RSS Feed Readers


Use one of these applications to read RSS feeds. Some are free, some are not, all have a variety of different features. Note that clicking on any link below will open a new browser window so that you can easily return to this list when you are done learning about each feed reader. All links should be live as I frequently check for and remove or replace dead links.

According to Feedburner, the approximate number of different RSS feed reader clients polling Feedburner's top 800 feeds grew from 409 in September 2004 to 719 in February 2005.

To help you make a choice, here are the feed readers most frequently used with Feedburner in February 2005 (the most frequently used one is listed first):

RSS Feed Reader: Bloglines (web-based)
RSS Feed Reader: NetNewsWire (Mac desktop-based)
RSS Feed Reader: Mozilla's Firefox browser (Windows, Mac, Linux desktop-based)
RSS Feed Reader: Pluck (web-based or Windows desktop-based edition)
RSS Feed Reader: NewsGator Online (web-based)
RSS Feed Reader: FeedDemon (Windows desktop-based)
RSS Feed Reader: SharpReader (Windows desktop-based)
RSS Feed Reader: My Yahoo (web-based)
RSS Feed Reader: iPodder (desktop-based, Windows or Mac)
RSS Feed Reader: NewsGator (Windows desktop-based)
RSS Feed Reader: Mozilla's Thunderbird email client (Windows, Mac, Linux desktop-based)
RSS Feed Reader: RSS Bandit (Windows desktop-based)
RSS Feed Reader: NewsFire (Mac desktop-based)
RSS Feed Reader: iPodderX (Mac desktop-based)
RSS Feed Reader: Sage (add-on for Mozilla Firefox)
RSS Feed Reader: FeedReader (Windows desktop-based)
RSS Feed Reader: RssReader (Windows desktop-based)
RSS Feed Reader: LiveJournal
RSS Feed Reader: Opera RSS Reader (desktop-based, Windows, Mac, Linux, Mobile, others)

More RSS Feed Readers:


More Windows-based Desktop RSS Feed Readers
More Mac-based Desktop RSS Feed Readers
More Linux-based Desktop RSS Feed Readers
More Mobile RSS Feed Readers
More Web-based RSS Feed Readers & Add-Ons

If that's not enough to choose from, do a Yahoo Search for feed reader.

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