# Newsbin: RSS Feed Reader — user reviews

> 8 indexed App Store user reviews of Newsbin by Xetabit, LLC, rated 4.00/5 from 7 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/newsbin-rss-feed-reader/id6737723338/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/newsbin-rss-feed-reader/id6737723338.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 4 · 4★ 1 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 1

## Most critical reviews (8 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Very very lag

*2026-03-05*

It has very bad performance in iPhone and watch and sometimes in Mac, like the device can’t handle the app, I have the newest iPhone, watch and Mac

**Developer response:** If you want, please send an email to support@xetabit.com and we can see what's going on in terms of performance/lag. What you're describing is not a typical situation.

### 3/5 — A good start, but buggy and missing an expected feature

*2025-09-25*

I know this is an initial release, but there seems to be a few bugs. 1. Articles not being marked read when selected (at first, this seemed to fix itself after a bit). 2. Incorrect unread counts on feeds. 3. Inconsistent feed loading (works sometimes, other times not). 4. iCloud sync issues (this one is very annoying). - Read articles kept getting marked unread. - Feeds would re-order themselves after manual sorting. - The app seemed to be constantly trying to sync and fighting with itself as if multiple sync ops were going simultaneously (after a while, that seems to have settled down). Coming from Reeder Classic, there is one missing feature I expected to be available (at least as an option), which is to follow links/open articles in the app itself (via embedded web viewer) vs. opening links in an external browser.

### 4/5 — Refresh on start + keyword filter

*2026-01-19*

Add a refresh on start option and keyword filter please.

**Developer response:** Hello, thank you for the review! Both features are actually available now. Go to settings and you can have it refresh on start among many other options. Regarding keyword filters, there's a tagging system that will allow you to block certain topics or group topics by tag word as well as global search + Spotlight search. Please reach out if you have any questions or suggestions.

### 5/5 — The best RSS reader on Apple platforms, bar none!

*2026-04-08*

I’ve tried most of them, this one feels as native as a first party Apple application. If you still care about RSS, this is the best reader out there.

### 5/5 — Streamlined and seamless

*2026-04-05*

I’m so thankful for the streamlined view and concise feed

### 5/5 — Finally a cross device RSS reader

*2026-03-23*

Read all your RSS on all your apple devices and it syncs with iCloud. Brilliant.

### 5/5 — So Good RSS Reader

*2026-01-24*

Really, I liked it but, Please, add in-app browser with Adblock, RTL preview in Arabic Articles, and support external syncing like webdav or other cloud storage.

### 5/5 — Brilliant rss aggregator

*2026-01-15*

A fantastic alternative to the subscription based services. Privacy protecting too with a iCloud syncing back end.

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*Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-30.*