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Telescope: News Reader app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 3680 ratings )
Social Networking News
Developer: Alice Young
Free
Current version: 1.4, last update: 4 years ago
First release : 22 Apr 2018
App size: 18.87 Mb

Telescope is a news reader app where you can follow news sources, video channels and RSS you love.

- Say NO to personalization bubbles!
- Say NO to the fake news!

Get top stories *only* from the news you follow.

You can subscribe to trusted news sources such as New York Times, NPR, Bloomberg, The Verge and thousands more. You can simply search for your favorite news sources and subscribe to them or you can add their RSS feeds. Telescope also lets you subscribe to your favorite Youtube channels.

Once you subscribe to sources you like, Telescope will show you aggregated Home Feed with latest articles and videos only from your subscribed channels. By default, they are sorted by their hotness calculated based on the upvotes received across the Telescope community. Additionally, you can choose to sort your feed by time, top of the day or top of the week.

Best RSS Reader with focus on readability. Subscribe to as many as RSS feeds you want and rely on home feed to surface on right articles for you!

- At Telescope we believe in the power of journalism and need to eliminate fake news! We believe trusted news sources and journalists will play an important part in that. That is why we want to empower you with trusted information by allowing you to follow the news you can trust and rely on.

- Also with the help of the Telescope community, you will be able to get access to the top news of the day or week. Telescope home feed surfaces articles trusted and upvoted by millions in our community. Break out of the "personalization bubbles" created around you by the other apps!

Features:
- Subscribe to news sources such as New York Times, The Washington Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, The Verge, NPR, Wired, and 1000+. Search for news sources under Explore tab
- Add any RSS URL of your choice by clicking on + button in Explore tab
- Subscribe to any Youtube channel. Search channels under Explore tab
- Save any story for you to read later. Find saved stories under Reading List tab
- Block posts from certain categories from appearing in your Home Feed, such as blocking Politics, Entertainment or any other category posts. Set it under Profile tab -> Home Feed Configuration
- Switch to any particular subscription under sidebar (top left the button on Home)
- View posts from your subscriptions categories by Politics, Entertainment, Sports, etc. under the sidebar
- Sort your feed by Hot, New, Top of Today, Top of the week.

Feel free to reach us at [email protected] for any feedback. You can access Telescope on the web at https://telescope.surf