![]() ReadKit is your standard three-panel mail-type RSS reader. If you’re looking for something profoundly different in the interface, you won’t find it here. Feedly and Readability are free and work just fine. Most of them are paid services and require a subscription. If that’s not enough, it offers a local RSS option as well. In other words, Pretty much every RSS and Reading service on the planet. In addition to the aforementioned Feedly, you have Instapaper, Readability, Pocket, Pinboard, Delicious, NewsBlur, Fever, FeedBin, and Feed Wrangler. You’ll be astounded by the amount of options you have. When opening up the app for the first time it will ask you to set up an account. The Mac App Store reviews seemed to like it, so I thought I would take a chance. It had just added Feedly support as part of its 2.2.0 update. Then an app I had never heard of, ReadKit, come across my eyes. My old, trusted NetNewsWire has a new beta version and while syncing is promised, it’s sure not there now and they don’t say what form it will take. Reader, whose iPhone version uses Feedly has not released a new version of their Mac App. I went with Feedly as my new service of choice, but for the last two weeks have been stuck on the web interface as no desktop Mac apps supported it that I knew off. There had been a graveyard of RSS apps in my wake before I finally found one I liked, NetNewsWire by Black Pixel. ![]() ![]() That helps when you’re like me and notoriously picky when it comes to RSS apps. Having an API independent of your software also allows you the flexibility to try out things without having to import your feeds every time. With Google, I was using the service not for its web app but as a way to sync different apps across different platforms. Web interfaces have come a long way, but they’ll never be as fast as something native. When you’re looking through hundreds of stories and press releases per day, you have to be able to do it quickly and comfortably. They say old habits die hard – this is the relationship between me and desktop RSS apps. For those who live and die by your RSS feeds, you may want to listen up, I have a fantastic and very versatile app called ReadKit from Hungarian developer Webin to tell you about. I apologize for having yet another RSS story. ![]() For those of you who aren’t RSS dependant, I know you’re sick to death of hearing about services post Google Reader. ![]()
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