Newslife for Mac

Quick summary

Newslife is a pared-down RSS reader designed to make keeping up with blogs and websites straightforward and pleasant. Its uncluttered layout focuses on reading and organizing feeds efficiently, with tools for searching, grouping, and saving items for later.

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Core features

Displays a unique icon for each feed and lets you organize subscriptions into topic-based folders.
A compact, two-pane interface includes a search box on the right and filters to show today’s posts or only unread articles.
Click the post’s source or date to quickly narrow the list to items from that publisher or day.

The News Bin stores saved notes and clippings; items there can be emailed or shared directly to services like Digg and del.icio.us.
There is built-in Text-to-Speech so you can listen to any item placed in the News Bin.
You can publish feed items to your own blog, but posting requires an external blog editor (for example, WordPress or MarsEdit).

Visuals and customization

Version 2 introduced a Picture view for image-heavy feeds, better Flickr integration, and nine selectable themes that change the app’s appearance.
The slim, minimal interface keeps the focus on content and makes scanning feeds fast and simple.

Limitations

Podcast support isn’t built in yet, which may matter if you follow many audio feeds; otherwise, the feature set is compact and focused.

Recent improvements

The import workflow is more flexible now: you can pick which feeds to bring in from an OPML file, and the app can preserve folder structure when available.
The Add Feed dialog has been upgraded with automatic feed discovery — type a site address (or just the name for many .com sites) and Newslife will try to find the RSS feed for you; you can also choose which folder the feed should go into as you add it.
Restored full compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) in versions 2.0.4 and 2.0.5; compatibility will be maintained at least up through the release of Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion).