The Best 92 River of News Alternatives

  • Kontact - Akregator icon

    Kontact - Akregator

    Akregator is a news feed reader for the KDE desktop. It enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites without the need to manually check for updates using a web browser.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux

  • Byline icon

    Byline

    read the latest news from your favorite sites and blogs on your iphone or ipod touch, even when you’re offline. simply use your feedly account to subscribe to websites you’d like to keep track of.

    Commercial iPhone iPad

  • Planet icon

    Planet

    Planet is a feed (atom, rss) aggregator and reader. It downloads news feeds published online aggregates their content together into a single combined feed in html, rss and atom form, latest news first.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Linux Self-Hosted

  • GreatNews icon

    GreatNews

    Fast Reading GreatNews displays full pages of news articles across rss feeds, optimized for fast reading. So you can skim through pages in seconds, and pick interesting ones to dig in.

    Free Windows

  • NewsFox icon

    NewsFox

    NewsFox is an efficient 3-pane(email) style Atom/RSS feed reader.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Firefox SeaMonkey K-Meleon

  • Nextgen Reader icon

    Nextgen Reader

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    Freemium Windows RT Windows Phone

  • moonmoon icon

    moonmoon

    moonmoon is a web based aggregator similar to planet . it can be used to blend articles from different blogs with same interests into a single page.

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted

  • KrISS feed icon

    KrISS feed

    KrISS feed is a simple and smart (or stupid) feed reader. To see an online example: http://tontof.net/feed Feel free to contribute: https://github.com/tontof/kriss_feed

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted

  • Snackr icon

    Snackr

    Snackr was built using Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR 1.0. It's an RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop.

    Free Open Source Mac OS X Windows Adobe AIR

  • Tickr icon

    Tickr

    TICKR is GTK-based RSS READER application which displays RSS FEEDS in a TICKER bar on your desktop. With a single click, you get the latest headlines scrolling in a thin window on your desktop, as what can be seen on News TV channels.

    Free Open Source Windows Linux

    Import from Google Reader Import feeds from OPML
  • Hubii icon

    Hubii

    Hubii brings news to you. News close to you and from all corners of the world, in an instant! Choose a city or a country and discover top stories, trends and latest news for a given location.

    Free Android Android Tablet Web Firefox OS

  • Feed Sidebar icon

    Feed Sidebar

    The Feed Sidebar is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox Web browser that displays the new items from your Live Bookmarks in the sidebar.

    Free Mac OS X Windows Linux Firefox

  • Rss-Aware icon

    Rss-Aware

    It is a program written in python that uses notify-osd to notify you about updates to a website using it's rss feed and appindicator to let you access that post. Every 15mins it checks for new posts

    Free Open Source Linux

  • RSS Desktop Aggregator icon

    RSS Desktop Aggregator

    RSS Desktop Aggregator is a work in progress C# 4.0 productivity and time saver app that read and display RSS feeds and Outlook Items. Some of Desktop Aggregator Features are: •Manually/Automatically refresh modes.

    Free Open Source Windows

  • Rnews icon

    Rnews

    Rnews is a server-side feed aggregator that can manage your hundreds of RSS and Atom feeds. It is: - Easy. You interact with the aggregator with your web browser, where you're going to be reading your news anyway. - Accessible.

    Free Open Source Self-Hosted