NetNewsWire is now free. As in beer.

I've been a paying user of NetNewsWire for years, and this is great news -- parent company Newsgator is releasing all of its consumer level products (including the online version and the Windows-based FeedDemon) completely free of charge. If you're not using a newsreader to keep up with your favorite blogs and other regularly-updating sites, you no longer have an excuse. The very best products in this realm are now free. (I don't have any experience with FeedDemon, but I'm assuming it's on par with NNW.)

I use NetNewsWire for my serious feed reading (in combination with MarsEdit for posting to my various blogs) and the iPhone-optimized version of NewsGator, which stays in sync with NetNewsWire, for my idle away-from-my-Mac blog surfing. It's an ideal combination, it saves me a ton of time, and now I don't even have to shell out every year or so for the privilege.

Download NetNewsWire 3.1 for free.

(Via Daring Fireball.)