MacDailyNews is pleased to announce the release of version 3.0 of our free MacDailyNews app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch via Apple’s iTunes App Store.
This is no minor update. MacDailyNews 3.0 is all-new, built from the ground up by Empirical Development, a Colorado-based mobile development company that has created quality software since 2004, including work on iOS apps AP Mobile, Rhapsody, Whole Foods Recipes, and many other quality apps. If you need the services of an iOS and Mac development shop, Empirical Development is your answer. MacDailyNews recommended!
MacDailyNews offers our heartfelt thanks to Empirical’s co-founder Kyle Richter, project lead Joe Keeley, and everyone on Empirical’s design and engineering teams for the excellent work they’ve put into crafting this app. Simply put, working with Empirical on this project over the past few months has been a stress-free joy!
Much thanks also to our beta testers who helped us test this app while ensconced in cones of silence. (No leaks, thanks!)
With all-new article features, improved Notifications, easy ways to share, and many new feedback features, our new app is designed to deliver on our raisons d’être: “To scour the Web for articles that interest Apple product users, remark on the content of these articles, provide news about Apple Inc. and their products, and to opine about all things related to Apple. Most importantly, MacDailyNews exists to provide a place for our readers and the Apple community to discuss these daily news items in their own words with real-time feedback.”
We think you’ll appreciate the powerful simplicity of our new app. There’s a lot more than meets the eye.
We were very excited to work on the MacDailyNews project, most of our team members have been long time readers and supporters of the site, and we wanted to see an improved mobile experience ourselves. Partnering with MacDailyNews to bring the new MacDailyNews 3.0 app to the market was a very exciting process for us and we all wanted this mobile app for ourselves, it has earned a permanent place on my device already.
Our user experienced design team was able to redesign the app from the ground up and rethink how mobile content is digested. Particular attention was giving to the threaded comment system to make it readable, rich in content, and presentable on a small screen. The new MacDailyNews app directly integrates with the WordPress API as well as several methods outside of the API to turn the HTML content into rich native content for mobile. – Kyle Richter, Empirical Development co-founder
The new MacDailyNews app offers much improved Push Notifications. When enabled, the MacDailyNews app will notify users when each new article is posted. The new Notifications display each article’s headline. When tapped, these new Notifications will now take you to the exact article within the app. To control the various aspects of notifications (Sounds, Alerts, Badges), on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, tap Settings > Notification Center > MDN.
Features of MacDailyNews 3.0 include:
– Built for iOS 7 but works well on iOS 6.1 or later
- Quick, up-to-the minute Apple-related news
– Infinite scrolling
- Visited headlines, so you know what you’ve read at a glance
– Push notifications
- All-new, easy-to-read clean design
– Dynamic font resizing
– Supports 4-inch iPhone 5s/5c/5 Retina displays
– All new custom comments
– Complete comment rating system
– New comments display and count
– Pull to refresh articles and comments
– Favorites
– Offline support, including offline comments
– Social media sharing (Facebook, Twitter, iMessage, email, AirDrop)
– Full article display with dynamic Reader Feedback
– Complete poll integration
– Full support for Tags (search by tag words)
– Easy login screen for registered users
– Quick and easy Submit Story feature
We hope you like our new app and use it often. Update or download today!
MacDailyNews Note: 2:00pm EST: If your MDN app icon has a stuck badge count (this comes from updating the old app with a current badge count), quit the MDN 3.0 app (in iOS 7, double tap home button and swipe up on app) and relaunch it. When you click the home button, your MDN icon badge count should be reset. The badge count will also clear out when a new push comes in, as long as the app is open or if the push is “swiped” into. After a day or so the badges should be cleared out for everyone from the old app’s push server.
The MacDailyNews 3.0 app is available via Apple’s iTunes App Store here.
We sincerely thank all of our app users for their patience. We spent a lot of time planning this new app, finding the right developer, beta testing, etc. We hope you think the new app was worth the wait! (P.S. Don’t forget to give us a review in the App Store!)
Hooray!!!!
About. Freaking. Time.
+100
ditto
What! No android version?
Not a bad thing
There is a special troll edition of the MDN App for Android. It immediate transmits all of your personal information to Google and a mysterious server in Russia.
Finally. Thought it would never happen.
Absolutely a step backwards for MDN. GET RID OF THE ADS!!!!!
Give us a paid app that gets rid of the ads. And the column on the left used to be smaller bold blue type. Easier to scan for stories of interest. Now it’s all the same typeface and not bold. All the words blend together. Not as easy to scan.
Why does everyone mess with success?
Oh, I like it just fine. Not sure I’d pay a buck to get rid of the ads.
I’d pay up to $3 to get rid of the ads. Think of it as going to a bar and buying MDN a beer to talk about Apple and get rid of the ads.
Come to think about it, I’d pay $20 to get rid of them on the website. Especially that freaking, most annoying one at the very bottom. Might go as high as $25 to rid myself of that annoying crap banner.
Click the “X” and the bottom ad is gone for the day. For free. It’s not that difficult.
Unfortunately, some people are in love with complaining.
Thanks for the excellent new app, MDN. FIVE STARS!
That only works if you don’t get logged out after a certain period of time which happens. When I’m at work I can’t have MDN open all day to keep it active so it remembers I closed the ad. Plus I am often on different computers throughout a 17 hour day and don’t leave myself logged in on all of them. And it’s not unusual for me to check this site every few hours in a work day. Sorry I can’t be like you and leave it logged in and up all day on one computer.
If it affects me in a negative way, then I’ll state my complaint, just as others do here. The side ads annoy less, but I detest that bottom one.
Yeah, that was just SP living up to his superior nature…
Really? 1$ is too high a price for you? Wow. Just…wow.
I agree: I dint like thus new version. AT ALL!
I want the ability to choose the Reader function that Safari has.
I wasn’t to HD able to zoom in with two fingers like on the web mobile version (I disliked and did not use the previous MDN app — if felt too constructed, claustrophobic, unable to see larger text and more.)
-100
😤
AGREED. GIVE US A NO AD freemium option PUHLEEZE!
I can live with ads, but I’d certainly pay a buck to get rid of them. I certainly would prefer they remain in one place: it is incredibly annoying for them to bounce from the bottom to the top then back. It causes the text to move down the screen while being read. That one flaw, by itself, makes a reading app practically unusable.
👍 (Thumbs up!)
Woah!!! AWESOME app! Congrats!
Yay! About time!!
The new app looks great. I’m sorry though that Apple’s stock numbers have been left out.
There’s an app for that.
Swipe down from the top of your screen.
Lo and behold— stocks in the notification center!
Awesome!
Can you fly Bobby?
You already had the most complete Apple news source. Now you have given us the most readable Apple news source. Ignore any complaints, the improvement is fantastic.
About time. What took you guys so long? MDN app was way over due for a refresh a year ago. Thanks MDN for finally getting in done. Better late than sorry I guess.
Very nice MDN, thank you!
OMG. Finally
Lookin’ good…thanks for updating!
Hurray!
Nice look but where are my saved articles ?
That is why I downloaded it back !
Much better.
Possible glitch:On my iPhone the app icon shows four new articles but when I open the app there are no new articles.
Exactly the same behavior here
If your MDN app icon has a stuck badge count (this comes from updating the old app with a current badge count), quit the MDN 3.0 app (double tap home button and swipe up on app) and relaunch it. When you click the home button, your MDN icon badge count should be reset.
That works!
Prefer the web verses app …. But thanks anyways!
Amazing 🙂 good job!
Why another app? Twitter is better for news. @MacDailyNews
A modern clean site, delete the left column…. And boycott facebook page imo.
Get outta here!!!! Well it’s about time!!!! Looks great!!
Having the option to remove the ads for a small fee would be nice IMO…
I would pay $.99 to $3.99 in a heartbeat to lose the intrusive and spastically-moving ads trashing the UX of this otherwise excellent piece of work.
“- Dynamic font resizing”
Ten stars for that one!!!
App updated automatically, will be able to start reading MDN on my iPhone again without glasses.. 🙂 or %-)
— Typed using the new app.
Page two comments now show on the app (this is new)
Okay, eleven stars!
Finally!!!! Hallelujah!!!!
Just downloaded it and it looks great!!! So glad that my data doesn’t keep spinning while I have the app open anymore!!! Good job all!!!
New date works great. Fantastic. Thank you for letting us change the size of the font for our old eyes.
Saved articles?
A way to mark articles as read (I read at my mac, then would like to quickly mark items as read on my phone so I’m not always fooled about old articles.
Landscape mode on iPhone.
I don’t know. I sure have come to like reading MDN in Safari again, navigating directly to the source sites and taking advantage of Safari’s reader mode.
Great update!
Just one more feature needed…in the share options make an Add to Reading List option so I can access the articles in Safari.
I’m done, iAds and no way to close them. You have lost a user who loved your app. This is absolutely what’s going so wrong with apps today.
It incredibly distracting watching an animated ad when perusing your stories…
I’ll vote with my fingers , they are going elsewhere.
You can close an iAd by clicking on the close x in the upper right hand corner and it will remain hidden for the day.
I don’t see a way to close the iAd at the top. There is no x.
Nor do I. And these blinking ads keep moving and changing. Driving me batty!!
I agree. The iAd that is at the top of the display is extremely distracting due to the movement. I’m so sick of Ads interfering with everything I try to read or watch…is this the future of iAd? Tell me no, please!
It’s about time this app got a refresh. I’d pay $3 to eliminate ads. They ruin the look of the app.
Me, too!
Great improvement!!!
Pay for it and support MDN. Skip your eight shots of Espresso for just one day and pay for the App!
Why post? There is no paid version. Check your facts first!
Because I want a paid version! Get the ads out. 3 bucks would be cheap!
I always thought it there was some irony that an app about Apple was has been so late in being updated. About frickin’ time. It looks great. Feels good so far too. Well done. Please don’t leave future updates too long guys 😉
Looks super! Thanks.
Cool
Seem to work well so far..congrats MDN.
Love it! Thanks MDN.
Hate the two columns on the iPad. Previous app was much better for those of us with older eyes. Please make single column available again.
Well done!
I would like a option to turn off the blizzard of white & skinny fonts. Otherwise it seems OK.
How about an dark background option at the app level?
I have always liked that MDN on the iPad gave me a 20 minute delayed quote on AAPL. I could get news and slightly old financial news at the same time. Bring back the stock price please.
Well it took you a while, but the wait was worth it.
Very nice!
Awesome finally it’s done.
Yay! It’s about time!
I think the comments are hard to read and follow for the size and don’t of people’s names. Also it’s a pain to have to scroll back through the article to comment while reading comments.
So what does the badge on the new app indicate? I’ve read all the stories posted, but the badge continues to read “5” on my phone’s home page.
If your MDN app icon has a stuck badge count (this comes from updating the old app with a current badge count), quit the MDN 3.0 app (double tap home button and swipe up on app) and relaunch it. When you click the home button, your MDN icon badge count should be reset.
Why in hell can’t I get to the NEXT article by swiping my finger instead of always going to a table of contents? Hasn’t anyone a MDN used a good interface before?
I too prefer to just visit you on the web. I just don’t see a great benefit from using “news Apps.”
Congrats, a much improved app. Could you possibly add an ability to mark all as read??
I just fired up iPhone version that uses whole screen!.Been a long time coming!
Super! Now to see if my name and address persist for comments.
And thy do persist! Excellent. I don’t see a way to reply to a comment though.
Hit the votes, then the arrow to reply
Testing iPad version for id persistence.
Cool. No more typing in my name etc.
Hey pretty goos
Oops! Pretty good.
Can we get back the arrow at the bottom of each article that links to the next article?
Thanks for the update MDN. I have the app on my home screen and use it every time there is a new post.
Man… What a LONG TIME COMING. Really loving the new App!!!
Leaps and bounds better then the old MDN app. Much quicker and easier to use then the website and I love how your using the less intrusive iAds for monetization.
There are 2 things I would love to see in this app that aren’t currently in the app:
First… integration with Instapaper / another read-it-later service. There are a lot of articles that are posted to MDN that I would love to read but I don’t have time for and integrating a solution like Instapaper would be awesome!!
Second… providing more options when it comes to signing into the App. I would much rather be able to use Twitter and / or Facebook to login to a service like this for commenting then have to remember / use the Word Press login system.
Overall though… A HUGE UPGRADE and a MUCH BETTER EXPERIENCE!! 😀
Keep up the good work and I look forward to continue improvements to the app!!
Live the website hate the ads on this app. Let me pay to remove please.
yes!
Well done! And superfast!
My advise for the next release: get rid of the iOS 6 keyboard for entering comments en get the new iOS 7 keyboard.
Great update!
Love the new clean design, the wider navigation menu on my iPad, and even more, the large font sizes now available.
Not bad but I wish it had a slide left and right function to go from article to article as does the appleinsider app. It is certainly more tedious to look up an article then have to go back in the top left corner to see the lists of articles as to select the next one. I would recommend to the people that built this app to take a look at the one from apple insider. May be in the next update?
Test
Just testing the login and comment process. This is a huge improvement. Kudos.
Testing…Obama is a Nazi…liberals are retarded…MDN shills for Faux News…Samsung sucks…Microshaft shoots itself in the foot yet again…youngsters these days have no respect for their elders…fire Tim Cook…Apple is Doomed…iOS 7 is a ripoff, icons are too girly…Marissa sitting on the red ball is a knockout, but those shoes have to go.
Check.
Really great! Thanks
Super Snappy! Nice app!
The app is much better. Little did I realize when downloading earlier that I got the old, crappy one. Didn’t know what the difference was and it barely worked. *This* is much better.
Hopefully if the app needs updating in the future because of some unforeseen bug it won’t be abandoned like the last one. I gave up on it long, long ago. I look forward to using this app once again.
So can we loose the Ad’s ?
Overselling it a bit I think. I don’t need this app. I follow MDN using the Flipboard app and it does all I need. I don’t need notifications from MDN because most of the articles are rumors or stock analyst manipulation news spins. MDN is also not exactly practicing good journalism by keeping things neutral or balanced, and tends to kick Apple-competitors when they’re down rather than being more professional about things. Congrats on the new app.
Haven’t received a notification all day
I love this, been waiting for ages! Thanks team it looks great on my iPod Touch & iPad Mini. Look forward to all the great leaks/news/rumours to come.
It’s about time! I mean, after all this is MacDailyNews.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for the dynamic font resizing it is a beautiful thing. I think this is one of the most radical upgrades I’ve seen in an app that has rendered it gorgeous. I’m a daily reader and this just transformed my experience of MacDailyNews.
Obnoxious ads move and gyrate in a way that is very distracting. I’m going back to the web version that I dislike less.
Great job~ I’ve been waiting for this since the launch of iPhone 5. Finally now there’s more viewing estate, but it would be even better if the App supported the Swipe-To-Back API, which Apple has in its Safari. This small feature is more convenient to switch back to the article list after finished reading an article. Looking forward for some fine-tuning.
I prefer to use the mobile version of the MacDailyNews website. I was happy with that. Now, it’s gone.
I don’t want to install another app on my iPhone. Safari is good enough for most news websites. We shouldn’t need an app for each website we visit.
MDN, please re-enable the mobile version of your website.
Then don’t use the app, use your browser. What on earth is the difficulty here?
Agreed! Bring back the mobile version!! Why remove the option?
Much better!
Why can’t the titles of the articles on the left be the same blue color that the website shows them. Then you can quickly peruse the titles to see if there is an article of interest.
I’ve been using the new MDN app a few days now, and can confirm the badge notification of new stories, as well as the lock screen notification is no longer working.
I guess the next step is to delete it and see if a reinstall will work.
We’ll see if my comment gets censored.
Well, I don’t begrudge them making money, but MDN has unfortunately Googled and become an advertising company rather than a reporting company. When the user experience suffers that much, it just signifies that the $ is first and not the readers.
Wow. Just got a notification about this on February 4th!
No Ad premium app now please