RSSOwl News

Migrating feeds over from Google Reader

Fri, 17 May 2013 17:27:59 +0200

In RSSOwl 2.2 the option to import feeds from Google Reader was removed. If you are interested in migrating all your feeds from Google Reader over to RSSOwl, please install the previous RSSOwl 2.1.6 and run the import from there. After the import you can easily update to RSSOwl 2.2 (Help | Check for Updates) and continue the migration by selecting Tools | Unsubscribe from Google Reader.

RSSOwl 2.2 released

Fri, 03 May 2013 08:22:24 +0200

This new version provides an easy way to unsubscribe from Google Reader as Google decided to stop this service end of June. Please find more details in this FAQ entry.
In addition, you can now export a feed as CSV file (File | Save as...) and among some bugfixes, some new share providers where added (Google Plus, Pocket).
I would like to send out a big thank you for the donations that where submitted over the past weeks!

Welcome to RSSOwl

Fri, 03 May 2013 03:30:37 +0200

RSSOwl is a free and powerful news feed reader. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize and search news in a convenient, easy to use interface with endless flexibility.

Download RSSOwl 2.2
Release Notes | Other Systems & Languages

Take a look at our Overview and Features section with videos to get a detailed overview of what makes RSSOwl special.

Updated instructions how to build RSSOwl

Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:18:14 +0100

It was about time to provide up to date instructions how to build RSSOwl using Eclipse. Head over to rssowl-target and find the instructions in the summary. We are encouraging other developers to provide pull requests on our GitHub project page!

Google Reader is powering down...

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:28:29 +0100

You have likely read by now that Google is planning to shutdown their Google Reader service by summer. If you love synchronization (I do!), consider to sign this petition to keep it alive. Please stay tuned for upcoming announcements how RSSOwl will support synchronization in the future and how you can import your subscriptions safely. Please keep in mind that Google Reader will still continue to work for some months.

RSSOwl 2.1.6 is available

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 18:59:50 +0100

This bugfix release resolves an issue when synchronizing articles with attachments with Google Reader.

Find more Feeds should work again

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 15:17:44 +0100

The service to find feeds based on keywords should work again now, apologies for the down time. You can search for feeds by keyword from the tools menu (Find more Feeds).

RSSOwl on Windows 8

Sat, 18 Aug 2012 09:08:26 +0200

As you might have heard, Windows 8 is around the corner. I went ahead and did a test how RSSOwl works on this new OS. As you can see from the screenshot below, thanks to the native UI library RSSOwl is using, the app adapts to the new theme easily:

RSSOwl 2.1.4 is out

Sat, 28 Jul 2012 15:30:37 +0200

This bugfix release resolves an issue when synchronizing articles to Google Reader and receiving an error "Bad Request (400)". This could happen when RSSOwl synchronized several hundred articles in one chunk to Google. As such this issue was only showing up for power users. If you have never seen this problem, you can stay on 2.1.2.

Feature Guide: RSSOwl on multiple platforms in multiple languages

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:28:06 +0200

To reactivate this blog, I am going to post a tour around RSSOwl features in the upcoming weeks. For power users these posts are likely no news, but it will certainly help newcomers to get the most out of RSSOwl.

Today I would like to emphasize the fact that since RSSOwl is running with Java, you can use RSSOwl on Windows, Mac and Linux. On top of that, RSSOwl is available in nine languages that you can install through plug-ins from the tools menu.

Check out our FAQ for some general tips and tricks while using RSSOwl and come back next week for another feature guide.

Tip: Use Google Reader synchronization to never loose any news

Fri, 09 Mar 2012 08:54:34 +0100

Since RSSOwl 2.1 you can synchronize your entire list of subscriptions with a Google Reader account. One of the less obvious advantages of doing so is being able to download an unlimited number of news from any feed you are subscribed to, even if the news is old enough to no longer be part of the feed. This is because Google stores all news of the feeds you are subscribed to on their servers and RSSOwl can access them directly from Google.

To configure this, simply set the number of news to keep per feed (Properties | Clean Up | Maximum number of news to keep) to a high value (up to 1000) and RSSOwl will download all news until the limit is reached. Similar, even when you are on vacation for some weeks, as soon as RSSOwl loads the feed after you are back, you will not loose any article.

More advantages of using Google Reader synchronization can be found in our FAQ.

LH: The Best News Reader Application for Linux

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 13:26:35 +0100

Nice to see this story from lifehacker naming RSSOwl the best news reader for Linux.

Help spread the word about RSSOwl!

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 10:18:20 +0200

We think more people should know about RSSOwl. If you are the maintainer of a website or know someone that is, you can do us a favour and add one of our promotional buttons to your website, e.g.:

You can find instructions on our Contribute page. Thanks in advance!

Do you know about Add-Ons?

Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:28:53 +0200

RSSOwl is based on a platform that can easily be extended with additional functionality. We provide some add-ons that are worth mentioning here. If you open Tools | Add-ons | Find Add-ons you see a list of available add-ons for your platform. The most popular one is likely the Newsgroup reader that turns RSSOwl into a nntp-client (find out more here). Another useful add-on that was recently added is the Offline Mode that allows to stop all network access from RSSOwl as long as the offline mode is active.

With the same mechanism, you can even install additional languages into RSSOwl. Find the list of additional languages from Tools | Language | Download Additional Languages.

RSSOwl now available in 8 languages

Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:24:58 +0200

Thanks to the work of our translators, RSSOwl is now available in English, German, Polish, Serbian, Italian, Spanish, Chinese (Traditional) and Chinese (Simplified). Stay tuned for upcoming Portuguese and French translations. If your language is missing, you can help out.