Feed Writer Feature Overview
Feed Writer is free for personal use. For commercial use and users with have higher demands there is the commercial Premium Version which offers a noticeable advanced extent of features and also free e-mail support.
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Feature List
Feature | Trial Version | Freeware Version | Premium Version |
|---|---|---|---|
Read and write RSS feeds (RSS 2.0, RSS 0.91, RSS 0.92, Atom and Podcasts) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Comfortable management of feed meta data, including highlighting of mandatory fields | Yes | Yes | Yes |
WSYIWYG HTML and text-only editor for feed items | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Support for enclosures / attachments | Yes | Yes (but no upload) | Yes |
Project management (manages feeds and enclosures) | Yes | No | Yes |
Open existing feeds from local drives | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Open existing feeds from the Web (read-only) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Open existing feeds via FTP/SFTP | Yes | No | Yes |
UTF-8 support for feeds with non-Latin characters | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Timestamps can be given in absolute Universal Time (UT) or relative to the local time zone | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Source code editor (edit XML directly) with syntax highlighting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Supports of many common Internet date and time formats | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Additional support for creating Podcasts | Yes | Yes (but no upload) | Yes |
Support for video feeds | Yes | Yes (but no upload) | Yes |
Support for photo/picture feeds | Yes | Yes (but no upload) | Yes |
Preview feature (with Internet Explorer 7 / Firefox or using an XSLT template) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Automatic upload of feeds and enclosures via FTP/SFTP | Yes | No | Yes |
Bookmark features for frequently used feeds | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Modern Office 2007 like UI (Ribbon Interface) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Access to official RSS specifications | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Install/uninstall feature | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Automatic update feature | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Online feed validation using W3C Web service | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Cloning of feed items | Yes | Yes | Yes |
MDI interface (open multiple feeds at the same time) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Copy feed items between opened feeds | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Change of feed type (e.g. convert RSS 2.0 to Atom) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Support for domain-categories (tags with URL) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Can be used for personal, non-commercial projects | No (only evaluation) | Yes | Yes |
Can be used for commercial projects | No (only evaluation) | No | Yes |
Supported user interface languages | English, German | English, German | English, German |
Length of allowed usage | 14 usage days | unlimited | unlimited |
Price | Free | Free | 39.95 USD |
