Comparison of feed aggregators

Short description: Comparative list of RSS feed aggregators

The following is a comparison of RSS feed aggregators. Often e-mail programs and web browsers have the ability to display RSS feeds. They are listed here, too.

Many BitTorrent clients support RSS feeds for broadcasting (see Comparison of BitTorrent clients).

With the rise of cloud computing, some cloud based services offer feed aggregation. They are listed here as well.

## Contents

* 1 Release history
* 2 Operating system support
* 3 Web feed and protocol support
* 4 Interface and notes
* 5 Capabilities
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links

## Release history

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Client  | License  | First stable release  | Latest stable release

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Akregator  | GPL | ? | ?  |

Amarok | GPL-2.0-or-later | ? | ?  | 2.9.71 (January 31, 2021; 18 months ago (2021-01-31)) [±]
AOL Explorer | Proprietary | June, 2005 | 1.0  | 1.5 (May 10, 2006)
Avant | Proprietary | August, 2004 | ?  | 2020 build 3 (March 17, 2020; 2 years ago (2020-03-17)[1]) [±]
Awasu  | Proprietary | February, 2003 | 1.0  | 3.2 (April 26, 2018)
BlogBridge  | GPL | ? | ?  | 6.7
Bloglines | Proprietary | ? | ?  | Merged with NetVibes
Canto | GPL-2.0-only | January 14, 2009 | 0.6.0  | 0.9.7 (July 31, 2017)
Claws Mail | GPL-3.0-or-later | January, 2005 | 1.0.0  |
CommaFeed | Apache-2.0 | ? | ?  | 2.4.0 (August 1, 2017)[2]
Cooliris | ?  | ? | ?  | ?
Digg Reader | Proprietary | ? | ?  | Discontinued on March 26, 2018
Feed Viewer | Proprietary | April, 2006 | 1.0  | Windows 150.2.10 (August 10, 2021)
iOS 0.1.39 (August 10, 2021)
FeedDemon | Proprietary | ? | ?  | 4.5.0.0 (Final release on June 19, 2013)[3]
Feedly | Proprietary | 2008 | ?  | (web site, continuous updates)
Feedreader  | Proprietary | ? | ?  | 3.14 (April 20, 2009[4])
Flipboard | Proprietary | ? | ?  |
Flock | Proprietary | November 2, 2007 | 1.0  | 3.5.3.4641 (February 1, 2011; 11 years ago (2011-02-01)) [±]
Gnus | GPL-3.0-or-later | February 1, 1988[5] | ?  |
Google Reader  | Proprietary | September 17, 2007 | 2.0  | Discontinued on July 1, 2013[6]
IBM Lotus Notes | Proprietary | 1989 | 1.0  | 11.0.1 (March 31, 2020; 2 years ago (2020-03-31)) [±]
Inoreader | Proprietary | ? | ?  | (web site, continuous updates)[7]
iTunes | Proprietary freeware  | ? | ?  |
Juice | GPL-2.0-or-later | ? | ?  | 2.2
K-Meleon | GPL | November 26, 2000 | 0.2  | 76.4.6 (Build 20220319) (March 19, 2022; 5 months ago (2022-03-19)[8]) [±]
Kazehakase | GPL-2.0-or-later | January 29, 2003 | ?  | 0.5.8 (September 29, 2009; 12 years ago (2009-09-29)) [±]
Liferea | GPL | ? | ?  |
Maxthon | Proprietary | September 8, 2005 | 1.0.0250  | | Windows| 6.1.2.3000 / September 24, 2021; 10 months ago (2021-09-24)[9]

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Android| 6.0.2.3500 / December 9, 2021; 8 months ago (2021-12-09)[9]
Mac| 5.1.60 / August 27, 2018; 3 years ago (2018-08-27)[10]
iOS| 6.0.6 / December 14, 2021; 8 months ago (2021-12-14)[11]
Windows Phone| 2.2.0 / March 30, 2017; 5 years ago (2017-03-30)[12]
Linux| 1.0.5.3 / September 9, 2014; 7 years ago (2014-09-09)[13]
MediaMonkey | Freemium | ? | ?  | 5.0.2.2531 (December 22, 2021; 8 months ago (2021-12-22)) [±]
Microsoft Office Outlook | Proprietary / Commercial software  | 1997 | 97  | 15.0.4517.1509 (January 29, 2013)
Mozilla Firefox | MPL-2.0 | September 23, 2002 | 0.1  | Builtin RSS reader was removed in Version 64, Available as an add-on.[14][15][16]

Mozilla Thunderbird | MPL-2.0 | December 7, 2004 | 1.0  |
My Yahoo!  |  | ? | ?  | ?
NetNewsWire | MIT [17] | February 11, 2003 | 1.0  | 5.1.1 (October 5, 2020)
Netscape Browser | Proprietary | May 19, 2005 | 8.0  | 8.1.3 (April 2, 2007; 15 years ago (2007-04-02)) [±]
Netscape Navigator 9 | Proprietary | October 15, 2007 | 9.0  | 9.0.0.6 (February 20, 2008)
Netvibes  | Proprietary | ? | ?  | ?
News360 | Proprietary | November, 2010 | ?  | ?
NewsBlur | MIT [18] | October 26, 2010 | 1.0  | 4.0
NewsFire | Proprietary | ? | ?  | 2.0
OmniWeb | Proprietary | March 17, 1995 | 1.0  | 5.11.2 (July 23, 2012; 10 years ago (2012-07-23)) [±]
Opera Mail | Proprietary | December, 1996 | 2.1  | 1.0.1044[19] (February 16, 2016; 6 years ago (2016-02-16)) [±]
Pegasus Mail | Proprietary, Donationware  | 1990 | ?  | 4.73 (7 June 2018; 4 years ago (2018-06-07)[20]) [±]
Protopage | Proprietary | May, 2005 | 1.0  | 11.43 (December 2015)
Pulse  | ?  | ? | ?  | ?
QuiteRSS  | GPL-3.0-or-later | Dec, 2014  | 0.14.0  | 0.19.3 (01.29.2020)
Rhythmbox | GPL-2.0-or-later | ? | ?  | 3.4.4 (January 4, 2020; 2 years ago (2020-01-04)) [±]
RSS Bandit | BSD-3-Clause | March, 2003 | 1.0  | 1.9.0.1002 (July 4, 2010)
RSS Guard | GPL-3.0-only | February 4, 2014 | 1.9.9.3  |
RSSOwl | EPL-1.0 | December 19, 2004 | 1.0  | 2.2.1 (December 30, 2013; 8 years ago (2013-12-30)) [±]
Safari | Proprietary | ? | ?  | | macOS| 15.0[21][22] / Error: first parameter is missing. ()

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iOS| 15.0[21][22] / Error: first parameter is missing. ()
Sage | MPL-1.1 | ? | ?  | 1.5.5 (June 16, 2017)
Shiira | BSD-3-Clause | ? | ?  | 2.3 (August 11, 2009; 13 years ago (2009-08-11)) [±]
Sleipnir | Proprietary | October, 2005 | 2.00  |

Windows (Sleipnir 6)

6.4.15 (December 16, 2021; 8 months ago (2021-12-16)[23])

Windows (Sleipnir 4)

4.7.14 (December 16, 2021; 8 months ago (2021-12-16)[24])

macOS

4.7.9 (March 2, 2021; 17 months ago (2021-03-02)[25])

iOS

4.6.11 (November 25, 2021; 8 months ago (2021-11-25)[26])

Android

3.5.28 Update 1 (October 29, 2021; 9 months ago (2021-10-29)[27]) [±]

Songbird | GPL | ? | ?  | 2.2.0, Build 2453 (February 4, 2013; 9 years ago (2013-02-04)) [±]
The Bat! | Shareware | March, 1998 | 1.00 Build 1310  | 9.5 (December 21, 2021; 8 months ago (2021-12-21)) [±]
The Old Reader | Proprietary | June 12, 2012[28] | Beta  | Beta[29]
Tiny Tiny RSS  | GPL-3.0-or-later | ? | ?  | rolling releases, most recent February 2019[30]
Winamp | Freemium | ? | ?  | 5.666.3516 (December 12, 2013; 8 years ago (2013-12-12)) [±]
Windows Live Mail | Proprietary | ? | ?  | 2012 (v16.4.3528.0331) (November 4, 2014; 7 years ago (2014-11-04)) [±]
Zimbra | Zimbra licensing  | March, 2006 | 3.5  | 7.1.3 (November, 2011)
Zune  | Proprietary | ? | ?  | 4.08.2345 (August 22, 2011; 11 years ago (2011-08-22)) [±]
Client  | License  | Date  | Version  | Latest stable release
First stable release

Netscape Messenger 9 is a fork of Mozilla Thunderbird and has the same features.

## Operating system support

Client  | Windows | macOS | Linux | BSD  | Solaris | Android | iOS | Other

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Akregator  | No  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
Amarok | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
AOL Explorer | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Avant | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Awasu  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
BlogBridge  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Canto | No  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Claws Mail | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Maemo
CommaFeed | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Client side: every platform with a web browser
Server side: every platform with Java
Cooliris | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Feed Viewer | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Windows Phone dropped
FeedDemon | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Feedreader  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Flock | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
Gnus | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | DOS
IBM Lotus Notes | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Inoreader | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No
Internet Explorer | Included  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
iTunes | Yes  | as Podcasts app  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Juice | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
K-Meleon | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Kazehakase | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
Liferea | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
Apple Mail | No  | Included  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Maxthon | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
MediaMonkey | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Microsoft Office Outlook | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Windows Mobile
Mozilla Firefox  | Add-on  | Add-on  | Add-on  | Add-on  | No  | No  | No  | No
Mozilla Thunderbird | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
NetNewsWire | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | No
Netscape Browser | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
NewsBlur | Web based  | Web based  | Web based  | Web based  | Web based  | Yes  | Yes  | every platform with a web browser
Newsbeuter | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Source code available
NewsFire | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
OmniWeb | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Opera Mail | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes[31] | Dropped  | No  | No  | BeOS, QNX, OS/2
Pegasus Mail | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Protopage | Web based  | Web based  | Web based  | Web based  | Web based  | Dedicated Web App  | Dedicated Web App  | every platform with a Web browser
Pulse  | Web based  | Web based  | Web based  | Web based  | Web based  | Dedicated App  | Dedicated App  | every platform with a Web browser
QuiteRSS  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Source code available
Rhythmbox | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
RSS Bandit | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
RSS Guard | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | Supports OS/2 starting with version 3.9.1.
RSSOwl | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | every platform with Java and SWT
Safari | Yes  | Included  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Sage | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
Shiira | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Sleipnir | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Songbird | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | No  | No
The Bat! | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
The Old Reader | Web based  | Web based  | Yes  | Web based  | Web based  | Multiple apps  | Multiple apps  | Windows Phone, Symbian, WebOS, Firefox OS
Tiny Tiny RSS  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | every platform with a web browser
Winamp | Yes  | No  | Obsolete  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Windows Live Mail | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No
Zimbra | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No
Zune | Yes  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | No  | Windows Mobile
Client  | Windows | macOS | Linux | BSD  | Solaris | Android | iOS | Other

## Web feed and protocol support

Client  | feed URI scheme | RSS 0.91  | RSS 1.0  | RSS 2.0  | RSS enclosure | MRSS | Atom  | other format  | Delta updates  | IPv6 | Auto updates  | HTTP Basic Auth

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Akregator  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Amarok | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?
AOL Explorer | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Avant | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Awasu  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | any XML format (via XSL)  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
BlogBridge  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Canto | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
Claws Mail | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
CommaFeed | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | RSS 0.90,
RSS 0.92,
RSS 0.93,
RSS 0.94,
Atom 0.3,
Atom 1.0[32] | No  | Yes  | Yes  | No
Cooliris | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?
Feed Viewer | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | CDF, RDF | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
FeedDemon | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?
Feedreader  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
Flock | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Gnus | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | No  | Newsgroups  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?
IBM Lotus Notes | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Internet Explorer | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Web Slice  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
iTunes | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?
Juice | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?
K-Meleon | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Kazehakase | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | LIRS, HINA-DI  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Liferea | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes[33] | Yes  | ?
Mail (OS X)  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Maxthon | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?
MediaMonkey | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Microsoft Office Outlook | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Miro | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Mozilla Firefox  | ?  | Add-on  | Add-on  | Add-on  | ?  | Add-on  | Add-on  | ?  | No  | Add-on  | Add-on  | ?
Mozilla Thunderbird | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Newsgroup  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
NetNewsWire | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | No[34]
Netscape Browser | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Netscape Navigator 9 | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
NewsBlur | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | RSS 0.90,
RSS 0.92,
RSS 0.93,
RSS 0.94,
Atom 0.3,
Atom 1.0  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
NewsFire | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
OmniWeb | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Opera Mail | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | RDF, Newsgroup  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Pegasus Mail | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Protopage | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | RSS 0.90,
RSS 0.92,
RSS 0.93,
RSS 0.94,
Atom 0.3,
Atom 1.0  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Pulse  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Quiterss  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
Rhythmbox | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?
RSS Bandit | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | No  | ?  | ?  | ?
RSS Guard | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Gmail,
JSON feeds,
Inoreader,
Nextcloud News,
Feedly,
Tiny Tiny RSS,
FreshRSS,
other services via Google Reader API  | Google Reader API,
Feedly,
Gmail | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
RSSOwl | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Newsgroup  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Safari | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Sage | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Newsgroup  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Songbird | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Shiira | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
Sleipnir | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | No  | Yes  | ?  | ?
The Bat! | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?
The Old Reader | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | PubSubHubbub  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Tiny Tiny RSS  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?
Winamp | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Notification only  | ?
Windows Live Mail | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Zimbra | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Zune | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Client  | feed URI scheme | RSS 0.91  | RSS 1.0  | RSS 2.0  | RSS enclosure | MRSS | Atom  | other standard  | Delta updates  | IPv6 | Auto updates  | HTTP Basic Auth

## Interface and notes

Web browsers and Internet suites have for browser plugin a N/A, because they don't need it.

Client  | Pop-up  | Tray notification  | Browser plugin  | E-mail  | "newspaper"-like  | Media aggregator  | Notes  | Downloadable attachments

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Akregator  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes (integration with konqueror)  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | KDE | ?
Amarok | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | KDE | ?
AOL Explorer | ?  | ?  | N/A  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Discontinued; Feed support is available in Internet Explorer 7 | ?
Avant | ?  | ?  | N/A  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Feed support is available in Internet Explorer 7  | ?
Awasu  | Yes  | Yes  | N/A  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Supports user-written plugins.  | Yes
BlogBridge  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  |  | ?
Canto | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Ncurses/console based reader  | ?
Claws Mail | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | RSSyl plugin needed  | ?
CommaFeed | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Web browser  | ?
Cooliris | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Web browser plugin  | ?
Feed Viewer | No  | No  | N/A  | No  | Yes  | Yes  |  | No
FeedDemon | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Discontinued  | ?
Feedreader  | Yes  | No  | No  | ?  | Yes  | ?  |  | ?
Flock | ?  | ?  | N/A  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Discontinued  | ?
Gnus | Add-on  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Emacs-based mail and news client  | ?
IBM Lotus Notes | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Studio Blog Reader is one RSS reader application for IBM Lotus Notes;[35] Notes version 8.x introduced a native RSS reader  | ?
Internet Explorer | ?  | ?  | N/A  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Feed support is available in Internet Explorer 7 | ?
iTunes | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  |  | ?
Juice | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Designed as Podcast aggregator  | ?
K-Meleon | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Web browser  | ?
Kazehakase | ?  | ?  | N/A  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Web browser  | ?
Liferea | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  |  | ?
Mail (OS X)  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  |  | ?
Maxthon | ?  | ?  | N/A  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Web browser  | ?
MediaMonkey | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Media Player  | ?
Microsoft Office Outlook | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Feed support is available in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 | ?
Miro | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Media Player  | ?
Mozilla Firefox  | Add-on  | Add-on  | N/A  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Web Browser  | ?
Mozilla Thunderbird | ?  | Add-on  | ?  | Yes  | No  | ?  | Mail Client  | ?
NetNewsWire | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  |  | ?
Netscape Browser | ?  | ?  | N/A  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Discontinued; Web browser  | ?
Netscape Navigator 9 | Yes  | ?  | N/A  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Discontinued  | ?
NewsBlur | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  |  | ?
NewsFire | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  |  | ?
OmniWeb | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Part of the OmniWeb browser  | ?
Opera Mail | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No  | ?  |  | Yes
Pegasus Mail | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Pegasus Mail can convert RSS feeds to e-mails via free add-ons  | ?
Rhythmbox | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Media Player  | ?
RSS Bandit | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | .NET Framework based  | ?
RSS Guard | No  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Qt-based, supports online feed/message synchronization via Tiny Tiny RSS, Nextcloud News, Inoreader and others. Supports plugins written in C++/Qt, custom message filters via JavaScript, tags/labels.  | Yes
RSSOwl | Yes  | Yes  | No  | No  | Yes  | Yes  | no longer support for Google Reader synchronization since version 2.2.0  | Yes
Safari | ?  | ?  | N/A  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Web Browser  | ?
Sage | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | a Firefox extension  | ?
SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups  | ?  | ?  | N/A  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Part of the SeaMonkey Internet suite  | ?
Songbird | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Media Player  | ?
Shiira | ?  | ?  | N/A  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Web browser  | ?
Sleipnir | ?  | ?  | N/A  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Feed support is available in Internet Explorer 7 | ?
The Bat! | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | No  | No  | Mail client; rss2mail or rss2pop3 plugin needed for versions prior to 6.4; newer versions support RSS natively  | ?
The Old Reader | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  |  | ?
Winamp | No  | ?  | No  | No  | No  | Yes  | Media Player  | ?
Windows Live Mail | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  |  | ?
Zimbra | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Groupware suite  | ?
Zune | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Media player  | ?
Client  | Pop-up  | Tray notification  | Browser plugin  | E-mail  | "newspaper"-like  | Media aggregator  | Notes  | Downloadable attachments

## Capabilities

Client  | Offline support  | Search  | Annotations  | News Filtering  | Pluginable  | Automatic Update  | Publish Capabilities

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Akregator  | Yes  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No
Amarok | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
AOL Explorer | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Avant | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Awasu  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
BlogBridge  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Canto | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Claws Mail | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
CommaFeed | ?  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
Cooliris | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Feed Viewer | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | No  | No  | Yes  | Sharing
FeedDemon | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Feedreader  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
Flock | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Gnus | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | ?
IBM Lotus Notes | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Internet Explorer | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
iTunes | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Juice | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
K-Meleon | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Kazehakase | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Liferea | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?
Mail (OS X)  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Maxthon | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
MediaMonkey | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Microsoft Office Outlook | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Mozilla Firefox  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Mozilla Thunderbird | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | ?
NetNewsWire | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Netscape Browser | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Netscape Navigator 9 | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Newsbeuter | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | No
NewsBlur | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | Yes
NewsFire | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
OmniWeb | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Opera Mail | Yes  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | No  | Yes  | No
Pegasus Mail | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Rhythmbox | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
RSS Bandit | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
RSS Guard | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Supports "share-to-published" feature for Tiny Tiny RSS.,
Sending e-mails via Gmail.
RSSOwl | No  | Yes  | ?  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | ?
Safari | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Sage | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Shiira | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Sleipnir | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Songbird | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
The Bat! | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
The Old Reader | Via some mobile apps  | Yes  | ?  | ?  | ?  | Yes  | Sharing
Tiny Tiny RSS  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes  | Yes
Winamp | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Windows Live Mail | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Zimbra | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Zune | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?  | ?
Client  | Offline support  | Search  | Annotations  | News Filtering  | Pluginable  | Automatic Update  | Publish Capabilities

## See also

* Comparison of email clients
* Comparison of web browsers

## References

1. ↑ "Avant Browser - What's New in the Latest Version?". http://avantbrowser.com/new.aspx?uil=en-US.
2. ↑ "Releases · Athou/commafeed". https://github.com/Athou/commafeed/releases.
3. ↑ Bradbury, Nick (20 June 2013). "The Last Version of FeedDemon is Here, and it's Free". http://nickbradbury.com/2013/06/20/the-last-version-of-feeddemon-is-here-and-its-free/.
4. ↑ "Feedreader 3.14 released". Feedreader. 2009-04-20. http://www.feedreader.com/feedreader/releases/3.14.
5. ↑ "GNUS: a NNTP based news reader for GNU Emacs (1 of 2)". http://gnus.org/2.0/gnus.1.
6. ↑ "A second spring of cleaning". https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html.
7. ↑ Inoreader. "Inoreader Change Log". Inoreader. http://www.inoreader.com/changelog.
8. ↑ "K-Meleon News". 2022-03-25. http://kmeleonbrowser.org/wiki/News.
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Maxthon Release Note 6". Maxthon International. 24 September 2021. https://forum.maxthon.com/index.php?/release-notes6/.
10. ↑ "‎Maxthon Browser". 27 August 2018. https://apps.apple.com/app/id804619114.
11. ↑ "‎Maxthon Cloud Web Browser". 14 December 2021. https://apps.apple.com/app/id541052011.
12. ↑ "Maxthon Browser". 15 September 2014. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/store/p/maxthon-browser/9wzdncrfj17t.
13. ↑ "Maxthon for Linux Changelog". Maxthon International. 9 September 2014. http://www.maxthon.com/linux/changelog/.
14. ↑ "Mozilla plans to remove RSS feed reader and Live Bookmarks support from Firefox - gHacks Tech News". July 25, 2018. https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/25/mozilla-plans-to-remove-rss-feed-reader-and-live-bookmarks-support-from-firefox/.
15. ↑ "Firefox 64.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes" (in en-us). December 11, 2018. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/64.0/releasenotes/.
16. ↑ "Feed reader replacements for Firefox" (in en-us). https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacements-firefox.
17. ↑ "NetNewsWire License". https://github.com/brentsimmons/NetNewsWire/blob/master/LICENSE.
18. ↑ "NewsBlur License". https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/LICENSE.md.
19. ↑ "Opera 12 and Opera Mail security update". 2016-02-16. https://www.opera.com/blogs/security/2016/02/opera-12-and-opera-mail-security-update/.
20. ↑ Pegasus Mail v4.7x Release Notes: June 7th 2018 - Pegasus Mail v4.73
21. ↑ 21.0 21.1 "About the security content of Safari 15". September 20, 2021. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212816.
22. ↑ 22.0 22.1 Clark, Mitchell (September 21, 2021). "Apple updates macOS Safari with a new look, but you can turn off the big changes". https://www.theverge.com/2021/9/21/22686070/apple-macos-safari-tab-groups-redesign-change-back.
23. ↑ "リリースノート" (in ja). 2021-12-16. https://www.fenrir-inc.com/jp/sleipnir/note.html.
24. ↑ "Sleipnir 4 for Windows - リリースノート" (in ja). 2021-12-16. https://www.fenrir-inc.com/jp/sleipnir/4/note.html.
25. ↑ "「Sleipnir」をMac App Storeで" (in ja). 2021-03-02. https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/sleipnir/id475299388.
26. ↑ "「Sleipnir Mobile」をApp Storeで" (in ja). 2021-11-25. https://apps.apple.com/jp/app/id404732112.
27. ↑ "Sleipnir Mobile - Web Browser" (in en). 2021-10-29. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.co.fenrir.android.sleipnir.
28. ↑ Elena Bulygina (12 June 2012). "Thank you note". The Old Reader blog. http://blog.theoldreader.com/post/24989224185/thank-you-note.
29. ↑ "The Old Reader". https://theoldreader.com/.
30. ↑ "tt-rss". https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/tt-rss.
31. ↑ "Download the Opera Browser for Computer, Phone, Tablet | Opera". http://www.opera.com/download/guide/?custom=yes.
32. ↑ "Welcome to ROME". https://rometools.jira.com/wiki/display/ROME/Home.
33. ↑ "Liferea / Re: [Liferea-devel plans for 0.6.1"]. https://sourceforge.net/p/liferea/mailman/message/4654140/.
34. ↑ "RFE: support for feeds behind HTTP auth". https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues/502.
35. ↑ "OpenNTF.org - Project snapshot: Studio Blog Reader". https://www.openntf.org/Projects/pmt.nsf/ProjectHome?ReadForm&Query=Studio Blog Reader.

## External links

* Feed Readers at Curlie

* v
* t
* e

News aggregators

Client
software|

| Standalone|

* Akregator
* BlogBridge
* FeedDemon
* Feedreader
* Flipboard
* Genieo
* Google Currents
* Google News
* Liferea
* NetNewsWire
* NewsAccess
* Newsbeuter
* NewsFire
* QuiteRSS
* RSS Bandit
* RSSOwl
* Seesmic
* Vable
* WebFetch

|

Web browsers|

* AOL Explorer
* Avant Browser
* Basilisk
* Camino
* iCab
* Flock
* Internet Explorer
* K-Meleon
* Kazehakase
* Maxthon
* Firefox
* GNOME Web
* Netscape Browser
* Netscape Navigator 9
* OmniWeb
* Opera
* Pale Moon
* Safari
* SeaMonkey
* Shiira
* Sleipnir
* Tencent Traveler
* Vivaldi
* Waterfox

Email clients|

* Apple Mail
* Claws Mail
* Gnus
* IBM Notes
* Microsoft Outlook
* Mozilla Thunderbird
* Netscape Messenger 9
* Opera Mail
* Pegasus Mail
* The Bat!
* Windows Live Mail
* Zimbra

Web browser plugins|

* Cooliris
* Sage

Web apps or
mobile apps|

* Bloglines
* CommaFeed
* Cheetah News
* Daylife
* Digg Reader
* Drupal
* Feedbin
* Feedly
* FriendFeed
* Google News
* Google Reader
* iGoogle
* dotCMS
* Imooty.eu
* Magnolia
* My Yahoo!
* News360
* NewsBlur
* Newsknowledge
* Netvibes
* Pageflakes
* Planet
* Pulse
* Rojo.com
* Prismatic
* Spokeo
* The Old Reader
* Tiny Tiny RSS
* TweetDeck
* WebGUI
* Windows Live Personalized Experience
* winnowTag

Media
aggregators|

| Podcatcher|

* Adobe Media Player
* Akregator
* Amarok
* Flock
* iTunes
* Juice
* MediaMonkey
* Miro
* Rhythmbox
* Songbird
* Winamp
* Zune

|

RSS+BitTorrent|

* BitLord
* BitTorrent 6
* Deluge
* Miro
* Opera Mail
* qBittorrent
* TorrentFlux
* Tribler
* μTorrent
* Vuze

Related
articles|

* Comparison of feed aggregators
* History of Media aggregation
* RSS enclosure

Italics indicate discontinued software.

* v
* t
* e

Web syndication

History
Blogging
Podcasting
Vlogging
Web syndication technology

Types|

* Art
* Bloggernacle
* Classical music
* Corporate
* Dream diary
* Edublog
* Electronic journal
* Fake
* Family
* Fashion
* Food
* Health
* Law
* Lifelog
* Litblog
* MP3
* News
* Photoblog
* Police
* Political
* Prayer
* Project
* Reverse
* Travel
* Warblog

Technology|

| General|

* BitTorrent
* Feed URI scheme

|

Features|

* Linkback
* Permalink
* Ping
* Pingback
* Reblogging
* Refback
* Rollback
* Trackback

Mechanism|

* Conversation threading
* Geotagging
* RSS enclosure
* Synchronization

Memetics|

* Atom feed
* Data feed
* Photofeed
* Product feed
* RDF feed
* Web feed

RSS|

* GeoRSS
* MRSS
* RSS TV

Social|

* Inter-process communication
* Livemark
* Mashup
* Referencing
* RSS editor
* RSS tracking
* Streaming media

Standard|

* OML
* OPML
* RSS Advisory Board
* Usenet
* World Wide Web
* XBEL
* XOXO

Form|

* Audio podcast
* Enhanced podcast
* Mobilecast
* Narrowcasting
* Peercasting
* Screencast
* Slidecasting
* Videocast
* Webcomic
* Webtoon
* Web series

* Anonymous blogging
* Collaborative blog
* Columnist
* Instant messaging
* Liveblogging
* Microblog
* Mobile blogging
* Roblog
* Spam blog
* Video blogging
* Motovlogging

Media|

| Alternative media|

* Carnivals
* Fiction
* Journalism
* Citizen
* Database
* Online diary
* Search engines
* Sideblog
* Software
* Web directory

|

Micromedia|

* Aggregation
* News
* Poll
* Review
* Search
* Video
* Atom
* AtomPub
* Broadcatching
* Hashtag
* NewsML
* 1
* G2
* Social communication
* Social software
* Web Slice

Related|

* Blogosphere
* Escribitionist
* Glossary of blogging
* Pay per click
* Posting style
* Slashdot effect
* Spam in blogs
* Uses of podcasting

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