What are the best Feedly alternatives?

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The Best 1 of 28 OptionsWhy?

Best Feedly alternatives	Price	Platforms	Search
91 Inoreader	-	Web, iOS, Android, Windows Phone	Yes
81 Tiny Tiny RSS	-	Web, Android, iOS	Yes
-- Paperoak	GET IT HERE	Web, Android	Yes
-- Cronycle	-	-	-
-- The Old Reader	-	Web	-

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27 Other Options Considered

Tiny Tiny RSS

Top Pro

Free and open source

Licensed under GNU GPLv3. See More

Top Con

Support is intermittent at best and confrontational at worst

Looked for support found a forum question similar. OP was told off and advised to use paid software by developer. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, Android, iOS

Search:Yes

Offline support:Yes

Subscriptions in Free Plan:Unlimited

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Top Pro

Full control of the service

The user has full control of this Feedly alternative service, and the data on it. There is no relying on a third party service that may go belly up or decide to increase costs. See More

Top Con

Has to be set up manually

It's not as simple as just creating an account on another service. Requires a working LAMP set up, and a MySQL/PostgresSQL DB. See More

Top Pro

Android client

An Android app is available on the Google Play store. See More

Top Pro

Tags and labels

Browse and organize feeds and posts by tags and labels. See More

Top Pro

Highly customizable via plugins

Different aspects of how information is presented from different sources can be changed and customized. See More

Top Pro

E-mail digest

Users can request an e-mail to be sent at a set interval with news posts. See More

Top Pro

Android client available

An Android app is available on the Google Play store. See More

Top Pro

Multiple users per installation

One instance of Tiny Tiny RSS can be used by as many people as necessary. See More

Top Pro

Integrates with a media center

Feeds can be viewed on a TV or dedicated media box. See More

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Paperoak

Top Pro

Doesn't contain ads

Top Con

Not available on iOS

PaperOak does not have an iOS version yet. See More

Sanu's Experience

I really like the Ui, its very easy to use. Has all the important sources you can think of. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, Android

Search:Yes

Offline support:Yes

Subscriptions in Free Plan:Unlimited

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Top Pro

It's free

Justin George's Experience

clean UI, no ads, multiple languages supported, FREE See More

Top Pro

It's fast

ConfidentKul's Experience

I downloaded this app yesterday, after reading this post now I'm back here to give it a thumbs up. It is simple to use and the UI is really clean and simple. I love the night mode theme in this app. See More

Top Pro

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

DedicatedNammu's Experience

I like how simple it is to use this app. its got all the popular publications. Love the classic scroll view. See More

Top Pro

Can save articles offline by adding them to your bookmarks

CompetentPabilsag's Experience

Tried the web interface, as that is my 'second thing of the morning' after coffee, and feedly is getting annoying with its pressing for upgrades screenwide pushy pop-ups. See More

Top Pro

Website and Android application for reading

DebonairPhilotes's Experience

The UI is clean and beautiful. See More

Top Pro

OPML Import

You can now import feed using an OPML file on the web app which will then be automatically synced with your android app. See More

Chris Turner's Experience

I like the fact that I can read articles in English and German at the same time. See More

Top Pro

Import RSS/Atom feed

You can now import RSS/Atom feeds right from within the Android app. See More

AffableEris's Experience

Really nice alternative to Feedly, its very light under 3mb in size, doesn't drain my battery, good looks, over all a fine product. See More

Steve Smith's Experience

good RSS reader. new RSS sources are added almost every day. UI design and performance are pretty good. See More

LivelyKiririsha's Experience

Its a nice app, love the UI, Feeds are updated every few minutes. See More

DeterminedEnki's Experience

I believe this has been shut down entirely See More

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Cronycle

Top Pro

Advanced filters

Filter out the noise and get relevant information using advanced filters. See More

Top Con

No android app yet

samaira dwivedi's Experience

The best content discovery and curation platform! See More

Top Pro

Pre-curated topics

Smart AI that suggests relevant automated topics to discover content. See More

priyanka dutt's Experience

Fast, smooth and easy to use. Pretty much everything you could ask for to monitor/curate or collaborate on content. See More

Top Pro

RSS aggregation

Aggregate content to feeds from multiple RSS sources. See More

Krrish Ahuja's Experience

A platform that replaces most content-centric platforms out there. Really solid, has it all! See More

Top Pro

Collaboration boards

Collaborate with teams efficiently to enrich curated content. See More

Sanchi Dogra's Experience

Good personalisation features without any blackbox algorithms. Well priced. See More

Top Pro

Content publishing and newsletters

Publish curated content to multiple social media channels/enterprise messaging apps or Wordpress websites, and host newsletters directly from Cronycle See More

Top Pro

Analyzing trends using metrics and analytics

Measures content engagement and trends using metrics See More

Top Pro

Clean UI and user friendly

Top Pro

Added functionality through shared feedback

Ask your team mates for feedback and collaborate to create intelligence from the articles you read. This is on par with most Feedly alternatives. See More

Top Pro

Easy to manage sources in feeds

Ability to aggregate from anywhere on the web by adding sources and managing them in the sources library. See More

Top Pro

iOS app

Top Pro

Curate content from twitter

Curate information and content from Twitter without the noise and have complete control over feeds. See More

Top Pro

Fast and smooth

Clean UI that loads quicky. See More

Top Pro

Desktop extension 'Content Clipper'

Makes Cronycle a Pocket / Feedly alternative, by being a news feed reader as well as a place to save articles for easier reading. See More

Top Pro

Good onboarding and customer support

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The Old Reader

Top Pro

Easy to use

Intuitive, easy to overview service. See More

Top Con

No mobile app

Lacks native mobile support, but the mobile version of the site is quite usable though lacking when compared to most Feedly alternatives. See More

HonorableUgallu's Experience

No feeds for fat loss? C'mon. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web

Offline support:No

Subscriptions in Free Plan:100

OPML support:Yes

Top Pro

Freemium

Free version has a limit of 100 sites, upgrade to unlimited sites costs $25/year. Being freemium is a nice option for those that would like to try the app out without putting down any money first. (The Old Reader if free to 100 sites and 101-500 is $30/year). See More

Top Con

Expensive

If you're looking for an affordable alternative to feedly, this is not it. Much more expensive and less user friendly. See More

Top Pro

Very similar to the dismissed Google Reader

Ever since Google Reader has ceased to be an option, The Old Reader has grown in popularity while also making for a great Feedly alternative. See More

Top Con

Not very customizable

While the sources can be added or removed, the feed cannot be filtered in any other way. Display options are limited as well, leaving the user with the standard view. See More

Top Pro

OPML import

Allows for easy migration from any service that supports OPML. See More

Top Pro

Great UI

A clean, easy to use interface. See More

Top Pro

Free

Top Pro

Social

People from Facebook or Google can be found on The Old Reader so posts can be shared and discussed. See More

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NewsBlur

Top Pro

Cross-platform

Works on iOS and Android and as a webapp. See More

Top Con

Freemium

This service is free, but can cost up to $24 per year for premium users. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, iOS, Android

Search:Yes

Top Pro

Freemium service

Free version has a limit of 64 sites, upgrade to unlimited sites costs $1/month. See More

Top Pro

Fast

Very fast to navigate when compared to most Feedly alternatives around, the UI and loading of articles is pretty quick. See More

Top Pro

Multiple layout and style options

NewsBlur allows users to customize the font size, line spacing, story layout, and type faces, unlike most Feedly alternatives. See More

Top Pro

View content in the original site

NewsBlur offers an option of reading articles just like they are displayed on the original site. See More

Top Pro

Blurblogs

Burblog is a simple, customizable website for sharing stories with comments that people can subscribe to. See More

Top Pro

Organize feeds into folders

Feeds can be grouped into folders for easier management and to allow users to separate feeds for work, comics, research etc. See More

Top Pro

Keyboard shortcuts

By default arrow keys and spacebar are used to quickly navigate stories, but they can be rebound for premium accounts. See More

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Nooshub

Top Pro

Cleans your feed by automatic grouping of similar articles

This feature can be turned off though. See More

Top Con

Only 1 month free then monthly/yearly fee after 1 month trial

CapableBanebdjedet's Experience

Easy to use reader with readymade collections that you can clone and tweak. Similar articles are clustered if you turn on that option. Podcasts can be played im place. You can search through the pages. See More

Specs

Top Pro

Highlights topics that have many articles

Top Con

May cost money after beta

arabiata's Experience

I use it across devices for reading daily news and listening to podcasts See More

Top Pro

Plays podcasts

princeofzamunda's Experience

Was looking for an alternative to social media for news reading and found it with this app! See More

Top Pro

Search through your collections

woopiesilverstein's Experience

Great for reading news because of the grouping of articles, but also works for different sources like blogs or podcasts. Less settings than others, but that is a pro for me. See More

Top Pro

Live updates

ResoluteBuarainech's Experience

For reading feeds with many articles per hour the grouping of similar articles makes a big difference. See More

Top Pro

Readymade collections

Can be cloned and tweaked. See More

Top Pro

Works on mobile and tablet

Top Pro

OPML import and export

Top Pro

Dark Mode

Has an auto mode that activates dark mode in the evening. See More

Top Pro

No ads

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Press

Top Con

Lack of updates may cause compatibility issues

The last update to the Google Play Store was January 2014. It looks like it's been abandoned, so will likely have increasing issues with bugs and compatibility concerns with newer Android versions. See More

Top Pro

User friendly

Being that the main sync source is Feedly (and that you can not add your own feeds through the app, but only through the services it links to), this app makes for a great Feedly alternative for those that would like to use the Feedly service without having to use their app. See More

Specs

Platforms:Android

Top Con

Unreliable after being installed a while

After about a week, this app stops working as intended. Features like syncing and caching are the most common features to break. See More

Top Pro

Great widget

Press has a widget available for easier reading. See More

Top Pro

Readability support

Press is compatible with Readability; a service that stores online articles for reading later. See More

Top Pro

Works offline

Once articles are synced, all of the information is cached and can be viewed while offline. See More

Top Pro

Gorgeous UI

Beautiful app, and a great user experience. Press is able to take info from other readers and present it in a more manageable fashion. See More

Top Pro

Customizable themes

Light and dark themes are available to accommodate users in high or low light environments. See More

Top Pro

Lots of integration

Works as a front-end for Feedly, Feedbin, Fever or Feed Wrangler. See More

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Feedbin

Top Con

There is no free plan

One of the few news readers that does not offer a free plan. They have a 14 day trial, after that a subscription is $5/month. See More

Top Pro

Classy Feedly alternative

The web interface is nice, and the apps give a great native experience regardless of what platform you're on, much like most Feedly alternatives. See More

Specs

Search:Yes

Night Theme:Yes

API:Yes

Keyboard shortcuts:Yes

Top Pro

Clean UI

Top Pro

Supported

Works with Reeder, ReadKit, Mr Reader, SubToMe and many, many other apps. See More

Top Pro

Paid

This won't disappear in a year or two if ad revenue falls off. See More

Top Pro

Free and open source

Licensed under MIT. Code available on GitHub. See More

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Prismatic

Top Pro

Utilizes user location

Prismatic uses current location in order to find local news. If this feature isn't wanted, it can be turned off. See More

Top Con

Lacks a built-in RSS feed reader

The only option is as a curated aggregated feed. There is no provided way to supply ones own feeds via OPML for example. See More

Top Pro

Excellent content discovery algorithm

Amazing algorithm for discovering new and meaningful content. Uses friend and user similarity and sharing to determine the relevancy of content, a feature that puts it in competition as a Feedly alternative. See More

Top Pro

Gesture-based design and intuitive user experience

Prismatic is extremely fast to use and utilizes clever gestures to make it easy to navigate. Apple reportedly sent them a letter saying that it’s Engineers are looking into how they managed to build such a good app. The app does not utilize tradition navigation bars in order to enable full screen browsing. This makes reading long form content or viewing images a fantastic experience on mobile. See More

Top Pro

High compatibility

Prismatic is available on desktop, iOS, and Android. See More

Top Pro

News feed optimization

Although Prismatic has a fantastic design, its biggest differentiator from the competition is its best-in-class algorithms that determine what goes into the news feed. Prismatic uses G+, Twitter, and Facebook feeds to evaluate what the user is interested in. Sources and lists can then be edited to add or remove certain topics. This app monitors usage and feedback in order to further evaluate user preferences and fetch the most desirable information. See More

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Readertron

Top Con

Only works with invitations

You can't register an account on the site. See More

Circa News

Top Pro

Ability to Follow favorite stories

Top Con

No web version yet

Circa News is not available on the web, but this feature is coming soon. See More

Top Pro

Android Wear compatible

This app pushes breaking news to Android Wear devices so alerts are never missed. Colors and animations can be chosen to make the notifications interesting. See More

Top Pro

Articles are to the point

Circa News uses curators to provide summaries of stories, not fluffy narratives. See More

Top Pro

Beautifully designed

Everything displayed on Circa News is meant to be clear, concise, and an easy to navigate Feedly alternative See More

Top Pro

Makes it effortless to stay on top of the news

Circa lets users follow a selected story and get alerts to breaking news. See More

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Yahoo News Digest

Top Pro

Great for a casual reader of the News

If you don't like spending lots of time reading the news, looking at this app once or twice a day makes for an enjoyable experience due of the great design. This nice design allows the app to be considered on par as a Feedly alternative. See More

Top Con

No customization of News Headlines or categories

You only get the top 8-10 headlines of the day regardless of news category or source. See More

Top Pro

Beautiful UI Design

Great look and feel to the app as you swipe though stories or scroll down on a headline to read more details. Most stories come with custom designed graphs tailored for the story. See More

Top Con

Meager Sharing options

You can share any article in the digest, but it doesn't give many options for tailoring the message that is sent. See More

Top Pro

Only shows top few stories

Hard to get lost in reading news when you only get 8-12 stories at a time. This is a lot more precise and clean when compared to most Feedly alternatives. See More

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Google Play Newsstand

Top Con

Inability to mute sources

While it may be desirable for Newsstand to blend both paid and free news sources, it means that their curated headlines are only partially accessible for those who do not have subscriptions for all the various paid sources. This tends to be an issue with a lot of Feedly alternatives. See More

Top Pro

Offers a comfortable reading experience for print media

Similar to other Feedly alternatives, Google Play Newsstand offers a magazine like news reading experience. See More

Specs

Platforms:iOS, Android

Top Pro

Combines news from free and paid blogs, print magazines and websites in one app

Top Pro

Has a system for subscribing to topics of interest

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Inoreader

Top Pro

It's fast

The lightweight UI allows InoReader to display feeds quickly. See More

Top Con

Not a good architecture for tablet

It is slow and not easy to use on a tablet, and it should have all the options and features as the Desktop version. See More

BrightRaedieahkka's Experience

It's free. There's pro options if you want it, but for the average user it does its job and does it well. See More

Specs

Platforms:Web, iOS, Android, Windows Phone

Search:Yes

Offline support:Yes

Subscriptions in Free Plan:150

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Top Pro

Clean, minimalist UI

Interface is uncluttered and easy to overview. There are absolutely no distracting elements to the design. See More

Top Con

Slower for free users

GloriousRadegast's Experience

The current price increase from $19 to $49 a year is disgusting See More

Top Pro

Supports OPML files

Collections from other readers can be downloaded in OPML files. See More

Top 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. This seems to be a common theme for most Feedly alternatives. See More

MCan's Experience

I love Inoreader because it is so versatile for specialized searches and detail. There are many options, and with this tool, searches become more concrete in this universe of so much information that it makes us lose time and focus. See More

Top Pro

IFTTT Integration

You can easily create Inoreader recipes. For example, you can have an Inoreader recipe that will automatically publish to a blog any content you label with a specific tag in Inoreader. That is just one example; there are all kinds of ways you can use IFTTT to integrate Inoreader with other platforms and tools. See More

Top Con

Price change / Feature capping instituted

Inoreader just announced that the "Professional" plan will be capped (big change is from unlimited filters to just 30!): Based on our observations, the new premium feature limits on the “Pro” plan are as follows: 10 Rules 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) See More

rss_news's Experience

Easy to use and very versatile. See More

Top Pro

Many different views

As a Feedly alternative you can choose between list, card, or expanded view. InoReader also has an option for night mode. See More

Top Con

Stays in memory

The app stays in memory, even if the app is not in use. Memory usage is between 5 and 10mb RAM. See More

CompetentTiw's Experience

it's not free See More

Top Pro

Tags and filter tags

This is one of the best features. See More

Top Con

No manual highlight option

You can't highlight specific portions of the text, as you can in Feedly. See More

AmbitiousEpione's Experience

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Top 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. See More

Top Con

Mail2Tags is buggy

Only a small amount of e-mails looks OK. Most e-mails are unreadable. See More

CommunicativeCihuacoatl's Experience

works well with google alerts, very custom, easy to read, priced well See More

Top Pro

Free search for all users

Top 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. See More

Top Pro

Optional login using Google or Facebook accounts, but additional choice of pairing with a username is a bonus

You can either use a username/password pair, or you can use your Facebook or Google account to login. See More

Top Con

No sub folders

You can't create sub folders. This makes it a bit harder to organize saved content. See More

Top Pro

Great performance for smartphone

It is extremely versatile in its use on a smartphone, more so than on a tablet and desktop. See More

Top Con

Ads in free version

Ads appear in both mobile apps and the web version. See More

Top Pro

Makes it easy to eliminate duplicate posts

If you read from a large list of feeds that may contain overlapping information, InoReader offers removing one of the duplicates. See More

Top Pro

Statistics

Using the built in dashboard, users can see most read sources, how often they update over time, etc. See More

Top Pro

Android and web clients (excludes iOS!)

InoReader is available on Android and as a webapp. See More

Top Pro

Turn Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ content into RSS feeds

In addition to subscribing to regular RSS content, you can use Inoreader to subscribe to Twitter, Facebook and Google+ accounts and, even better, you can use Inoreader to export that content in the form of RSS. So, if you want to make a combination RSS feed of all your activity at Twitter and Facebook and Google+ plus all your blogs, you can do that, exporting all your social network activity as a single RSS feed. See More

Top Pro

Keyboard shortcuts - Shift "O" & "N" only

Shift O and shift N can be used in order to scroll quickly through feeds. See More

Top Pro

Can disable social features

Social interaction features can be disabled if they are not wanted. See More

Top Pro

Premium users can search in all public RSS feeds, even in those that they haven't subscribed to

Top Pro

Rule-based tags to sort and organize content

You can create rule-based tags in Inoreader to sort and tag incoming content across all the feeds you are subscribed to based on keywords and other elements. If you subscribe to lots of RSS feeds and want to sort and organize your incoming content, Inoreader rules are incredibly powerful. See More

Top Pro

Create combination RSS feeds to export with RSS

You can create folders and/or tags in Inoreader combining content from different feeds into a single feed of its own which you can then export via RSS or display with an HTML clippings view. Remember YahooPipes? Like that, but better. If you like to share what you are reading or if you want to reshare your own content from multiple blogs with a single RSS feed, try out the amazing Inoreader export options. See More

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The Best 1 of 28 OptionsWhy?

My Recommendation for Inoreader

My Recommendation for Inoreader

It's fast

Not a good architecture for tablet

Clean, minimalist UI

Slower for free users

Supports OPML files

Limits free users

IFTTT Integration

Price change / Feature capping instituted

Many different views

Stays in memory

Tags and filter tags

No manual highlight option

Can filter articles by keyword

Mail2Tags is buggy

Free search for all users

Can't have unread items older than a month

Optional login using Google or Facebook accounts, but additional choice of pairing with a username is a bonus

No sub folders

Great performance for smartphone

Ads in free version

Makes it easy to eliminate duplicate posts

Statistics

Android and web clients (excludes iOS!)

Turn Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ content into RSS feeds

Keyboard shortcuts - Shift "O" & "N" only

Can disable social features

Premium users can search in all public RSS feeds, even in those that they haven't subscribed to

Rule-based tags to sort and organize content

Create combination RSS feeds to export with RSS

27 Other Options Considered

My Recommendation for Tiny Tiny RSS

My Recommendation for Tiny Tiny RSS

Free and open source

Support is intermittent at best and confrontational at worst

Full control of the service

Has to be set up manually

Android client

Tags and labels

Highly customizable via plugins

E-mail digest

Android client available

Multiple users per installation

Integrates with a media center

My Recommendation for Paperoak

My Recommendation for Paperoak

Doesn't contain ads

Not available on iOS

It's free

It's fast

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

Can save articles offline by adding them to your bookmarks

Website and Android application for reading

OPML Import

Import RSS/Atom feed

My Recommendation for Cronycle

My Recommendation for Cronycle

Advanced filters

No android app yet

Pre-curated topics

RSS aggregation

Collaboration boards

Content publishing and newsletters

Analyzing trends using metrics and analytics

Clean UI and user friendly

Added functionality through shared feedback

Easy to manage sources in feeds

iOS app

Curate content from twitter

Fast and smooth

Desktop extension 'Content Clipper'

Good onboarding and customer support

My Recommendation for The Old Reader

My Recommendation for The Old Reader

Easy to use

No mobile app

Freemium

Expensive