We analyzed 141 negative reviews of Newsify: RSS Reader from the App Store. Here's what users are saying.
Frequent crashes and lack of updates
"Crashes all the time now."
"It needs more frequent updates to fix bugs."
One common problem to a lot of RSS readers is that they do not hide read articles from view. Most will “dim” them like Newsify but not make the article disappear resulting in a lot of clutter on the screen. Otherwise it’s decent.
I used newsify for a while and recently returned to it but it seems broken. Won’t sync, I keep getting an error. I tried restarting my phone, as well as deleting and reinstalling but now it won’t let me sign in. I guess i have to find yet another rss reader, yet again.
With the iOS 26 update, the previous, next controls are shrunk significantly, leading me to misclick constantly. Please bring back the standard full screen width controls!
Can’t change layout on my Mac Air. Font too small
If you use an ultra-wide or 4K monitor, give this one a pass. There’s no way to zoom in. Cmd + + does nothing. The “Zoom” button in the menu just makes the app fill the screen (not like fullscreen, but expanded). This is a very basic accessibility functionality that’s baked into most apps by now - e...
Would be a lot more useful if article browser was wasn’t so limited/truncated.
After upgrading to iOS 18 on two phones and two iPads, many of the feeds have gradually stopped working. We’ve reloaded the rss addresses but that doesn’t change anything.
Deleted and reinstalled and nothing works
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