List Of Popular Feed Readers
Following on from my post yesterday about moving to Google Reader, there was some good feedback, worth repeating:
- Ben is developing a feed-reader, called Feedable, although it doesn’t seem to be available as yet?
- Bill pointed out an interesting study on feed reader interfaces
- dotTim pointed out that Bloglines marks everything as you read it. Agreed! I’m finding it really annoying that Google Reader doesn’t appear to do this…
- Sophie, like me, is caught between what she has been used to (Bloglines), and the alternatives.
So, what are the alternatives?
Here is a list of some of the more popular feed readers I’ve come across:
- Bloglines
- Google Reader
- FeedDemon
- Start
- My Yahoo
- Feedreader
- FeedLounge
- Rojo
- Netvibes
- Sage
- Pluck
- Gritwire
- News Alloy
I’d be interested to hear about your favorite, and why.
January 15th, 2007 at 8:05 pm
Marking read feeds is one of the things that makes Bloglines worth using for me. I follow too many feeds to lose track of which ones I’ve read, and which ones I haven’t. Ouch.
It’s probably worth exploring some of these alternatives though, just to see what is out there. Thanks for the list. I did sign up to try out feedable, once it’s ready.
January 15th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
I’m with Bill - an ability to mark as read is a must.
Wow there’s a lot of readers out there. Would love to hear about some of the others.
January 16th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
[...] Since then the lovely Peter has written an update: List of Popular Feed Readers *sigh*. I really don’t have time to try them all so will rely on feedback and maybe just test a few. [...]
January 16th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
I found the “Mark as Read” - it’s at the bottom of the whole post. There’s a few options:
Add star Share Email Mark as read Edit tags:
January 16th, 2007 at 11:15 pm
Not to clog your comments but it seems if you select it once it defaults to it for all posts.