I’ve been searching through lists of best RSS feed readers and the problem is that everyone has different tastes on what they are looking for in a reader. I do not want one that syncs to online accounts or has a lot of fancy images and graphics all over the screen. I want my feeds sorted into categories (news, science, tech, etc) and the ability to read all the feeds for each category at once instead of each feed individually. I just want a simple list of headlines but having one or two lines of text for each headline is preferred.
I had been using RSS Demon version 3.1.19 for quite a while now and it did all of the above. I reinstalled my system and now I’m finding that the search screen of RSS Demon 3 does not work and I don’t really want to add all the feeds by hand with URLs. The program does have OPML import. Wish I had the foresight to have saved my feeds in OPML before reinstalling but I did not. I could use another application to save my feeds and then import it into RSS Demon.
Read 1.4
Does have a working search for feeds
Does not sort feeds into categories, you have to read them one at a time
Does not have OPML import/export
Articles are listed with headline and a couple lines of text.
RSS News Reader
Does not seem to have any search for news feeds, add by URL only
Does have OPML import/export
Lets you categorize feeds, however you need to still read each feed individually – cannot read posts by category.
There is a tab feature where you can read All feeds at once or Favorites but you not by finer catetories.
Articles are listed with headline only.
Flym
Search does work
Does not have categories
Does not have OPML import/export
Articles are headline only with pictures.
Aggregator
No search
Does have categories
Does have OPML import/export
No ads
Article list seems to be headlines only
spaRSS
Does have categories
Search does not work
Does have OPML import/export
Article list is title, round picture, and author name
RSS Reader
Search does work
Does have categories
Does have OPML
Article list is headlines only
Ad or paid versions
gReader
Has search but sources seem more limited
Does have categories
Headlines and some text in article list
OPML export/import
Free and paid versions
RSS Demon 4.0.2
Does have search
Does not seem to have categories
Displays with headline, some text and pictures
Cannot find OPML functions
Ad and paid versions
For my purposes it looks like either sticking with RSS Demon 3.1.19 and creating an OPML list to import or using gReader are the best options. If I want completely free and no ads Aggregator or spaRSS would be a good option if I didn’t mind the headline only article lists.