Feed Readers

List of Desktop RSS Feed Readers/Aggregators

Aggreg8.net - RSS feed aggregator built on the Mozilla framework or XPFE. It uses XUL, Javascript, RDF, CSS, XPConnect, and XPCOM.

AmphetaDesk - Free, cross platform, open-sourced, syndicated news aggregator.

Awasu - Windows, free personal edition

BlogMatrix Jäger - A one-panel blog and news reader designed for speed and ease of use.

BottomFeeder - A Smalltalk, desktop RSS Reader. Open source, runs on Windows, Mac, and various Unix flavors.

CafeRSS - Information and download for an RSS aggregator using PHP.

DogWalker - An extension to Adam Simpson's RawDog (web based aggregator python script). DogWalker is a script that periodically runs RawDog on webmaster's home PC and ftps the result to the site.

FeedDemon - Windows, free beta release

Feed on Feeds - A PHP/MySQL based server-side RSS aggregator. All feeds are in one place, and users can read the latest news wherever they are.

FIRST SAY - Open source RSS news aggregator designed to build collections of feeds and provide a first page presentation of feeds from many sources.

Gush - Combines Jabber instant messaging with news aggregation and a split chat feature.

Headline Viewer - Windows, free beta release

JavaScript RSS Reader - Downloadable script for reading RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 feeds.

Jyte - Cross platform news reader with RSS and Atom support, as well as news from major news sites and keyword searches.

Klipfolio free desktop reader.

Mercury News Readers - Displays RSS, RDF and Atom feeds. Available as screensaver, news ticker, Internet Explorer toolbar, and feed reader application.

MyHeadlines - Content syndication search engine and news reader that can be integrated into a website running PHP and MySQL.

myRadio - Extension to Radio Userland aggregation from RSS to any data source, including XML, HTML, and SOAP.

NewsFeed - A desktop RSS reader and aggregator in Python/Tk.

NewsCrawler - Windows, $24.95, free 14 day trail version available.

NewsGator - Windows (runs in Microsoft Outlook), $29.00 + Trial Version

News2Web - Takes a set of newsfeeds and publishes a webpage from them.

Newswatcher - Windows, $29.95, free trial

NetNewsWire - Mac OS X $39.95, free 30 day trial.

NetNewsWire Lite - Mac OS X. Freeware version. Designed for corporate users.

NewzSpider - News aggregator that runs on your computer and downloads headers from your favorite news sites and blogs. NewzSpider supports all RSS standards (0.91, 0.92, 1.0 and 2.0).

Parss Project - The general idea behind Parss is to solve the problem of countless individual (desktop) RSS viewers randomly and redundantly transferring and processing almost exactly the same set of RSS feeds.

phpNewsfork - Browser-based news channel and Weblog interface based on PHP, XML-RPC, and RSS. It uses the XML-RPC APIs from meerkat.oreillynet.com and syndic8.com, and does not require a database.

Planet - Server software that combines several feeds together and publishes them together on one web page.

QuikView Channel Viewer and Bookmark Server - Full channel RSS / XML viewer and bookmark server. A portable, cross-platform, sidebar application. Able to read all RSS versions.

Radio Userland - News aggregator included with weblog software application for Macintosh and Microsoft platforms.

Raggle - Open-source console-based RSS aggregator, written in Ruby, for Linux, Unix and Windows. Information for users and developers.

Rnews - Server-side RSS aggregator written in php using MySQL as the back-end and uses magpierss for the RSS parser.

RSS Reader - Windows, freeware.

Sage - RSS and Atom feed aggregator for Mozilla and Mozilla FireFox browsers.

Straw - A desktop news aggregator for the GNOME environment. With project information, news, and downloads.

TALAggregator - Multi-user web based RSS Aggregator. Caches feeds to MySQL database, handles bad RSS, and includes template driven interface.

TheYoke - A simple RSS aggregrator designed for use on the UNIX command line.

Urchin RSS Aggregator - Perl, web based, customisable, RSS aggregator and filter that consumes RSS, Atom and screen-scraped HTML and produces RSS or XSLT-transformed output.

Wizz RSS News Reader - A simple RSS news reader extension for Firefox. Reads all versions of RSS. i.e. 0.90, 0.91, 0.92, 0.93, 1.0 (RDF) and 2.0.