NetNewsWire - an open source RSS reader

We’ve just released NetNewsWire 7.0.4 for Mac. Do a Check for Updates or download it directly to get the update. The big new changes are to iCloud syncing: there’s a new setting to not sync the content of unread articles, since that’s the biggest part of your iCloud database and what takes the longest to sync. Another change is a new iCloud Storage Stats window that tells you exactly what’s in your iCloud storage — and it includes a Clean Up button that will trim down your storage (and lead to faster syncs in the future, though not necessarily right at first).

Jelly writes on the NetNewsWire Discourse forum: I’ve drafted a naive implementation of NNW MCP support through AppleScript. It supports listing feeds, getting/searching articles, subscribing new feeds… I can now schedule a daily task that lets Claude summarize that day’s new articles and order them based on my previous behaviors every morning. We love how AppleScript support is worth way more than the effort we put into it — users can keep creating cool things that we couldn’t have imagined back then.

NetNewsWire 7 for iOS 26 and up is available now on the App Store! This version adopts Liquid Glass — and we think it’s a better looking version of NetNewsWire. We think even people who aren’t fans of Liquid Glass will agree with us. 🐣 Credit goes to Stuart Breckenridge for the design and implementation. Wonderful work! Check out the screenshots. This version also fixes some small bugs and adds some small performance enhancements.

NetNewsWire 1.0 for Mac shipped 23 years ago today! 🎸🎩🕶️ Here’s where things are on this particular February 11: we just shipped 7.0 for Mac and iOS, and now we’re working on NetNewsWire 7.0.1. After a big release, no matter how careful we are, there are often some regressions to fix and tweaks to make right away, so we’re working on those. Here’s the milestone with the current to-do list.

Changes since 7.0: