Newsbin: RSS Feed Reader

What's new in this version of Newsbin A stability and performance release. Refreshes are faster, the Mac feels more responsive, and a number of long-standing problems with lost reads, OPML export and Breaking News are fixed. New - Ask Siri for "Show Today's News" to open the news card. It understands ten phrasings, including ones with a time window, such as "Show the news from the last 24 hours in Newsbin". - Setting up Newsbin now offers a short list of starter feeds, so a new install has something to read straight away. - Medium and small rows now carry the unread dot inline in the title, matching the large card, and medium rows move the site icon into the banner. Improvements - Faster refreshes: the feeds you're looking at fetch first, feeds that haven't changed answer without downloading anything, and only feeds that previously errored are checked ahead of time. - The Mac feels noticeably quicker. Maintenance, index loading and sync reads now run in the background, and the toolbar and folder menus no longer query your library to draw themselves. - Thumbnails Newsbin finds for you now appear on the rows in front of you right away instead of waiting for a batch to fill. - Summaries and translations are produced for what's on screen first. - Faster Breaking News grouping. - Background AI work now stops once there's nothing left to do, instead of running out its whole window. - Writing a compressed backup now streams to disk rather than holding the whole backup in memory. Fixes - Fixed sync failing on very large libraries, where Newsbin's own sync state had outgrown the space available to store it. - Fixed reads being lost when Newsbin closed. Reads are now mirrored as you go and replayed at launch, and the Mac saves pending reads when you close the window. - Fixed Breaking News emptying itself after a temporary read error, which could also discard every story grouping it had cached. - Fixed Home Screen quick actions running twice when Newsbin was already open. - Fixed editing a feed failing to save in some cases. - OPML export now includes nested folders and feeds that aren't in any folder, with each feed written exactly once, and import reads folders at any depth. - Fixed blocked tags not being applied to articles that arrived while Newsbin was in the background, and fixed a blocked article reappearing when you marked something else read. - Fixed duplicate articles when an import and a refresh landed at the same time. - Fixed some feeds showing their lead image twice. - iPad: the list header's title and unread count now update as you read. - iPhone: in landscape with the list beside the reader, the article now runs edge to edge. - iPhone Duo: reader content runs out to the rail, and the open pose keeps the reader controls in the same order as the closed display. - macOS: fixed an empty box drawn behind empty lists on macOS 27.2. - Fixed a crash when Breaking News warmed up at launch and Newsbin was put in the background mid-read. - Fixed a refresh that was cut short in the background marking a feed as failed. - Fixed temporary files being left behind after each Apple Watch update. Changed - Newsbin now requires iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26 or visionOS 26.