News Ticker Apps and Alternatives

News tickers are apps that occupy a small part of your screen and display news feeds that users want to follow very closely.

Most news tickers are targeted at certain predefined news channels, but users are also allowed to add their own favorite RSS feeds and to customize they way the news are displayed and hwo often they are updated.

The headlines displayed by news tickers on a Mac's desktop usually have hyperlinks so that one will have also possibility to read the entire story with a click of a button.