#Netnewswire 2 mac os x

Same goes for its iteration on the Mac, though as of this writing, it’s still catching up on a few features with its iOS twin. NetNewsWire is built to a tee with iOS guidelines, and doesn’t veer too aggressively in experimental directions (aside from some classy full-screen reader views that use anywhere-on-the-screen long-presses for actions, which I don’t see often). It wasn’t until a few months back, though, that one of the great original RSS feed readers, NetNewsWire, was back under control of Brent Simmons (its initial creator) that I dove back to using that, and recently to plunge back into paying for Feedbin. It was then onto the paid synching service Feed Wrangler, then Newsblur, then Feedbin, then Fiery Feeds, then Feedly, marauding through excellently-design apps like Unread, Reeder, and Readkit. I moved through using Google Reader as a backbone until that died in 2013.

#Netnewswire 2 mac os x

The first RSS client I used was NewsFire - shockingly still around for download, even though it hasn't been updated since 2009 (look at that thing, just drenched in old-school Mac OS X polish). Without fully going down memory lane, I’ve been using RSS feed readers since I owned my first Mac and RSS became a thing - Another one of those “design playgrounds” for developers.

I don’t know, but it made me miss enjoying opening an RSS app and digging in. I still enjoyed checking my favorite authors, but something about the app just wasn’t doing it for me. But I had noticed amidst all its thorough levers and themes for customization, I was using the app less and less.

I'd been using Fiery Feeds for a few years, particularly after they released a premium version for only $5/year that leveraged iCloud for synching feeds across iOS platforms. I had an RSS crisis a few months back, if you can call such a thing something so dire.