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NetNewsWire: RSS Reader is #101 in News Free in United States and charting in 9 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperBrent Simmons
CategoryNews
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.8 (890)
Version7.2
Age rating17+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
NetNewsWire: RSS Reader update history & changes
Last change · 21 events since 8 Mar 2020Full timeline ↓📈Charting in a new country⭐Passed 1K ratings📈Entered the top 100⭐Passed 1K ratings📦Updated to version 7.2🆕First spotted by AppInsider📦Version 7.1.4🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 21 events
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader charting in a new countrySaudi Arabia
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader entered the top 100Top Free · News · AE
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader charting in a new countryUnited Arab Emirates
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader entered the top 100Top Free · News · IN
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader charting in a new countryIndia
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader entered the top 100Top Free · News · FR
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader charting in a new countryFrance
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader entered the top 100Top Free · News · US
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader charting in a new countryUnited States
- 📦NetNewsWire: RSS Reader updated to version 7.2New feature: new setting to hide unread counts or replace them with a •, so you don’t have to face the anxiety of treating your RSS reader as yet another app where you have to catch up!
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader entered the top 100Top Free · News · RU
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader entered the top 100Top Free · News · ID
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader charting in a new countryIndonesia
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader entered the top 100Top Free · News · BR
- 📈NetNewsWire: RSS Reader charting in a new country in 2 chartsBrazil · Russia
- 🆕NetNewsWire: RSS Reader first spotted by AppInsider#98 in Top Free · News · Japan
- 📦NetNewsWire: RSS Reader version 7.1.4No release notes
- 🆕NetNewsWire: RSS Reader released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.8 ★
890 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#101
News FreeMeasured
New ratings a week
3.8
▼ -67% vs the 2 weeks before
Measured
NetNewsWire: RSS Reader on the App Store
App details
App ID
1480640210
Publisher
Brent Simmons
On the store since
Mar 2020
6 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
17+
2 content notes below
Languages
2
EN ES
Size
28 MB
Also listed in
Social Networking
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or ReferencesUnrestricted Web Access
NetNewsWire: RSS Reader downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where NetNewsWire: RSS Reader's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
Retention · share of new users still active
Day 1
Day 7
Day 30
Time spent · per daily user
Average time spent Pro
min a day
Sessions a day Pro
Time per session Pro
min
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United States | NewsFree | #101 |
| Japan | NewsFree | #120 |
 Germany | NewsFree | #69 |
 United Kingdom | NewsFree | #99 |
 Canada | NewsFree | #73 |
 France | NewsFree | #96 |
 India | NewsFree | #110 |
 South Korea | NewsFree | #181 |
 Brazil | NewsFree | #134 |
Apps near NetNewsWire: RSS Reader on the chart
News Free, around #101.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.8 ★
890 ratings
Measured
Ratings
890
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
3.8
▼ -67% vs the 2 weeks before
Lifetime rating
4.8★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
57/100
faster than 82% of News apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About NetNewsWire: RSS Reader
It’s like podcasts, but for reading.
NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader. It shows you articles from your favorite blogs and news sites and keeps track of what you’ve read. It’s fast, stable, and accessible.
If you’ve been going from site to site in your browser looking for new articles to read — or counting on the unreliable algorithms of corporate social media — let NetNewsWire bring you the news you want.
It’s easy and fun. And it puts you, not billionaires, in control of your news.
Features:
* Direct feed downloading
* Syncing via iCloud, Feedbin, Feedly, BazQux, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, and FreshRSS
* Multiple accounts
* Custom article themes
* Reader view
* Share sheet
* Starred articles
* All Unread and Today smart feeds
* Folders
* Importing and exporting OPML feed lists
* Background refreshing
* Searching
* Hiding read articles
* Timeline customization
* Keyboard shortcuts
* Context menus
* Home screen widgets for today, unread, and starred articles
* Share extension
NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader. It shows you articles from your favorite blogs and news sites and keeps track of what you’ve read. It’s fast, stable, and accessible.
If you’ve been going from site to site in your browser looking for new articles to read — or counting on the unreliable algorithms of corporate social media — let NetNewsWire bring you the news you want.
It’s easy and fun. And it puts you, not billionaires, in control of your news.
Features:
* Direct feed downloading
* Syncing via iCloud, Feedbin, Feedly, BazQux, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, and FreshRSS
* Multiple accounts
* Custom article themes
* Reader view
* Share sheet
* Starred articles
* All Unread and Today smart feeds
* Folders
* Importing and exporting OPML feed lists
* Background refreshing
* Searching
* Hiding read articles
* Timeline customization
* Keyboard shortcuts
* Context menus
* Home screen widgets for today, unread, and starred articles
* Share extension
Latest updates
7.2
New feature: new setting to hide unread counts or replace them with a •, so you don’t have to face the anxiety of treating your RSS reader as yet another app where you have to catch up!
7.1.4