A total waste of $10

I have been a great fan of Netnewswire for many years. In my opinion it has been the best RSS reader on mac. But with the technology changing, a number of different RSS readers emerged on the app store, Pulp being one of the most expensive among them. I decided to adopt Pulp after reading a lot of positive review about its modern interface and its ability to make a customized newspaper for you, out of a bundle of your RSS feeds, thus enabling you to read selective and most important feeds. I also decided to adopt pulp because of the drastic decline of Netnewswire, which I think could still be the best Mac RSS reader, had its developers not destroyed it trying to put it on the Mac App store.

Anyways, here is my review of pulp after using it for almost six months:

1. When pulp makes a customized newspaper for you, out of all of your RSS feeds, it mostly selects the un-important ones and discards the important ones. That is quite natural as how could it know, what kind of news you like more and you enjoy reading and what kind of news you read occasionally. It does not have any option to give preference to your personal preferences.

2. The interface is highly un-attractive. I have noticed that when I was using Netnewswire, whenever I opened it, I used to spend a lot of time reading the news of my interest. Since I have installed pulp, I dont even feel like opening it most of the times.

3. Most of the feeds that pulp gets are without pictures which makes the whole experience of reading news very boring. I contacted customer support and they say, there is a technical problem with pulp that it is not able to display most of the pictures.

I think I am gonna look for another RSS reader. My suggestion, dont buy Pulp. It is a total waste of money.

Silver Hawke about Pulp, v2.5.3