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Solo app developer behind Newsbin and other apps
Newsbin 2.3.1 is out.
Apple Intelligence summaries now run on Apple's Private Cloud Compute where available — a more capable model, same privacy, free, nothing to set up.
Plus Show Full Article: pull the complete story for one article on a summary-only feed.
Apple Intelligence summaries now run on Apple's Private Cloud Compute where available — a more capable model, same privacy, free, nothing to set up.
Plus Show Full Article: pull the complete story for one article on a summary-only feed.
September 19, 2026 at 12:58 AM
Newsbin 2.3.1 is out.
Apple Intelligence summaries now run on Apple's Private Cloud Compute where available — a more capable model, same privacy, free, nothing to set up.
Plus Show Full Article: pull the complete story for one article on a summary-only feed.
Apple Intelligence summaries now run on Apple's Private Cloud Compute where available — a more capable model, same privacy, free, nothing to set up.
Plus Show Full Article: pull the complete story for one article on a summary-only feed.
Half off Newsbin till 9/30 at apps.apple.com/us/app/newsb.... Full articles, no ads or tracking. Works on every Apple device.
Newsbin: RSS Feed Reader App - App Store
Download Newsbin: RSS Feed Reader by Xetabit, LLC on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Newsbin: RSS Feed Reader…
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September 4, 2026 at 12:21 AM
Half off Newsbin till 9/30 at apps.apple.com/us/app/newsb.... Full articles, no ads or tracking. Works on every Apple device.
Newsbin 2.2.0 is out with sync upgrades. Details at xetabit.com/changelog/. #Newsbin
Newsbin changelog | Xetabit
What's new in Newsbin. Release notes for the private, native RSS reader for every Apple device, updated almost weekly.
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September 4, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Newsbin 2.2.0 is out with sync upgrades. Details at xetabit.com/changelog/. #Newsbin
Sync v2 lands soon. A recap xetabit.com/blog/newsbin... I ended up heavily using developer.apple.com/documentatio... CKSyncEngine over SwiftData
Newsbin re-synced, rethought | Xetabit
A few weeks ago I rebuilt Newsbin's sync around one idea: don't sync articles, just what you decided. Building it taught me I was half right. Here's the part I got wrong and how I fixed it, arriving i...
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August 28, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Sync v2 lands soon. A recap xetabit.com/blog/newsbin... I ended up heavily using developer.apple.com/documentatio... CKSyncEngine over SwiftData
TestFlight friends, if you're using Newsbin build 8062 make sure you update to the latest. 8062 included a nasty crash-on-load issue.
August 22, 2026 at 7:54 PM
TestFlight friends, if you're using Newsbin build 8062 make sure you update to the latest. 8062 included a nasty crash-on-load issue.
Newsbin 2.2 is overhauling how sync works. Built up a whole retrospective on why the current system hit its limits and what we're doing instead. xetabit.com/blog/rethink...
Rethinking how Newsbin syncs | Xetabit
Sync is the feature nobody notices until it breaks. Here's why syncing everything was the wrong foundation, and how I'm rebuilding it around the small set of things that actually matter.
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August 12, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Newsbin 2.2 is overhauling how sync works. Built up a whole retrospective on why the current system hit its limits and what we're doing instead. xetabit.com/blog/rethink...
Pushed a quick Newsbin hotfix — duplicate Smart Groups from iCloud sync could crash the app. That's fixed, and the duplicates now get cleaned up on their own. If you were hitting it, 2.1.2 will fix. Sorry for the wobble 🟢
August 10, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Pushed a quick Newsbin hotfix — duplicate Smart Groups from iCloud sync could crash the app. That's fixed, and the duplicates now get cleaned up on their own. If you were hitting it, 2.1.2 will fix. Sorry for the wobble 🟢
Newsbin 2.0 is here 🟢
A private RSS reader for every Apple device — now with AI that gets out of the way: summaries, For You, smart tags. On-device or your own model, every feature optional. Free to try, 50% off for life through Sept 30:
apps.apple.com/us/app/newsb...
A private RSS reader for every Apple device — now with AI that gets out of the way: summaries, For You, smart tags. On-device or your own model, every feature optional. Free to try, 50% off for life through Sept 30:
apps.apple.com/us/app/newsb...
Newsbin: RSS Feed Reader App - App Store
Download Newsbin: RSS Feed Reader by Xetabit, LLC on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like Newsbin: RSS Feed Reader…
apps.apple.com
July 26, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Newsbin 2.0 is here 🟢
A private RSS reader for every Apple device — now with AI that gets out of the way: summaries, For You, smart tags. On-device or your own model, every feature optional. Free to try, 50% off for life through Sept 30:
apps.apple.com/us/app/newsb...
A private RSS reader for every Apple device — now with AI that gets out of the way: summaries, For You, smart tags. On-device or your own model, every feature optional. Free to try, 50% off for life through Sept 30:
apps.apple.com/us/app/newsb...
YouTube RSS feeds are back. Your subscriptions should start updating again if they were stuck. Give it a moment to sync through.
July 21, 2026 at 10:28 PM
YouTube RSS feeds are back. Your subscriptions should start updating again if they were stuck. Give it a moment to sync through.
YouTube's RSS feeds are down on their end. This is hitting all apps that use YouTube feeds, not just Newsbin. Channels won't refresh until YouTube fixes it. Nothing we can do from here; waiting on them.
July 21, 2026 at 2:57 AM
YouTube's RSS feeds are down on their end. This is hitting all apps that use YouTube feeds, not just Newsbin. Channels won't refresh until YouTube fixes it. Nothing we can do from here; waiting on them.
Newsbin 1.18.9 just dropped. Fixed the YouTube feed issues were was going on. If your video subscriptions weren't playing nice, grab the update.
July 18, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Newsbin 1.18.9 just dropped. Fixed the YouTube feed issues were was going on. If your video subscriptions weren't playing nice, grab the update.
Way over due, I finally added a help section for Newsbin (for now) help xetabit.com/help/. Also added search.
Newsbin Help — Xetabit
Guides and how-tos for Newsbin: adding feeds, importing OPML, smart groups, tags, iCloud sync, Apple Watch, and more.
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July 10, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Way over due, I finally added a help section for Newsbin (for now) help xetabit.com/help/. Also added search.
Newsbin 1.18.6 is live. Mostly bugfixes this round—nothing flashy, but necessary. The fun stuff comes next month.
June 25, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Newsbin 1.18.6 is live. Mostly bugfixes this round—nothing flashy, but necessary. The fun stuff comes next month.
Newsbin is going bugfix-only for the next month. Working on a major 2.0 update that's worth the focus. Report any issues and I'll fix them, but new features are on hold ❤️
June 24, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Newsbin is going bugfix-only for the next month. Working on a major 2.0 update that's worth the focus. Report any issues and I'll fix them, but new features are on hold ❤️
1.18.5 is live. Thumbnails load faster, free trial's more flexible now. Small update but we've been wanting to ship these for a while.
June 20, 2026 at 9:08 PM
1.18.5 is live. Thumbnails load faster, free trial's more flexible now. Small update but we've been wanting to ship these for a while.