What RSS reader(s) do you use? [closed]

Question

What RSS reader do you use and why?

Answer 1

Google Reader. It can be accessed from everywhere on different devices, where I have Internet access.

Answer 2

Feed Demon - Because it doesn't present RSS feeds like email.

Answer 3

Netvibes. Read from anywhere, I can group feeds, etc.

Answer 4

Opera. It features a built-in RSS reader. I am too lazy to have a dedicated client/application. And especially since it's part of the browser of choice, it's a simple toggle of the Mail pane to view the count and list of the latest feeds.

Answer 5

FeedDemon along with a Newsgator account, for use on multiple machines. Including the NetNewsWire iPhone app :)

Answer 6

I use FeedReader for reading my company's internal blog RSS feeds, because they can't be accessed from the internet. (Still use Google Reader for everything else)

Answer 7

NetNewsWire, the best Mac client. I tried Google Reader for a while and switched back because having a client-side app is just... faster.

Answer 8

Akgregator

Answer 9

I use Google Reader because I can share items with my friends.

Answer 10

Outlook. It's easy to set up, and messages come across like any other email. At work I can read my feeds and email in the same place.

Answer 11

I used to use Google Reader, but after finding feedly, I have not looked back. Essentially it's Google Reader in a more magazine-ish way, presented nicely, with even nice social twists as well.

I highly recommend anyone who's a bit tired of Google Reader's way of presenting every feed entry as just another node in the stack.

Answer 12

I switch between Google Reader and Feedly.

Reader is good for when I want to read lots of stuff quickly and just scan. Feedly is great at bringing out the good stuff in my feeds, I like the magazine-style view.

This combo lets me keep up to date with over 700 feeds.

Answer 13

Netvibes because it's cool, and has tabs and themes. I can also create a public and private profile and it's generally great.

Answer 14

Vienna (Mac OS X).

Answer 15

Google Reader (via Firefox)

and also Bylines (Google Reader app for the iPhone)

The excellent thing about Google Reader is that it keeps the feeds synchronised between computers at home, work, and mobile browsing.

Answer 16

NewsGator because the mobile iPhone version is wayyyy better than Google Reader's and you can use NetNewsWire on the iPhone for offline reading.

Answer 17

Because no-one mentioned it so far: Internet Explorer. It's the most pleasant (yet still not perfect) feed reading experience I have seen so far. After about a week of trying out various other clients I gave up and returned to IE.

Also I regularly read RSS when I don't have an internet connection so a web application won't suffice. For me at least.

Answer 18

boreal.rssowl.org and rssbandit.org

Answer 19

RSSOwl -- I'm not sure why I prefer RSSOwl. I've tried others and this just seems to be the one I keep coming back to.

Answer 20

NewsFire. I've never found an RSS reader that allows me to go through my feeds as quickly. It has a dual pane interface. The right column shows your feeds while the main window changes to show the item list for the selected feed and the viewer for each item. So I simply press space bar repeatedly to step through each item. If I want to read more, I click the heading and it opens in Safari in the background. Then I keep going to the next item/feed. When I've finished, I close NewsFire and switch to Safari where I read each story I've opened. I've tried other feed readers but have yet to find another that lets me use this method which I find fast and convenient.

Answer 21

For my general interest feeds I use Brief installed in my personal use account on Firefox (I also have a work account and developer account set up in Firefox to ensure I'm on task). I really like Brief because it makes filtering news I want to read in full from the headlines I want to skim and the ones I've already read really easy.

For my daily and work related news I use News & Blogs within my email client Thunderbird set to update every 3 hours so that a) they are with my email for convenience and b) they don't frequently interrupt my task at hand.

Answer 22

Google Reader + PostRank + AideRSS. PostRank helps me weed out some of the less-interesting posts out of the hundreds I get per day.

Answer 23

Shaun Inman's Fever is a nice little feed reader.

It does a pretty good job of finding trending topics and popular shares to give you a quick overview of important items.

I was using it for about a month before I had a database melt down and had to go back to Google Reader for now.

Answer 24

About a year ago, I switched from Bloglines to Google Reader. There were two reasons I switched:

1. The mobile/iPhone interface got some nice improvements
2. The reliability of Bloglines declined significantly.

Google Reader's keyboard shortcuts make getting through many feeds quickly an easy thing to do.

Answer 25

I switched to using Cullect a while ago. It has features which I think are innovative and useful for RSS readers and I haven't seen anywhere else:

• Important view which sorts the feed items based on a complex criterion based on your previous reading and recommendation, other people's links to the post. This is the best feature.
• Super-minimal UI. It gets out of the way, and is totally keyboard-accessible.
• Curation suppport - having multiple people sift through stories and recommend them in order to improve the aforementioned Important view is nice.
• Twitter, email, and del.icio.us sharing built-in.

Unfortunately, it's going through some growing pains right now, so it may not be great at the moment, but I still use it even when it's half-broken because of these features.

Answer 26

Feed on Feeds. It has some minor issues, but works well enough for me - I like the server side aggregation, and since I run all my other stuff on the same server, it's convenient to have everything in the same place.

Answer 27

I jumped into the Streamy beta a long time ago and came back to it recently. They have made some really good changes. It has a nice aggregation of my news, as well as Facebook and Twitter accounts. It will also plug into AIM/Yahoo/MSN/etc. so I can do a little chatting off and are still kickin' it old school.

Answer 28

Omea Reader and it's more capable cousing Omea Pro from JetBrains are my current favorites. They are free and open source.

Answer 29

Mail.app on Mac OS X. I am very happy with it. My emails and news are at one place that way.

Answer 30

I use iGoogle to follow RSS feeds.