Open in News
Opens paywalled articles from publishers like WSJ, The Atlantic, The New Yorker and WIRED in Apple News, where your News+ subscription covers them.
Safari on iPhoneiPadMacChrome on Mac
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Opens News for you
When an article you load is in Apple News, News opens it. An Open in News button also appears at the bottom of the page.
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Private
No server and no private APIs. It checks Apple’s public index of News articles, and the page’s address never leaves your device.
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You pick the sites
It starts with paywalled publishers that News carries. Add or remove sites, or turn automatic opening off, from the extension’s menu.
Install
- iPhone and iPad: download the IPA from the latest release and install it with Sideloadly. Then turn on Auto Open in News in Safari’s extension settings and allow it on the sites you read.
- Mac, Safari: build and install it with Xcode.
- Mac, Chrome: build it with the included script, then load it at
chrome://extensionswith Developer mode on.
Step-by-step instructions are on GitHub. Open in News is free for noncommercial use.
Get it on GitHubNeeds Apple News+. Open in News only gets you to the article in News. Reading paywalled articles there still takes a News+ subscription.