Top 11 Feed Readers and Aggregators

by Ferman Aziz in Tools 15

A feed aggregator, which is also known as feed reader, is a client software or web application which aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs in a single location for easy viewing. There are lots of aggregators i will just mention top 11 feed readers and aggregators used by my blog readers.

These top 11 feed readers and aggregators are arranged according to my rss subscribers usage.

1. Feedfetcher: Google’s Feed Grabber

Up till now i have only 661 subscribers out of which 397 are using Feedfetcher, which makes it number one feed grabber.

Feedfetcher is how Google grabs RSS

2. Firefox Live Bookmarks

Live Bookmarks lets you view RSS news and blog headlines in the bookmarks toolbar or bookmarks menu. Only 47 subscribers are using it, means its no where in competition with Google’s Feedfetcher but still it is in second position.

Firefox Live Bookmarks

3. Netvibes

Netvibe is in third position and is in competition with Firefox Live Bookmark as 30 subscribers are using it. I liked the UI of it, very easy to use.

Netvibes

4. NewsGator Online

Only 21 out of 661 subscribers are using it. I liked it’s clean user interface that makes it easy to arrange and track your favorite news feeds.

NewsGator online is a free web-based aggregator

5. Mac OS X RSS Reader

14 subscribers are using Mac OS X built-in RSS reader. It’s used by the RSS screensaver, among other things.

Mac OS X RSS Reader

6. Feed Fever

Fever reads your feeds and picks out the most frequently talked about links from a customizable time period. Only 9 subscribers are using it.

Feed Fever

7. NetNewsWire

NetNewsWire is an easy-to-use RSS Web news reader for Mac OS X. Used by 8 subscribers only.

NetNewsWire

8. Bloglines

Bloglines is a web-based aggregator that makes it easy to keep up with your favorite blogs and newsfeeds. Seven subscribers preferred this one.

Bloglines

9. Universal Feed Parser

Mark Pilgrim’s fantastic open source RSS/Atom Python parser.

Universal Feed Parser

10. Vienna

Vienna is a freeware, open source RSS/Atom newsreader for the Mac OS X operating system.

A Freeware RSS/Atom Newsreader

11. FeedReader

FeedReader is a freeware Windows application that reads and displays RSS feeds.

Feedreader is a FREE RSS news aggregation

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  • http://somepoints.com Noor

    you are compiling great resources…keep it up

  • ZenZen77

    Just to mention that NewsGator and NetNewsWire are working great together….
    When you are using NetNewsWire it can synchronize perfectly with NewsGator when using a navigator on any platform….

    It’s my pick !

  • http://www.bethanevans.co.uk Bethan

    You forgot feedly!

  • halmar

    And don’t forget FastLadder

  • http://www.2expertsdesign.com Akhtar Sheikha

    really great article!

  • ungemeinfein

    Nice article, but I really miss feedly in this list!

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  • http://blog.feedly.com Edwin Khodabakchian

    Have you had the chance to play with Feedly? (http://www.feedly.com)

  • http://www.danhbaweb20.com/ Danh ba web 2.0

    Thanks for great list. Keep up !

  • http://pelfusion.com admin

    thanks everyone for liking the post…

    some of you have mentioned feedly.com, it is nice application but the thing is here i mentioned those which are used by my subscribers and it was no where in top 11

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  • http://www.dzinepress.com Dzinepress

    really helping list for all bloggers as well. thanks

  • http://mlapida.com/ mlapida

    FeedaFever is the best I’ve used to date. Simple yet gives me the ability to maximize the number of feeds I read.

    For those on the fence, I have a review over at my site.

  • mrman

    RSS owl

  • http://www.crearedesign.co.uk Luci

    I personally swear by Google’s FeedBurner (feedfetcher in a former life, i think). What’s feedly.com that everybody’s been asking about?I suppose i could consider Firefox’s as a browser one, but it’d have to do some serious work to compete!