Rss Reader For Mac Os

NewsNetWire ($10 pre-release, $20 thereafter). Launched in 2002, NewsNetWire is the oldest RSS reader out there for Mac – and among the longest-developed programs on the platform.

  1. Best Rss Reader For Mac
  2. Rss Feed Reader Mac Os X
  3. Rss Reader For Mac
  4. Rss Reader For Mac Os X
  5. Rss Reader Mac Os Sierra

Reading a lot of blogs can be tough to manage without an RSS news reader, which consolidates everything you read in one place. While there are plenty of news readers on the Mac, Reeder wins our hearts thanks to its beautiful and simple interface, thorough integration with social features, and fantastic customizability.

Reeder

  1. Pineapple is a web site news aggregator for Mac OS X. Pineapple fetches the headlines from web sites that syndicate their content (via RSS - a standard for distributing news), sorts out the articles you haven't read and presents them to you in an easy-to-browse format.
  2. RSS Menu turns the Mac OS X menu bar into a versatile RSS feed reader that not only displays headlines but also complete stories, lets you group feeds and integrates with both Safari and iTunes. Apart from the obvious shortcomings of a menu-based RSS feed reader, it would be nice if RSS Menu could hide read items and integrate with Google.

Platform: OS X
Price: $5
Download Page

Features

  • Syncs with Google Reader
  • Beautiful interface
  • Syncs (and fully integrates) with Readability
  • Post articles directly to Instapaper, Delicious, or your blog
  • Gesture support
  • Customizable shortcuts
  • Send to QUOTE.fm Read, Instapaper, Pocket (formerly ReadItLater), and Readability
  • Save to Pinboard, Delicious, Zootool, and Evernote
  • Post on App.net, Twitter, Facebook (posting on Facebook requires OS X 10.8.2)
  • Open articles with Instapaper Mobilizer and Google Mobilizer
  • You can disable Flash (and other plug-ins) if you want
  • Support for retina displays

Best Rss Reader For Mac

Where It Excels


Reeder first entices you with its beautiful and simple interface but keeps you around with its solid list of features. Despite Reeder's simplicity, the app manages to pack in quite a bit. One of the biggest highlights is that Readability—the service that converts web pages into more readable pages of text—is a part of the app. If a news feed contains an article that needs a little touching up, you can click the Readability button and make it a lot cleaner. Reeder also provides tons of ways to share and save articles you find in your feeds. It integrates with several services, such as Instapaper and Pocket. You can also pin articles to Pinterist, save them to Evernote, share them on Twitter or Facebook, and much more. A very comprehensive preferences pane allows you to customize your entire experience, from shortcuts to gestures to the app's appearance. Reeder offers solid performance on its own, but you can make it run exactly the way you want with a few simple tweaks.

Rss reader for mac os

Advertisement

Rss Reader For Mac Os

Where It Falls Short


Reeder offers few downsides, but it does lack subfolders. Rather than displaying any subfolders you may have in your Google Reader account, Reeder simply lists them without any hierarchy (i.e. it displays 'News — Finance' instead of listing Finance below the News category). If you don't have a ton of feeds, this isn't a big deal. If you do, however, you'll find it a little annoying and wasteful. Reeder also costs money. While $5 is a pretty fair price for a really great news reader, its primary competition—NetNewsWire—costs nothing. While we like Reeder better, if you're frugal you're simply not going to choose it when an app that's nearly as good costs absolutely nothing.

Advertisement

The Competition

NetNewsWire (Free) was once our top pick, but over time it has come to feel a bit outdated. That said, it's still a remarkably powerful news reader with lots of great features. It's also free, so if you don't want to cough up $5 for Reeder you can get yourself a great alternative at no cost.

Advertisement

Cream ($4) offers a more compact experience than Reeder's default view and costs a little less. Reeder, however, can shrink down to the same size. Cream is fairly new and still has a ways to go before it's truly a serious competitor, but it's definitely a news reader to watch.

Pulp ($10) costs more than anything on this list and doesn't offer a ton of advantages. That said, if you'd like to read your news feeds in a traditional newspaper format you'll want to check it out. It offers a very different interface from all the other apps and seeks to show you news you'll actually like rather than just everything (by default).

Advertisement

Gruml is another free RSS news reader much like NetNewsWire, but in my few months of use I found it wasn't quite as stable. On the positive side, it does have greater support for external services (like ReadItLater). It may have features that are important to you, and if so it may be worth trying, but despite being a pretty solid app it just doesn't measure up when you're actually using it.

There are a lot of other news readers for Mac but these three offer the most notable, worthwhile differences. If you have a favorite that was pass over or overlooked, please mention it in the comments.

Advertisement

Lifehacker's App Directory is a new and growing directory of recommendations for the best applications and tools in a number of given categories. This week, we're focusing on news reader applications.

Advertisement

In 2012, Apple discontinued RSS feeds in its Mail and Safari applications with the release of Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. They were eventually returned to Safari but not to the Mail application. This article refers to the Mail application in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and earlier.

Read RSS News Feeds in Mac OS X Mail 10.7 and Earlier

The Apple Mail application in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and earlier can receive not only mail but also articles or headlines from RSS news feeds. You can even have news feeds appear in your inbox along with email newsletters.

To add an RSS news feed to your Mac OS X Mail:

Reader
  1. Open the Mail application on your Mac.

  2. Select File, and then click Add RSS Feeds from the menu bar.

  3. If you have the desired feed already bookmarked in Safari:

    • Choose Browse Feeds in Safari Bookmarks.
    • Use Collections and the search field to locate the desired RSS news feed or feeds.
    • Make sure the boxes of all feeds you want to read in Mail are checked.
    • Click Add.
  4. To add a feed that is not bookmarked in Safari:

    • Choose Specify a custom feed URL.
    • Copy and paste the RSS news feed's address from your browser.
    • Click OK.
  5. That's it!

Rss Feed Reader Mac Os X

Read RSS News Feed Items in Your Mac OS X Mail Inbox

To see new articles from a feed in your Mac OS X Mail inbox:

  1. Open the feed under RSS in the mailbox list.

  2. Click the up arrow.

Click the down arrow in the feed's folder under Inbox to remove it from the inbox but not from Mac OS X Mail altogether.

Rss Reader For Mac

Read RSS News Feeds Grouped by Folder in Mac OS X Mail

Rss Reader For Mac Os X

To read multiple feeds grouped together:

Rss Reader Mac Os Sierra

  1. Click the + button at the bottom of the mailbox list.

  2. Select New Mailbox from the menu.

  3. Make sure RSS (or a subfolder thereof) is selected under Location.

  4. Type the desired name (for example, 'Morning Reading').

  5. Click OK.

  6. Move all desired RSS news feeds to the folder.

  7. Open the folder to read items from all the feeds in it.