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January 2, 2006
RSS readers: Shrook vs Google Reader
I've tried a variety of RSS readers over the last couple of years, including on Palm, my Treo phone, Windows and most recently Mac.
None of them every really stuck. Well, there was one I really liked on Windows, but I've been on a Mac for a year now and can't remember much about my Windows setup.
A couple months ago Mike told me about Shrook. After a few minutes, I knew I'd found the right RSS reader. I'm sure it's a personal thing, but it seemed to fit my expectations of a good RSS reader (I really like it's scratch pad and the way it tracks and displays read/unread and the ability to sync Shrook on multiple computers, amongst other things).
So a couple of days ago, my Shrook trial version expired. I decided I would give Google Reader a spin before I pay my Shrook license fee. So I save out Shrook subscriptions as OPML, upload the file to Google and away we go.
After using Google Reader for 3 days now, I can say definitively that Shrook blows it away, and that I don't understand how Google Reader works. It looks cool and everything, but I can't figure out how it maintains the list of articles (mostly, how it misses so many).
I'll be buying a license for Shrook.
You should try it out, maybe it'll be your perfect RSS reader, too.
Posted by pete at January 2, 2006 10:46 PM