RSS Readers

FeedReader is a free lightweight aggregator that supports RSS and ATOM formats. It works under Windows 95 and later versions. Feedreader's functionality is focused on the main task – reading and organizing RSS feeds and offering seamless user experience. One of the main goals of Feedreader architecture is to keep its footprint small. Say goodbye to bloat: installation file is under 3.

RSS Bandit has a pocket full of news, and a few tricks to display them. Not only can you organize feeds in folders, RSS Bandit also detects relations between individual posts and threads them logically. Searching local news is easy and functional (it could be faster, though), and you can subscribe to search results as virtual folders, making it particularly easy to find news interesting to you.

SharpReader is an RSS Aggregator for Windows. Features include the ability to handle all RSS versions, ATOM, modules like dublin core, advanced threading support that allows you to view connected items together in a threaded fashion.

Straw is a desktop news aggregator for the GNOME environment. Its aim is to be a faster, easier and more accessible Straw is free software. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License by Free Software Foundation. The maintainers of Straw are Jan Alonzo and Ryan P. Skadberg. The author is Juri Pakaste. It also uses some significant pieces of code by Mark Pilgrim.

FeedDemon – Looking for a great way to view and manage your RSS feeds from your desktop? Look no further than FeedDemon, the most popular Windows RSS reader. The easy-to-use interface makes it a snap to stay informed with the latest news and information. You can completely customize the way feeds are organized and displayed and set up custom news watches based on keywords.

RssReader is a program to read RSS and Atom news feeds. RssReader collect news in the background at user configurable intervals and warn with a little popup in the system tray that there is a new message arrived. You can click the news headline to see a short description of the news and click or open the original news web page in an RssReader browser or default browser window.