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!(/assets/reviews/netnewswire/Ipad%20keyboard%20shortcuts.jpg)Īnother place where NetNewsWire doesn’t have a keyboard command I can find is to change into it’s 2 pane reading view. Nothing outstanding, but nothing to complain about either. When you do encounter an article that only provides a summary, NetNewsWire does a good job of bringing the content in when you activate its readability mode. If you have a keyboard in front of you there is no need to reach up to touch NetNewsWire unless you want to activate its readability mode to bring in all the text for a truncated article. It even offers three different ways to open the current article in a web browser, which does seem like a bit of overkill.

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On the keyboard command front for iPadOS, NetNewsWire does a stellar job of having a full suite of keyboard commands. !(/assets/reviews/netnewswire/NetNewsWire%203%20pane%20view.jpg)

I haven’t been able to get the bug to consistently repeat, so I’ll simply note it for now. You can switch between these items with ⌘ 1, 2, 3 though I’ve found sometimes the keyboard commands don’t register. NetNewsWire has a grouping for items published today, items you haven’t read, and anything you have starred. The left most pane starts with smart groups of feeds. NetNewsWire for iPadOS has a fairly standard three pane view for your feed items. Here the full time three pane view also feels right in a way that it doesn’t feel right on iPadOS. The fonts are larger and the spacing is nicer. On macOS I find the reading experience of NetNewsWire to be much nicer than on iPadOS.

As expected, the cover the full gamut of what you could want in the application. Instead accessible from the `Help` menu you can find all the keyboard shortcuts that NetNewsWire has to offer. I instinctively hold ⌘ all the time in macOS and expect to see the available keyboard shortcuts appear. !(/assets/reviews/netnewswire/NetNewsWire%20macos.jpg)Ĭoming from mainly iPadOS, I get frustrated with how macOS reveals or rather doesn’t reveal keyboard shortcuts to you. It fits in with the overall aesthetic of the operating system well.

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On macOS, NetNewsWire looks just like a great Mac application. I think in this case NetNewsWire has a loyal enough following that progress will be made regardless of Brent’s interest and time currently. I’ve got a few out there that are in various states of support based on my interest. This is an argument for any open source project.

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Since it’s free, and plans to always be free the main developer (the amazing Brent Simmons) still needs to earn a living through some other means. This also means that the development could stop and if the community doesn’t pick it up then it’s simply done. So until someone decides to add another sync service, NetNewsWire will only have the few options it has now. In an interview I’ve heard with Brent Simmons he said that if someone wants to build in more sync services great, but more services may not be the priority for his time. This is actually one of the drawbacks of open source software. Yes there are () issues () for () sync (), but only start using an application if it currently has the features you need not because it maybe might get them someday. I use Feedbin as my service of choice so I’m all good on either platform, but this feels like a fairly decent limitation of the application for all but a small cross section of users. !(/assets/reviews/netnewswire/netnewswire-ipados-sync-services.jpg) !(/assets/reviews/netnewswire/NetNewsWire%20macos%20sync%20services.jpg) That leaves a bunch of options out in the cold at least until someone wants to add those services.

Feedly is supported on the iOS version, but is not found on NetNewsWire for macOS. In fact you only have one cross platform option in Feedbin. These on device lists won’t sync between devices though. If you’re on macOS or iOS you can store your feed list on device and read new content. Currently, sync service support is sparse. Let’s start by looking at what both macOS and iOS flavours of NetNewsWire support. Today we’re going to look at how NetNewsWire stacks up to the current crop of competition. Fortunately for us, all that has changed recently as the original developer owns the name again and has released new versions for both macOS and iOS. Over the years it changed hands, and didn’t get updates, and changed hands, and generally wasn’t a great option anymore. When I started with a Mac around 10 years ago one of the first things I needed to find was a good RSS client and the top one at the time was clearly ().

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