Betamagic - News Explorer 2.0

After countless years of hard work, we are proud to introduce News Explorer 2.0. It has so many new features that it is hard to choose where to start, and hard not to miss a few new features and small changes.

Sidebar filters, or ‘Smart folders’ as Apple likes to call them, are now fully customizable. You can add as many filters as you like, and they are all synced across all your devices. Filters created in iOS do work and can be edited in macOS and vice versa, with one exception. In macOS, you can create complex filters with nested operators. These complex filters are synced to and do work on other platforms, but can only be edited in macOS.

On top of the article viewer, there is a new button which will open the Inspector panel. This panel contains four tabs: Metadata, Media, Notes, and Comments. On the Mac, you can leave the Inspector open at all times; on the iPad, you can do the same, partly depending on the display size of your iPad. On iPhone, the Inspector panel is one navigation action away, by using the said Inspector button. Optionally, you can also enable an edge swipe gesture in the Reading section of the app settings on iOS or iPadOS.

Article comments are automatically downloaded and displayed in the Inspector panel when the article has a comment feed, public comment API, or when the source webpage uses Open Web comments. Being able to read comments directly in the app besides the article is really a nice experience, especially for feeds whose comments are as interesting as the articles themselves.

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