.