You can use light and dark themes to customize the appearance. You can integrate other services, subscribe manually to websites, and organize your articles into folders by using the drag and drop tool. It has all the usual bells and whistles, which it organizes into a very neat looking package. Leaf is an advanced RSS feed reader which is very easy to setup and use. These drawbacks kept Reeder from topping our list. Although, it supports gesture navigation, they are usually hit or miss. It also lacks drag and drop feature to organize your articles.
Also, its lack of integration with ‘Pocket’ is a big drawback. It lacks smart folder creation and ‘read only’ mode which is important for me as a reader. One big advantage Reeder has over ReadKit is that it is available for both iOS and macOS which means you don’t have to use different clients for different platforms. Apart from having keyboard shortcuts, it also has gesture support, making dealing with articles a lot easier. It has inbuilt mercury parser for better reading experience and theme support, which lets you chose between a variety of light and dark themes. It lets you subscribe to any number of blogs and other online services that you want.
It has all the features which we have come to expect from a great feed reader. Reeder earns a very close second place on our list and for good reasons. ReadKit provides all the power you need to make your reading game stronger. It also has inbuilt dark and light themes, so you can customize the interface as per your liking. If you spend some time learning the customizable keyboard shortcuts, you will power through your articles in a jiffy. You can also simply drag and drop your feeds in different folders to organize them. You can create smart folders to categorize articles into different folders.
You can also go full screen to enter ‘read only’ mode, which hides the side bars and lets you focus on the article you are reading.
It has an inbuilt ‘mercury parser’, which lets you read the articles in a simple text and image format without any distractions that are generally present on the host websites. You can even link “Pocket”, a very popular ‘read it later’ service, and get all your saved articles at one single place. You can subscribe to websites individually, or, you can import the feeds from other online services such as Feedly, NewsBlur, Fever, and many more. ReadKit is the best RSS reader you can get for your Mac right now.
Well, that’s the reason we have compiled a list of the 6 best RSS readers for Mac you can try: 1. Macs are best when we have a lot of articles to go through, and using RSS readers make them even better. Although we have started consuming a lot of content on our iPhones, many of us still like to use our Macs when it comes to serious reading. We can use RSS Readers on both mobile and desktop platforms.