There’s little doubt that FeedDemon is the best desktop based news reader for Windows while Google Reader enjoys the largest share of the pie among online feed readers.
The only issue, as noted in this comparison of FeedDemon with Google Reader, is that FeedDemon cannot sync subscriptions with Google Reader and this may be a deal breaker for some as you have to maintain all your subscriptions in two different locations.
Well, here’s some good news. The upcoming FeedDemon 2.8 release, currently in beta, will feature synchronization with Google Reader according to this spy screenshot released by Nick Bradbury himself.
This is like having the best of both worlds. You can read your RSS subscriptions in either FeedDemon or Google Reader and changes made to feed items in one reader will be propagated automatically to another one so there’s no double work involved anymore.
This smart move would also help Newsgator make a strong impact among the Google Reader community as people can now use FeedDemon without having to migrate to Newsgator Online. No word about the release date yet.
Scoop and RSS Bandit are other desktop clients that can also sync with Google Reader.
Update (Jan 30): Nick has added another screenshot that shows how you’ll be able to access your Google Reader shared items directly from FeedDemon. You can drag-n-drop browser tabs and hyperlinks into this shared items folder and the corresponding item will automatically get added to your Google Reader’s shared list.
This is something similar to Newsgator Clippings that already exists in FeedDemon except that share items will now get added to Google Reader and not to your Newsgator Online account.
I would also love to see the Notes feature of Google Reader integrated in FeedDemon so instead of sharing the full web page, I could simply share an excerpt.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/software/feeddemon-google-reader-sync-coming/6807/
Tags: Archives, feeddemon, google reader, rss, rss bandit, Software
Reader Comments
Thats fantastic news. It was the only thing that kept me aways from awesome feeddemon.
Written by Prashant on 01.28.09
Useful integration, i can access feeds via FeedDemon on my desktop and Google Reader on the go
Written by Hariharakumar on 01.28.09
Hooray! I’ll definitely watch out for the final release. And this is good news in the making…..
Written by deuts on 01.28.09
This is more proof that Nick Bradbury deserves some sort of award for the ground breaking evolution of Feeddemon which was an innovative and well designed product from the beginning. Google Reader synchronization would be further evidence that Nick is still user focused and someone from Google recruitment should be making him an offer he can’t refuse.
Written by Richard Filing on 01.28.09
Finally! I loved the FeedDemon desktop reader, and HATED the online interface- that’s why I went back to GReader. Finally, there will be some decent online and offline options for reading RSS feeds. I’ve tried Scoop and others, but FeedDemon’s far better.
Thanks for the heads up!
Written by David Pierce on 01.28.09
The one thing I miss in Feeddemon is Google’s awesome search capabilities which is incorporated in Google Reader. I couldn’t find any mention of syncing with Google Reader in the beta release notes, though
Written by Cherian on 01.28.09
Nick: Good move! I really love the way FeedDemon evolves.
Amit: Thanks for the news!
Written by Syahid A on 01.30.09
Nice!
This feature comming in the next version of Newsnewsfire too?
Written by Dekuwa on 02.01.09
I’ve tried both RSS Bandit and FeedDemon and found the RSS Bandit syncs with Google Reader slower than FeedDemon. FeedDeemon works really well.
Written by Davin Peterson on 05.05.09