THEBRIX2008  As with browsers, I keep moving between RSS readers (NetNewsWire, NewsFire, Vienna) ... but keep coming back to Shrook because of four reasons:

1. It has the most subtle and effective method of showing which feeds have updated most recently;

2. Although it demands a wide screen, because of the physical size of the single window, a lot is packed in without becoming unreadable, and the method of switching between feed listings, feed details and Web pages without using tabs is slick;

3. The new "highlight item changes" feature is better than NetNewsWire's;

4. It consistently has the fewest problems with parsing malformed feeds, of which there are unfortunately too many.  
(Version 2.7)

ROBERTS2424  A business associate and I have been having trouble with the Shrook Export command - OPML. We've been exporting one RSS feed and then wanting to import it into Shrook on another machine. Same Shrook version being used on both computers. The file will export but it can't import due to a "unrecognizable/corrupt" message. You can't import the list into any other RSS reader such as Vienna either. The developer has been contacted on several occasions and has never responded. It's proven to be a frustrating experience. As a result, our division has sadly dumped Shrook in favor of Vienna. We're having to rebuild the RSS list which will take a while, too.  
(Version 2.6.2)

TESLANAUT  Quite a nice RSS Reader. Just needs ability to change views and UI improvement.  
(Version 2.6.2)

EYEKEY  Quiet a time since my last Review...

Because the most used newsreader got free a while ago, I tried it also and several others.

Shrook is the ONLY reader which makes a difference between NEW and READ news. This is very important for me to immedially see which post is new and which I just have not read. I love that feature.

Shrook gets better with every Version, canīt wait for version 3!

Sorry for my bad English, itīs not my native language.  
(Version 2.6.1)

DEVNEVYN  Horrible UI (looks like a Windows app, very cluttered, too many panes, bad itunes-lookalike), flickering windows, buggy syncing feature (would keep bugging me about a sync conflict every ten minutes or so about four of my items no matter what I chose in the conflict resolution dialog), bad opml import, obnoxious dialogs all the time... Need I go on?  
(Version 2.6.1)

WEB-JIVE  Seems to crash with Leopard. Anyone else experiencing this?  
(Version 2.6)

EYEKEY  Great Software. I love it.

But same here, Dev. does not respond to emails. Let us hope, he reads them, because this rss reader has some bugs.  
(Version 2.54)

68KMLA  Just so people aren't fooled by this being listed under Freeware. It's not free to use the Shrook.com syncing feature, which costs a monthly subscription fee.

Still doesn't read an OPML file with group folders properly, and the dev hasn't responded to an email from three weeks ago.

I wouldn't bother with it since the only feature that set it apart (able to sync feeds with shrook server) now costs a subscription fee.

Back to Vienna for me.  
(Version 2.51)

ROBERTS2424  After having tried them all, dealing with all the good and bad points of each Shrook has remained the favorite. Vienna has run a close second. Now, that Shrook is freeware it stands to truly claim its throne. I don't proclaim that Shrook is perfect...but, it's better.  
(Version 2.5)

BRIAN KENDIG  A great RSS client, but it's still got some rough edges. One is that I can't figure out how to get it to leave the channel names as they were in the OPML file I imported from LiveJournal - so instead of seeing my friends' usernames, I see the clever descriptions they entered for themselves, and I can't tell who's who. Another problem is that this app needs an impossibly wide display - it puts the source list beside the channel list beside the item list beside the item view, meaning I have to squash everything horizontally. I wish there were a way to view things in separate windows, or even have a 'top' and a 'bottom' to the window.  
(Version 2.4)