u/ForgottenFuturist

Newsbin 2.0 arrives July 25th, one year to the week since I first launched it.

It's the biggest update yet, and it's an AI release — but the kind that gets out of your way rather than in it. Everything is private and optional: it runs on your device with Apple Intelligence, or your own API key, and never routes your reading through me.

What's new:

• For You — a feed that learns what you actually read
• Breaking News — clusters the same story across sources
• Top Stories — the day at a glance
• Summaries — the gist before you commit to the read
• Smart Tags & Topics — your feed organizes itself; tap a topic to filter the list
• Discover / Who to Follow — find feeds you're missing

I wrote up the full story — including why adding AI isn't a contradiction for an app that's spent a year railing against AI junk: https://xetabit.com/blog/newsbin-2

Hi all — I'm a solo dev, and my RSS reader Newsbin has been on the App Store for about a year now. It's been (slowly) growing organically. I've been working on a major update that integrates Apple Intelligence along with just about every AI agent out there. So I'm looking for testers for Newsbin 2.0, which launches July 25th — one year to the week since it first shipped.

Newsbin is a private RSS reader that's native on every Apple platform — iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro.

2.0 is a big one, and it's the part I'd most like eyes on. It adds a set of optional, private AI features that run on-device (Apple Intelligence) or via your own API key — nothing is routed through me:

• For You — a feed that learns what you read
• Breaking News — clusters the same story across sources
• Top Stories, Summaries, Smart Tags, and Topics (tap a topic to filter a list)
• Discover / Who to Follow — feed suggestions

What I'd love feedback on:

• The AI features — are they useful and accurate?
• iCloud + nearby sync reliability across multiple devices
• Performance with large feed lists
• Anything that feels rough on a specific platform (Watch and Vision Pro especially)

Details:

• Free to test — TestFlight in-app purchases are free, so you can try the paid features at no cost.
• Works on iOS/iPadOS 18+, macOS 15+, watchOS 11+, visionOS 2+.
• Solo developer, very responsive — I read and reply to everything.

Feedback in-app (Settings → Contact), by reply here, or at testflight@xetabit.com. Thanks — genuinely appreciate anyone willing to test this out before launch.