Marquee Reader

Marquee Reader turns your Apple TV into a calm, ad-free news surface. Subscribe to the sites you actually want to read. When the TV goes idle, Marquee fades into an ambient headline screensaver — your feeds drifting past the way a departures board does, with the time, the source, and as much or as little detail as you like. Sit down, press a button, and read the whole article on the big screen. No algorithm decides what you see. No account. Nothing is tracked. AMBIENT SCREENSAVER • Headlines from your newest articles, or only from the ones you starred • Swipe left and right to page through what's waiting • Single-headline mode shows the story's image and an excerpt • Hold the centre button to open an article and read it there and then • Your own photo as the backdrop, or a clean dark canvas • Optional clock, feed icons, and a soft chime when news arrives READING • A real reader view — article text, images and links, not a web page • Four themes: Dark, Black, Sepia and Light • Six typefaces and a text size that scales the entire interface • Speed Read flashes one word at a time; change pace live with up and down • Star anything to keep it, and find it again under Starred YOUR FEEDS, YOUR WAY • Import an OPML file and bring a whole subscription list with you • Organise into folders • Set how often each individual feed is checked, from minutes to daily • Articles older than a chosen age can mark themselves read, so a busy list never becomes an unread count nobody could clear A FREE COMPANION FOR IPHONE, IPAD AND MAC Typing a URL with a remote is miserable, so don't. Reading something good in Safari on your phone or Mac? Tap Share, choose Marquee Reader, and you're subscribed — it finds the feed behind the page, so there's no feed address to hunt for and nothing to paste. The new feed is on your Apple TV seconds later. The free Marquee Reader Companion also organises folders, mirrors every setting, and receives articles you send from the TV to finish reading later. Search for "Marquee Reader Companion" on the App Store. BUILT TO BE A GOOD CITIZEN Marquee identifies itself honestly to every site it fetches, checks feeds about once an hour rather than hammering them, backs off when a server asks it to, and honours the quiet hours publishers declare. Small courtesies, but they are why independent sites can afford to keep publishing feeds at all. PRIVACY, PLAINLY Marquee Reader contacts exactly two things: the feeds you chose, and your own iCloud. There are no analytics, no third-party SDKs, no advertising, and no account to create. Your subscriptions and starred articles sync privately through your own iCloud account, where the developer cannot see them. ACCESSIBILITY Full VoiceOver support, Reduce Motion, and non-English feeds are read aloud in the right voice. Text size applies across the whole app, not just the reader. One purchase. No subscription. No upsell.