Dozens of third-party RSS news readers are available in the Mac App Store, many of which can also synchronise with your iPad and iPhone. Most of the popular ones can also synchronise with a Google Reader account – head over to the Google website to set one up (it’s free!). Originally ported from Google Reader: Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Google Reader: Mac OS X Snow Leopard + Delicious. And now available as a safari extension! I also fixed one or two parts that were no longer working since a few reader updates have been released since the last updates to the userscripts, and made some modifications of my own. The best part is that Neat Reader is absolutely free, and you can download the Mac ePub reader version of our app right now and start reading your ePub files in just a few minutes. It works on all Macs running MacOS 10.8 or above, and you can also download the app to your iOS or Android smartphone for on-the-go reading.
It was always possible to add RSS feeds to Mac OS X Mail.app and I used it frequently just like many of you.
Unfortunately Apple killed RSS feeds in Mac OS X Mail.app with the release of Mac OS X Mountain Lion. The RSS feed in Mail.app simply disappeared and it isn’t possible to subscribe to RSS feeds through Mail.app anymore unfortunately.
We have to find an alternative and there are many but first let’s get our RSS feed URLs back so that we can continue.
Getting your list of RSS Feeds from Mail.app
You can easily get the list of RSS feeds that you were subscribed to with Mail.app on Mac OS X.
Open your terminal and type/paste the following command and hit the Enter/Return key:
It will output the list of URLs for the feeds that you were subscribed to so that you can resubscribe to them using an alternative RSS news feed client.
Get a Popular RSS Feed Reader
Free Rss Reader Mac Os X Download
Now you can go ahead and get software to load your existing and new RSS feeds into.
Here are some popular RSS feed reader apps for Mac OS X which are worth looking at:
RSS Toaster
Cost: $0.99
RSS Toaster is what we are all used to. It displays in a similar fashion to an email client like Mac OS X Mail.app itself. Feeds on the left, reading panel on the right with items at the top and the selected item’s content below that. You should find this RSS reader easy to use and an easy transition from what you had in Mail.app previously.
Reeder
Cost: Free
Another great RSS feed reader and Reeder is very similar to RSS Toaster above, giving you a traditional interface to work with. My concern about Reeder is that it links up with your Google Reader account. When you start it up the first time it asks you to login with Google Reader and since Google Reader is being discontinued I’m not sure what this means and if Reeder will continue working as it should after Google Reader stops working. I assume not? For now, it looks great and it works well.
NewsBar – RSS News Reader for Mac OS X
Cost: $4.99
The NewsBar – RSS News Reader is a different approach to reading your RSS feeds. I personally prefer this since it integrates well with Mac OS X and you don’t have a distinct, separate application where your RSS feeds are running that you have to switch to. It hooks to the notification centre to let you know about new items in feeds and it has a beautiful tab-controlled and fully customisable news bar where you can view all your feeds as well as quickly share, bookmark, etc.
Leaf RSS Reader
Cost $4.99
Leaf RSS Reader for Mac OS X provides an elegant, clean and simple way of reading RSS feeds on your Mac. It shows all feed items in an easy to read window and slides out the item content as you click on it. This reader makes it easy to catch the highlights of your RSS feeds and click through to the ones that you would like to read more about.
RSS Reader
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Cost: $1.99
This is one of the most popular RSS reader apps in the Mac App Store. It provides a clean, uncluttered interface without any images, showing your RSS feed items so that you can click on them and view more. It handles perfectly from the taskbar/statusbar as well so you’ll never miss any news or articles. If you like the looks of it, get RSS Reader for your Mac today.
Open Source Rss Reader
It has been a long time, but Vienna 3.5.6 is finally out.
The app is now notarised, so it will be much easier to install Vienna under macOS Catalina (10.15).
This version is also important if you intent to use Inoreader.com for syncing between the different devices you use to read feeds. We had problems with Inoreader which has put in place severe limitations of its services. In fact, Inoreader almost entirely blocked the use of Vienna on its servers.
Of course, you could still use TheOldReader.com, Bazqux.com, FeedHQ.org or any FreshRSS server as an alternative. But we disliked the situation.
Thankfully, we have been able to improve it with two changes.
First, through the use of new algorithms, Vienna 3.5.6 is able to significantly reduce the network traffic between your Mac and any OpenReader server, including Inoreader. The gain is particularly noticeable if you privilege the actions present in the ‘Folder’ menu for marking articles read, rather than the actions present in the ‘Article’ menu.
For the time being, we recommend not to use the “Mark current article read after a short delay” setting in Preferences, if you are syncing with Inoreader. This could lead to a quick exhaustion of the daily quota of actions that Inoreader allocates to our app.
Instead, set “Mark current article read after “Next Unread” command” in the Preferences. Then, mainly use the “Mark All Articles as Read” or “Skip Folder” commands for updating your reading progression.
Another important change is that each Vienna user is now able to get his/her personal quota to be used with Inoreader, instead of using the very limited quota which has been assigned to us developers.
To do so, go with a web browser to the https://www.inoreader.com/all_articles#preferences-developer section of your Inoreader account. Choose “New application”, then select “Vienna” (or whatever you like) for application name, “OS X” for platform. You can leave other values unchanged and validate.
Note the values App ID: and App key: which have been assigned to the newly created application.
You can then fire a Terminal session and type the two following commands :
and :
(Replace the quoted parts with the aforementioned values)
You can monitor your use of daily quotas by going back to the https://www.inoreader.com/all_articles#preferences-developer section of your Inoreader account.