• Feb 11, 2026

  NetNewsWire Turns 23

  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.

  Big picture: we still have a lot of bugs to fix, lots of tech debt to deal with, and lots of polish-needed areas of the app. With Brent’s retirement last year we’ve been able to go way faster on dealing with all this. We plan to keep up the pace.

  Here are our current plans:

  For NetNewsWire 7.1 we’re focusing on syncing fixes and improvements.

  NetNewsWire 7.2 doesn’t have a focus yet. Could end up being UX fixes and polish, could be something else. Could be a potpourri, though we do prefer having a focus when possible.

  We don’t have a NetNewsWire 7.3 plan yet — that’s too far out. Depends on what actually happens with 7.1 and 7.2, and it depends on what Apple adds to our to-do list at WWDC this year. (Touchscreen Macs? Folding iPhones? Big new Swift features? Who knows!)

  Note that we do add and remove tickets from milestones at any time — none of this is set in stone, of course.

  It’s NetNewsWire’s birthday, but that’s a day to look forward, not to look back. The very best versions of NetNewsWire are still to come!

• Feb 6, 2026

  NetNewsWire 7.0 for iOS

  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. (iOS developers might appreciate this bit: it adopts Swift structured concurrency.)

  But, again, the main thing is the updated UI. It’s cool!

  People who like details might enjoy this big list of UI changes from Stuart:

  • [Sidebar] What was previously a UITableView is now a UICollectionView. This was needed in order to adopt modern styling across iPad and iPhone. iPad uses the .sidebar style, and iPhone uses .insetGrouped. This is similar to the behaviour you see in Mail.
  • [Sidebar] The current refresh status is now located in the navigation bar as a subtitle, having previously been the footer
  • [Sidebar] Toolbar buttons follow Liquid Glass standards
  • [Sidebar (iPad)] Like the Mac refresh, the Feeds view floats and allows Timeline content to slide underneath
  • [Sidebar] Smart Feeds and Account headers now adopt modern secondary styling
  • [Sidebar (iPad)] Selected feeds have a modern capsule background and the text is bold
  • [Sidebar] Folders have been entirely redesigned to match modern standards—they now have the same indentation as any other feed, but the enclosed feeds are indented further
  • [Sidebar] Folders will highlight when Feeds are being dragged and dropped into them
  • [Sidebar] Separators have been realigned
  • [Sidebar] Unread counts are larger and are no longer backed by a filled capsule
  • [Sidebar] Unread counts for folders are only displayed when the folder is closed
  • [Sidebar] Swipe actions reveal icons
  • [Sidebar (iPad)] Users can resize the sidebar (within reason)
  • [Timeline] What was previously a UITableView is now a UICollectionView. This was needed in order to adopt modern cell styling—e.g., selected and swipe status—across iPad and iPhone.
  • [Timeline] Navigation bar images have been removed
  • [Timeline] Unread counts are now located in the navigation bar subtitle
  • [Timeline] Adopts hierarchical text colours for titles and summaries
  • [Timeline (iPad)] The search bar has been moved to the app-wide toolbar and behaves similar to the Mac search
  • [Timeline (iPhone)] The search bar has been moved to the bottom toolbar
  • [Timeline] The Timeline width is user adjustable (again, within reason)
  • [Timeline] Timeline cells have been redesigned in Interface builder and now have the rounded corner selection style
  • [Timeline] The Mark All as Read image (on both iPad and iPhone) has had alignment changes to make sure it sits in the middle of an englassified button
  • [Article (iPad)] Articles can be read in three-pane view without hiding the Sidebar
  • [Article (iPad)] The top toolbar inherits search capabilities
  • [Article] The bottom toolbar buttons have been grouped in a 2-1-2 formation with the Next Unread button sitting in the throne seat
  • [Sidebar, Timeline, Article] Visual state is restored on relaunch
  • [Widgets] Home Screen widgets have been redesigned to make better use of horizontal space
  • [Widgets] New Lock Screen widget with Today, Unread, Starred counts
  • [About] Tending to the dark corner of the garden, the About view on iOS has been redesigned and inspired by the Credits from Vesper
• Jan 27, 2026

  NetNewsWire 7 for Mac

  NetNewsWire 7.0 for Mac is now shipping!

  The big change from 6.2.1 is that it adopts the Liquid Glass UI and it requires macOS 26.

  (Note to people who aren’t on macOS 26: we fixed a lot of bugs in 6.2 and 6.2.1 knowing that many people might skip, or at least delay, installing macOS 26. Also note that there’s a page where you can get old versions of NetNewsWire.)

  To get NetNewsWire 7: in the app, in the NetNewsWire menu, do Check for Updates… and it will update to the new version.

  If you’re not already running NetNewsWire, or prefer to update manually, you can download NetNewsWire 7.

  Feedback and support

  We recently switched from Slack to Discourse — we’ve got a new forum that doesn’t delete conversations. It’s nice!

  And, as always, you can report bugs and make feature requests on our bug tracker.

  You don’t have to bookmark either of those two URLs — they’re available in NetNewsWire’s Help menu.

  PS iOS version coming soon

  We’re pretty close to being finished with the iPhone and iPad version. It too adopts the Liquid Glass UI. If you want in on the TestFlight — we appreciate help testing! — you can sign up here.

  PPS Screenshots

  Here are dark and light mode screenshots for NetNewsWire 7 for Mac, which you’re free to use in any blog posts, social media posts, reviews, etc. (Or make your own.)

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