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News Explorer is #4 in News Paid in Japan and charting in 15 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
Full timeline · 24 events
- 📈News Explorer new best rank in the overall chart: #108Top Paid · All Apps · PL
- 📈News Explorer charting in a new countryPoland
- 📈News Explorer charting in a new countryThailand
- 📈News Explorer entered the top 10Top Grossing · News · RU
- 📈News Explorer hit #1Top Paid · News · RU
- 📈News Explorer charting in a new countrySpain
- 📈News Explorer hit #1Top Paid · News · IT
- 📈News Explorer hit #1Top Paid · News · CA
- 📈News Explorer hit #1Top Paid · News · FR
- 📈News Explorer charting in a new countryMalaysia
- 📈News Explorer charting in a new countryNetherlands
- 📈News Explorer new best rank in the overall chart: #129Top Paid · All Apps · DE
- 📈News Explorer new best rank in the overall chart: #176Top Paid · All Apps · KR
- 📈News Explorer entered the top 100Top Grossing · News · KR
- 📈News Explorer hit #1Top Paid · News · IN
- 📈News Explorer entered the top 100Top Grossing · News · IN
- 📈News Explorer entered the top 10 in 2 chartsTop Paid · News · AU · Top Paid · News · CA
- 📈News Explorer hit #1Top Paid · News · GB
- 📈News Explorer hit #1Top Paid · News · BR
- 📈News Explorer entered the top 10Top Paid · News · US
- 📈News Explorer entered the top 100Top Grossing · News · BR
- 🆕News Explorer first spotted by AppInsider#11 in Top Paid · News · Canada
- 📦News Explorer version 2.2.11No release notes
- 🆕News Explorer released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
News Explorer at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-06. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
News Explorer is a premium, cross-platform RSS and social media reader for Apple users who require seamless iCloud synchronization of feeds, filters, and reading states across Mac, iOS, and tvOS devices. The app maintains a strong presence in the paid news category charts across diverse global markets including GB, RU, DE, FR, and CA, indicating sustained demand for high-quality, privacy-focused reading tools that do not rely on third-party account sign-ups.
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News Explorer on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
News Explorer declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
News Explorer downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where News Explorer'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.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| NewsPaid | #4 | |
| NewsPaid | #4 | |
| NewsPaid | #3 | |
| NewsPaid | #4 | |
| NewsPaid | #24 | |
| NewsPaid | #6 | |
| NewsPaid | #5 | |
| NewsPaid | #10 | |
| NewsPaid | #7 | |
| NewsPaid | #15 | |
| NewsPaid | #8 | |
| NewsPaid | #10 | |
| NewsPaid | #11 | |
| NewsPaid | #12 | |
| NewsPaid | #10 | |
| NewsGrossing | #82 |
Apps near News Explorer on the chart
News Paid, around #4.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview 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.
What users say about News Explorer
From the 51 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users highly value the app's customization, privacy-focused one-time purchase model, and cross-device sync capabilities. However, significant complaints arise regarding missing AI features, specific feed integration failures (YouTube, Inoreader), and occasional data loss or syncing bugs.
Mostly positive (76% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for its features and content, and its design. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and missing features or content. Recent reviews are more positive than earlier ones.
What people like
- Features & content: “It’s been a great tool for me”
- Design: “Definitely a fresh quick and nice UI”
- Useful: “Syncing works well across devices”
- Updates: “Really like the new update”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “Something happened and it simply stopped working”
- Features & content: “One super annoying feature”
- Connection & sync: “No third party account is needed (uses iCloud for syncing)”
- Price & subscription: “With two very reasonable, non-subscription purchases, I have News Explorer running on EVERY Apple device I own”
About News Explorer
Full iCloud Sync
• News Explorer syncs your feeds, filters, folders, articles including statuses, notes and tags, across all your Apple devices.
• Synchronization is based on iCloud, so there is no need to login or to sign up into any other service, it just works out of the box.
Smart Filters
• Filter your news according your own conditions and preferences, easily accessible from the feeds list.
• Filters customizations are synced across all your devices.
Automatic Reader View
• Use automatic Reader view to download and read the full text version of truncated articles from supported sources.
• News Explorer makes use of multiple parsers to offer the best Reader view results.
Article Comments
• Read article comments from other readers directly in the app.
• Works with RSS feeds that has comment feeds per article, YouTube feeds, Reddit feeds and Hacker News feeds.
• Also works with most feeds from websites that use Open Web comments.
Article Notes
• Create rich text notes, directly in the context of the article.
• Notes are synced via iCloud together with the related article.
Feed Settings
• All aspects of a feed like title, source link or icon, can be adjusted in the Feed settings dialog.
• Disable the feed temporarily or permanently.
• Override app settings for syncing, downloading comments and reading articles.
Feed Prefilters
• Prevent the app from downloading articles you don’t want to see or read.
• Prefilters are synced via iCloud, and can be easily configured on feed level in the Feed settings dialog.
Article Inspector
• Inspect metadata, tags, media, notes and comments of articles in the Inspector panel.
• View and add custom tags in the Metadata panel.
• Browse and download media, including podcasts, in the Media panel.
Article Tags
• Article categories of RSS articles are displayed in the Inspector panel as tags.
• Can be extended with your own tags.
• Custom tags are easily recognizable, and are synced via iCloud.
• Tags can be used as conditions in filters.
Local Account
• Add feeds to News Explorer that only exists on your device by activating the Local account option.
• The local account option can be used in addition to or instead of syncing with iCloud.
Reading Features
• Mark items as favorite for later reading.
• Navigate with one click to the original content.
• Full keyboard navigation.
• Full text search in the List and Timeline view.
• Mark as read while scrolling option.
• Image viewer to browse through all images of articles or feeds.
• Built-in sharing to Instapaper, Raindrop and Readwise.
• Share news items via Email, Messages and other services.
Configuration Features
• Countless settings to tweak layout, fonts, behaviors and more.
• Import and export feeds via OPML.
• Add new feeds via the Search new feed
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