RSS Bot - News Notifier for PC and Mac

Software Reviews and Criticism

• By KernelG

  Almost

  Update, April 2019: Several previously-cleared stories showed up in Microsoft's feed, and these all opened properly in a web browser. New stories continue to work as well. Wherever the previous issue was between Microsoft's feed and RSS Bot, it appears to have been fixed, so I'm increasing my rating from 3 to 5 stars. I love the concept of RSS Bot, to handle my most important handful of news feeds. But lately, the links fail on the most important one: Microsoft's own 'newsroom' RSS. The stories show up, but when clicked on, nothing opens. This happens when clicking on the menu bar app or the PC notification (both High Sierra and Mojave, latest version, no change). Worse, the notification then disappears, so you've now lost the story. Some other feeds work as you'd expect, so it's probably some minor technicality. I'm a little surprised Fiplab doesn't test with Microsoft's own feed, though. Or maybe I'm not. When the app started up just now, it asked if I wanted to leave feedback. I did want to. It sent me to a 404 error page on Fiplab's website. When I search their support page for 'RSS' I get nothing. I hope they aren't planning to abandon this useful little app. I so want it to work. If it doesn't get some love by the time NetNewsWire is revived by its original developer (who just got it back), however, RSS Bot will be history here.

  
  
• By Aha!REH

  Mostly works

  Overall, this app is great. But it has a couple of flaws. 1 - Every now and again, I find an RSS feed that it isn't compatible with. 2 - Clicking the episodes in most RSS feed apps opens a link to content, but some stories I try to access from my RSS Bot list just get removed from the list without opening the content

  
  
• By dBeatsdesmo

  My go to RSS feed aggregator for years

  This little app has stood the test of time in my fickle world of little Windows utilities. It’s a simple way to add feeds with filtering to all your favorite sites without annoying notifications or distractions. When I’m free for a moment, I simply check my feeds and get the content I’m looking for without any other noise. Safari will try to add any RSS feed you click to the reading list. I just say no, and then RSS reader will pop up and ask to add it there. Set a filter if necessary, and off you go. Simple, unobtrusive, and clean.

  
  
• By thurstonb

  all my RSS feeds in one place

  Sits at the top right of the Menu Bar, where it shows the universal RSS icon, easy to access all my feeds, all in one place and easy to add new ones, too, just drag a URL into the “Add Feed” window. When all feeds have been read, icon becomes white, and new items cause the icon to show orange again. Super simple and out of the way until you need it, just click the icon to see what’s been posted. Can’t believe it’s free, too.

  
  

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