What it does on Windows
Docks like the taskbar
FeedsBar registers with Windows as a docked bar along the top or bottom of the screen, so maximized windows sit beside it instead of under it. Pick the monitor it lives on.
Out of the way when you need it
Tell it to hide while you use a particular app, and it steps aside until you switch away. The tray icon holds the menu, Settings and Quit, and quitting gives the screen edge back.
Your own feeds
Headlines from 800+ checked sources, plus up to 20 RSS or Atom feeds of your own, each checked for new posts every 15 minutes. Mute a word or follow one.
A second ticker
Add a strip under the first, scrolling the other way, with its own speed, size and background. Run the latest headlines, a shuffle, one category, market quotes or the music lane.
Market quotes
Crypto, currencies and oil out of the box. Add a free Finnhub key for stocks and a watchlist of your own.
The board, and an idle screen
Open the same feeds full screen as large cards that turn one at a time. It can open on every monitor when the PC has been idle, close the moment you touch anything, and never covers the lock screen.
It can follow your music
Tune to Music is off until you turn it on. Turn it on and the ticker follows what Spotify, your browser or Media Player is playing, with news, videos and press about the artist. It reads only the track your player reports to Windows. There is no microphone involved.
What is different from the Mac
- No Listen to the Room. Identifying music playing around you uses Apple’s ShazamKit, which has no Windows counterpart, so it stays on the Mac.
- Updates come through the Microsoft Store, which installs them for you. The Mac app tells you when there is a new version.
- Tune to Music starts off on Windows. On the Mac it starts on.
What it needs
Windows 11, on x64 or Arm. FeedsBar installs and updates through the Microsoft Store, free. The 30-day trial starts from the first screen, with no card and no account. After that, a one-time licence from feeds.bar keeps it running. If the Store is blocked on a work PC, the board in your browser runs the same headlines full screen on the same key.
One key, every screen
One licence covers Windows, the Mac and the browser board, on up to 5 computers or browsers. Buy it once for $24.99, then paste the key in Settings, General, Licence. The 14-day refund applies whichever you use it on. What the app sends, and what it keeps on your PC, is on the privacy page.