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Inoreader vs Feedly vs gReader

 vs Press vs NewsCracker vs Plenary vs NewsTab Reader vs Feeder vs RSS Reader Xoonity - Rss Feed vs News Expert vs AntennaPod vs NewsJet vs Newsfold vs Paperoak vs Newsfeeder vs Deepfeed vs FocusReader

Specs

Platforms

Web, iOS, Android, Windows Phone

Filtering

Yes

Offline support

Yes

Search

Yes

Night Theme

Yes

Subscriptions in Free Plan

150

OPML support

Import & export

API

Yes

Browser Extensions

Chrome

Keyword alerts

Yes

Highlighting support

Yes

Save / Share

Google Drive, Dropbox, Evernote, Pocket, OneNote, Buffer, Hootsuite, LinkedIn, WordPress, Google News

Analytics

Yes

Team edition

Yes

Annotation

Yes

Keyboard shortcuts

Yes

Rules

Yes

IFTTT Support

Yes

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

Web, iOS, Android, Kindle

Filtering

Yes

Offline support

Yes

Search

Yes

Night Theme

No

Subscriptions in Free Plan

100

OPML support

import & export

API

Yes

Browser Extensions

Chrome, Firefox, Safari

Keyword alerts

Yes

Highlighting support

Yes

Save / Share

-

Analytics

Yes

Team edition

Yes

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

Evernote, Pocket, OneNote, Buffer, Hootsuite, LinkedIn, WordPress, Google News, Slack

Cloud storage/sync

Dropbox

Zapier support

Yes

Annotation support

Yes

IFTTT support

Yes

SSO/SAML

Yes

Email roundup

Yes

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

Android

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

Android

Filtering

Yes

Offline support

Yes

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

import & export

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

Local

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

Android

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

Android, iOS, Web

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

Web, Android

Filtering

Yes

Offline support

Yes

Search

Yes

Night Theme

Yes

Subscriptions in Free Plan

Unlimited

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

Android Share, Facebook, Google+, twitter and more

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

Yes

Mark as read

Yes

RSS/Atom Import

Unlimited

Active

Discontinued

View recently read articles

Yes

Price

-

Platforms

Web, Android

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Platforms

Android, Web, PWA Support

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

Free

Platforms

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Search

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Team edition

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

OPML Import

-

Mark as read

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

View recently read articles

-

Price

-

Pros + Cons

Con
 Expensive

$50 a year is a lot for this app. It should be a $5 single download.
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Con
 Ads in free version

Ads appear in both mobile apps and the web version.
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Pro
 Supports multiple views

List, card, or expanded view.
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Pro
 Premium users can search in all public RSS feeds, even in those that they haven't subscribed to

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Pro
 Easy to add any feed by URL

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Pro
 Read sync across all devices

What articles you have read gets synced across all your devices.
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Pro
 Supports OPML files

Collections from other readers can be downloaded in OPML (outline processor markup language) files.
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Pro
 Cross platform

Inoreader has clients for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. As well as a web app.
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Pro
 Easy to find sources

You can easily do a search for sources they already know and subscribe to them.
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Con
 Limits free users

While Inoreader's basic functions are still available for free users, many of the options involving customization and search options are limited to paying users.
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Pro
 Free unlimited feeds

Unlike most other news reader services, Inoreader does not restrict the amount of sources you can subscribe to in the free version.
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Pro
 Loads fast

The lightweight UI allows Inoreader to display feeds quickly.
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Pro
 Has a night mode

For people who prefer reading articles at night.
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Con
 Price change / Feature capping instituted

In February 2019 Inoreader announced that the "Professional" plan will be capped (big change from unlimited filters to just 30!): Based on our observations, the new premium feature limits on the “Pro” plan are as follows: 10 Rules - *** Increased to 30 Rules after Inoreader evaluated feedback from their users. 30 Active Searches 100 Boosted Feeds 30 Social media feeds per service (Facebook, Twitter, VKontakte). These limitations will be applied to your account at the start of your next subscription period. All features that you use above the new limits will be deactivated, and only those that were created earliest chronologically will remain (For e.g. your earliest 10 Rules created).
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Con
 No sub folders

You can't create sub folders. This makes it a bit harder to organize saved content.
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Pro
 Looks nice

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Con
 Can't have unread items older than a month

If you don't read items older than 1 month they are automatically marked as read, with no possibility to "unread" them.
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Pro
 Search through feed articles (free)

The free version allows you to search through old articles, letting you find something you read previously.
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Pro
 Social media integration

Pro version has the ability to search Facebook, Google+ and Twitter feeds as well.
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Pro
 Can filter articles by keyword

Allows user to filter rss feeds based on keywords and regular expressions. 1 Filter for Free, 10 for Plus members, and Unlimited filters for Professional members.
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Pro
 Can disable social features

Social interaction features can be disabled if they are not wanted.
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Pro
 Optional login using Google or Facebook accounts

You can either use a username/password pair, or you can use your Facebook or Google account to login.
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Pro
 Extensive keyboard shortcut support

Shift + O and shift + N can be used in order to scroll quickly through feeds.
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Pro
 Easy to overview the list of articles so you can quickly find articles that interest you

All the feeds are easily accessible, allowing for a quick access to the most relevant articles, thanks to the interface’s design: minimal and free of distracting, unnecessary elements.
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Pro
 In-depth statistics about sources

Using the built-in dashboard, users can see most read sources, how often they update over time, etc.
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Pro
 Easy to remove duplicate content

If you read from a large list of feeds that may contain overlapping information, Inoreader offers removing one of the duplicates.
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Pro
 Statistics about sources

Using the built in dashboard, users can see most read sources, how often they update over time, etc.
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Pro
 Easy to overview interface so you can quickly find articles that interest you

All the feeds are easily accessible, allowing for a quick access to the most relevant articles, thanks to the interface’s design: minimal and free of distracting, unnecessary elements.
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Pro
 Clean, easy to overview UI

Feedly has an easy to overview interface. While this interface is clean and simple, it is still full of bright colors. A great feature that adds to the clean feel is "eliminate clutter", which keeps only the text of the desired topic.
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Pro
 Free

Lots of features with free version. Also has paid versions.
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Pro
 Great user experience

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Pro
 Multidevice

Syncs your read history across all your devices.
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Con
 Inline adds

Free version puts adds in your feeds
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Con
 Article search in paid version

You must pay to be able to search through articles.
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Con
 No offline support

There is no offline support with the official client.
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Con
 Long list of paid-only features

Free features are pretty basic. It seems like all the new development goes into paid-only features. Paid features include sharing and saving options, alerts, backup, support or integrations with collaborative tools.
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Pro
 Seamless Google Reader migration

Feedly have made it especially easy to navigate away from Google Reader.
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Pro
 Boards for organising the content (Paid)

Feedly allows you to create unlimited Boards (folders/sets/collections) and use them to organise your saved content.
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Pro
 Open API

There are multitudes of third party clients available for many platforms.
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Pro
 Great article recommendations

Search a topic and Feedly will offer resources that are related to that topic.
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Pro
 Supports OPML export/import

With this feature, all subscriptions can be saved.
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Pro
 Integrates other services for ease of use and sharing

Feedly sign-in is done with Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Microsoft credentials. It offers many ways to share a story from within the application, including social networks, e-mail, etc.
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Pro
 Similar mobile experience to Google Reader

It supports a list UI similar to Google Reader, among other more graphical layouts.
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Con
 No filters

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Con
 Slow to sync read articles

Often times I would find myself going through articles I had read or dismissed on a different device, despite both having a good data connection at the time.
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Pro
 Browser extensions

Feedly's extension lets users add feeds directly from websites, but also lets users curate pages, save them to Evernote or Facebook, email, or Tweet pages.
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Pro
 Choice of many different layouts

For each news source, a different layout can be chosen. Choose between showing thumbnails, titles and summaries, titles only, thumbnails with overlaid titles in a grid, or have all content inlined.
Comment

Con
 No push notifications

Among the most requested features for Feedly is push notification support. The feature was officially requested in 2011 and currently has over 600 votes on Feedly's Uservoice.
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Con
 Log-in is buggy

Logging in can sometimes cause Feedly to struggle. It can become unresponsive and force close.
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Con
 No keyword filtering

Feedly has no ability to filter a feed by keyword like a lot of other RSS readers do.
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Con
 Not updated for a long time

The project seems dead. Last update 14 April 2016 for the pay-for version.
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Con
 Practically impossible to scroll past an embedded video

Whenever you try to scroll past an embedded video, the video starts playing , preventing you from getting to the text below.
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Pro
 Nice GUI

Clear. Closest to the old Google reader.
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Pro
 Syncs with multiple third party services

You can sync Press with Feedly, Feedbin, Feed Wrangler, and Fever. The sync supports both ways, so changes made in Press are updated in Feedly and vice-versa.
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Pro
 Nicely organized UI

The UI is simple and makes catching up and reading your feeds easy. The UI is built around three columns, one for unread, one for read and one for starred items.
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Pro
 Good navigation

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Con
 Not updated for over a year

It used to be a really good app, but seems like an abandoned project.
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Con
 Hard to read

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Pro
 Lots of integrations

Works as a front-end for Feedly, Feedbin, Fever or Feed Wrangler.
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Pro
 Privacy focued

The app doesn't have any ads/trackers and works completely on user's device
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Con
 No real time cross device sync

You can backup and restore your data on another device but cannot do real time sync across devices
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Con
 Literally unusable

Doesn't respond to "finish" button at end of initial setup. Literally could not use this.
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Pro
 Intuitive and flexible UI

It is really intuitive to use, with opportunity to find all your favorite blogs. The widget has a cool design and it is somehow personal.
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Pro
 Can resize font

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Pro
 News search

I really like that I can search for any news.
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Pro
 Free

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Pro
 Word lookup

It has integrated popup word definition lookup, which I found really convenient when reading news, which most Android news apps don't have.
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Pro
 World lookup

It has integrated popup word definition lookup, which I found really convenient when reading news, which most Android news apps don't have.
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Pro
 Sleep timer

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Pro
 RSS subscriptions

If for some reason your podcast isn't listed, you can subscribe using its RSS feed from libsyn, its website, etc.
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Pro
 Open-source

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Pro
 No ads

The app is ad-free.
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Pro
 Free

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Pro
 Supports a lot of news services

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Pro
 Website and Android application for reading

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Pro
 It's free

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Pro
 It's fast

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Pro
 Doesn't contain ads

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Pro
 Supports multiple languages like English, German, Portuguese at the same time

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Pro
 Can save articles offline by adding them to your bookmarks

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Pro
 Minimalistic and efficient design

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Con
 Not available on iOS yet

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Pro
 OPML Import

Paperoak web supports OPML import.
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Pro
 Import RSS/Atom feeds

Can Import custom RSS/Atom feeds.
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Con
 No way to add new RSS feeds

There's currently no way to add non-paperoak-approved RSS feeds at all. The available list of sources is broad, but does not allow for niche interests or non-curated sources
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Pro
 Privacy

User friendly interface, fast, open source
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Pro
 Premium features

• Additional themes • Auto dark mode • Multiple accounts support • Remove ad of articles from inoreader • Remove identical content • The Today view • cache images during sync • Readability support
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