NewsPiper is a RSS feed reader, news aggregator, web grabber and news ticker in one program. It allows to monitor your favorites news sites (like cnn.com, foxnews.com, etc.), RSS feeds or blogs, retrieve necessary news and display it in the usual three panes newsreader interface (channels, news titles, news details) or scroll in a special bar (NewsBar) placed at the top of your screen. For each shown headline, you can open the "full story" page in your default web browser simply by clicking on the headline.

Another useful feature of NewsPiper Pro is "news pronouncing": you can setup it to pronounce news headlines and details from one or more channels so NewsPiper can be used as some kind of "radio tuner" for your favorite RSS feeds or Web sites.

Adding a new channel is very easy: you can manually enter the URL of a web-site or RSS feed, or drag-and-drop it from web-browser or another program, or simply paste it from clipboard.

You can also add channels from an "Online channel catalog" containing many popular web-sites and RSS feeds.

In addition, NewsPiper checks your connection status according to a schedule you setup and changes the color of the icon in the system tray bar accordingly: green means you are are online, red - offline.