News

An ad-free iOS news reader. It runs entirely on the reader’s own iPhone. There is no server and no content is re-hosted.

If you see this in your logs

Requests that carry the User-Agent News/1.0 (iPhone; iOS reader; +https://news-reader-app.pages.dev) come from one person’s phone fetching your public RSS/Atom feed. When they open one of your articles, the app fetches that article’s page once.

How it behaves

• Every feed request is conditional (If-None-Match / If-Modified-Since), and a 304 response is honoured.
• It refreshes no more often than the reader’s chosen interval, which is 15 minutes at minimum.
• It fetches at most a few article pages at a time, and only once per article.
• It never tries to bypass a paywall. Articles marked isAccessibleForFree: false show only the excerpt, with a link to the original.
• Every article shows a prominent “Open original” link back to your site.