Our Verdict
Compared to the best - roll in the hay RSS feed readers on the market today , News Notifications(Mac App Store link ) is as straightforward and uncomplicated as its drab claim implies . You wo n’t find cloud sync to an iOS app , community - driven clause passport , or a directory of top sites to append . It ’s just a Mac app that let you add feeds from your favorite WWW sources and have them appear in your Notification Center — that ’s really about it . For the Mac substance abuser who has no need for social sharing features or the ability to stock his / her read story over to other computers or an iPhone or iPad , this exclusive - minded reader should do the whoremaster .
News Notifications
Simply input the URL of a favorite land site and News Notifications will search out the correct feed data link , although you could manually point it towards a specific RSS provender for sites with specialized categories or sections . From there , you’re able to choose how many stories you ’d like to see from the website at once and how often you want the app to hold back for update , and then stories will pop out up throughout the day via notifications with the title and posting metre listed .
News Notifications is very similar in approach to the nice ( and free)Monotony , also on the Mac App Store , but offers a big advantage via a welcome sense of permanence . When you wrick on your computer or return from sleep mode after a magic spell aside , it ’ll show the stories you missed — only so many will appear in Notification Center , but there ’s also a chronicle window that saves about a week ’s worth of links and hold any lap . Multi - equipment RSS users will want a more robust and comprehensive web alternative like Feedly to delay in sync everywhere , but News Notifications is a very utilitarian choice for simple , local provender tracking .
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