8 Free and Open-source News Apps for macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)
1- Doughunt
Open-source free Podcast Listening app for macOS
Doughnut is built to be a modern macOS application adopting Apple’s design language, whilst preserving it’s own unique user experience. 100% open source Swift based.
Doughnut is a podcast client built using Swift. The design and user experience are inspired by Instacast for Mac which was discontinued in 2015. After experimenting with alternate user interface layouts, I kept coming back to the three column layout as most useable and practical.
Beyond the standard expected podcast app features, my goals for the project are:
Support an iTunes style library that can be hosted on an internal or network shared drive
Ability to favourite episodes
Ability to create podcasts without a feed, for miscellaneous releases of discontinued podcasts
Previously Doughnut was built on top of Electron which worked ok, but using 200+ MB for a podcast app, even when it's minimized felt very poor. Doughnut is now written as a 100% native MacOS app in Swift.
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2- Feed Compass
Find and subscribe to RSS feeds.
Feed Compass is an open-source application that enables you to find and subscribe to RSS Feeds in your favorite RSS Reader and is built with Swift. It also has numerous default feeds, it supports drag-and-drop feeds to native RSS readers.
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3- Fluent Reader
Modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI
Fluent Reader is one of the most popular Modern desktop RSS readers. It is open-source, and has some special features such as it can export service configs to it through QR code, it has a keyboard shortcut to hide an app on macOS, it also supports Chinese, and Turkish language, and more.
Fluent Reader comes with different versions that give you the choice to choose the perfect solution for your case.
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4- Raven
News/Rss/Feed Reader
Raven is a open source desktop news reader with flexible settings to optimize your experience. No login is required, and no personal data is collected.
If you want to add your articles in one place Raven is the best choice. Raven is an open-source desktop newsreader, built on top of Vue and JavaScript, it comes with a beautiful display with no distraction, it can sync with your cloud reader, it has unlimited categories, all your data is encrypted and secure, and more.
Raven is a cross-platform that runs on Windows, Linux, and macOS.
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5- RSS Guard
Feed reader which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.
RSS Guard is a simple RSS/ATOM feed reader for Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2 or macOS which can work with RSS/ATOM/JSON feeds as well as many online feed services:
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Feedly
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Gmail
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Google Reader API (Bazqux, FreshRSS, Inoreader, Miniflux, Reedah, The Old Reader and more)
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Nextcloud News
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Tiny Tiny RSS
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6- RSSOwl
Cross-platform minimal yet feature rich feeds/ news reader
RSSOwl is a powerful open-source application to organize, search, and read feeds. It extremely has powerful search features and offers synchronization with Google reader and more.
RSS Owl is a powerful application to organize, search and read your RSS, RDF & Atom news feeds in a comfortable way. Highlights are saved searches, google reader sync, notifications, filters, fast fulltext search and a flexible, clean user interface.
RSSOwl runs cross-platform on Windows, Linux, and macOS and can also be installed into Eclipse.
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7- NetNewsWire
RSS and Feed Reader
NetNewsWire os a free open-source RSS feed reader and organizer for macOS and iOS. It comes without ads, user tracking scripts, or any script that shares your information.
With NetNewsWire, you can organize your feeds in folders, mark them as read/ unread, and sync your data to iCloud, Feedly and other services.
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8- Vienna
Vienna is a free and open-source RSS/Atom newsreader for macOS.
Vienna can connect directly to the websites you want to track. Additionally or alternatively, you can also sync with a server supporting the Open Reader API (an adaptation of the now deceased Google Reader API). Vienna has been successfully tested with BazQux.com, FreshRSS.org, FeedHQ.org, InoReader.com and TheOldReader.com.
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