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The following is a comparison of RSS feed aggregators. Often e-mail programs and web browsers have the ability to display RSS
feeds. They are listed here, too.
Many BitTorrent clients support RSS feeds for broadcasting (see Comparison of BitTorrent clients).
With the rise of cloud computing, some cloud based services offer feed aggregation. They are listed here as well.
https://developer.android.com/feeds/androidx-release-notes.xml
Release history
First stable release
Client License Latest stable release
Date Version
August,
Avant Proprietary
2004
? 2020 build 3[5] 17 March 2020
February,
Awasu Proprietary
2003
1.0 3.2[6] 26 April 2018
January 14,
Canto GPL-2.0-only
2009
0.6.0 0.9.8[10] 3 December 2020
January,
Claws Mail GPL-3.0-or-later
2005
1.0.0 4.1.1[11] 20 October 2022
CommaFeed Apache-2.0 ? ?
Cooliris ? ? ? ?
November 2,
Flock Proprietary 1.0 3.5.3.4641 1 February 2011
2007
February 1,
Gnus GPL-3.0-or-later ?
1988[15]
September
Google Reader Proprietary
17, 2007
2.0 Discontinued on July 1, 2013[16]
January 29,
Kazehakase GPL-2.0-or-later
2003
? 0.5.8[20][21] 29 September 2009
December 7,
Mozilla Thunderbird MPL-2.0
2004
1.0 115.0[35][36] 11 July 2023
My Yahoo! ? ? ?
February 11,
NetNewsWire MIT [37] 2003
1.0 6.1.2 8 April 2023
Netvibes Proprietary ? ? ?
November,
News360 Proprietary ? ?
2010
January 16,
Newsbeuter MIT
2007
0.1 2.9[38][39] 19 February 2015
October 26,
NewsBlur MIT [40] 2010
1.0 4.0
March 17,
OmniWeb Proprietary
1995
1.0 5.11.2[41] 20 July 2012
Proprietary,
Pegasus Mail
Donationware
1990 ? 4.80[43] 14 February 2022
December
RSSOwl EPL-1.0
19, 2004
1.0 2.2.1[49][50] 30 December 2013
iOS
1.00 Build
The Bat! Shareware March, 1998
1310 10.3.3[57] 22 December 2022
June 12,
The Old Reader Proprietary Beta Beta[59]
2012[58]
Tiny Tiny RSS GPL-3.0-or-later ? ? rolling releases, most recent February 2019[60]
Awasu Yes No No No No No No No
Windows Phone
Feed Viewer Yes No No No No No Yes
dropped
FeedDemon Yes No No No No No No No
Feedreader Yes No No No No No No No
as
iTunes Yes Podcasts No No No No No No
app
Juice Yes Yes No No No No No No
K-Meleon Yes No No No No No No No
Maxthon Yes No No No No No No No
MediaMonkey Yes No No No No No No No
Microsoft Office
Yes Yes No No No No No Windows Mobile
Outlook
Source code
Newsbeuter No Yes Yes Yes No No No
available
NewsFire No Yes No No No No No No
OmniWeb No Yes No No No No No No
Opera Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes[63] Dropped No No BeOS, QNX, OS/2
Source code
QuiteRSS Yes Yes Yes No No No No
available
Rhythmbox No No Yes Yes Yes No No No
Supports OS/2
RSS Guard Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No starting with version
3.9.1.
every platform with
RSSOwl Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No
Java and SWT
Shiira No Yes No No No No No No
Sleipnir Yes No No No No No No No
Akregator ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? No Yes Yes Yes
any XML
Awasu Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes format (via ? Yes Yes ?
XSL)
BlogBridge ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
CommaFeed Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes RSS 0.90, No Yes Yes No
RSS 0.92,
RSS 0.93,
RSS 0.94,
Atom 0.3,
Atom 1.0[64]
Cooliris ? ? ? ? Yes Yes ? ? No ? ? ?
Feed Viewer ? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes CDF, RDF No Yes Yes ?
Internet
No Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Web Slice Yes Yes Yes ?
Explorer
Juice ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? No ? ? ?
Liferea Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes[65] Yes ?
MediaMonkey ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Microsoft
Office ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ?
Outlook
Netscape
? ? ? ? ? ? Yes ? No Yes Yes ?
Navigator 9
RSS 0.90,
RSS 0.92,
RSS 0.93,
NewsBlur Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ?
RSS 0.94,
Atom 0.3,
Atom 1.0
NewsFire ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
RDF,
Opera Mail Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ?
Newsgroup
RSS 0.90,
RSS 0.92,
RSS 0.93,
Protopage Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes ? Yes Yes ?
RSS 0.94,
Atom 0.3,
Atom 1.0
Pulse ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
RSS Bandit ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? No ? ? ?
Gmail,
JSON feeds,
Inoreader,
Nextcloud Google
News, Reader
RSS Guard Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Feedly, API, Yes Yes Yes
Tiny Tiny RSS, Feedly,
FreshRSS, Gmail
other services
via Google
Reader API
RSSOwl Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Newsgroup No Yes Yes ?
SeaMonkey
Mail & ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes Newsgroup ? Yes Yes ?
Newsgroups
The Old
Yes ? ? Yes Yes ? Yes PubSubHubbub No Yes Yes ?
Reader
Tiny Tiny
? ? ? Yes ? ? Yes ? No ? Yes ?
RSS
Notification
Winamp ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? Yes ?
only
Windows Live
? Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? Yes Yes Yes ?
Mail
Zimbra ? Yes Yes Yes ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ?
Zune ? ? ? ? Yes ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
feed HTTP
RSS RSS RSS RSS Delta Auto
Client URI MRSS Atom other standard IPv6 Basic
0.91 1.0 2.0 enclosure updates updates
scheme Auth
Yes
(integration
Akregator Yes Yes Yes ? Yes KDE ?
with
konqueror)
Discontinued; Feed
AOL Explorer ? ? — ? ? ? support is available in ?
Internet Explorer 7
Supports user-written
Awasu Yes Yes — Yes Yes Yes Yes
plugins.
BlogBridge ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Ncurses/console based
Canto ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
reader
iTunes ? ? ? ? ? Yes ?
Designed as Podcast
Juice ? ? ? ? ? Yes ?
aggregator
Add-
Mozilla Firefox Add-on — ? ? ? Web Browser ?
on
Mozilla
? Add-on ? Yes No ? Mail Client ?
Thunderbird
NetNewsWire ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
NewsBlur ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
NewsFire ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Qt-based, supports
online feed/message
synchronization via Tiny
Tiny RSS, Nextcloud
News, Inoreader and
RSS Guard No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes
others. Supports plugins
written in C++/Qt,
custom message filters
via JavaScript,
tags/labels.
SeaMonkey
Part of the SeaMonkey
Mail & ? ? — Yes ? ? ?
Internet suite
Newsgroups
Windows Live
? ? ? Yes ? ? ?
Mail
Capabilities
Offline News Automatic
Client Search Annotations Pluginable Publish Capabilities
support Filtering Update
Amarok ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
AOL Explorer ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Avant ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Awasu Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
BlogBridge ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Canto ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Claws Mail ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Cooliris ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Flock ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
HCL Notes[a] ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Internet Explorer ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
iTunes ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Juice ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
K-Meleon ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Kazehakase ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Mail (OS X) ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Maxthon ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
MediaMonkey ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Microsoft Office
? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Outlook
Mozilla Firefox ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Netscape Browser ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Netscape Navigator
? ? ? ? ? ? ?
9
OmniWeb ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Rhythmbox ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
RSS Bandit ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Supports "share-to-
published" feature for Tiny
RSS Guard Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Tiny RSS.,
Sending e-mails via Gmail.
Safari ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Sage ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Shiira ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Sleipnir ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Songbird ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Via some
The Old Reader Yes ? ? ? Yes Sharing
mobile apps
Tiny Tiny RSS Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Winamp ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Zimbra ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Zune ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
See also
Comparison of email clients
Comparison of web browsers
Notes
a. Previously known as IBM Lotus Notes.
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