Advertisement There’s no shortage of Whether you're hungry for the very latest happenings or just looking to catch up on the week's events, your iPad is a great news reader. For some of us, Twitter and Facebook do a good enough job. Then there are With the speed of Twitter, it can seem impossible to stay up to date with everything going on in real-time.

Here are two methods you can use to never miss breaking news again. That show us stories that multiple people in our network are sharing, but you have no control over the actual feed.

If you’re looking for a fast way to get news updates from specific sources,. Subscribe to your favorite feeds, organize them in folders, and browse through the updates as they arrive. RSS apps make this process more pleasurable by streamlining the process and giving you control over your feed. Here are the best RSS readers for macOS. ($9.99) Reeder 3 is the best Mac RSS app if you value the reading experience above everything else.

The app is polished, fast and filled with intuitive gestures and shortcuts. Even if you’re loading 5,000 unread articles, it still won’t set your MacBook fans blazing. Reeder supports most popular syncing services like Feedly, Feed Wrangler, Feedbin and so on. It will even import your Instapaper Premium is now free.

Here are the six read-it-later features that could make you both a better and more productive reader. (but sadly there’s no support for Pocket). And of course, you can use it without any syncing service. That's right, a beautiful, Retina display-toting 13-inch MacBook Pro could be yours for the low cost of $0., reading articles displayed in the crisp San Francisco font is a joy. So is smooth scrolling in the list view.

The app also has a couple of different gorgeous versions of dark mode. From the default white layout, you can switch to something beige, gray, dark gray or full-on black.

I’m personally a fan of the Not all iOS apps offer night mode, but the important ones do. Since night mode can work wonders for your eyes and your sleep, you should use it whenever you can. The app has a three-pane UI. You’ll see your folders and sources in the first pane. The articles in the second and the article text in the third. Once an article is selected, just swipe left on the trackpad to open it in the built-in web browser.

Or just press the keyboard shortcut ( G) to expand the truncated article right there. Reeder might not have pro level filtering options, but if a premium reading experience is what you crave, Reeder 3 is worth the $9.99 price of admission. (Free) Feedly for Mac is a free app. Feedly's latest update came with three new features: Boards, Notes, and Highlights.

Here's how they can help you be more productive and organized with your RSS feeds. And all of its features, this is the RSS reader app for you. The app hasn’t been updated in over 3 years but that’s not an issue because it’s just a wrapper for Feedly’s website. You get all the functionality of the Feedly website in a dedicated window on your dekstop.

As it’s a web wrapper, you’ll miss out on some of the classic RSS features like offline caching of synced articles. What you get instead is all the over-the-top features that Feedly’s web app is famous for. If you use the Feedly app on your iPhone or if you like Feedly’s features such as starring, saving, Boards, popularity ranking of articles and so on, you’ll like using Feedly for Mac. Just keep in mind that offline support is non-existent, and it’s not a “proper” RSS app like Reeder is. ($9.99) I’ve heard people describe ReadKit as Reeder’s slightly-less-attractive sibling. While that’s not a wholesome way to describe an app, there is some truth to it. Design-wise, ReadKit doesn’t hold a candle to Reeder 3.

That doesn’t mean it looks bad or it’s unusable. Structurally, ReadKit’s design is quite similar to Reeder: the three-pane UI, the sharing features, the typography options, the keyboard shortcuts, and so on. While Reeder focuses more on the reading experience, ReadKit focuses on filters and gives you more control over what you see. First of all, you can read your Pocket, Instapaper and Pinboard feeds in ReadKit. The app also has Smart Folders support, allowing you to filter stories by a tight set a criteria. You can create a folder that only lists articles that contain specific words, or from specific sources, that were published in the past 3 days. If you think you’d value this level of granular control over your feeds, check out ReadKit. (Free) Vienna is the only open source RSS Reader on this list.

Rss Reader For Macbook

The app is free and only syncs with Open Reader-compatible services like The Old Reader and InoReader. Vienna can only be downloaded from the GitHub page and while it runs well Every new macOS release introduces new tricks and features, and macOS Sierra is no exception. (sync was quick and painless), it doesn’t look like it belongs in the present. The design language is still from the pre-Yosemite redesign phase and on Sierra, and it sticks out. Design issues aside, Vienna is a solid, stable and feature rich RSS reader. The main reason to choose it is arguably its price tag of free. And the Rest Your choices don’t end there.

There are other RSS readers with, more specific feature sets that didn’t quite make the top four. Safari Yes, you can use Look beyond the obvious and unearth the usefulness of Apple's fast and energy-efficient web browser. Using the Subscriptions feature. Open a new tab in Safari, enable the sidebar using the Shift + Cmd + L shortcut and click on the @ icon. Click on Subscriptions and then select Add Feed.

($1.99) It’s called RSS Reader and it’s Most of us glance at the Mac menu bar for the date and time, but with a few apps it can do much more. That displays your RSS feeds in a floating window.

Just as the name suggests, it’s very minimal and simple. You can’t sync with a service or import an OPML file. If you want a quick way to view new stories from specific sources, this little $1.99 menu bar utility is for you. ($9.99) Leaf is a visual RSS reader.

It has big and bright UI elements as well as eye-catching icons for websites. But if you value the actual reading experience, Leaf won’t be the right fit for you. Do you still use RSS to read your favorite news sites? Which RSS service and apps do you use? Share with us in the comments below. Image Credit: guteksk7 via Shutterstock.com Explore more about:,.

Is an RSS/Atom reader for macOS. Vienna can connect directly to the websites you want to track. Additionally or alternatively, you can also sync with a server supporting the (an adaptation of the now deceased Google Reader API).

Vienna has been successfully tested with BazQux.com, FeedHQ.org, InoReader.com and TheOldReader.com. Compatibility Since version 3.2, Vienna requires a minimum of OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). Vienna 3.1.x requires a minimum of OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Vienna 3.0.x requires a minimum of OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).

Installing Admins upload release and test versions at. Alternatively, you can download releases from the. Homebrew Vienna is also available as a Cask for.

Brew cask install vienna Getting support If the in-application help files and the don’t answer your questions, head over to our which is hosted by Cocoaforge. Reporting an issue If after reading the forum and asking your questions there, you are convinced that there is a problem in Vienna's code or an important feature is missing, you may open an on Github. Be concise, but as precise as possible to allow other people reproducing the issue. To keep things short, you can provide a link to a relevant thread or message on the Cocoaforge forum. Contributing Want to contribute? There are many ways you can, even if you aren't a developer.

Localizing We need help keeping Vienna translations up to date into different languages. Apart from English, here are the languages for which a localization effort has started:. Basque (eu). Simplified Chinese (zh-Hans). Traditional Chinese (zh-Hant). Czech (cs).

Danish (da). Dutch (nl). French (fr). Galician (gl). German (de).

Italian (it). Japanese (ja). Korean (ko). Portuguese (pt).

Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR). Russian (ru). Spanish (es). Swedish (sv). Turkish (tr). Ukrainian (uk) You can contribute localizations at.

Registration is required, but the account is free. If you want to contribute for a language that is not yet listed, then contact us. Do not localize the project's.strings files directly.

Localizable.plist files have to be localized directly. Writing custom styles Vienna supports a variety of different display styles for articles. These styles are provided on the Styles sub-menu off the View menu. A style is a combination of an HTML template that is used to control the placement of various parts of the article and a CSS stylesheet that controls the appearance of the article. You can write styles by referring to. Have a look at existing styles in the Styles folder. Writing plugins Vienna supports plugins which are installed in menus and/or on the toolbar and can run defined actions.

These plugins are XML-based and can be created by editing a simple.plist-file without any knowledge of Cocoa programming, in as little as 15 minutes. You can write plugins by referring to.

Have a look at existing plugins in the Plugins folder. Writing code Please check. Vienna now uses for managing dependencies.