FAQ

No. Nextnews is built for Nextcloud News.

I might add support for other services at some point but a standalone reading mode is not planned at the moment.

Nextnews is free but offers you to send tips using In-App-Purchases if you want to support future development.

The money collected this way does not cover development costs and I will offer paid features in the future. All currently available features will stay free and any kind of pro or plus-version is not gonna nag you too much to get it.

You will always have a good experience for free.

Yes. Nextnews is not sending sensitive information like your Nextcloud login token to me or third parties. All the data processing happens on your Nextcloud instance and your local device. Furthermore, I’m using device-native cryptographic functions (like keychain services on iOS) to securely store the token.

I’m using sentry to receive debug logs, when the app crashes but you have to opt into this kind of data collection when you first start Nextnews and you can opt out at any time on the settings page. The data I get through sentry does not include any information that might identify you or give me access to your server.

No, the repository is not publicly available but you can leave feedback on GitHub and track the progress of issues there.

You can either send a tip as an In-App-Purchase through the app or help with the development by signing up as a beta tester and reporting bugs.

Nextnews only supports iOS and iPad OS currently. You can also run the app on macOS and there are special features that work only on macOS, like the context menu when you right click feed items or items in the sidebar.

There's also an app called "NextNews" for Ubuntu Touch that is developed by Tobias Johansson and completely unaffiliated with this project.

Nextnews is developed using React Native but as of version 2.0, I'm using many native libraries which makes porting the app a challenge. If you are on Android I suggest you use the official Nextcloud News app for now – it’s really good.

I work on Nextnews in my spare time, so it’s hard to tell when a certain feature will be available.

Furthermore there’s usually a roadmap ahead that I might make public in the future, so a feature can’t just be fit in with the next release as doing this might cause more work in the future.