Online Feed Readers Reviewed

On TechCrunch Frank Gruber examines The State of Online Feed Readers in a comprehensive review. The Google Reader and FeedLounge were the fastest, but Bloglines and Rojo are came out on tops when it came to features. None, Frank says, approach the speed and agility of the best desktop based readers like NetNewsWire and FeedDemon. However, I would remind everyone that Newsgator Online syncs up with these readers. The desktop products also sync with Bloglines so you can get the best of both. The following matrix is from TechCrunch.

Comments

[Paul Fabretti]

Thang GOD! i have been looking for something like this for months!!

Thaks Steve!

[Frank Gruber]

Thanks for the mention Steve...I wanted to mention that the chart is a "living document" and will continue to be updated in case there were features I missed. :)

Frank

[Easton Ellsworth]

What!? 2 out of 5 for N'gator Online! Oh well, it's time I looked around for an alternative (healthy to do that once in a while). But I just don't know if anything will be able to tear me away from my dear Newsgator.

[Eric Giguere]

Mobile users can also use the AvantGo for RSS feature that turns RSS feeds (Atom is also supported) into AvantGo channels. Handy for reading those blogs on the go.

(Disclaimer: I work for iAnywhere.)

[Kevin Burton]

Newsgator's problem is that they need to hire a designer. Greg gave me a demo of some of the features and they were just hidden behind a very poorly designed UI.

I think if they were to find a good designer they could gain back 2 or 4 of those stars... :)

Kevin

[Patrix]

Are you planning to follow this up with non-web-based readers? I am using GreatNews right now and find it quite suitable for my needs and the fact that I can syncronize it with Bloglines gives it an added edge.