News Anchor – The hands-free news reader at Mac App Store analyse

Listen to only news that you need at every breakfast without making your keyboard dirty

Face it: television news are mostly junk. Why? Mainstream media mainly show stuff that are popular or sensational – not actionable. Only _you_ know what news you need and your GReader feeds provides just that.

Problem is, GReader needs you to click on every item that you want to read, making newsreading a tedious and risky task while having breakfast. Bits of food will get stuck on your keyboard, feeding the germs and bacteria to grow on it (and make you sick). Worse you increase risk liquid damage risk to your laptop that will cost hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars to fix.

News Anchor helps you keep up-to-date on news that matters. Say goodbye to cleaning off bread crumbs from your keyboard and hello to hands-free RSS listening.
• Fully-automatic news course delivered to your ears – fit for any meals.
• Easily import your GReader feeds.
• Instant on-demand podcasts – take your reading list on-the-go and listen to it using any MP3 player.

News Anchor is particularly suitable for:
• Internet researchers and online writers
• Market analysts and trendspotters
• Lawyers and other legal professionals
• Everyone who reads a lot of blogs and news sites

Features & Benefits of News Anchor
• Sources data from RSS or ATOM news feeds
• Generate news channels automatically based on the feeds of your choice.
• Selectable voice, presenter, and customizable backgrounds.
• Create custom podcasts based from your feed subscriptions.
• One-click, hands-free operation. News Anchor relieves you from needing to use the mouse or keyboard to get to the next article in your reading list.
• Supports password protected feeds (HTTP basic authentication). This enables News Anchor to access subscription-based (paid) news feeds.
• Imports your GReader subscriptions and automatically creates news channels from your categories.
• Take it anywhere – News Anchor can create podcasts of news feeds that you can play in any digital music player (any player that can play MP4/AAC format such as the iPod, iPhone, or iPad).

Why should you buy News Anchor?
• Script reading services costs about $80 for each hour of speech. Within 1/2 hour of news, youve already profited from your investment in News Anchor.
• MacBook liquid damage repair costs at least $500 -- more for the MacBook Air or 15" and 17" MacBook Pro. You should think about this the next time you use GReader while eating. With News Anchor you can enjoy RSS at a safe distance from your laptop.

Questions Answered

Q: Why should I pick you over the competition?
A: What competition? News Anchor delivers a unique unrivaled experience in RSS reading. The only known competitors are Noodle Reader and Read It To Me – both needs a PowerPC Mac to run. Television news networks arent competitors because they show what they want to show and not what you want to see.

Perfect

• ☆☆☆☆☆   Caza401 13 years ago

Great way to hear the news and browse at the same time

promicing

• ☆☆☆☆☆   jonnythunder5432 13 years ago

This app has potental but they need to make several changes. the first change is the app is not as user frendly as they advertise, I cant figgure out how to change the ancor. the second is that the deffinition of the immages it uses for the stories is very poor. the third is it that it is not very good with long stories. they could also add a featcher that plays video from news sites.

Google Reader sync please... but IMPORT at least!!!

• ☆☆☆☆☆   Bergs07 13 years ago

This application has so much potential, the opportunity to be multitasking while receiving customized news = Awesomesauce. However, without google reader syncing I continue to duplicate work. I could live with that because the program is so cool, but come one guys, at least give me a way to import my 100+ RSS feeds into your program from Google Reader without manually doing each one. Otherwise, intuitive and unique. Well done.

Great Beginning!!

• ☆☆☆☆☆   MyApplePodcast 13 years ago

I love RSS feeds and to receive them this way is truly amazing!!! The news feeds can be imported automatically into itunes as podcasts. Very nice!! It would be nice if the podcasts could be in video format. i hope this comes witih a futue update. I know the text to speech technology is better so hopeully we will see some improvemets in this area. I love this app and I plan to feature it in the next podcast of My Apple Pocast.

1 of The Best News Apps w/TextToSpeech

• ☆☆☆☆☆   jay95826 10 years ago

This app is wonderful. It has a cool AI type character that reads all of your rss news to you. You can add unlimited news feeds to it & it will read your news to you. It was expensive, but I dont regret the purchase because when I had over 4 surgeries on my eyes I could not read anything because everything was a total blur, but durig that time this app helped me keep up with the news especially my favorites Tech, Science & Health. Now that I can see clearly I still choose to use it because it is a very cool & well put together app & I just adore it. I will use it forever. I hope they create a version for my iPhone & my iPad, but it must be very affordable. My Only Cons is the PRICE, in order for more people to purchase this app you all have to drop the price because it is extremely overpriced. But once again I love the app.

very bad

• ☆☆☆☆☆   Starmoon369 10 years ago

I don’t like it at all. I lost 40$ and it is not worth 1$.

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