Feeder 4.8.4 for Mac
Feeder from Reinvented Software is a Mac app for people who create and publish their own RSS feeds—not for reading other people’s news. If you run a podcast, a site with an RSS channel, or Sparkle appcast updates for your software, Feeder is where you write episodes or posts and push the feed live.
How you work with it
You start by creating a new feed or importing an existing one from a URL or file. Adding an item feels similar to writing email: a rich text editor for shownotes, with HTML or Markdown when you need more control. Templates and autocomplete speed up recurring boilerplate. Before publishing, you can preview how a podcast episode will look in Apple Podcasts, check artwork and metadata against Apple’s requirements, and search past items in the feed.
When an item is ready, Feeder uploads the feed and media in one step. Publishing targets include FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3 (and S3-compatible hosts), WebDAV, or a local folder. Feeds, images, and enclosures can go to different servers if your setup requires it. You can schedule publication, ping update services, notify WebSub hubs, and cross-post to WordPress. Podcasters can add transcripts, Spotify country limits, Podlove chapters, and Podcast Index tags; developers can build Sparkle appcasts with automatic DSA/edDSA signatures.
Sync and collaboration
Feeder 4 stores feeds in iCloud so the same library appears on all your Macs. Optional iCloud storage for unpublished enclosures keeps large audio files available everywhere. You can share a feed with another Feeder user for collaborative editing—useful for small teams maintaining one podcast or news channel.
Who it is for
Independent podcasters who want to own their feed URL, bloggers syndicating with RSS, and Mac developers shipping Sparkle updates are the core audience. It is a poor fit if you only want to subscribe to blogs—NetNewsWire and similar readers do that job. Feeder assumes you control hosting and want direct publish paths without a middleman platform lock-in.
Licensing and this version
Feeder sells for $49.99 on the Mac App Store with Family Sharing, or as a direct download with a 15-day trial from Reinvented Software. It requires macOS 12.4 or later on the App Store listing (12.0 on the vendor download page). Version 4.8.4 (May 2026) is a maintenance release focused on iCloud sync and macOS 26 menu polish; detailed changes are in the release notes linked below.
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Mount the disk image (.dmg) and open Open Gatekeeper friendly.
Press Enter in the Terminal window to bypass Gatekeeper.
Drag the app into your Applications folder.
IMPORTANT: System Integrity Protection (SIP) must be disabled. Learn more >
Compatibility
macOS 11 and later