Introducing Gruml: A Google Reader App Convenient for your Mac Desktop

Google Reader is a very useful tool for consuming your news feeds (assuming you still use RSS), however it lives in the browser, which means it doesn’t have the responsiveness and polish of a desktop app. For all of you Mac users out there, like me, if you’re looking for the best of both worlds, I hereby present to you Gruml, an excitingly new and handy desktop Google Reader application.


Gruml is just a lightweight application that sits in your dock and menu bar, and provides you with all of your RSS goodness. What’s great about Gruml is that it carries a lot of the features in Google Reader that we have come to know and love and carries them into the desktop client, which also includes features like starring, “liking,” and sharing posts (with tags and notes), and reading headlines that your friends share with you. And for those Twitter addicts out there who always have the need to tweet their news, Gruml also comes with Twitter support, permitting you to tweet articles (converted to short URLs) directly from the application itself.
Please note though that Gruml is still in beta, and as expected has its flaws, like running slowly on startup as well as lacking some settings in the preferences menu. Nevertheless, it’s a great application that runs well and shows great promise.