Looking for an easy-to-use RSS and Atom reader for your Mac? You’ve found it! The Eddy award-winning NetNewsWire has a familiar three-paned interface and can fetch and display news from millions of different websites and weblogs.

System requirements

The current versions of NetNewsWire for the Mac are:

Download NetNewsWire (10.5 or 10.6)

3.2.15 which requires Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6, and runs on PPC and Intel Macs

Download NetNewsWire (10.6 or 10.7)

3.3 which requires Mac OS X 10.6 or 10.7 and runs on Intel Macs only.

We’ve had many reports of erratic behavior running 3.2.x on 10.7.x, please update to 3.3.

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Free application

NetNewsWire is free, supported by ads that appear in the lower-left hand corner of the window. If you’d like to remove those ads, you can purchase a license for $14.95 at any time. Choose Buy NetNewsWire from the NetNewsWire menu (in the menu bar, right next to the Apple menu). But you don’t have to — you can use NetNewsWire for free.

Features

• Syncs with Google Reader or runs stand-alone. (You choose.)
• Lots of keyboard shortcuts.
• Read and scroll through all your news just by hitting the space bar.
• Traditional, widescreen, and combined views provide layout flexibility, so it works the way you want it to.
• Save pages for later via Instapaper, delicious.com, or by flagging or clipping them.
• Works with apps such as MarsEdit so you can post to your weblog.
• Post to Twitter for Mac.
• Tabbed browser — it remembers your tabs between runs.
• Scriptable via AppleScript. And power users can even write script-based subscriptions in languages like Python and Ruby.
• Can sort feeds by attention and unread count, so the most important items come to the top.

Screenshots

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