Leaf - RSS News Reader for PC and Mac

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• By dtoub

  2

  Used to be an amazing app. Now little support and no fixes for major bugs.

  Leaf is what I turned to when Reeder just got worse and worse and had no real support anymore. But over the past year, videos in web pages viewed within Leaf often do not play and content often doesn't fully load. I've sent this issue to the developer multiple times. On one ocasion I finally heard from him only to hear that he couldn't reproduce it. I've sent videos demonstrating this bug and it continues to be an issue. But Mojave is almost a year old and Leaf hasn't been updated in over a year (and then to fix High Sierra bugs). I wish there were another RSS newsreader that fit my needs, so I've stuck with Leaf not because it's so great anymore (it isn't, these days), but because the alternatives are even worse. That''s a shame. Happy to revise my rating if and when Leaf is fixed.

  
  
• By shiftyfish

  5

  Great app

  I’ve made numerous attempts over the years to take advantage of RSS but never found anything elegant and stable enough to hold my attention for more than a few hours. Leaf has changed that. This app is now my new go-to news source. While certain sites (in conjunction with my K9 protection) have caused crashes, enabling AdBlock in Safari seems to have resolved all issues. While I ocassionally check my Twitter feed for odd items, Leaf has replaced virtually all of my other routines for staying up to date with news. Because my favirote news sites break their feeds into categories, I can place feeds on different topics into different folders (say, politics and tech) and avoid the garbage I don’t want to read, like celebrity gossip. All of my favorite sources are in one place with all the junk I don’t want to read removed. And with themes and a full page view, as seen at the source’s website, including videos, Leaf absolutely destroys every other reader I’ve tried. This is a dream come true.

  
  
• By Crowdedmind75

  3

  Superb app with one glaring problem that makes it useless (at times)

  I use it for Feedly and it works as a charm, well most of the times. The only time I had problem was when viewing articles that require me to login like WSJ or WaPo. The Leaf’s built in browser allows to me to login, but then gives me a blank page. If I load the page again, I have to login all over once again. Looks like the built in web viewer does not handle popups and cookies correctly. No problems, I sent a message to customer support and thus far I have been met with stone silence, I am sure they are all busy, but would have been great had they responded even a day or two later. Aside from this, this is a great app for reading news, well Feedly at-least.

  
  
• By mcassem

  5

  Straight forward, well-designed RSS feed aggregator

  I was searching for an app just like this after using Feedly on the iPhone for so long. While Feedly is available on Windows, I felt like trying something different. Leaf did the trick for me. It integrated with my Feedly feed right away and performed exactly as an RSS feed reader should. There are several reviews on here talking about how it’s so annoying to have to plug in RSS feeds for this to work. Well, that’s kind of the point of an RSS reader. Overall, it’s well designed, clean, easy to read, and does a great job serving up the news I care about on my Windows. Bravo!

  
  
• By hh4app

  4

  Good but still need some improvements

  It is a good RSS app like the others. But scrolling the artcle list makes my eyes feel uncomfortable. Could you please make the scrolling movement more smooth?