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{{Short description|RSS and Atom news aggregator software}}
{{More footnotes|date=May 2016}}
{{Infobox software
| name = Feedreader
| logo = Feedreader png.png
| screenshot = Feedreader.JPG
| caption = Feedreader Feed Window
| developer = i-Systems Inc.
| latest release version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q4038681|P348|P548=Q2804309}}
| latest release date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q4038681|P348|P548=Q2804309|P577}}
| latest preview version = {{wikidata|property|preferred|references|edit|Q4038681|P348|P548=Q51930650}}
| latest preview date = {{wikidata|qualifier|preferred|single|Q4038681|P348|P548=Q51930650|P577}}
| operating_system = [[Microsoft Windows]]
| genre = [[Feed reader]]
| license = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| website = {{URL|www.feedreader.com}}
}}

'''Feedreader''' is a free [[RSS (file format)|RSS]] and [[Atom (file format)|Atom]] [[feed aggregator|aggregator]] for Windows. It has a stripped down, though configurable, [[three-pane interface]] similar to [[NetNewsWire]] on [[Mac OS X]]. Recent beta versions use [[MySQL]] as [[database]] back-end.

Feedreader was one of the first desktop feed readers; version 1.54 of Feedreader of the application were distributed on April 24, 2001.<ref>{{cite news|title=What is Feedreader? |publisher=Web Archive |url=http://www.feedreader.com/ |date=April 24, 2001 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150729174617/http://www.feedreader.com/ |archive-date=July 29, 2015 |url-status=dead |access-date=September 24, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-second-spring-of-cleaning.html|title=A second spring of cleaning|last=Hölzle|first=Urs|publisher=googleblog.blogspot.com|access-date=2013-03-14}}</ref> The company behind Feedreader says that it was the first personal desktop RSS reader.<ref>{{cite news|title=About us |publisher=Feedreader |url=http://www.feedreader.com/aboutus |url-status=live |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120730161238/http://www.feedreader.com/aboutus |archive-date=July 30, 2012 |access-date=September 24, 2016 }}</ref>

Feedreader has an auto-discovery feature, whose purpose is to find RSS feeds on any web page and subscribe to them in an automated fashion. Moreover, the program can use keyboard shortcuts, search through one's RSS feeds, and can be run from a [[USB]] flash drive. The installation file is 4.44 MB, which is notably small for a feed reader with such features.

==See also==
* [[Comparison of feed aggregators]]

==References==
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==Notes==
* [http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1027544364/1 Fileforums.betanews.com]
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.feedreader.com |date=* |title=Feedreader Homepage }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.feedreader.com/aboutus i-Systems Inc. "About us", ''Feedreader Homepage'', March 25, 2008. Accessed March 25, 2008]

==External links==
*{{official website|https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.feedreader.com}}

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