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DESCRIPTION
Vienna is a freeware and open source RSS/Atom newsreader with article storage and management via an SQLite database, written in Objective-C and Cocoa for the Mac OS X operating system. It provides features comparable to commercial newsreaders, but both it and the source code are free and available for download.
A summary of some of its features:
- Subscribe to Atom/RSS news feeds and podcasts.
- Simple and intuitive user interface with customisable toolbar.
- Built-in tabbed browser.
- Global search of all retrieved articles.
- Automatic detection of newsfeeds on web pages.
- Smart folders for organising related feed articles.
- Custom article display styles.
- Three separate reading layouts.
- Blogging integration.
- Support for downloading enclosures in articles
- Filter the displayed articles.
- Manual reordering of the subscription list.
- Full AppleScript support.
- Localised into several languages.
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.5.0.2500: Release notes were unavailable when this listing was updated.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.4 or later.
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| Vienna User Reviews (59 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Feb 9 2010 |
IVANOVITCH I'd love to love Vienna, but from time to time it confuses and jumbles feeds (placing some news items in other feeds, dropping other news items altogether). I only wish that it was better than NNW et al, if only because it isn't placing gratuitous advertising all over the place. But considering that it's free, I'm happy enough...
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| Jan 18 2010 |
XCO After five-years, I just now switched back to NetNewsWire from Vienna. The latest Vienna versions are VERY, VERY slow with my news feed database. Not sure why. But most importantly, I have begun using an iPhone news reader. I found having two different readers (Vienna on the Mac, and one on the iPhone) proved wholly impractical. I now synchronize all my feeds through Google Reader, and access these across platforms. Sorry Vienna.
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| Jan 14 2010 |
XCO I find the latest Vienna hangs an awful lot at startup. I often must use a Force Quit. This has not been the case with prior versions. I've been using Vienna for at least four years. Also, the need to sink rss feeds between devices is getting pretty darn important, especially with my iPhone rss newsreader. I'm running 10.6.2 on a late 2008 MacBook Pro, and 24" Apple LED monitor.
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| Dec 31 2009 |
SW_TESTER i figured out that Vienna had 29000 articles. NNW only 2000. Apparently there is no option to keep articles "until they disappear from feed". so in prefs you must set "move articles to trash" to something because "never" will cause issues. i prefer the way NNW does it. what if you don't want to move articles to trash after a month for a feed that has older items?
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| Jan 12 2010 |
BAMBU I mark comments I want to save forever as Unread. Vienna seems to leave them there forever as long as the status is Unread. Flagged articles might express the same behavior, but I haven't tried that.
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 | Dec 27 2009 |
SW_TESTER I wanted to switch from NNW 3.1.7 since I read the new version of NNW added adverts. Also, I like to use open source when possible. Vienna stalls and becomes unresponsive for 1 to 2 minutes when starting up with a spinning beach ball as it gets the feeds. Very irritating. I have only 30 feeds. NNW only takes 5 seconds to get the feeds and does not become unresponsive. I don't get why Vienna stalls. I have dual cores and OS 10.5.8. Maybe it does not like the feeds imported from NNW?
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| Dec 14 2009 |
MRK Long-time NNW user, switched to Vienna a couple of months ago. This update addresses pretty much every problem I've noticed since then. Really great work.
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| Dec 7 2009 |
ABELLE Very easy to use, no problems, very nice work, thank you.
(Version 2.3.4.2305) | |
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| Sep 29 2009 |
PENGUIRL I came back to Vienna after NetNewsWire switched their synching from NewsGator to Google and raised the system requirements to 10.5. It has a nice UI, good functionality, and it's the only RSS/Atom reader I've tried that imported my feeds in the same folder hierarchy that they were exported in. So far my only complaints are font related, increasing the size of the article headlines font causes the date and time to be cut off by the headline below it, and there is no font settings for the article summary or the full articles. The only way to make them larger is to force all fonts to a larger minimum size, thus bringing up the previously mentioned issue. At this time I don't need synchronization but it would be a nice feature to have for the future. All in all Vienna is the best of it's class.
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| Sep 23 2009 |
ITISTODAY - Builtin tabbed web browser! - Support for folders and nested folders! - Email-like view to show article titles from either a feed, or a group of feeds! What's not to like?? This is the best news reader I've come across, bar none.
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| Sep 16 2009 |
CMASON I just heard that netnewswire was going ad-supported (ironically, it was their own beta update message that mentioned this.) I used to use netnewswire lite and was happy with it and never really needed the "pro" version. I got it anyway once they made it free but never really used any of the advanced features. I tried newsfire and it looked nice, but didn't have the same 3-pane view I was used to. So, then I found Vienna. It works great! I loaded up my subscriptions, changed a couple fonts, and that's it. It is doing exactly what I want with a simple interface that looks almost the same as netnewswire. Most importantly, *no ads*! Well done.
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