Camo

Reincubate Ltd.

Camo is a tool that lets you use your smartphone as a webcam on your PC. This way, you can avoid buying or borrowing an extra piece of hardware in order to fully participate in video calls or conferences. Camo has a simple interface that lets you adapt the image to your needs. Of course, in order to use this tool, you'll first need to install the corresponding app on your smartphone. After that, it only takes a few moments to sync your devices and start using your smartphone as a webcam in real time. Once your devices are synced, you can adjust the image parameters, set up a type of zoom, or add custom watermarks. This tool also provides quality resolution that goes up to 1080 pixels. This way, you can take advantage of both high-quality image and low lag time. Camo has everything you need to transform any Android or iPhone device into a webcam. Thanks to its high-quality image and numerous customization options, this tool makes showing your face in video calls a breeze.

DroidCam Client

Dev47Apps

DroidCam Client is the program that makes it possible to use DroidCam with programs you have installed on your PC. By adding this client to your computer, you'll be able to make your Android device work as a webcam without any problems. Before installing this program, you have to makes sure that all the programs you're going to link with your smartphone as a webcam are closed. Once that's done, you just have to start the process for all the components to be installed. With almost complete security, thanks to this program your computer will recognize your Android device's camera as a webcam. Plus, it should also capture sound. If that doesn't work, you can try restarting your computer for the changes to take effect. DroidCam Client is the Windows program that you need if you want to use the Android app. All it takes is a few simple steps to start using your smartphone as a webcam in world-renowned videoconferencing programs like Skype, Zoom, and more.

Windows Camera

Microsoft Corporation

Windows Camera is the official Windows camera application. With it, you can view any camera that you connect to your computer on the screen, as well as your laptop's webcam if it has one. Windows Camera lets you check that your camera is working properly. In addition, you can also record videos with sound, as well as take photos. This is very useful if, for example, you want to record a lecture or a video that you then want to send to someone else without using your smartphone. In both cases, you can use HDR mode to even out dark and light areas. The recordings can be paused and resumed as many times as you want. The app merges all the parts into one, so you don't have to use an additional program. If you want to take a picture, on the other hand, just click on the screen or use the timer. Thanks to this, you can wait 2, 3, 5, or 10 seconds (depending on what you choose) before taking a photo from your PC. From the app, you can also sync content directly with OneDrive to make sure you don't lose it. If your camera supports it, you can also use Windows Camera to digitize documents simply by taking a photo. You can also enjoy electronic stabilization if you're using the laptop in an unstable place. So if you want to use a camera on Windows, don't hesitate to download Windows Camera.

Iriun Webcam

Iriun

Iriun Webcam is a tool for using your Android smartphone as a webcam for PC or Mac. If you need a webcam for programs like Zoom or Skype, this application helps you do so with nothing more than a smartphone. Using Iriun Webcam is very simple and only takes a few steps. First, download this application on both your smartphone and the PC or Mac you plan on using. After that, make sure both devices are connected to the same WiFi network. Once you have both devices on the same network, you can connect them. Just select Iriun Webcam as the default camera in whatever video call program you want to use. From there, your smartphone will start broadcasting to your computer immediately. This application is compatible with up to 4K, so the video resolution should be excellent. Iriun Webcam couldn't be easier to use, and it's incredibly useful if you don't have a webcam but need one. Once you connect the devices, you can use your smartphone as a webcam whenever you want.

Snap Camera

Snapchat

If you're the kind of person who loves using Snapchat filters, then you'll love Snap Camera. With this program, you can add Snapchat filters to your face while talking on Skype and Zoom, as well as when you stream on Twitch or record videos for your YouTube channel. Snap Camera includes all the most famous Snapchat filters, only this time, you can apply them to the image captured by your PC's camera, perfect for when you stream or make video calls to friends and family. To browse through them, simply scroll down to view all the categories, which include Snapchat's original filters as well as new ones created by this program's community. To use Snap Camera, all you have to do is install it on your computer and grant it the required permissions. Once you've started, you can test as many filters as you want and check how they look thanks to the preview. The most important thing you have to do in order for the filters to work is close all the applications you'll be using and open Snap Camera first. Once Snap Camera is open, then you can open the programs where you want to use the filters, where they will now be automatically recognized. Snap Camera is a great tool for mixing things up on Twitch or having a blast talking to friends and family on Skype or Zoom.

SharpReader

Luke Hutteman

MakaGiga

Konrad Twardowski

There are many different RSS readers available on the Internet, and some of them are really high quality, but none go beyond the standard features you'd typically find in these kinds of RSS reader apps. MakaGiga, on the other hand, offers an interesting alternative. It's not just an RSS feed reader, it also offers other features not specifically related that go well beyond what you would usually expect from your average news aggregator. These stand out features include searching through the Internet, editing images, a notepad, and even widgets that you can install, as well as mini-apps like a calendar and post-it notes. All of this makes MakaGiga an original app in its field, which you can certainly use for multiple purposes while also keeping your RSS feed up to speed with the latest publications.

NewsFox

Andy Frank

RSSOwl

RSSOwl

One of the most used features by serious Internet users is the news feeds feature. The more RSS feeds you follow, the more necessary an RSS feed organizer becomes to keep you from wasting too much time looking at them all. In addition to collecting information and news, RSSOwl helps you distribute and organize the content on your screen however you want. The toolbar offers plenty of different options, like marking all the stories as read, and more. While every RSS feed organizer does these things, RSSOwl also lets you complete an internal news search and includes content in a variety of languages. If you've never used a program like this, this one could be your first. But if you already have an RSS feed organizer, this one probably won't surprise you.

NFReader

Werner Rumpeltesz

Sage

Mozdev.org

FeedDemon

Bradbury Software

One type of application that's gaining more and more traction among Internet users is the news- or feed-reader. Using one of these, you can receive the latest news or changes from a website (that supports this) without having to visit it, saving you hours of browsing. FeedDemon is a newsreader/RSS feed reader for Windows to which you can add your favorite websites' feeds without having to visit the page. You can use the feeds as you'd normally use your email, marking read/not read, highlighting news, doing searches, etc. You can import or export the feeds list as necessary and bring your feeds to this comprehensive reader. If you always want to stay up-to-date, FeedDemon is a tool you should try out.

RSS Bandit

The RSS BanditDevelopment Team

RSS Bandit is an RSS channel reader that organizes all the sources you add to your collection, keeping them in different folders under different topics. With it you won't have to remember the URL to see new posts on your favorite websites. All the new articles are presented as they would be in an email client, which makes it even simpler. Apart from that, if you're interested in browsing the original website, you can access it directly from the application since it includes its own browser. Keep track of all the new articles on your favorite websites with this simple and useful application. Not all websites include an RSS channel, so just keep in mind that it might not work with some URLs.

Mindity

Mindity

Feeds Plus

Enhanceie.com

Ice RSS Reader

icestone

RSS Submit

ksoft

If you have a website with RSS, you obviously want as many subscribers as possible, which is a difficult task. Now, help has arrived. RSS Submit is a Windows tool that posts your RSS automatically in the main RSS search engines. You'll be able to type in several feeds at the same time, and you'll only have to do this once. Also, it can be easily integrated with Technorati and Feedburner so that you can follow your feed's statistics. Once you've added all your feeds to the list, they'll automatically be added to more than 100 RSS search engines that are compatible with the app. RSS Submit is a great application for anyone who wants to boost their website's popularity in this new web 2.0 era.

RSSMate

Angus Johnson

RSSMate is an excellent option to keep up-to-date on the changes and updates to your favorite pages through XML. This RSS and Atom reader stands out mainly for its simplicity, but that's not to say it's simple. For basic use, just enter the addresses of the channels you want to follow, and the program will add them to its interface so you can look through them comfortably. If the new content includes some type of audiovisual element, you can view it, just not from the same interface. RSSMate will ask for permission to download and play these items so as not to load down the computer unless the user specifically asks it to.

BitsCast

BitsCast.com

The Internet as a mode of communication harbors enormous possibilities and an almost infinite amount of information. Because of the web's size, most of its content goes unnoticed by most users, since they don't even know it exists. BitsCast lets you access much of this content. This application integrates different features like RSS feeds, videos from podcasts, and P2P file transfers through torrents. Each is organized in its corresponding category. With just one click, you can access the latest news from some dozen media outlets from around the world. You can also add RSS feeds from your favorite news sites, including newspapers, software websites, and so on. In the podcasts department, BitsCast is integrated with platforms like CNN or YouTube. In the latter, you can see the most popular and most viewed videos. Additionally, BitsCast lets you download torrents from RSS lists updated at fixed intervals. You'll no longer have to use torrents search engines to look for this type of file, as you'll always have them at hand. Finally, the program includes a programming section with RSS feeds from websites like MSDN, CodeGuru, or Microsoft Team RSS Blog.

wTicker

wTicker.org

Aria RSS News Reader

David Jorge Aguirre

Noticias virtuales

N/A

Noticias Virtuales (Virtual News) is a practical tool that will keep you up to date on what's going on around the world, since the program will display headlines from the best media sources from around the world. The program incorporates 25 different sources in its database (Spain, the USA, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela, etc), all of them in Spanish with information that updates automatically every 5 minutes, or when the user manually updates them using the 'Actualizar' option. This way, you can see all of the headlines and then expand the information available: just double-click on the headline and a new window will open with the link to the complete story. Now you know that staying up to date with world news won't cost you a penny!

Brindys WinRSS

Brindys Software

Feed Notifier

Michael Fogleman

Feed Notifier is an application that, when installed, remains active in the system tray and warns you in case of news in your RSS. You can set how long will the messages stay on screen and their look, as well as filter RSS. The resource consumption is very low, so we recommend it if you are used to follow your RSS. If you follow several blogs and you don't want to acces then frequently to check if they've been updated, use RSS and Feed Notifier, you'll save a lot of time.

Feedling

Andrew Rowson

Feeding is a light RSS reader that features on the desktop news from our favorite websites. Nowadays, it supports RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, RDF andy Atom. You can add as many feeds as you want, although it will show only ten on screen not to make your desktop a mess. Th eprogram updates information each 10 minutes and in case you want to read the article, you only have to click on the text of the article you want to read and the web browser will appear. The options of the program are limited, but it meets your extectations perfectly. If you usually check many blogs, newspapers and other information websites, Feedling can be really useful to be always up to date.

Desktop Google Reader

Google

Desktop Google Reader is a free and open code application with which you will be able to check the news on your Google Reader without having to open the browser. It looks compact and similar to other RSS desktop readers. The main advantage is that we can synchronize the previously read feeds with our Google Reader account. The program also supports the addition and elimination of feeds or notifications, reading the news from the original source, sending news to social networks or by e-mail and integration with Read It Later and Instapaper. From the preferences windows we can configure details like the update frequency, the way in which notifications are shown or the automatic updates. If you usually use Google Reader, you may find Desktop Google Reader useful.

Advanced RSS Mixer Personal

Xpress Software

Advanced RSS Mixer Personal is a simple tool that allows you to combine different RSS feeds in only one. Thanks to the proggram, you can download automatically any new feed, , combine it with the rest of feeds and upload it to your server, and you will not have to touch anything, everything will be done automatically. Advanced RSS Mixer Personal also allows you to filter feeds by category and apply filters by word to find what you want in a snap. The only fault we find when using Advanced RSS Mixer Personal is that you can combine only up to five different RSS feeds.

FeedGhost

BinaryComponents

FeedGhost is a tool to follow and read all your RSS feeds in a simple and convenient way. The program's highly configurable interface lets you swap out the skin for one you like better. It also has a tab system to make it easy to read several articles or news stories at once. While FeedGhost might seem a bit overwhelming at the start because of its huge number of options, the tutorial (integrated into one of the tabs) will help you get your bearings with all the possibilities in just half an hour. FeedGhost is quite an interesting program for people who follow a lot of feeds. Its tab system and smooth interface make it a great alternative to keep in mind.

Easy Feed Editor

Free Software Foundation

Easy Feed Editor is an application for handling your RSS or ATOM feeds in the simplest way you can imagine: by uploading them to the Internet with an integrated FTP client. The program interface is very simple, verging on minimalist, and lets you create a feed from scratch, and then use it with HTML or upload it to your FTP client in just a few minutes. Easy Feed Editor incorporates a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) text editor to edit the content of your entries, just as you'd do with Open Office or MS Word. Easy Feed Editor is a very useful tool for website and blog admins. It makes it a lot easier to create and upload your own feeds.

RSSMore

N/A

RSSMore is a screensaver that lets you read your favorite feeds every time your computer is left inactive for a few minutes. The setup options let you select how often you want the RSS to go from one side to the other, the image you want to see as a background, and of course choose the feeds you're interested in. The general appearance of the screensaver is pretty outdated – so much so that it almost seems taken straight from the first versions of Windows, which many users may not like. Nonetheless, RSSMore is an interesting application for anyone who follows multiple websites via RSS, as it lets you continue following them even when your computer is inactive for a short time.