Cinder is a light-only theme by design, especially useful for people who prefer a light background for articles even when in dark mode.
It’s based on Ember, with some changes beyond just being light-only.

NetNewsWire themes with an editorial design and cohesive house style. - shane-hendry/daisy

Hi everyone, I’d like to share Ringo, a reading theme for NetNewsWire inspired by the article view of Reeder Classic. It works on Mac, iPhone and iPad and is currently at version 1.4.0.

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‘There is no replacement’, Reddit tells RSS users as it shuts down feeds on 13 November to fight AI scraping.

Browse and install free, community-made themes for NetNewsWire on Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Compare screenshots, search by name, and install in one click.

We’ve released NetNewsWire 7.2 for Mac with a new column view layout: choose View > Use Column Layout to switch. (Choose it again to switch back.)
This is a new feature in the sense that the previous version of the app didn’t have it — but NetNewsWire of Yore, before the 2018 reboot, certainly had this feature. Even NetNewsWire 1.0 had this feature! In fact, back in those days it was the only layout.

NetNewsWire 7.2 for iOS has passed App Store review and is available or soon will be.
It has the same hide-unread-counts feature the Mac app has — you can hide them entirely or replace them with a dot. See the settings screen, Appearance section.
It also fixes a bunch of bugs — see the release notes for the full scoop — including one we’ll call out specifically: where the releases notes say “Sped up Today and unread count queries” the notes are underselling a pretty big performance enhancement and battery-use fix during refreshing.

The latest version of NetNewsWire for iOS supports iPhone Duo, which is very much a novel iPhone with toolbars running up the side and all kinds of behavior.
How we did it: we didn’t do any work at all. We built the app using Xcode 27.1 and the default iOS SDK that comes with it, and that’s it.
Here’s the thing, though: we were already using standard controls — toolbars, navigation controllers, split views, etc.

Changes since 7.0:

Made it run on macOS 15
Fixed a performance bug with NewsBlur syncing
Fixed bug where the Sparkle appcast URL could be something other than the two supported URLs (release and test build URLs) — made Sparkle updating more reliable
Fixed a crash that could happen when syncing some Reader API syncing systems
Fixed a crash that could happen when removing an account
Fixed a bug aligning unread counts in the sidebar
Fixed a bug where images in the article view could get vertically stretched in some conditions
Fixed a bug where a clicking an anchor link in the article view that should navigate to another spot in the article would open in the browser instead
Fixed bug where multiple About windows could be shown
Fixed a layout bug in the About window where text could get clipped on some machines
Made the version selectable in the About window
Fixed a typo in the About window credits

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.

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.

Jelly writes on the NetNewsWire Discourse forum:
I’ve drafted a naive implementation of NNW MCP support through AppleScript. It supports listing feeds, getting/searching articles, subscribing new feeds…
I can now schedule a daily task that lets Claude summarize that day’s new articles and order them based on my previous behaviors every morning.
We love how AppleScript support is worth way more than the effort we put into it — users can keep creating cool things that we couldn’t have imagined back then.

We’ve just released NetNewsWire 7.0.4 for Mac. Do a Check for Updates or download it directly to get the update.
The big new changes are to iCloud syncing: there’s a new setting to not sync the content of unread articles, since that’s the biggest part of your iCloud database and what takes the longest to sync.
Another change is a new iCloud Storage Stats window that tells you exactly what’s in your iCloud storage — and it includes a Clean Up button that will trim down your storage (and lead to faster syncs in the future, though not necessarily right at first).

In NetNewsWire 7.0.5 we made a change to get the feed image from RSS via the image element.
Weren’t we already doing this? Seems surprising that we weren’t!
It’s because, historically, these images were often rectangular — but the app wants square images. These days, probably due to the influence of mobile apps, images tend to be square, which is great. It means we can use these.
Note to feed publishers We suggest checking your feeds to see if they are supplying an image URL.