Comments on: NetNewsWire on iPhone Is a Must-try for Google Reader Users

By: Srdjan

Srdjan — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 03:30:09 +0000

Unfortunately, ByLine shuts down shile syncing every time since iPhone upgrade to 3.1 and 3.1.2. :-) Same with NNW. Grrr!!!

By: Tim

Tim — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:43:41 +0000

I have to agree with Jamie. Nothing compares to Byline.

By: Stephen Feger

Stephen Feger — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:27:51 +0000

I tried NNW free just to see how it compares to Newsstand 2.1.

I only got a few minutes to try it out though. I set it to read my Google Reader account and I think I looked at one article. I then saw an advertisement I was curious about and clicked on it. After I was done, I went back to NNW. It never opened again. It would automatically shut down every time. Rebooted the phone. Still no good.

Oh well, that was a short lived effort. Deleted.

By: Zan

Zan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:48:07 +0000

I installed NNW on my iphone and while it is promising, I won’t continue using the current version. At the end of the day, I really can’t see why I would prefer to use it instead of the mobile version of google reader in safari. Also, when you star items you can’t tell if they are starred or not. I would only find it useful if I was away from a 3G or wifi connection, which is not often.

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:31:02 +0000

I’d be careful with giving NewsGator my money.

I purchased NetNewsWire for Mac a few years back. About a year after I purchased it, they switched it to free. Now they’re relaunched NNW for Mac with Google Reader support and want previous paying customers to pay again to remove ads.

What’s stopping them from doing this to the iPhone app? Or for the 2nd time on the mac?

By: DaveZatz

DaveZatz — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:08:08 +0000

Funny, I just deleted NetNewsWire from the Mac now that I’m forced to sync with Google. I’m actually fine with that, but I’m not fine that their FAQ doesn’t explain how the Google password works. Does NNW have access to it on their servers, is it protected (locally or there) and how? Considering how many Google apps we all use, I’m a little reluctant to share my creds.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:52:50 +0000

Byline wipes the floor with NNW 2.0. Much easier to read and handy offline caching. Funny that the desktop version’s switch to google only syncing forced me into using Byline. Having tried NNW 2.0, which frankly seems rushed to keep up with newsgator’s plans, I won’t be going back.

By: Tecra

Tecra — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:08:18 +0000

Heard if they are doing a Pre version? Pre really needs a good reader & that syncs with google. I am already using their windows desktop client FeedDemon.

By: Matias Mazza

Matias Mazza — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:08:14 +0000

For firefox users, try feedly. I never open up google reader again. just for the reorganization of the feeds it pays off.
I know this is a iphone post. But seriously try feedly.

By: Rick Huizinga

Rick Huizinga — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:25:19 +0000

I haven’t tried The new version of NetNewsWire, but I have been using Byline for the past few months and it is excellent – my best app purchase by far!

Byline syncs with Google Reader, provides offline reading support including a download of the full web-page. The developer realty did a good job on it’s usability.

It has become my primary news reader. I prefer reading my RSS feeds on Byline over the desktop version of Google Reader because I can get through my feeds much quicker.