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@title Evergreen
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Evergreen is a free and open source feed reader for macOS.
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It’s at a very early stage — we use it, but we don’t expect other people to use it yet.
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Nevertheless, you can:
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<ul><li><a href="https://ranchero.com/downloads/Evergreen-latest.zip">Download the latest build</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/brentsimmons/Evergreen/issues">Report bugs and make feature requests</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/brentsimmons/Evergreen">Checkout the code</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://ranchero.com/evergreen/blog/">Read the blog</a></li>
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<li><a href="https://github.com/brentsimmons/Evergreen/blob/master/Technotes/Roadmap.md">Read the roadmap</a>
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/evergreen_mac">Follow Evergreen on Twitter</a></li></ul>
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#### To Do
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Again — it’s barely usable at this point. Not even that. It’s not beta — it’s not even *alpha*.
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What remains to be done is pretty much obvious. Tons of stuff.
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However, a few notes about the future:
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* We don’t plan on doing an iOS version ever. We might change our minds, but we doubt it. (Update Dec. 5, 2017: Well, maaaaaybe…)
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* We don’t plan on making a for-pay version ever, either. We might change our minds, but it’s massively unlikely. [This app is written for love](http://inessential.com/2015/06/30/love), not money.
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* Future versions will add syncing via existing services (such as [NewsBlur](https://newsblur.com), [FeedBin](https://feedbin.com/), [Feedly](https://feedly.com/), [Feed Wrangler](https://feedwrangler.net/), and others), though we make no promises about which ones and when. (This means that, some time in the future, you could use Evergreen on your Mac and [Unread](http://supertop.co/unread/), [Reeder](http://reederapp.com/ios/), or other feed reader on your iPhone and iPad.)
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#### Technical Notes
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Evergreen supports <a href="http://cyber.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html">RSS</a>, <a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4287">Atom</a>, <a href="https://jsonfeed.org/">JSON Feed</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/scripting/Scripting-News/blob/master/rss-in-json/README.md">RSS-in-JSON</a>.
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Evergreen requires macOS 10.13.
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#### About Using the Code
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You’re free to use the code and make your own app, even on iOS. It’s MIT-licensed. Just give us credit and call it something besides Evergreen.
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In fact, <i>please do</i> use any or all of this code. If you can learn from it — things to do or things *not* to do — then great! Creating a full-featured example Mac app of use to other developers is one of our goals.
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Most of the code is written in Swift. Some older parts, particularly in the frameworks, are written in Objective-C. We think this is one of the largest open source Mac apps written mostly in Swift.
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#### About the name
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Evergreen is made in Seattle and is named for Washington, the Evergreen State. The author, who attended The Evergreen State College, has two evergreen trees in his yard.
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But the name is a prayer for the open web — may it remain evergreen.
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