Reviews of FeedDemon

1. 
   mfarmilo

   Reviewing 4.0.0.11 Pre-Release (Nov 20, 2010)

   An excellent newsreader. I've tried all sorts, and they all seem to have glitches or use huge amounts of ram. This one just gets on with it. Has tons of features that someone must use but I don't. The Google Reader integration seems clever, basically using Google in the background to do all the fetching etc. It always seemed to me that readers that work directly become very processor intensive whenever they're downloading.
   
   Some people moan about the adware aspect of this reader, but it's just a square area in the corner that displays an ad that changes very rarely. Not the slightest bit distracting.
2. 
   dhry

   Reviewing 4.0.0.7 Pre-Release (Nov 8, 2010)

   Well, I've spent several months playing real games with real people, like Operation and Candy Land for example, and I haven't gotten into a childish fight on the internet for almost a year now (hooray!), but I *still* for some reason can't seem to comprehend the fact that an 11-letter-word is always going to be different than an 11-POINT-word, even if all 11 letters are single-point letters. There HAS to be something I'm missing. I'll keep looking, but in the meantime, this program continues to suck. As does feedly.com when compared to GreatNews. (squeezes bike horn a couple of times and pedals off on a unicycle)
3. 
   Lare2

   Reviewing 3.5.0.0 Pre-Release (Sep 10, 2010)

   This use to be a great program. I paid for it back in the days, then they went freeware, and now payware again...... really ?
4. 
   darthbeads

   Reviewing 3.1.0.30 (Jun 11, 2010)

   FeedDemon was once, in my opinion, the "leader of the pack" for desktop RSS reader solutions. Like many here, I even coughed up 30 clams to register it when it (first) went Ad/Shareware. It's clear, however, that development has essentially stalled on this once excellent app, and the fact that it has swung back to Freeware then back again to Ad/Shareware is offensive and dishonest.
   
   These days, I prefer using Feedly.com (a Firefox, Chrome and, now, Safari extension) for my RSS reading, and I love it.
   
   PS - Bags and bags of FAIL for @dhry: "11-point" word =/= "11-letter" word. If this clown spent more time playing real games with real people, and less time getting into childish fights on the internet, he might just be able to comprehend the difference.
5. 
   JeremyGNJ

   Reviewing 3.0.0.39 Pre-Release (Sep 23, 2009)

   Ok after a few days of using version 3, I had considered paying the $10 to get rid of the ads.
   
   Then I thought about it, and I determined that the only significant update to 3.0 compared to 2.7 (the last version without ads), is that it can sync with Google Reader...which I don't use. Other than that, its just visual clean-up and tweaks (i dont even think there's been a single change to the options menu)
   
   So...back to 2.7, and they don't get my $10.

Discuss FeedDemon

1. Jul 19, 2009 - 1:28 PM
   Morningdove

   Ultimately it is the user that determines the success of adware. There is no program that is so good an acceptable alternative cannot be found. If adware is not used it will cease to exist.
2. Jan 7, 2009 - 4:08 PM
   keir

   The ads are pretty discreet, I'm still happy with it for now. Whether the ads will always be so discreet, time will tell.