Raven

Feeds are a great way to watch for updates on certain websites without actually visiting the pages. They display the information in a simplified form, without unnecessary visual elements, giving you only the essential information you need.

Raven is a feed reader that supports both RSS and Atom feeds, allowing you to manage subscriptions to various websites and read news from your desktop. It comes with a light feature set, as it is designed to show you the information without any distractions.

Getting started is very straightforward. After going through the simple setup process, you can launch the application and begin adding all the feeds you wish to follow. Each one can be given a user-defined name, and they will appear in the left-hand sidebar.

To see if any of your feeds have received updates, simply select them from your subscriptions. All new entries will be displayed in the middle panel, while the article’s contents will be shown on the right. Articles can also be saved locally for offline reading.

After adding a new feed, you can mark it as a favorite to see its updates in a separate list, and the application can also display updates from all your feeds at once. However, you can’t place subscriptions into categories, which might have helped you keep them organized.

Since you might be switching from a different feed reader, it is worth noting that you can import your subscriptions directly, as well as export them when moving to a different application.

Not much needs to be said about the user interface, as it features a minimalistic design intended to be as free of distractions as possible. It is worth mentioning, however, that a dark UI mode can be enabled from the settings.

Overall, Raven is a straightforward feed reader that doesn’t really stand out in any way, which is not necessarily a bad thing. If you’re looking for a simple, distraction-free application that can help you keep track of your favorite websites and news sources, it is definitely a great choice.