Speak News - RSS news reader

Speak News gets improvements and bug fixes: * Improved news article page parsing, cleaning up extraneous text items. * Corrected some pronunciations in news text.

* Improved news feed and article page parsing and formatting, removing extraneous non-story items.

Speak News gets improvements and bug fixes: * All new design for the Edit Bookmark view, easier to use and understand. * Improved the presentation of the Edit Bookmark view for iPad. * Minor bug fixes.

Speak News gets improvements and bug fixes: * Fixed a bug in the Edit Bookmark view; the Clear (x) buttons were inadvertently missing in the last update. * Improved news feed and article page parsing and formatting, removing extraneous non-story items. * Minor improvements for text-to-speech.

Speak News gets improvements and bug fixes for the Today widget: * Better text font and layout for compact news display. * Fixed glitches in widget update behavior. * Speak News supports both modern and older devices, devices running iOS 9.3 through iOS 16 or later.

Speak News enhances the presentation of news and web page text to minimize distractions while reading: "Hide toolsbars when speaking" is a new option in the Speech Behavior section of the Settings view. When this option is on, the navigation bar at the top and the toolbar at the bottom will automatically hide when using the Speak action, or when two-finger tapping an article to start text-to-speech, and when choosing the Smooth Scroll action in the Share activities view. * Single finger tap to stop the text-to-speech or smooth scroll action and make the navigation bar and toolbar visible again. * The toolbars will also reappear when one swipes right from the left edge of the News view to return to the Bookmarks view. * Speak News supports both modern and older devices, devices running iOS 9.3 through iOS 16 or later.

Speak News gets a useful new feature and a bug fix: * New option in Speak News app Settings view: "Maximum items per feed". This determines how many items to save in the app's cache for each RSS feed. Previously, this was a fixed internal value of 80. Small numbers (30 items for example) will allow the app to operate faster, while larger numbers (80+) provide more news items in the app's cache for later viewing offline, also helpful if one wishes to keep track of older stories. The number of items in the cache can be larger than the number of items provided in a given reload of a feed, hence giving one access to older stories no longer in the active feed. * Bug fix to improve the behavior of the "Hide toolbars when speaking" option in Settings.

* Minor text-to-speech pronunciation improvements.

Speak News gets some nice interface improvements. * Several action views are now displayed as popovers instead of sheets: Update Feeds, Add New Bookmark, Go to Section, Move Selected Bookmarks, Choose Section, Settings, and Speak News App Info, particularly in landscape orientation on the iPhone or iPod touch. * The popovers improve the experience by helping keep the context of the underlying view visible, including in landscape orientation. * Improved background color consistency for popover views. * Improved interface colors for the Edit Bookmark view in the app-based dark appearance. * Fixed glitches with Done buttons.

Speak News gets minor improvements and bug fixes for iPad: * Minor improvements for text-to-speech phrasing of headlines followed by news sources. * Minor improvements to news feed formatting. * Fixed a bug that prevented the "Voice library configuration" view from appearing. * Fixed a bug with the New/Edit Bookmark view.

Speak News gets minor improvements and a bug fix: * Modernized keyboard shortcuts. * Fixed a bug for text-to-speech of a specific abbreviation.

Speak News gets a couple improvements: * A vibrant new icon design that works better for dark mode on the iPhone and iPad, for those late night readers out there! * Minor text-to-speech pronunciation improvements for common news phrases.

* Fixed a bug in loading the bookmark collection from iCloud.

Speak News gets a bug fix: * The Done button now correctly appears in the New Bookmark and Edit Bookmark popover views on iPad.

The Speak News news feed and web page text-to-speech reader app is updated with numerous user interface and aesthetic improvements and modernizations for the bookmarks and popover views. This update refines various graphics Display style options available in the Settings view. Tap the gear button in the toolbar to open the Settings view. Customize the visual environment for readability in different lighting situations.

The Speak News news feed and web page text and text-to-speech reader app for iPhone and iPad gets improvements and bug fixes. * Refined some user interface style elements and fixed a few minor style glitches. * Fixed crash when opening the Siri Shortcuts view.

* Fixed bug and potential crash issue when opening the Voice Library Configuration view from the Settings view when in the News view.

Speak News adds app display styles for more power to customize the visual environment for reading news and articles. * New app display styles Dark Slate, Dark Chocolate, Dark Olive, and Dark Purple, as well as White, Light Gray, Sepia, Medium Gray, Dark Gray, Black, and system style, let you customize the background tone. * To change the display style, tap the gear icon button in the toolbar to open the Settings view. * Minor improvements to popup menus and article formatting.

Speak News is now updated for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 and includes other improvements: * Speak News adds support for the beautiful new Liquid Glass interface and iOS 26. * Toolbar layout has been improved for iPhone and iPad. * Improvements to popover views for Settings, App Info, Voice Library, Edit Bookmark. * Improvements to default settings for text-to-speech behavior. * Restoration of the current bookmark upon relaunching app is improved. * Improved keyboard shortcuts for use with an external keyboard. * Updated the spoken word Introduction to Speak News for the new toolbar layout. To listen, tap the ? button in the Bookmarks view toolbar, then choose Introduction to Speak News in the App Info view. * Updated all screenshots on the App Store.

Speak News gets more user interface modernizations: * Modernized the menus and popovers with the new Liquid Glass design in iOS 26, and added the translucent effect for iOS 15 through iOS 18. * Fixed bug in status bar style for custom display styles. * Speak News is compatible with iOS/iPadOS 26 and the new Liquid Glass design, and iOS/iPadOS 15 through 18.