Reviews of RSSOwl for Windows

1. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 2.0.6 (Oct 6, 2010)

   Great ap though I prefer makagiga at this point as it is truly portable & uses java too and doesn't leave a trace that I can see.
2. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 2.0.5 (Jun 2, 2010)

   Fixed and working BUT half the feeds that it imported from nfreader's opml WON"T DISPLAY and because it's java leaves a folder on your cdrive zip or no
   Thanks anyways
3. 
   anomoly

   Reviewing 2.0.5 RC1 (Apr 21, 2010)

   Exported my feeds from nfreader in opml format, imported into the zip version of this, and this program did NOTHING. red x's is all I got.
   btw I had to disable my fw as after telling rssowl that it could not do a dns check it failed to open. Then of course it did absolutely nothing but import the feeds without ever grabbing anything at all.
4. 
   ruiseixas

   Reviewing 2.04 RC2 (Apr 3, 2010)

   Excellent program. It as Search folders, or Filters, or Saved Search, something rare and precious at the same time! Google don't have this amazing tool :-) And over all that, it as the possible of using Labels... Same as Tags! A Must.
5. 
   stisev

   Reviewing 2.01 (Dec 2, 2009)

   BEST RSS READER EVER.
   
   The guy who said RSS owl doesn't hold a candle to Omea Reader is probably high.
6. 
   digitalking

   Reviewing 2.0 Milestone 8a (Dec 17, 2008)

   Milestone 9 out.
   http://www.rssowl.org/no...54e1a64f8b0e43f6d988af6
7. 
   digitalking

   Reviewing 2.0 Milestone 8 (Apr 24, 2008)

   Better than FeedDemon in my opinion. Less memory, works offline, font size and style is more accessible, seems to load up news items faster when clicking on them. After doing a search, it brings up a window that lets you easily see all of the results in a great layout. Offers a portable solution that FeedDemon doesn't. Doesn't push a service like NewsGator on you. If you are a FeedDemon user, you have to give this a try. RSSBandit looks similar to this product, but is just not quite up to par with RSSOwl's speed.
8. 
   jk-

   Reviewing 2.0 Milestone 5a Preview (Mar 27, 2007)

   Hey todd, Why pay 50$ for similar software when this is open source and free? In fact, any good person should boycot commercial software altogether.
9. 
   Todd 13

   Reviewing 1.2.3 RC1 (Oct 31, 2006)

   Doesn't hold a candle to Omea Reader, and the tray notification looks like my daughter designed it.
10. 
    morganp

    Reviewing 1.2.3 RC1 (Oct 31, 2006)

    While FeedDemon is my RSS aggregator of choice I think RSSOwl is a superb product. It kills the age old sayings that Java is slow as it is easily as fast as any other native application. It has nice little features that other clients do not have such as exporting an article to PDF.
    
    Great product that is in very active development. If you are looking for a free RSS reader this is a great place to start looking. It is a much better experience than you get using RSS on Firefox or IE7.
11. 
    ajua

    Reviewing 1.2.2 RC3 (Aug 14, 2006)

    By far, the most complete free RSS Reader.
    The Java issues are gone now. Its as fast as any windows application.
    
    Has many features, does what it says, and in a great way.
12. 
    stopbuggingme

    Reviewing 1.2.2 RC2 (Aug 7, 2006)

    I am giving a 5 cause I really like it and it is really beautiful and don't want to spoil the ratings. On my computer is fast now and I just Love the name, god...It's great!
    But I have a complain: why is giving focus to firefox for every headline I open? I mean, i like to open all the hedlines I am interested with and then go to firefox and read them all. This is a draw back for me. Until this is fixed I will use Wizz Rss, wich is a nice extension, but not all that RSS reader.
13. 
    angrykeyboarder

    Reviewing 1.2.2 RC2 (Aug 7, 2006)

    I've always liked this program except for the Java issue. The main reason I liked it is (because of Java) it's cross platform. I run both Linux and Windows. And it's handy to use the same settings.
    
    But I'm just not fond of (most) Java apps because of the resource hogging issues.
    
    So, I'll stick with SharpReader for Windows and Akregator for Linux. As far as I'm concerned they are both the best for each of their respective platforms.
14. 
    zridling

    Reviewing 1.2 Public Preview (Sep 28, 2005)

    Same gripe here. Java really slows it down.
15. 
    darthbeads

    Reviewing 1.1.3 (Jul 18, 2005)

    Not bad, but does it really need to be Java-based?
16. 
    kamirao

    Reviewing 1.1.3 Final Preview (Jul 18, 2005)

    Good job, but i still prefer RSS Bandit because of its interface. have been using it from last 6 months
17. 
    mfarmilo

    Reviewing 1.1.3 Final Preview (Jul 15, 2005)

    A nice looking program, but auto-refreshing of feeds didn't seem to work right when the prog was in the systray. When I initially added fileforum to it, it loaded 10 entries. Then I didn't check it again till the following day (pc is left on 24hrs). On opening, it still only showed the original 10 entries, even though I'd specifically set it to refresh at 1hr intervals. Then I did a refresh & it loaded about 50 new entries, but the whole block from in between was missing. The same thing happened on all other feeds I'd set to auto-refresh. With a bug this serious, I really have to mark it down at least 2 points, which is sad since it seems a good program otherwise.
18. 
    zridling

    Reviewing 1.1.3 Preview (Jul 10, 2005)

    It's current weakness is navigation and opening, among a few quirks that users will help work out, but RSSOwl has a great, elegant user interface, and nice utility to auto-discover every feed from a website. Along with customizable keyboard shortcuts, RSSOwl looks to have excellent promise and very soon.
19. 
    comctrl6

    Reviewing 1.1.3 Preview (Jul 9, 2005)

    RSSOwl is a clean, nice and free little news feed application. The developers have paid a lot of attention to details and the bugs get fixed quickly. It is written with the SWT library so it has the native look and feel of the operating system you are using, despite being written in Java. I highly recommend this to everybody.

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