Changelog

Version 1.5 - [In review]

New

Notification for rss-sources

Extended notifications to also allow users receiving notifications for news per source, not only per tag

Add mute words directly

It is now possible to add mute words in the mute-list directly.

Changed

Search now considers the article description as well

Close button for inline reader

Added the possibility to close the experimental inline reader

Moved experimentel image search to stable

The experimental image lookup is now part of the stable features of Ticker

Fixes

Improved Atom parsing

Fixed an error that caused some Atom feed to not show any entries

Version 1.4 - January 2023

Improvements

Improved loading New

Its now possible to select, if the feed should be automatically refreshed when opening the app in the settings (default: on).

Highlight title New

With a new flag in the settings, you now can highlight the title to show up on top instead of the source name (default: off).

Version 1.3 - November 2022

Experimental

Better image lockup Improvement

The lockup for images was extended to find better results. This is an experimental feature. It can be enabled in the experimental-section in the settings of Ticker.

Alternative In-App reader New

An alternative in-app reader was introduced to provide a different user-experience. This is an experimental feature. It can be enabled in the experimental-section in the settings of Ticker.

Version 1.2.1 - October 2022

Improved fetching Improvement

A bug was fixed that sometimes cause the app to crash while fetching news.

Version 1.2 - October 2022

Background fetching New

Introducing background-fetching to load your news feeds in the background every 30 minutes, 1, 2 or 4 hours. Choose to load in the background when on wifi or also when you are on a cellular networks.

Notifications New

Implemented notifications for news on your tags. Simply enable notifications in your tag-menu when you have background-fetching enabled.

Mark as read in the feed New

You can now swipe right in the feed-overview to mark all entries for a tag as read.

Improved RSS Feed lookup Improvement

Improved logic to find RSS feed when user provides a website url instead of the RSS url.

Fixed a bug in feed Bugfix

Fixed a bug in displaying the correct number of bookmarks if the default setting is to show all available news instead of only unread news.

Version 1.1 - April 2022

Onboarding New

Introduced onboarding-screen for a short introduction and information about functionality of Ticker.

Mark all as read New

Added a feature to mark all unread articles in the current view as read.

Add site to Ticker via the share New

Now you can add a site to Ticker via the iOS Sharing menu. Just press the share button on a link and select the Ticker icon.

New feed-view New

Added an alternative view for reading articles. It can be activated in Settings > UI > Use alternative feed view

UI Improvements Improvement

  • Choose between different app-icons
  • Select your favorite theme: Light, Dark, Automatic

Add Source Improvement

Updated add-source view to give better feedback about the validity of the URL.

Improved RSS Feed lookup Improvement

Improved logic to find RSS feed when user provides a website url instead of the RSS url.

Version 1.0 - March 2022

This is the initial release of Ticker including the following features:

Tags New

Grouping articles by keywords into tags. Sort tags by name or number of included articles.

Favorites New

Define important tags as favorites

Timeline New

Keep track of your read articles in a timeline

Bookmarks New

Mark articles for later by adding them to your bookmarks

Search New

Search your feed to find those articles you are looking for

Sync New

Use iCloud to sync your sources, tags and read articles over all your Apple devices

Mute keywords New

Define keywords you are not interested in and mute them for one day, a week, month or forever

Customizing New

Customize the appearance as you like. Set a color, show images, show article description, …

Badge New

Show the number of unread, tagged, favorite or bookmarked articles that are unread as badge-count on the app-icon.