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NetNewsWire pricing
NetNewsWire publishes a single tier. Below is what it costs, what it covers, and how that compares with the news tools listed alongside it.
As of 1 September 2026, NetNewsWire pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open source, no licence fee
- Tiers
- 1
- Free tier
- Yes
NetNewsWire plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| NetNewsWire | Free | 3 | Entry tier |
Where NetNewsWire stops being free
NetNewsWire, Free
- Free and open source, no account required
- No feed limit
- Optional third party sync services
No paid tier on record
NetNewsWire lists a free tier and no priced tier above it in the record we hold.
What the product covers
The full NetNewsWire feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- RSS and Atom parsing
- Third party sync
- Unlimited feeds
- Smart feeds
- Local search
- Open source
People bring NetNewsWire in for a reader who only wants traditional rss and atom feeds with no cap and no cost, someone who tried reeder free tier, hit the ten feed limit, and wants an unlimited free alternative instead, a developer who wants an open source reader they can inspect or contribute to on github, a user who wants feed sync through an existing feedbin or feedly account without paying for a separate reader subscription. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to NetNewsWire are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in News
Too few news tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NetNewsWire (this page) | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | |
| Reeder | Free, then $10/year | Per user per month | - | vs NetNewsWire |
| GlobeNewswire | On request | usage-based | - | vs NetNewsWire |
| ConvertKit | Free, then $33/month | freemium | - | vs NetNewsWire |
| Inoreader | Free, then $7.5/month | freemium | - | vs NetNewsWire |
| Ghost | Free, then $15/month | - | - | vs NetNewsWire |
| Chartbeat | $1000/month | quote | - | vs NetNewsWire |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the NetNewsWire badges page.
Before you pay for NetNewsWire
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: a single tier at Free. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
NetNewsWire runs on mac, ios, and is published by Ranchero Software (open source project) of Open source community project. The full record is on the NetNewsWire review, and the rest of the category is under best news tools.
NetNewsWire pricing questions
- How much does NetNewsWire cost?
- NetNewsWire publishes a single tier, NetNewsWire, at Free.
- Does NetNewsWire have a free plan?
- Yes. The NetNewsWire tier costs nothing and covers free and open source, no account required, no feed limit, optional third party sync services.
- Which news tools can I use without paying?
- 6 of the 8 news tools listed alongside NetNewsWire have a free tier: Reeder, ConvertKit, Inoreader, Ghost, Ground News.
- What am I actually paying for with NetNewsWire?
- The record lists 6 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for a reader who only wants traditional rss and atom feeds with no cap and no cost, someone who tried reeder free tier, hit the ten feed limit, and wants an unlimited free alternative instead, a developer who wants an open source reader they can inspect or contribute to on github.
- Does NetNewsWire charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 1 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these NetNewsWire prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare NetNewsWire against before paying?
- The closest news tools in this directory are Reeder, GlobeNewswire, ConvertKit, Inoreader. Each has a side-by-side comparison with NetNewsWire covering price, platforms and features.