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Your content, beautifully organized.

A simple, powerful, and elegant RSS reader for your desktop. Moose Reader provides a clean, distraction-free reading experience with full local control.

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Everything You Need to Read

All the features for a perfect reading workflow.

100% Local

All your feeds, folders, and articles are stored in a high-performance local database. No cloud account required.

Powerful Feed Management

Organize feeds with folders, drag-and-drop reordering, and simple add, edit, and delete functionality.

Smart & Automatic

Automatic favicon fetching, background syncing, and data cleanup routines keep your library pristine.

Elegant UI & UX

Enjoy a classic three-pane layout, switchable splits, and light/dark modes with custom accent colors.

Productivity Focused

Import your feeds via OPML, mark all as read with a click, and get helpful error messages for broken feeds.

Highly Customizable

Choose from Blue, Purple, Green, Red, or Orange accent colors.

Customize Your View

Pick your favorite accent color, and fine-tune sync settings, all from one simple dialog.

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Beautiful Dark Mode

Switch between light and dark themes, with beautiful accent color overlay.

Moose Reader in Dark Mode

Manage Feeds & Folders

Add, edit, delete & reorder feeds. Organize your feeds into folders.

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Fetch Full Articles

Fetch full articles for truncated feeds.

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A Dose of Personality

Moose Reader isn't just functional, it's fun. Get a dose of unexpected wisdom from our resident moose with a periodically refreshing quote in the sidebar. It's a small touch to make your day a little brighter.

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Go Pro for More Power

Unlock premium features designed for serious readers and take your workflow to the next level.

Fetch Full Articles

Tired of truncated RSS feeds? Moose Reader Pro can fetch the full, cleaned-up text of an article, removing ads and menus for the best reading experience, right in the app.

Save Articles Offline

Selectively save the full content and images of any article for offline reading. Perfect for your commute or when you're away from an internet connection.

What's New

We're always working to make Moose Reader better.

Moose Reader 1.7.1 2025-08-30

  • Bugfix Fixed Database Access in Installers: Resolved a major issue where the installed versions of the app (Windows Installer) could not write to the database.
  • Bugfix Fixed Network Certificate Errors: Resolved an "error certificate verify failed" issue in packaged builds by bundling a trusted root certificate authority file (cacert.pem).
  • Bugfix Fixed OPML import crash.
  • Improved Better dark mode contrast and readability.
  • Improved Performance improvements when syncing feeds.

Get in Touch

Have a question, a feature request, or a bug to report? We'd love to hear from you.

General Inquiries

For general questions, feedback, or suggestions, please send us an email.

support@mooseapps.io

Bug Reports & Issues

The best way to report a bug is by opening an issue on our GitHub page.

Open a GitHub Issue