RSS Menu is a systemwide menu that allows you to read and organize your favourite RSS or Atom feeds.
The articles are automatically updated and you will get a notification when new articles are available or when some other event occurs. In addition to visual notification, you can also enable speech notification and choose one of the many built in voices. It is also possible to integrate iTunes (for podcasts) and Safari (for RSS bookmarks) with RSS Menu.
Key features include:
background application (doesn't get in your way and is accessible from
What's New
Version 2.1:
fixed a bug that wouldn't parse all feeds
optimized overall performance
updated parser engine now uses libxml2 for even faster parsing
fixed a bug that would continuously show a dialog box when Safari Feeds integration was enabled
Thank you for updating my favourite RSS reader! I can now ditch the rest and go back to the best. I don't agree with some people who say that this app needs Reader integration to stay alive, it does not. This is a fast parsing RSS reader that sits on the menubar and does exactly what it is supposed to do. I, for one, do not need to bring the big "G" into the equation for my RSS feeds.
Thank you for making a quality piece of free software.
Thank you for keeping this wonderful gem alive - and free!!! It is one of my top 5 favorites since quite some time! I tried Google Reader, Reeder and others, but always happily returned to RSS Menu, there is nothing easier out there!
Excellent little app. I only use it for news feeds as it saves me the time of opening Safari only to find that there is nothing interesting to read most of the time.
Great application now as it turned out with this version. Everything work like a charm. Gmail is also working again, how cool is that!! Open Gmail in you Safari and click the RSS icon in the link bar, and you're done!. Now all my information is tight together, mail and news. It saving so much RAM and CPU, it is untrue!! Such a great economic/ergonomic brilliance.
Apperance: 5/5
Easy of use: 5/5
Value: 5/5
Stability: 5/5 (fast reply and improvements along, but testing should be done beforehand!!)
Features: 4/5 (Because there is still potential with global shortcuts, and a key-click on menu-bar icon combination)
Can't say I love this new version either. The feed from my Gmail account is constantly grayed out. The folders lists (0) feeds when there are no new updates but I preferred it when it just listed nothing.
I can't get the feed to work from my Google Reader account. The menu item is grayed out. I also seem to be unable to have more than one Gmail feed. This is possible in most of the other notifiers for both OS X and Firefox.
I am using version 1.11.2 on a G5 single (PPC) with OS X Tiger 10.4.11.
Hi, I'm having trouble with the latest release. The feeds are disappearing. All but the first feed has posts in it. Updating all feeds doesn't help. This did not occur with the previous release. OS X 10.4.11 . All help appreciated.
Still seeing the bug that makes it growlnotify every article while non of the indicated articles have actually updated, which makes the actual updating progress annoyingly slow.
I'm keeping 1.8.x around untill i find/get an answer as to why this is happening...
Shows Growl messages for every article even if they're not updated at start-up, and following eachother only slowely, it takes a while for it to finally be done and over with.
Version 1.83 worked as a charm and I loved it.
The new one (1.9) works for about two minutes and then just quits. No reason given.
Hope they fix it soon...
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RSS Menu is a systemwide menu that allows you to read and organize your favourite RSS or Atom feeds.
The articles are automatically updated and you will get a notification when new articles are available or when some other event occurs. In addition to visual notification, you can also enable speech notification and choose one of the many built in voices. It is also possible to integrate iTunes (for podcasts) and Safari (for RSS bookmarks) with RSS Menu.
Key features include:
background application (doesn't get in your way and is accessible from anywhere)
very fast parsing engine
importing and exporting of OPML files
Growl and speech notification
many options to customize the menu
support for grouping feeds in submenus and adding seperators
support for using RSS Menu as an external reader in Safari (or any other application)
support for integration with iTunes and Safari
support for favourite icons (aka page icons)
Note: Fixed a last minute bug that would generate a lot of CPU and memory. Please redownload RSS Menu, we apologize for the incovenience.
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Multimediapimp reviewed on 17 Feb 2011
Thank you for making a quality piece of free software.
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Herbert68 reviewed on 17 Feb 2011
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Wzrdjr reviewed on 05 Jan 2010
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JeremiahTwice reviewed on 03 Jun 2009
I just feel it could be easier to use. I want to be able to choose from a nice list of RSS feeds like those shown in the screenshot.
So, I think it is a very nice piece of software--but perhaps a little more than I personally was looking for.
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ClarusAD reviewed on 30 Sep 2008
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siamlotus reviewed on 30 Jul 2008
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Jacker reviewed on 27 Mar 2008
Apperance: 5/5
Easy of use: 5/5
Value: 5/5
Stability: 5/5 (fast reply and improvements along, but testing should be done beforehand!!)
Features: 4/5 (Because there is still potential with global shortcuts, and a key-click on menu-bar icon combination)
I hope these will be incorporated soon!
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Can we download the previous version anywhere?
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I am using version 1.11.2 on a G5 single (PPC) with OS X Tiger 10.4.11.
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I'm keeping 1.8.x around untill i find/get an answer as to why this is happening...
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The new one (1.9) works for about two minutes and then just quits. No reason given.
Hope they fix it soon...
om.
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The new article counter goes up (in my case, to 7), and then the app quits. Repeatable.
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Myka rated on 15 Mar 2011