Raven Reader

Offline ready desktop RSS Reader without any distractions. One thing Raven has right from the off is its look: it’s clean, with ample spacing, and isn’t crowded up by buttons and toolbars. Raven uses a three-pane layout: On the left is a sidebar listing RSS feed sources and a slate of filter options, including “All Feeds”, “Recently Read” and “Unread only”. In the middle is the “article list” showing the article headline, site name, publish date and an easy-to-spot site favicon. On the right is the “content” area where a plain-text version of each article is presented. The size of the first two columns isn’t adjustable but the width of the reading space can be made wider or more compact depending on your needs.

Adding feeds is easy: click the bold blue add button, tap in a site URL and Raven will auto-detect any available feeds. Helpfully, when adding feeds you have the option to change the site name/label too, handy if you only subscribe to specific sections of a website. Alas, you can’t rename feeds once added, or adjust their order once added.

Features:

• Full Article Read
• Subscribing to newsfeed
• Marking as read/unread
• Marking as favourite
• Dark mode
• Configurable cron job for refresh interval of feeds
• Minimize app to tray and run in the background
• Open article link in external browser
• Responsive
• Exporting feed in OPML format
• Importing feeds
• Offline reading
• Keyboard Shortcuts
• Sidebar count
• Text size configuration
• Text font style configuration (Currently has Playfair Display, Muli, Open Sans and Roboto Slab)
• Supports categorizing of the feeds.
• macOS touch bar shortcuts
• Integration with read it later apps: Pocket, Instapaper
• Podcast support. Subscribe to the podcast RSS feed and listen within the app.
• Accessibility Friendly
• Feedbin integration