 | 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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| Jul 31 2009 |
STUGOTS I switched to this from NetNewsWire, after the NNW Beta update nuked most of my subscriptions. I find Vienna to be very stable, with a cleaner UI than what I've been used to with NetNewsWire. There's a better use of real estate. The overall visual design looks far more polished than what you usually find in an open-source project. The default fonts are OK but there are better choices, IMHO. They are easy to change in the preferences. The only feature I miss is synchronization with a service out on the web, so I can share my feeds between work and home. (*Not* Google Reader, TYVM.) From what I gather in the support forum, synchronization is one of the new features being considered.
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| Jul 31 2009 |
ROB.H Ticks all the right boxes for me. Now that NetNewsWire is going commercial/ad-supported, Vienna is a great free alternative. Clean uncluttered interface (with some interesting visual styles to choose from if you like that sort of thing) plus it's easy and intuitive to use. The only thing missing really is the sync features of NetNewsWire, but then I'm trying to ween myself off hours of reading newsfeeds every day on every device I own, so that's probably a good thing!
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| Jul 27 2009 |
MOMIJIGARI I use this software every day.
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 | Dec 16 2007 |
JOSHEWAH I like this app a lot. I wish that flash and audio/video wouldn't reload every time I switched tabs though. If I am checking out a song from a blog in a tab and go back to read feeds while it plays it cuts it off and starts downloading again when I go back to it.
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| Dec 2 2007 |
IVANOVITCH A timely update: it was unusable with Remote Buddy open at the same time (made Vienna uncontrollable, oddly). Further, the display bugs introduced with Leopard now appear to be ironed out. No more truncated scrollbars or icons. Still no icon to indicate that a headline has been opened in external browser: only option is to display read/unread and to manually flag item. Also difficult to re-sort headlines by date (up or down) without doubling size of pane used for headlines (I use condensed layout to emulate previously purchased RSS readers). Apart from this, it works remarkably well, and the price is brilliant value. Like others, I bought other readers but grew disappointed with the direction of development and features. I'm now happily stuck with Vienna.
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| Nov 21 2007 |
TINGTING Needs more toolbar button options like "mark all read" "refresh" just a single feed. And not a drop down menu like it has where you get carpal tunnel click-scroll-click. One click. otherwise cool, I hope it grows in the right direction.
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| Oct 22 2007 |
SCREENSHOT I just started to use Vienna and the functionalities are quite ok. But could someone explain to me why Vienna connects to sites such as imrworldwide.com, doubleclick.net, metrics.apple.com, webtrendslive.com, tacoda.net, revsci.net and others? I don't remember adding any feeds from those guys.
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| Nov 9 2007 |
ENCGUANO Just a guess: Maybe it´s because the sites you´ve bookmarked are trying to get data from these sites? (In case of doubleclick that´s not really nice of them though...) ;)
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| Sep 9 2007 |
I bought NetNewsWire and Newsfire and discovered Vienna afterwards!!! Now I don't use the readers I have bought anymore and I've swithched to the free one...It's fast, easy to configure and use, can import and export my list of suscriptions (I exported it to OmniOutliner). The builtin browser is just great and seems to be able to open any Web page and download files (which isn't the case of NetNewsWire ; I've tested quite a few pages). Very stable. Great app.
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| Sep 8 2007 |
GATTON I don't have a lot of experience with other feed readers but Vienna works very well for me. As a matter of fact I consider it a plus that I was able to set it up and begin using it so quickly having no experience with other standalone readers. The only other thing I have used is Google Reader. I'm very pleased with Vienna's features and performance. Worth a download for sure.
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| Aug 21 2007 |
PMANNA While it looks it gets better, it still lacks the only feature that keeps me from switching, i.e. the possibility to subscribe multiple times to the same feed with different user names. That's the way some popular feeds work (GMail, for example), and it's supported in other readers.
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| Mar 20 2007 |
GAOSHAN This has come so far from the first version I used (probably a year or more ago). I have always used Safari's built-in RSS feed reader but one day with Vienna and I switched. Probably my favorite thing about it (and the reason I like it better than other free, standout RSS readers, such as NetNewsWire Lite) is the built-in browser for viewing articles. There is a basic web browser with back, forward, refresh and since it is based on webkit it functions and feels very much like a stripped down Safari. Additionally you can send a link to Safari for viewing, if you like. Another thing that beats Safari's RSS reader is the ability to check individual feeds for updates rather than the whole collection. There are also a number of built-in css styles that you can apply to your feeds, you can flag articles, use smart folders, etc. All of this for free! What a great product!
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| Mar 15 2007 |
HENRIKTEKNIK Feature request: Sorting feeds in folders, for easy cathegorizing. Also, maybe some kind of system menu bar access?
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 | Feb 11 2007 |
TIMSTRINGER I've been using Vienna to manage about 50 RSS feeds. I'm very impressed with the application, though I was finding that it was getting slower and slower to the point where it was almost unusable (e.g. it would sometimes take about 10 seconds for a news item to show up on my MacBook Pro). The solution: I simply empied the Trash by selecting "Empty Trash" from the Vienna menu. From what I've read, this causes some sort of a compaction of the database to be performed which can dramatically improve performance. Anyway, it worked like a charm. Vienna is now dramatically faster and my search for a replacement is over. I hope others find this tip useful!
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| Feb 7 2007 |
SMACTRON Compact, simple, and fairly powerful RSS reader. Cocoaforge's Vienna forums has friendly developers who respond quickly to posts. And who doesn't love open source? Thanks!
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| Jan 6 2007 |
HENRIKTEKNIK Very clean and easy to use. Nothing unnecessary functions bloating things up. Just what I was looking for. Thanks a bundle, developer!
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| Dec 24 2006 |
ANTHONY SIGALAS I was a hardcore NewsFire user, but due to the developer's arrogance I was forced to seek another RSS reader. I had my eyes fixed on Vienna for a long time, but the newest version introduced Unified layout which is absolutely brilliant. This feature, together with the ability to change styles (CSS templates really) made me a Vienna believer. A big thanks to the devs for bringing to maturity a great open source RSS reader!
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| Oct 29 2006 |
GRUMPYTICO I really like this RSS reader, so I feel kinda bad saying something not good about it :( I have 46 RSS subscriptions and when marking all messages as read and moving on, it becomes Beachball land in Vienna. CPU usage is around 10% when this happens (I'm using a MBP), I have to switch and do other things while Vienna can come to its senses - which can sometimes take up to a minute :( Overall, excellent RSS reader with a problem that at least for me, makes it unusable.
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| Sep 24 2006 |
When an article in the subject field is marked "read" it dissapears, even though I've set the preference to keep unread articles for a week.
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| Sep 5 2006 |
DUDEL As good as NetNewsWire but free !
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| Jul 31 2006 |
WALKI-TALKI.COM I forgot the ratings. Yes, 5 stars, almost all the way.
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| Jul 31 2006 |
WALKI-TALKI.COM Ignore the old comments below about Vienna being slow. This WAS true. Since may, Vienna has undergone considerable revisions, and it is quite fast. I have hundreds of feeds, and sometimes I have THOUSANDS of articles loaded. There is not even a hiccup on my old 867 MHz PB, and Vienna is blazing fast. The only feature missing from Vienna is a feed discovery feature whereby you enter a URL and the reader discovers all the feeds that are offered by that site. This is hardly a problem, however, since Vienna offers so many wonderful ways to organize and display the feeds. Toward the latter, Vienna offers a very nice selection of themes that make reading articles a joy, frankly. This is THE reader for OS X.
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| May 27 2006 |
IGUY Vienna is free and yet offers most of the features that you'll find in other shareware RSS readers. My favorite feature: the fact that you can flag blog entries to easily follow up on comments. Very nice and fast on my G5 iMac.
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| May 18 2006 |
KILLERHAMSTER Vienna is a very nice News Reader, and its features are enough for me. the only thing that bothers me so much that I finally switched to NNWL is that it is soooo darn slow. I already keep my items only for a day or so, and I have only about 30 feedss, but it takes Vienna forever to switch between feeds etc. Nothing like this with NNW. Should this problem be resolved, I'd gladly switch back.
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| May 16 2006 |
ROADTRIPDK Absolutely fantastic. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to export Vienna bookmarks into a format that Safari can import. Any ideas out there?
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| Apr 7 2006 |
RENDERHEAD I highly recommend this newsreader! It is without a doubt the finest free newsreader I have tried. While it does not have quite as many features as some of the paid newsreaders like NetNewsWire, it has a few more features than the stripped-down NetNewsWire Light. Unlike NetNewsWire Lite, however, it is open source and frequently updated. I predict that it will soon be competitive with the paid version. I've relied on it heavily for several months now to read about 40 feeds, and I have had fewer crashes in Vienna than I have in any of my web browsers. The most persistent problem it has given me is that the titles on some feeds are improperly rendered. This only happens with one of my feeds, and I suspect that it is due to improper formatting on the feed maintainer's part. Still, NNW Lite is able to display them properly.
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| Mar 23 2006 |
HAL2007 Very nice RSS reader, it's customizable and - best of all - it's free and regularly updated. However, it's one of those apps which rely on an active font "Helvetica", and crash if it's not present. Took me a while to figure that out. Aside from that it's great. Keep up the good work!
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| Mar 1 2006 |
BERNDII Very nice app, works better for me than any of the other readers and it's free with source. One little feature request, it would be nice to adjust news to when they turn old news. So when I don't click an item it turns old after a while w/o clicking on it. I sometimes have so many feeds that I don't read and I always have to manually mark them as read.
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| Feb 2 2006 |
RYAN H. This is an awesome RSS client with a sweet price! I have been using this FREE client for months and its excellent. You get tons of great features that you just simply won't find in other anemic free clients. Sure it hasn't got every imaginable feature that other super expensive (IMHO. why would anyone pay $20+ for a RSS client?) but it has some really cool features and is definitely worth a looksey if you haven't used it before. However, some of my fellow reviewers do make some excellent points and I hope that the developer will take them into consideration in the future. P.S Its really cool (and fun!) that its also themeable!
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| Jan 24 2006 |
TRALALA Nice app., but it still has a big drawback: unlike most rss readers, headlines keep accumulating. The auto-expire feature SHOULD remove unread articles also. (Unless the author expects us to read all articles!)Version 2.0
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| Jan 23 2006 |
BEDSTUY65 ctrl-click on an individual subscription and selected "refresh selected subscription"
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| Jan 16 2006 |
SHAWNYQ Why on earth is there no individual refresh rate? Not all feeds need updated at the same time.
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| Jan 2 2006 |
MACSTERDAM I'm a registered user of Newsfire but as of release 2017 I've switched to Vienna. It's faster, has more features and feel great. Plus, the developer is very responsive which is nice as well. Absolutely wonderful. The fact that's it's (still) free is amazing as well.
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| Dec 17 2005 |
THEBRIX Brilliant. I am a registered user of both Shrook and NetNewsWire (and have wavered between the two over the past couple of years) but Vienna trumps both of them. The author has realised that the point of a RSS reader is to read news and developed the user interface accordingly. Fast, full keyboard operation, no toolbar, no popups, no "statistics" or other irrelevancies getting in the way of feeds, preview and full article - and the tabbed opening of linked Web pages behind the two right-hand panes is an excellent idea. At last, an RSS newsreader which feels comfortable on a 12" screen!
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| Dec 3 2005 |
RBGAMER This does not beat NewsFire "hands down" - that's an exaggeration - but I have switched to Vienna for now. As a paid user of NewsFire for over a year, I have two reasons for switching to Vienna. First and foremost, Newsfire is increasingly sluggish and takes forever to start up. Vienna with all my feeds imported from NewsFire takes a tenth of the time. Second, I like the ability to open tabbed web pages within the reader (something NewsFire lacks). I would say that Vienna's interface is very good as well, not as good as NewsFire's but good enough for me not to particularly miss NewsFire. One thing I do miss from NewsFire? Weblog integration. If this were added to Vienna I would have no need to return to NewsFire.
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| Nov 19 2005 |
MIKE It's a little resource hungry - it can slow my system down after a few hours of use here on a 12" iBook G4 1GHz with 768MB - but it's an absolutely brilliant app which I can only see getting better and better. Love it to bits - look forward to the future of this app very much.
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| Nov 16 2005 |
ANONYMOUS An superb piece of software - and Cocoa friendly too! A couple of niggles here and there, but this provides most of what you need in ways that some rivals deem as major selling points - Sorry, did I say rivals? It has none - It's free! Recommended.
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| Nov 11 2005 |
MIKE Excellent little piece of software. If the developer(s) just included a two-pane view and a little more UI slickness (ala NewsFire) then I'd fully switch over from the piece of ugly bloated junk that is NNW.
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| Nov 3 2005 |
M. H. I think I just wet my pants... beautiful software. Easily the best free RSS reader for Mac. I'd argue that it beats some of the more popular readers (NewsLiar, anyone?) hands down as well.
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| Oct 26 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Just a thought. In addition to a reader, what if it also alerted you to changes in websites you regularly check.
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| Sep 26 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Looks like a really good app. I tried NetNewswire Lite and Netnewswire before. The Lie version was missing features. The Pro version had too many features. Vienna was exactly what I was looking for. Only problem I have is that its a bit buggy and that you set the feeds to delete after a certain amount of time. Podcast and Vodcast support would be nice too.
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| Sep 26 2005 |
ANONYMOUS This is the one I am looking for. Not because it's free, but because it is not so overburdened with rubbish. Clean, spartan, and highly useful.
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| Sep 25 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Nice! But could use a drag reordering of feeds in the left column. I also think the tools/buttons should be in a toolbar at the top of the window.
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| Sep 15 2005 |
SPWARF Well, Vienna made be switch from NetNewsWire Lite - especially because I was looking for a free RSS reader that would give me an horizintal 3 pane views on my G5 iMac. Not only does Vienna does that, but I fond it faster than NNW, and the smart folders addition is great.
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| Sep 4 2005 |
EJI Whoa. Major upgrade this time around. Light years better than the last release -- and a flashy new icon! Any chance of seeing some kind of article expiration? I'd like to be able to tell Vienna to delete all articles after a certain length of time -- say, three days -- except for the ones I might have "flagged."
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| Sep 3 2005 |
INGVO CLAUDER Try this News Reader. It is one of the best free solutions! Congratulations to the developer.
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| Aug 12 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Just need a better icone & name (something with RSS), french localisation (:p) ;) I like it, keep it free!
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| Aug 8 2005 |
ANONYMOUS This app has great potential but I don't think its there yet.
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| Jul 17 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Any chance you could make the interface more reminiscent of Tiger's Mail app ... i.e. have the left pane have no visible resizing seperator bar. I would also suggest moving the buttons and search to the top of the app.
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| Jul 12 2005 |
EJI I've been using Vienna for a few days now, and I have to say it's the only client that comes the closest to being between NewsFire (my preferred GUI) and NetNewsWire Lite (my preferred feature set). - Fully customizable three-pane view - No way to set an expiration date for headlines. They just keep accumulating, though there is a "Compact Database" option - Date sorting isn't always accurate - Takes extra clicks to mark messages read - Some feed [fav]icons displayed incorrectly - A bit more deafult spacing between feeds or alternating lines -- very cramped at the moment - Abitlity to open links in background - Pool of included feeds (like NNWL) - More options and customization for individual feeds - A better icon. That wavy V is fugly All in all, it's a great start. As an experiment of sorts, I removed NNWL from my dock when I installed Vienna and haven't returned to NNWL since.
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