NewsWatcher?/a> - a powerful PC application for people who want personalized news from websites and weblogs fed directly to their desktops. NewsWatcher uses RSS technology to deliver regularly updated feeds from some of your favorite sites, including CNN, Rolling Stone Magazine and Wired. News headlines and summaries are displayed chronologically in a visually intuitive user interface, with features for easy browsing, searching and sorting
NewzCrawler - a web news reader & browser which provides access to the news content from different sources. Windows
NewzSpider - a news aggregator that runs on your Windows 98/2000/XP computer and downloads headers from your favorite news sites and blogs. It is flexible and very easy to use. NewzSpider supports ALL RSS standarts (0.91, 0.92, 1.0 and 2.0)
nntp//rss -a Java-based bridge between RSS feeds and NNTP clients, enabling you to read your favorite RSS syndicated content within your existing NNTP newsreader. RSS feeds are represented as NNTP newsgroups, providing a simple, straightforward and familiar environment for news reading
Novobot - differs from other available headline viewers in its ability to process not only syndicated XML content, but almost any web site (HTML) that has headlines and links clearly defined in any of its parts. Windows
Oddpost -an award-winning web-based email application with an astounding news aggregator built right in
OmniaMea -a Personal Information Management tool that provides one convenient environment for working with email, instant messages, newsgroups, bookmarks, RSS feeds, local files and contact lists. OmniaMea allows you to browse a multitude of information resources, use full-text search and organize everything according to your needs, tasks or habits. A .NET application, and currently it runs only under Windows
Online News Screensaver - a unique and informative screensaver tool that delivers the latest news right to the screen of your computer. If you have a direct Internet access, the screensaver will keep bringing you the news reports continuously. Minimum system requirements: 400MHz, RAM 32Mb, Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP, direct Internet connection
Opera Web Browser - Starting with Opera 7.50, you can use Opera Mail to read RSS newsfeeds. Click newsfeed links to subscribe, or use Opera's navigation bar while surfing to automatically recognize embedded newsfeed links and display a "Newsfeed" button
Pears - a three-pane newsfeed (RSS/RDF) aggregator. It has a clean, uncluttered interface, it's easy to use and works on Windows, Linux and possibly MacOSX. Should work on any computer where Python and wxPython can run
Peerkat - personal syndicated data aggregator living on your computer desktop. Requires Python
Pineapple - a web site news aggregator for Mac OS X
Pluck RSS Reader - a browser companion that sits on the left hand column of Internet Explorer. Requires Windows 2000 Home or Professional or Windows XP
PocketFeed - an RSS/RDF news aggregator that runs on the Pocket PC 2002/2003 PDA's. Using OPML for it's blogroll, you can now take your news, blog entries, or any other type of syndicated data with you, sync it wirelessly or read it offline
PopHeadlines - allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds and have them delivered to you through your email client. PopHeadlines provides a POP3 server which fetches items from RSS feeds and passes them on as normal emails. This allows you to read RSS feeds in your favourite email client
Python Desktop Server
Radio UserLand - Every hour Radio's aggregator reads the "feeds" you're subscribed to, as few as a half-dozen, or as many as you like. Because Radio's aggregator is integrated with a powerful weblog tool, you can view it as a "content router." When you see an item that you want to amplify with your own comments, or pass on to others in your organization or interest group, with two clicks it can be on the home page of your weblog. For Windows and Macintosh
Raggle - a console RSS aggregator, written in Ruby. Features include customizable keybindings, basic HTML rendering, HTTP proxy support, OPML import/export, themes, support for various versions of RSS, Screen support, browser auto-detection, and more. Raggle has been tested under Linux and OpenBSD, and should work properly under other Unix variants as well
Raissa - an RSS headlines and news reader for the Newton MessagePad running NewtonOS 2.0 and higher. It should read RSS 0.91 and 1.0 sources
rawdog - an RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur. Written in Python, it uses Mark Pilgrim's feed parser. It runs from cron, collects articles from a number of feeds, and generates a static HTML page listing the newest articles in date order. It supports per-feed customizable update times, and uses ETags, Last-Modified, and gzip compression to minimize network bandwidth usage
RDF-Ticker - a newsticker application which fetches news from RDF/RSS-feeds and displays them on a ticker-bar. These feeds are based on a special XML-format, which lets client applications show them in any convenient way for the end-user. The application runs as a ticker-bar in MS Windows? which is by default always visible at the top of your desktop and takes only a small area of your desktop to display. Other applications don't cover it, so you always have the news displayed in the foreground
Rippy the Aggregator - Written in PHP (version requirement unknown, probably needs PHP4). Doesn't require any compiled-in optional libraries that don't ship with PHP. Stores its cached data in flat files, no database needed. Freely licensed and customizable under the GNU GPL version
Rnews - a server-side rss aggregator written in php with mysql
The Rocketinfo RSS Reader - a FREE, web-based, personal news and information tool. Key functionality includes the ability to subscribe to RSS news/weblog channels, add your own channels, and search for channels.?You can also create your own custom search-based RSS channels that produce news content from the Rocketnews database of 10,000+ sources
Rol - a simple application for reading RSS or RDF feeds such as those produced by many news sites or weblogs. It is not intended to do anything more than display the headlines and allow you to choose which to read in your web browser. Rol is written on Debian GNU/Linux, but it should work on any POSIX system
RSS Bandit - a free community based developed tool. Prerequisite is to have .NET 1.0 or 1.1 installed
RSS Captor - a powerful, highly configurable yet easy-to-use RSS client. Windows (No need to download the .NET package). Single license costs US $19.95
RSS Composer 2004 - a program you install on your computer that can write RSS feeds in three different popular formats of RSS. Relies on the .NET Framework. Windows.
RSS Xpress - freeware created by Bull allowing you to read RSS feeds versions 0.90, 0.91, 0.92 and 2.0.1. The application includes the essential functionalities for using RSS feeds. It has been developped in VB.net. Windows
RSS Feeds via JavaScript - makes use of a PHP script that parses the XML feed, and returns a JavaScript set of write commands that insert the information into your page. All you need to do is to insert a simple JavaScript line of code in the part of your page where you want the feed. The only other thing to tidy it up is to link or insert a sytle sheet to format the output.
RSS Mix Tape - reads items from RSS feeds that you specify, and displays them in a list. You go through the list, picking your favorite posts and putting them into categories. You can also write comments on posts. Then you click the "Generate RSS" button, and RSS Mix Feed spits out an RSS feed for each category. Your friends can use their favorite RSS reader to view your feeds (livejournal is an RSS reader, if you're a paid user). In short, RSS In, RSS Out. Requires Python, PyQT, PyKDE, and Python's xmlbase
RSS Viewer - a Java-based ticker application. It uses JAXP to parse RSS-sites (RDF site summary). It is easy to use and easy to configure. It has 2 different views: a browser-like view and a simple ticker-view
RSS-News - originally named XB-News. Support for all current RSS versions. Windows
RSS2iCal - by Dean Sanvitale - View and/or Subscribe to RSS/RDF News Feeds in iCalendar (vCal 2.0) format
RSSConnect by PerfectXML.com - a C# .NET application that allows you to read RSS feeds . Requires MSXML 3.0 and .NET Framework 1.0 or 1.1
RssExplorer -an Internet Explorer toolbar that allows you easily find RSS feeds and subscribe to them using your favorite news aggregator/headline viewer
RSSOwl - a free RSS (0.91, 0.92, 1.0, 2.0) newsreader written in Java programming language using SWT as fast graphic library. Features of RSSOwl include reading RSS or RDF newsfeeds in a comfortable tab folder, save newsfeeds in categories, export them to PDF / HTML or OPML, and view news in an internal browser
RssReader - free RSS reader is able to display any RSS news feeds (XML)(Windows)
Safari RSS - Scan all the latest news, information and articles from thousands of your favorite major news organizations, community web sites and personal weblogs in one simple-to-read, searchable article list using Safari RSS
SaTiMoz - an RSS reader for Mozilla using the latest technologies to browse, read and store feeds
Sauce Reader - a full featured RSS & news reader. It helps users gather, triage, consume and manage information from multiple sources by automatically monitoring specified sites (e.g. weblogs) for new or changed information.All versions of Windows from Windows 98 or Windows NT Service Pack 6a and up. .NET Framework v1.1 from Microsoft
The Seeker - using XML data feeds (RSS), web services, and advanced webpage parsing techniques, Seeker streamlines the most commonly sought-after information to your desktop
SharpReader - a .NET 3-pane RSS Aggregator
Shortwire.com provides on-line, easy to use services that let you aggregate and read RSS feeds, place requests to be alerted about news in future RSS feeds, create, publish and host RSS feeds and web logs (blogs)
Shr Ook - Fairly new reader for MacOsx. Similar to NetNewsWire, but excels in it's date handling -- makes it easy to read feeds according to their freshness. Uses WebKit, and works with iPod
Shrook - (for the Mac) lets you view the RSS channels provided by an increasing number of websites. With Shrook, you can keep up to date with your favourite websites. Shrook keeps track of what items you've read, when the site was last updated, and most importantly, by automatically checking the channel, it lets you know when your favourite sites update
SlashDock - a simple Mac OS X Application that fetches and updates headlines for the lastest postings on slashdot-compatible sites and RSS-compatible sites (aka RDF) like BluesNews.com. Updates are obtained automatically, if new articles are available, the dock icon will flash with an image representing the article 'topic'. Selecting an article from the dock menu will take you directly to that article in your preferred web browser
Snownews -a text mode RSS/RDF newsreader. It supports RSS 1.0 feeds that comply with the W3C RDF specification and also supports Radio Userland's RSS 0.91 and 2.0 versions. The program depends on ncurses for the user interface and uses libxml2 for XML parsing. ncurses must be at least version 5.0. It should work with any version of libxml2. Runs on Linux, *BSD, OS X (Darwin), Solaris and probably many more Unices
spaces - It shares many features with standard email/PIM software like Evolution or Outlook and provides other features, such as a built-in news aggregator (RSS reader), a personal webserver (to read your emails while away from your machine) and more
SQLData RSS Reader - browser-based tool for accessing news feeds in RSS formats. The tool allows you to browse available news services and read news summaries online
Straw -a desktop news aggregator for the GNOME environment. Its aim is to be a faster, easier and more accessible way to read news and blogs than the traditional browser
Syndication Studio - Windows 98/ME/2000/XP - $59.95 US. Free trial available
Syndigator - is an RSS reader/aggregator for Linux
Syndirella - a desktop information aggregator - a program which provides a comfortable environment for reading the information coming from multiple sources, or feeds
TALAggregator - is a free multi-user, web-based RSS Aggregator. It is written in Python, uses MySQL for storage, ModPython for dynamic web pages, and SimpleTAL for HTML templates
TheYoke -an ultra-simple, polite RSS aggregrator designed for use on the UNIX command line
TofuRSSBrowser - A small and simple RSS browser for OS X
Trillian Pro Plugin - implements RSS 0.9x news feeds and alerts
Tristana - an always free content reader which allows you to easily browse, organize and share syndicated news, articles, weblogs and other content pulled from the web onto your PC. Windows 98, 2000, XP, Me
Wildgrape NewsDesk -a fast, convenient, and easy to use RSS headline reader for Windows. NewsDesk reads headlines from thousands of sources, including popular websites and weblogs. Requires Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 (or .NET Framework 1.0 with Service Pack 2)
wTicker - this program is aggregating information from the internet and is displaying them as headlines. Headlines can be build by information coming from newsfeeds, email accounts, stocks, scraped websites, usenet and others
zFeeder - a PHP script used to display RSS content on your webpages. It can be used to display other's content on your site. (also known as aggregator). It parses RSS (or RDF or backend) files (xml files) and shows content formatted. It supports all versions of RSS (0.9, 0.9x, 1.0 and 2.0) and is template driven