Any real contender should be able to pull feeds from any of the popular online services such as Feedly, Feed Wrangler, Feedbin, NewsBlur and more. When looking at RSS clients for the Mac, integration is the name of the game. So, which one is best? Evaluation Criteria for the Best RSS Reader Plus, anecdotally speaking, there seems to be an increasing number of individuals moving to RSS from social networks like Twitter or Facebook to better filter out junk news. Quite the opposite in fact searching “RSS” in the Mac App Store yields well over a dozen applications for sale. Unread - our favorite app for reading RSS feeds on the iPad - doesn’t have a desktop version, but that doesn’t mean the genre is dead. The closure of Google Reader had many predicting the death of RSS, but in its wake, numerous services have sprung up, and there’s been a resurgence in RSS applications for both iOS and macOS. RSS? Didn’t Google kill that off a long, long time ago? It syncs with a slew of third-party services, looks good, and makes it easy to share content with others. The magazine-like format for the articles works great for me, and if I see something I want to follow up on I can send it to Instapaper-my must have app for keeping track of article links.Reeder is the best RSS reader for Mac users. I use Flipboard for my more casual news reading. You can pay for a Feedly subscription if you want more robust sorting and searching, keyword filters, unlimited feeds and boards, and more. The Feedly apps are free, as is using the service. I use the the Feedly web interface in my browser on my Mac, and the Feedly app on my iPhone and iPad. My go-to for daily news is Feedly, which serves as my RSS feed manager. It’s a minimal app that contains the tools you need, without any unneeded fluff like a social aspect (which I personally don’t like). Like Apple News (and pretty much any news app) it sorts news into categories. I like Feedly because as an RSS aggregator, I can add any website’s RSS feed that I want. Also, I like the fact that Apple has real news editors that curate the content. I like Apple News because it gives me news from a wide range of sources, and it groups news based around categories, like Tech, Music, and Entertainment. The apps I use are Apple News and Feedly. Slack for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac Andrew Orr Our new Apple Context Machine Facebook Group has been a big help, too. Twitter, Facebook, and email leads also play a big role in my efforts to keep abreast with what’s happening in the Apple tech worlds. Internally, we have some specific Apple feeds piped through to a dedicated Slack channel. For a news aggregator, I use Google News, as well as Google Analytics’s trending service. I use a variety of ways to gather information and research articles. When I’m on news duty, I add my RSS reader, the open source Mac app Vienna. I don’t miss much thanks to the 450 authors and sites I follow on Twitter. For interesting, off-beat or deeper technical news. iPad apps: CNET, TechCrunch, Mashable, iMore, USAToday/tech. Always has the most important Apple news. I follow all major political and technical news sites. He uses a collection of apps and websites, and he has a hierarchy to go along with his various sources. John has a different approach to sorting and reading his online news. I do most of my feed reading on my iPad, anyway. I keep meaning to try Reeder for Mac, but I haven’t made that leap yet. On iOS, I am a huge fan (and user) of Reeder for iOS. On my Mac, I simply read my feeds in Safari using Feedbin’s web interface. That gives me one central place where all my feeds are synced, including per-article read and unread status. To manage all these feeds, I pay US$30/year for a Feedbin subscription. Of course, I track feeds of publications that are of interest to me for both personal and professional reasons, but I also use customized feeds from both Google searches (aka Google Alerts) and Google News to deliver me news from a variety of sources about topics of specific interest. I use RSS feeds on a daily basis in a few different ways. Keep reading to see which apps the TMO team uses every day. If you’re interested in learning more about the two be sure to check out his article. News Readers versus RSSĪndrew Orr did a great job of explaining the difference between news readers and RSS readers. Read on to see which apps we use to keep on top of the topics that interest us. The TMO team all have their own ways of managing that information onslaught. News and RSS readers can take what’s otherwise an unwieldy online information overload and turn it into a manageable-and useful-stream of content you’re actually interested in.
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