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Leaf, is a clean and feature-rich RSS Reader Mac app. Leaf is a RSS notifier plus it also features a RSS reader. Just like Monotony, Leaf uses OS X’s Notification Center to push RSS notifications. The newest app on the Mac eBook reader scene, Bookinist is the app that prompted us to write this article. It’s a brave shot at making a nearly perfect iBooks clone, months before Apple is set to release iBooks for OS X with Mavericks release. If you are looking to install PDF Reader Viewer, File Opener in PC then read the rest of the article where you will find 2 ways to install PDF Reader Viewer, File Opener in PC using BlueStacks and Nox app player however you can also use any one of the following alternatives of BlueStacks. The newest app on the Mac eBook reader scene, Bookinist is the app that prompted us to write this article. It’s a brave shot at making a nearly perfect iBooks clone, months before Apple is set to release iBooks for OS X with Mavericks release. Whether you’re unwrapping your first Mac, or getting an upgrade, you’ll need some apps for your new computer. We’re here to help, with some of our best picks to get you started. We explore, in this article, some free eBook readers that are available for the Mac. IBooks iBooks is Apple’s stock eBook reader app, and it is exactly what an eBook reader for a laptop should be.
If you are looking to install PDF Reader Viewer, File Opener in PC then read the rest of the article where you will find 2 ways to install PDF Reader Viewer, File Opener in PC using BlueStacks and Nox app player however you can also use any one of the following alternatives of BlueStacks.
***** Featured by Apple in 'Our favourite Mac Apps' *****
Leaf is an amazing news reader for your Mac. Read, share, star and search your news by using a clean and intuitive interface.
'The best looking news reader on the App Store' - by GenieBurger
'Excellent, clean interface, nice design' - by dfs83
- lifehacker.com - 'The app walks the line between being minimal, offering you only the essential features, and making sure the features it does offer are useful..'
Highlighted features:
- Beautiful themes (including night mode) and customizable news reader appearance
- Syncs with Feedly, NewsBlur, Feedbin and Feed Wrangler
- Standalone RSS engine
- Save articles to Buffer, Evernote, Pocket, Readability, Instapaper, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
- RSS, RDF, ATOM support
- Gestures and keyboard shortcuts
- New article notifications and access to past articles in Notification Center
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Straight forward, well-designed RSS feed aggregator
I was searching for an app just like this after using Feedly on the iPhone for so long. While Feedly is available on Mac, I felt like trying something different. Leaf did the trick for me. It integrated with my Feedly feed right away and performed exactly as an RSS feed reader should. There are several reviews on here talking about how it’s so annoying to have to plug in RSS feeds for this to work. Well, that’s kind of the point of an RSS reader.
Overall, it’s well designed, clean, easy to read, and does a great job serving up the news I care about on my Mac. Bravo!
Used to be an amazing app. Now little support and no fixes for major bugs.
Leaf is what I turned to when Reeder just got worse and worse and had no real support anymore. But over the past year, videos in web pages viewed within Leaf often do not play and content often doesn't fully load. I've sent this issue to the developer multiple times. On one ocasion I finally heard from him only to hear that he couldn't reproduce it. I've sent videos demonstrating this bug and it continues to be an issue. But Mojave is almost a year old and Leaf hasn't been updated in over a year (and then to fix High Sierra bugs). I wish there were another RSS newsreader that fit my needs, so I've stuck with Leaf not because it's so great anymore (it isn't, these days), but because the alternatives are even worse. That's a shame. Happy to revise my rating if and when Leaf is fixed.
Superb app with one glaring problem that makes it useless (at times)
I use it for Feedly and it works as a charm, well most of the times. The only time I had problem was when viewing articles that require me to login like WSJ or WaPo. The Leaf’s built in browser allows to me to login, but then gives me a blank page. If I load the page again, I have to login all over once again. Looks like the built in web viewer does not handle popups and cookies correctly.
No problems, I sent a message to customer support and thus far I have been met with stone silence, I am sure they are all busy, but would have been great had they responded even a day or two later.
Aside from this, this is a great app for reading news, well Feedly at-least.
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OS X 10.10 or later, 64-bit processor
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Family Sharing
With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.
Sometimes, it's better to listen than to read. When you walk, bike, or drive, for example, it's safer to keep your eyes focused on the world around you.
Text-to-speech (TTS) offers an alternative to listening to music, podcasts, or audiobooks. TTS can be a great way to catch up on articles you intend to read. For example, Mozilla's read later service, Pocket, includes the ability to listen to articles.
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TTS solves a slightly different problem than the assistive voice capabilities available for the major platforms, such as Android TalkBack, iOS VoiceOver, Chromevox, Windows Narrator, and Mac VoiceOver. These tools typically read everything on a page—content plus navigation.
The following four TTS apps specialize in reading articles and documents you choose. While all of these apps provide text-to-speech capabilities, each app serves a slightly different set of needs. Some apps show the text as it is spoken, while others offer a variety of voices.
All of these apps work on iOS, and support the capability to share an article from the browser to the app via the native iOS sharing system functions. Importantly, as of July 2017, all four of these apps are under active development: The iOS app for each was updated in June or July 2017 at least once.
1. Motoread
(iOS, Chrome, and Safari desktop extensions)
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I think of Motoread as a podcatcher for articles: Send an article to the app, then listen to saved articles later. There are Chrome and Safari extensions that let you add an article to your Motoread list from your desktop browser with a click. (As of early July 2017, an Android app is listed as 'coming soon'.)
The app reads articles in a single voice, although you may adjust the playback speed. You can also choose to display the text of the article as you listen. The app is free, although you can upgrade (for $1.99/month or $19.99/year) to get the ability to add an unlimited number of articles.
2. Voice Dream Reader
(iOS, Android)
Voice Dream Reader shows the text of the article being read, and highlights each word as it is spoken. Since the app was originally developed as an assistive tool, you can adjust the size, font, spacing, and color of the text displayed during playback. Voice Dream supports adjustable playback speeds, and allows you to customize pause time between sentences, too. You can select from several system voices, and set a preferred speed, pitch, and volume for the voice. You can also add documents to listen to from Dropbox, Google Drive, Evernote, and other sources.
Voice Dream Reader typically costs $14.99, and a wide selection of additional voices are available for purchase, too—at a cost of up to $4.99 per voice.
3. Speech Central
(iOS, macOS, Windows, Android)
Speech Central works on more platforms than any of the other apps here, with apps available for iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android (although the app is available from Amazon, not the Google Play store). It also supports the ability to read text from other formats, such as Word, PDF, and more. On iOS, the app supports the system voices, although you can adjust the voice pitch, as well as the default 1x speed to be slightly faster or slower.
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Speech Central shows the text, with a subtle colored vertical line displayed along the left side of the text of the paragraph as it is spoken. The app will announce the calculated reading time for longer articles, which may be useful if you listen while traveling, and you can change playback speed (between .8x and 2x default speed). Speech Central also offers the ability to shuffle voices, so you don't have to listen to several articles in a row read with the same synthesized voice.
The desktop platform apps are not free, at $6.99 for macOS and $9.99 for Windows 10, although the mobile apps are free, with an optional one-time $4.99 upgrade that gives you the ability to add unlimited articles.
4. Audiobook Maker
(iOS)
Audiobook Maker was the only app of the four to properly pronounce the words 'live' and 'livestream' with the default voice setting. All the other apps pronounced the four letter word 'live' incorrectly for the context, as if it rhymed with 'give.' Audiobook Maker pronounced it correctly: 'Live' rhymes with 'hive.'
Audiobook Maker also was the only app with the option to display one word at a time, centered in the screen. It also offered an option to highlight the word being read, while showing the surrounding text, in an adjustable size font. As with other apps, you can adjust the speed, as well as select from several voices and languages.
Audiobook Maker development is still in process. For example, the app also includes the ability to use your camera to take a photo of book pages to be read. But when I took a photo of a page from a book, I saw a 'less than a minute remaining' message that never left. To be fair, the iOS app is named 'Audiobook Maker - Early Adopters.' That said, the core functionality of text-to-speech works and the app is free (as of July 2017).
Text to speech for developers
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It's also never been easier to add text-to-speech capabilities to apps. Several large firms provide text-to-speech API services, such as Polly from Amazon, Bing Speech from Microsoft, and Text to Speech from IBM. Download acrobat reader for mac os x free. There are smaller competitors in the field, like Responsive Voice, too. And search giants Google and Baidu have each released research papers that tout their progress toward increasingly natural sounding text-to-speech capabilities, called Deep WaveNet and Deep Voice 2, respectively.
Do you use text-to-speech to listen to articles or documents? If so, what text-to-speech system and/or app do you use? And if you're a developer, have you integrated one of above API text-to-speech services into your app? If so, let me know which service and why — on Twitter (@awolber) or in the comments below.
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