RSS reader with support for RSS/Atom feeds

Vienna for Mac

Vienna for Mac

  -  8.74 MB  -  Open Source
  • Latest Version

    Vienna 3.9.3 LATEST

  • Review by

    Juan Garcia

  • Operating System

    macOS 10.15 Catalina or later

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    The Vienna RSS Project / External Link

  • Filename

    Vienna3.9.3.tgz

  • MD5 Checksum

    381d55765f30a13a57dea9490f2635f3

Vienna is an open source RSS/Atom reader with the ability to store received articles and manage it with an included SQLite database. Build with Objective-C and Cocoa for the Mac OS X operating system, this program offers a wide variety of useful features that are comparable or even better to professional commercial newsreaders. By having this excellent RSS manager installed on your Home or portable Mac computer, anyone can easily stay in contact with their favorite news sources, receive instant updates about the state of your blog or gallery subscriptions, manage podcasts, enjoy multimedia content, read RSS articles even when your computer does not have an internet connection active, and of course easily share your newfound content with your friends, family colleagues and the internet with the integrated tool for emailing, and sharing on most commonly used social networks Facebook and Twitter.

Visual style of Vienna for macOS uses classic RSS feed manager layout, with 3 separate sections for manipulating listing and reading RSS articles – on the left is directory structure that can be fully managed by user, and on the right is 2 panels for listing content inside those directories and showcasing content from the currently selected news article. All content can be listed by subject name, date, author, flags, attachment and more. Centralized search engine can easily isolate articles that you want to find. Customization options are extensive, covering everything from time between each RSS feed refresh to text fonts and feed import/export tools.

If you are searching for lightweight, free, stable and very easy to use RSS manager, you need to take a close look to Vienna and everything this great app has to offer.

Features and Highlights
  • Subscribe to Atom/RSS news feeds and podcasts.
  • Simple and intuitive user interface with customizable toolbar.
  • Built-in tabbed browser.
  • Global search of all retrieved articles.
  • Automatic detection of newsfeeds on web pages.
  • Smart folders for organizing 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.
Note: Requires 64-bit processor.

  • Vienna 3.9.3 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

Changed:
- Distinguish "Date published" and "Last update" dates for articles.
- This distinction can be used to define sort order or in smart folders definitions. To keep things simple and tidy, the "Date Published" information has not been added to the vertical layout.
- Change application category from "utilities" to "news"

Fixed:
- Fix text entry in the main tab's article view when the "Use Web Page for Articles" option is enabled
- Make command-click on a link open a new tab with this link
- Make option-click on a link open it in the browser which is not set as the default in General settings (either it is the system's default browser or Vienna's internal browser)
- Fix "Validate Feed" button in Info window when the feed has a query-based URL

Internals improvements:
- Make finding Vienna related content in help menus easier
- Improve recovery mechanism when Vienna is forced to switch to alphabetical sort for folders and feeds.
- Hopefully, this should limit the risk of seeing the problem reoccur
- Update informations related to folder even when the feed has no articles
- Make "Last Updated" date displayed in "Info" window more consistent
- Improve memory management (cache of folder's articles)

Infrastructure updates:
- Build with Xcode 16 and macOS 15 SDK
- Update to latest version of GitHub actions
- Use Crowdin.com for localizing content of HTML help files
- Enhance ChangeLog