Shrook

Developer's site shows: "Shrook is no longer in active development and is not recommended for new users". MU please update.

I'm not at all happy with this newsreader. It dropped support for SnowLeopard It won't be missed.

Crash at start.

I'm not so happy about this Newsreader. I find it outdated and its GUI is poor Mac-wise. I find it flat and boring. It has been the same for years and it is time for the Developer to change it. I gave it 3 Stars and that is being gracious.

details of the news item in GREY, doesn't look good, quite distracting and annoying. hard to focus on the headline/title. I guess it's because of the same font size as the headline. Please make the details in grey, in much SMALLER font. OR, without the details in grey would be much better.

This app is labeled as "a next-generation news reader" while it has an etremely dated user interface. Too funny :D

Updated from 2.87 to 2.88. Now all of my feeds are gone. More importantly, my flagged items are gone!

With Google killing Google Reader, I'm definitely interested in new RSS options, especially ones that have a syncing capability and an iOS app. Thus I was especially excited when I read this app was free and includes syncing - but I was disappointed to learn that those two things are mutually exclusive. That is, the syncing service costs $20/year. I think that price is reasonable, but I feel like the labeling is misleading.

Have used several competitors along the years (Vienna, NetNewsWire to name some), this one is the only one that doesn't get bloated, works steadily and is a pleasure to use and read through. Previously I had to change my RSS client every 6 months, with Shrook I haven't looked back for 2 years!

Shrook has become my default RSS reader. Part of that, I'll admit, is by default. Vienna isn't quite there yet and I'm not ready to pay for a reader, so that lets out a dozen other candidates. I like the way Shrook lets you cursor around the screen. I like it's four-paned interface, but I use a 21-inch monitor; it might stink on a much narrower monitor. And I like how it doesn't try to display Web pages and leaves that to a browser. I had some issues trying to set up my preferences. It crashed several times as I made changes, but once they were set up, Shrook has been solid. mt

My initial impression of Shrook after being forced to leave NetNewsWire by it's new system requirements is that it's inability to import feeds in the same hierarchy they were exported in is a substantial inconvenience. Also the four pane window seems too busy and leaves each pane too narrow, I would like to have the option of a three pane widescreen layout that NetNewsWire and Vienna offer. I won't rate it until I've had a chance to reorganize the feeds and give it a proper run through.

As with browsers, I keep moving between RSS readers (NetNewsWire, NewsFire, Vienna) ... but keep coming back to Shrook because of four reasons: 1. It has the most subtle and effective method of showing which feeds have updated most recently; 2. Although it demands a wide screen, because of the physical size of the single window, a lot is packed in without becoming unreadable, and the method of switching between feed listings, feed details and Web pages without using tabs is slick; 3. The new "highlight item changes" feature is better than NetNewsWire's; 4. It consistently has the fewest problems with parsing malformed feeds, of which there are unfortunately too many.

A business associate and I have been having trouble with the Shrook Export command - OPML. We've been exporting one RSS feed and then wanting to import it into Shrook on another machine. Same Shrook version being used on both computers. The file will export but it can't import due to a "unrecognizable/corrupt" message. You can't import the list into any other RSS reader such as Vienna either. The developer has been contacted on several occasions and has never responded. It's proven to be a frustrating experience. As a result, our division has sadly dumped Shrook in favor of Vienna. We're having to rebuild the RSS list which will take a while, too.

Quite a nice RSS Reader. Just needs ability to change views and UI improvement.

Quiet a time since my last Review... Because the most used newsreader got free a while ago, I tried it also and several others. Shrook is the ONLY reader which makes a difference between NEW and READ news. This is very important for me to immedially see which post is new and which I just have not read. I love that feature. Shrook gets better with every Version, can´t wait for version 3! Sorry for my bad English, it´s not my native language.

Horrible UI (looks like a Windows app, very cluttered, too many panes, bad itunes-lookalike), flickering windows, buggy syncing feature (would keep bugging me about a sync conflict every ten minutes or so about four of my items no matter what I chose in the conflict resolution dialog), bad opml import, obnoxious dialogs all the time... Need I go on?

Seems to crash with Leopard. Anyone else experiencing this?

Great Software. I love it. But same here, Dev. does not respond to emails. Let us hope, he reads them, because this rss reader has some bugs.

Just so people aren't fooled by this being listed under Freeware. It's not free to use the Shrook.com syncing feature, which costs a monthly subscription fee. Still doesn't read an OPML file with group folders properly, and the dev hasn't responded to an email from three weeks ago. I wouldn't bother with it since the only feature that set it apart (able to sync feeds with shrook server) now costs a subscription fee. Back to Vienna for me.

After having tried them all, dealing with all the good and bad points of each Shrook has remained the favorite. Vienna has run a close second. Now, that Shrook is freeware it stands to truly claim its throne. I don't proclaim that Shrook is perfect...but, it's better.