17 Responses to “Freeware RSS Reader Recommendations?”

1. drinkspiller said on October 27th, 2005 at 8:53 am

   I use the Sage plugin for Firefox and for a Windows stand-alone app I prefer Sharpreader. I posted links here:
   http://www.ispilldrinks.com/2005/08/blog-feed.html

2. Milan said on October 27th, 2005 at 9:10 am

   From my point of view is the best GreatNews http://www.curiostudio.com/feature.html

3. Lee said on October 27th, 2005 at 9:28 am

   I recently moved everything from Bloglines to the self-hosted Gregarius (http://gregarius.net/). Couldn’t be happier.

4. Bryan Rieger said on October 27th, 2005 at 9:47 am

   I actually quite like Mozilla Thunderbird for RSS - especially if you’re using it for email. NewsGator’s Outlook Edition is also great for those users who live in Outlook.

   Tried OnFolio - works within Internet Explorer + Firefox, it’s feed support was decent last time I looked.

   Personally, I’ve switched from all of these to Rojo http://rojo.com for a web-based reader. I really like the tagging and simplicity of the UI overall.

5. deepFlame said on October 27th, 2005 at 10:08 am

   on Windows I use SharpReader. the only downside is, that it needs the .NET-Framework.

   on MacOSX, I prefer the opensource reader Vienna(hosted by Sourceforge). It’s way better that NetNewsWire

6. Daniel Serodio said on October 27th, 2005 at 11:16 am

   FeedDaemon is my choice, but for freeware, try RSS Bandit:
   http://www.rssbandit.org/

7. Martin Wood said on October 27th, 2005 at 11:19 am

   I use RSSOwl ( http://rssowl.org )

   Nice cross platform RSS Reader (PC, OSX, Linux, Solaris)

8. Mal said on October 27th, 2005 at 11:27 am

   Sharpreader is probably the best free windows product. I used it for a long time before splashing the cash on FeedDemon

9. Stefan said on October 27th, 2005 at 12:48 pm

   PC: RSS Bandit: http://www.rssbandit.org

10. Bart said on October 27th, 2005 at 2:13 pm

    I still do use RSS Reader extension for Firefox. Small, clean UI..

11. Dave said on October 27th, 2005 at 3:48 pm

    I like Opera’s integrated RSS reader a lot. Opera’s completely free now (no banner ad anymore).

12. Mike said on October 27th, 2005 at 9:24 pm

    I agree with Dave here. The RSS reader in Opera is awesome. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve used the search feature to find past articles from your blog. The latest technical preview of Opera 9 also has some improvements like the ability to display pictures and ATOM 1.0 support.

13. Amit Agarwal said on October 27th, 2005 at 9:50 pm

    Newsgator for Outlook.

    http://www.newsgator.com

14. Zubin said on February 9th, 2006 at 12:32 am

    Snarfer is quite good too. Simple, clean, lite.

    http://www.download.com/Snarfer/3000-9227_4-10499476.html

15. Gary said on March 10th, 2006 at 12:22 pm

    I’ve just recently started using RRS readers, but I have tried out a few. Opera’s built in e-mail style reader was my favourite. When you visit a site with RSS or Atom feeds and RSS icon appears in the address field. All you have to do to subscribe to a feed is Click on the icon.

    My second choice would be RSSOwl, a free stand alone.

16. Neil S said on April 4th, 2006 at 6:13 am

    I use Omea Reader. It offers the best functionality and layout of all the RSS readers. It’s free as well.

    http://www.jetbrains.com/omea/reader/

    few people know about it, but if you try it, you won’t be disappointed

17. x said on September 19th, 2007 at 8:35 am

    http://newsfox.mozdev.org/