RSS Menu for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By LGgek

  not able to increase font size

  You can't increase the font size in the drop down menu that shows the rss feed stories. I want tobe able to take a quick glance, to decide what to look at . Well at least it was only a $1.99 lesson.

  
  
• By CCG121

  Wonderful

  It somewtimes lags a little but I'm on a beta OS and other things are lagging too.

  
  
• By Go Becky

  Simple & Unintrusive - Fantastic

  RSS Menu is the first time in a decade I've found a way to really enjoy RSS and make it part of my workflow; I credit its simplicity and the degree to which it unobtrusively blends into OS X. A few minor UI quibbles/requests: - It currently takes too much digging through the UI to add new feeds. Please add an "Add Feed" (or "Manage Feeds") item to the main menu (or make it an option in "Appearance," which is a great feature BTW). A hotkey would be even better. The holy grail would be an "auto-detect feed in frontmost browser tab." - If it's possible, it would be incredibly helpful to have an option for some "mark" indicator icon other than a checkmark. If you're used to iTune's UI for podcasts, unread items are marked (which you give the option for - thanks!). But there's symbolic dissonance with an UNread item having a check next to it. It's just plain confusing! A bullet point (or really anything) would be much better - again, as an option. - The ability to select which feeds notify Growl would be awesome. ("Receive Growl alerts when this feed is updated?" would be perfect.) Other than those annoyances, this really is the easiest way I've ever found of staying on top of the news I want to read… and you can't beat the price!

  
  
• By Sg1dhd

  Works great, no crashes

  This is a great RSS reader that lives in your menubar. Unlike other reviewers, the app has never crashed on me. I especially like that every story has a checkmark by it that goes away once you have read it. That makes it very easy to keep track of what you have or have not read. I do have a small nitpick: you are not able to edit the name of any of the feeds. However, when I emailed the maker of the app about this, he replied that he had already submitted at fix for this issue to Microsoft. So, expect an update to fix this issue soon.

  
  
• By AnotherCarGuy

  Not happy with V. 3.0, but 3.1 is good

  Edit #2 - The 3.1 update restroed the ability to run in the background, and also to disable the Collection folders, which are totally redundant for my uses. The app is again as useful as before. Might not be perfect, but it is the best I've found for how I want to access my feeds. Kudos to the developer for bringing back the prior behavior so quickly! Edit - Will revisit this review after the application update promised in the developer's response is released. Original review - I've been using RSS Menu for years, but do not like the new release, I much prefer the previous background menu. The new app does not work well for how I use my computer. I'd like to revert to version 2.7.4. I tried restoring the old app from backup, but after doing so, RSS Menu does not appear in the menu bar though it is shown to be running. So apparently the new version does something outside the app and its preference file that breaks the previous version. Tried to contact the developer, but the email form on his website never sends, and eventually just times out.

  
  

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