NewsCatchr - Free & Open-Source News-Reader

NewsCatchr - Free & Open-Source News-Reader Free App

Rated 3.88/5 (91) —  Free Android application by jlelse

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About NewsCatchr - Free & Open-Source News-Reader

News should be available for everyone. They should be free. And they should be accessible everywhere and anytime. News are essential for free speech.

NewsCatchr is an app, that tries to improve the world by enabling access to news for everyone. The app is available for Android 4.2+ and very small and resource-friendly. It's also completely open sourced, so the code can be checked by everyone.

Multiple million different feeds are readable with this app, thanks to the feedly API, which provides them.

But the app isn't just a normal news app. It has many more unique features, like these:

• Bookmarks
• Feed search with many millions of feeds
• Backup to save your favorite feeds and bookmarks with ease
• Pocket integration to read your bookmarked articles from any device
• Chrome Custom Tabs to browse websites inside the app
• Automatic caching, so you can also read articles offline
• Automatic download of articles in the background (called sync)
• OPML import to import feeds from feedly
• Zoomable text to have a bigger article text
• AMP to browse websites faster (much faster)
• Readability mode to reparse articles and get the whole content
• And many many more features...

How to Download / Install

Download and install NewsCatchr - Free & Open-Source News-Reader version 6.0.8 on your Android device!
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Android package: jlelse.readit, download NewsCatchr - Free & Open-Source News-Reader.apk

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App History & Updates

Name changed  Name changed! NewsCatchr - Newsreader now is known as NewsCatchr - Free & Open-Source News-Reader.
Version update NewsCatchr - Free & Open-Source News-Reader was updated to version 6.0.8
Version update NewsCatchr - Free & Open-Source News-Reader was updated to version 5.1.3
Name changed  Name changed! ReadIt. Simple Newsreader. now is known as NewsCatchr - Newsreader.

What are users saying about NewsCatchr - Free & Open-Source News-Reader

Z70%
by Z####:

For a broad range of news, I can't imagine finding better. NO ADS - thank you so much! Some will say the interface isn't pretty or decorative enough for them, but I don't care about that. It's pleasant to look at, uncluttered, simple.

G70%
by G####:

Very good app ..But the developer made too much features that normal people find difficult to comprehend ..If he change this apps design to something like feedly or Google news etc people will like more I believe..

Y70%
by Y####:

I can't get this to work on my android watch

Y70%
by Y####:

Nice

I70%
by I####:

Buggy. Very buggy.

W70%
by W####:

Great app but needs some work on the ui

Q70%
by Q####:

Very nice looking interface, but navigation is terrible. Articles are hidden away with no way to look at a feed of all sources at once and even looking at one source requires you go two layers deep EVERY time you want to look at any one feed (favorites or not).

N70%
by N####:

Featureless. Reply: connect to Feedly cloud, connect to Pocket. Um... mark as read?

U70%
by U####:

Been playing with this app for about 3 hours now. That is, for about 3 hours now I've been trying to get it to work. I tap the news tile, then choose sources, and then... nothing happens at all. I haven't seen any articles in 3 hours of tapping things over and over and over again. There are other things about that I wanted to point out that would make it a better app, but without any actual news showing up what is the point? 2 stars because the design seems nice enough, but there are definitely some design issues, and a news reader should probably have some news. At least, I would think. Maybe I'm wrong. Paperboy is still King of the News Readers. Just get that one.

Y70%
by Y####:

Thank you for making the app

I70%
by I####:

By using tiles ui that cannot be reordered is somehow a weird choice.. then users have to tap the selected source then only users have access to the articles which I don't think is a good design choice.. I don't really care about source but the articles and by utilizing tiles that cannot be reordered, that just make users further away from the articles.. Also it'd be better if I can toggle the full article icon thing by default and not tapping it every time and also changing the size of the fonts..

U70%
by U####:

I'd love a good news aggregator but this one isn't it. Or maybe it is, but you'd never know it even after installing it. There's a list of categories to choose from, then sources, but when you click the headline you get taken to a new page with...that headline. No article. It's 99 cents for 3 months to unlock the pro features but no mention as to what they are. Maybe the articles? There's also a mysterious button that says it's only available to pro users. OK, so what does it do? Skip this one.

U70%
by U####:

Ui element overlapping everything and every which manner

U70%
by U####:

Fantastic app, very useful and to the point :) great job

U70%
by U####:

Help me so much, runs very smooth, and uses my favorite design, material design.

U70%
by U####:

Probably the best news app I've stumbled across in a while. Well put together ,I still can't believe I hadn't heard a mention of this. It took me scrolling through the store from boredom to discover this here diamond in the rough. Great job and best wishes.

B70%
by B####:

Update - working well now. Good looking app, and has pocket integration! Win.

U70%
by U####:

Unfortunately I need something that syncs with desktop and without any sort of service integration I'm stuck using something else.

U70%
by U####:

Some ideas to keep moving forward. 1 -some more fonts, I believe there are several open source ones out there, like ubuntu or roboto. 2 - the article layout is amazing, great work! I would enable a gesture, sliding down from the top to show the picture in full if the article has one. 3 - the share buttons on top are a bit too big in my opinion, and a setting to enable them at the bottom would greatly improve one handed use in big phones like my Nexus 6. 4 - reading themes, like light, sepia, night, etc.

G70%
by G####:

Tip: be an actual, usable, newsreader, not a collection of links

T70%
by T####:

Looked promising so keep working at it, but not being able to reorganize or even hide irrelevant topic tiles is a bit silly and most of the articles I want to read are nothing more than headlines not being a "Pro" member.

S70%
by S####:

A well implemented and clean-looking UI that just requires a couple of tweaks. I hope the future updates would include the option to customize text and the ability to add categories to sort the sites.

S70%
by S####:

My added feeds show news from one or two days ago...not sure it applies to all feeds. Tested: Facebook Newsroom, Vox, Quartz, The Week, The Economist.

P70%
by P####:

Tip: be an actual, usable, newsreader, not a collection of links

S70%
by S####:

Really nice and simple concept, just a few more ui tweaks.

S70%
by S####:

Incredible app. Loved the design.

S70%
by S####:

Fresh application, quite fast, very clean. Quite barebones at the moment. Ability to remove sites and to import opml would be really nice. Something to watch.

S70%
by S####:

Big step forward with the latest release. I would just add some final additions, like formatting options around text, faces, sizes, etc. I'd add something similar for the article list layout, and perhaps better ways to share articles (in a long article, the share button is buried down at the bottom). Congrats on the good progress!

L70%
by L####:

No settings, no import feeds from file. App is garbage.

M70%
by M####:

Great app but needs some work on the ui

F70%
by F####:

Opening the plugins from play store instead of from app let's me use them. Looks promising!


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3.95
91 users