RSS Bandit version 1.5.0.17 is truly an impressive open source desktop feed reader. Unfortunately I had only learned about this recently, because I paid to use Feed Demon by NewsGator.
Feed Demon was totally worth the money to me, because you could synchronize your feeds with NewsGator Online, so whether I was at Home, Work, PDA or the Web all my feeds were there with only items I hadn’t read yet.
Well, apparently RSS Bandit now does the exact same thing, with not only an option to sync to NewsGator Online, but also via WebDAV, FTP or a file share.
Why Desktop version as opposed to Web version? Many reasons, which I won’t get into now, but mainly you have significantly more options and features in a desktop version comparatively. The advantage of RSS Bandit to synchronize over the web (via NewsGator or otherwise) allows for full functionality on your computer, but the web abilities when you are away.
RSS Bandit Features:
Check out the Full RSS Bandit Feature List and screenshots.
In the meantime, am I upset I paid for FeedDemon, certainly not, it’s been a great companion of mine for several months, but RSS Bandit is free and open source, so it depends which route you want to go.
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Filed Under: Cool Software Apps ¦ Windows
Tags: feedreader, feeds, open source, RSS
Sounds good but what about PDA access? Looks like you’ll still need to pay for software (NewsGator Go!) to run on your Mobile device.
At the moment, for my taste, Bloglines looks to have the best combo desktop and PDA browser interfaces and features. Although I would like to see an option to sync Bloglines with a desktop, win32 feedreader.
@ Aibek
RSS Bandit definitely looks good: rss comenting, visual styles, web-desktop sync, … Nice.
However, if you’re stubborn Google Reader fan like me than also check out Google Gears. Anyone who installs ‘Google Gears’ can use GReader in offline mode and auto-sync. it with online version afterwards.
Feed Demon Now is FREEE…!!