NewsBar RSS reader App Reviews

The selection process of this app, even with *all but one* selection turned OFF, is… *not* selective. I deleted "sports" topic and have soccer news and various team trades coming in. No, thanks. Plus there’s no way to stop videos being listed (useless for me), or to disable timestamp. It’s a space-eater.

Would be so perfect if we could adjust the size of the pop up screens! Also if there’s a way to pull the articles so that we can read the entire thing within the pop up window rather than going to the browser, that would be great. One more thing: force it to stay put in the background without quitting the application itself. Otherwise it’s quite lovely!

It’s a great, well thought out tool. Very happy with my purchase and well worth the money.

Sync takes forever and often doesn’t sync properly to the iOS client. Very let down.

Totally customizable and the interface looks pretty. Love it that you can use the feedly account!

NewsBar RSS Reader is an incredibly efficient, easy to use RSS newsreader that links easily across multiple devices through iCloud. My work Mac has a very detailed news feed that I’ve setup using NewsBar, pulling from many sources. At home, when I turn on my Macbook, it too has Newsbar with the exact same feed and settings, all linked through iCloud. Awesome! Also, it is easy to connect many feeds and then have NewsBar filter out only the key words and related news that I’m interested in tracking in realtime. Highlights these items in my color of choice within all news items or allows me to view only the keyword Alert Feeds based on the keywords and phrases I’ve selected. When I see something I want to read in detail, I just double click the feed item and it quickly opens the source in my browser. Only two complaints - would love to be able to assign different color highlights to different keywords to help identify critical feeds. Currently, your selected alert color applies to all the alerts. Would also like to be able to upload my own alert sounds and tag different sounds to different keywords as well. I know …. kind of picky …. overall this is an incredibly easy to use, elegantly structured app. Enjoy!

This app looked great, and just what I was looking for ... but items just scroll off the bottom of the NewsBar window, and there is no way to sroll down to view them. I am running the Mac version on OSX 10.6.8. Have reported the problem to the developer, and am waiting for an answer.

I really like this RSS feed. 2 suggestions. I like that it is not collapsed when it starts up, but I have to drag the descriptions wider. I wish it would remember the width that it has been dragged to, so I don’t have to do that every time I use it. Also if there was a way to get access to a list of known RSS feeds besides the default ones already loaded in, that could be helpful in finding a wider selection of RSS feeds to add. Applying a two windowed dialog box kind of like how icons can be added to ribbons.

It’s the best RSS desktop feed I’ve found. I think 1 improvement would be a preview image of whatever you’re subscribed to. Say you subscribed to an eBay feed, whenever a new item would pop up a little image would be incorporated within the feed box. Thats just nitpicking. This is a great app. Must have!

Great app. Works as expected. No complaints.

Ever since google discontinued reader Ive been looking for something else to use to keep upt to date on scientific jounral RSS feeds. My gripes are that there are a limited number of folders you can add before they start falling off the bottom. Also, I wish I could turn off the "all feeds" folder to save space, or at least be able to move it to the bottom. In fact, I dont like that you cant have an individual RSS feed on the bar. The prefferences menu is buggy and this app doesnt seem to sync well with safari. I click on the RSS button to sign up for a feed and it opens newsbar but doesnt seem to add the feed. This is a serious issue in my mind because thats the whole reason I considered buying an app instead of just using a webbased RSS viewer such as digg. I may just stick with Digg unless this starts growing on me. At 5$ a pop, Id expect a more professional interface. I wish I could get my money back. Overall, overpriced, buggy, and not well suited for a complex feed.

Works as advertised, it’s clean and crisp, I love that it syncs with feedly and pocket (two apps I use a lot). Great job!

Running 10.6.8: NewsBar has a few issues: 1) Often when manually bringing in a news feed, the results do not show up in the preferences / rss feeds window, so one does not know if NewsBar has accepted the feed or not. 2) In the pref / RSS feeds window distinguishing between folders and feeds is a bit confusing as they both position on the same verticle line. 3) The preferences window can not be expanded fully so looking at feeds is a scrollers delight. 4) Why allow for nice extensive color customization but not allow the pop up window to be colorized? So with 5 drawbacks why the 4 star rating? Most of these drawbacks are a picky. NewsBar is a very enjoyable and customizable app. And its the RSS reader Im currently sticking with....

Does not give you a guide for setup and the HELP screens provide remarkably little information. Tried working with it for 90 minutes and gave up. Don’t waste your time or your money; stick with Feedly.

News RSS don’t work in Yosemite 10.10 Dev 7.

I’m surprised how much I use it, not having tried the older version. It’s translucent, so it doesn’t distract from the beauty of the screen saver beneath. It appears vertically along the left side of your screen. You can close it, but I end up leaving mine open all the time as breaking news keeps appearing at the top, which you can scroll through if you’ve been away from your computer. I keep mine primarily on “All Feeds”, but you can also select Sport, Tech, or News. (Although most of the news shows up in All Feeds… It’s rare to have a selection from the news category.) When you see a headline of interest, simply click on it and you can go directly to the main story to read more. It’s a time saver if you like to know what’s going on in the world, but can’t tolerate suffering through an hour of politics or entertainment before todays TV news finally gets to the point—or don’t have the time to be surfing the internet. Great job, developers of this new Newsbar RSS Reader! (The only thing I can’t tell you is how it compares to the previous version.)

I love this app but the latest version install just deleted all of my feeds.

60 sec autorefresh, seamless sync across desktop and mobile, Feedly support, Twitter support, flexible interface and preferences, unobtrusive attractive and readable design, notification settings that make sense and actually work, AND a helpful and responsive developer - if you use RSS on OS X and iOS you should only be using NewsBar.

If you’re a journalist or just a news junkie, NewsBar is an essential tool. If you have a large number of RSS feeds it won’t replace your RSS reader, but it will let you see breaking news stories and everything else as soon as they’re published. It’s surprisingly customizable and syncing with Feedly makes it all the more valuable. Equally important and appreciated, the developer is very responsive. I have over 900 feeds in my RSS file so my needs are greater than most. The developer has responded to every one of my emails quickly and with the fix I needed. I would be lost without it. It’s a steal at twice the price.

I was very surprise with how easy I can get access to all kind of news!