Mac RSS news readers reviewed

23 September 2005 · 0 comments

Ars technica reviews 8 Mac RSS newsreaders: Once RSS became popular, Mac developers leaped at the chance to develop newsreaders for the Mac. We had to limit our review to just six dedicated newsreader apps, plus two browsers that can also handle RSS feeds. … Most of the RSS readers we tested have built-in web [...]

 

Ars technica reviews 8 Mac RSS newsreaders:

Once RSS became popular, Mac developers leaped at the chance to develop newsreaders for the Mac. We had to limit our review to just six dedicated newsreader apps, plus two browsers that can also handle RSS feeds. …

Most of the RSS readers we tested have built-in web browsers and offer basic RSS reading functionality. For the eight apps chosen for this review, we put them through the wringer and pitted them against the toughest XML, the dirtiest Atom, and the harshest RSS. … On the hot seat…

  • PulpFiction
  • NewsMacPro
  • NewsFire
  • Shrook
  • NewsFan
  • NetNewsWire
  • Safari RSS
  • OmniWeb

Not surprisingly NetNewsWire comes out on top in this review. It’s a fantastic application with a developer who listens to and works with his community of software users to give us the features we want and which work well. It’s one of my favourite applications, that’s for sure.

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