What's New

Version 1.8 - October 2024 Link to heading

New: Auto-mark-read while scrolling Link to heading

It is now possible to automatically mark articles as read while scrolling through the feed. You can enable this feature in the settings: Auto mark read with scroll

Improvement: Option to hide the source-icon in the feed Link to heading

Now it is possible to hide the icon of the source in the feed that is next to each news article. The option is called Show source icon in feed in the settings menu under section UI.

Version 1.7 - September 2024 Link to heading

New: Block-words for tags Link to heading

Now it is possible to add words to tags, that will remove an entry from it. This allows to narrow your tags.

New: Reddit Source Link to heading

You can now simply add /r/subreddit-to-follow as the URL of a new Source and Ticker will automatically translate in the correct RSS source url.

Changed: Notifications Link to heading

When clicked on a Ticker notification, so far all links have been opened in your default browser, not considering the option you set in Ticker. This update considers your setting and opens articles from Ticker notifications depending on your setting also within Ticker.

Stability Link to heading

The app stability has been improved to reduce crashes.

Version 1.6.1 - April 2023 Link to heading

New Link to heading

Show images per source Link to heading

The setting to show images can now additionally be defined per source.

Changed Link to heading

Favicon Link to heading

Improved the way to identify favicons for a source.

Fixes Link to heading

Bug Tags Link to heading

Fixed a bug that cause tags not showing all matching news.

Version 1.6 - April 2023 Link to heading

New Link to heading

OPML Import Link to heading

It’s now possible to import your rss feeds via OPML. Just add a new source and use the Import OPML button on the top.

Version 1.5 - February 2023 Link to heading

New Link to heading

Notification for rss-sources Link to heading

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

Add mute words directly Link to heading

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

Changed Link to heading

Search now considers the article description as well

Close button for inline reader Link to heading

Added the possibility to close the experimental inline reader

Moved experimentel image search to stable Link to heading

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

Fixes Link to heading

Improved Atom parsing Link to heading

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

Version 1.4 - January 2023 Link to heading

Improvements Link to heading

Improved loading New Link to heading

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

Highlight title New Link to heading

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 Link to heading

Experimental Link to heading

Better image lockup Improvement Link to heading

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 Link to heading

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 Link to heading

Improved fetching Improvement Link to heading

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

Version 1.2 - October 2022 Link to heading

Background fetching New Link to heading

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 Link to heading

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 Link to heading

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

Improved RSS Feed lookup Improvement Link to heading

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

Fixed a bug in feed Bugfix Link to heading

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 Link to heading

Onboarding New Link to heading

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

Mark all as read New Link to heading

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

Add site to Ticker via the share New Link to heading

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 Link to heading

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

UI Improvements Improvement Link to heading

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

Add Source Improvement Link to heading

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

Improved RSS Feed lookup Improvement Link to heading

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

Version 1.0 - March 2022 Link to heading

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

Tags New Link to heading

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

Favorites New Link to heading

Define important tags as favorites

Timeline New Link to heading

Keep track of your read articles in a timeline

Bookmarks New Link to heading

Mark articles for later by adding them to your bookmarks

Search New Link to heading

Search your feed to find those articles you are looking for

Sync New Link to heading

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

Mute keywords New Link to heading

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

Customizing New Link to heading

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

Badge New Link to heading

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