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Feedly vs Reeder vs Safari

 vs Vienna vs Tiny Tiny RSS vs News Explorer vs Leaf vs NetNewsWire vs ReadKit vs NewsBlur vs Feediary vs FeedzBot vs RSS Bot - News Notifier vs Deepfeed vs FeedMail vs Monocle Reader

Specs

Platforms

Web, iOS, Android, Kindle

Search

Yes

Filtering

Yes

Offline support

Yes

Share/save

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

Night Theme

No

Subscriptions in Free Plan

100

OPML support

import & export

Browser Extensions

Chrome, Firefox, Safari

Highlighting support

Yes

API

Yes

Cloud storage/sync

Dropbox

Keyword alerts

Yes

Team edition

Yes

Analytics

Yes

IFTTT support

Yes

Zapier support

Yes

Annotation support

Yes

SSO/SAML

Yes

Email roundup

Yes

License

-

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

-

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

macOS, iOS, iPadOS

Search

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

Proprietary

Price

Free

Based On

N/A

Browser Engine

WebKit

Default Search Engine

Google

Off line installer available

Built-In

Search Engine Keywords

No

Custom install path

Yes

Bookmark Keywords

No

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

-

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

Web, Android, iOS

Search

Yes

Filtering

Yes

Offline support

Yes

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

Unlimited

OPML support

Import & export

Browser Extensions

None

Highlighting support

Yes

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

GNU GPL v3

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

Yes

Annotation

Yes

Plugin support

Yes

Platforms

macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS

Search

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

-

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

-

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

-

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

macOS

Search

Yes

Filtering

Yes

Offline support

Yes

Share/save

Yes

Night Theme

Yes

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

-

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

Yes

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

Web, iOS, Android

Search

Yes

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

-

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

-

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

-

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

-

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

Android, Web, PWA Support

Search

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

-

Price

Free

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

-

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Filtering

-

Offline support

-

Share/save

-

Night Theme

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

OPML support

-

Browser Extensions

-

Highlighting support

-

API

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Keyword alerts

-

Team edition

-

Analytics

-

IFTTT support

-

Zapier support

-

Annotation support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

License

-

Price

-

Based On

-

Browser Engine

-

Default Search Engine

-

Off line installer available

-

Search Engine Keywords

-

Custom install path

-

Bookmark Keywords

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Annotation

-

Plugin support

-

Pros + Cons

Pro
 Multi-platform RSS Monica

It's a available as a webapp, as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari extensions, and on iOS and Android.
Comment

Pro
 Clean 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 desired topic.
Comment

Pro
 Seamless Google Reader migration

Feedly have made it especially easy to navigate away from Google Reader.
Comment

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

Pro
 Integrates other services for ease of use and sharing

Feedly sign-in is done with Facebook, Twitter, Google or Microsoft credentials and it offers many ways to share a story from within the application, including social networks, e-mail, etc.
Comment

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.
Comment

Pro
 Great custom category organization

Split your feeds into many useful, editable, prioritized groupings. Obvious feature done well.
Comment

Pro
 Night mode

Comment

Pro
 Twitter feeds

Comment

Pro
 Reddit feeds

Comment

Pro
 Newsletter feeds

Comment

Pro
 IFTTT and Zapier integration (Paid)

Feedly functionality can be extended and workflows automated with IFTTT and Zapier integrations that make it possible to connect the reader with hundreds of popular apps.
Comment

Pro
 Open API

There are multitudes of third party clients available for many platforms.
Comment

Pro
 Great article recommendations

Search a topic and Feedly will offer resources that are related to that topic.
Comment

Con
 Log-in is buggy

Logging in can sometimes cause Feedly to struggle. It can become unresponsive and force close.
Comment

Con
 No offline support

There is no offline support with the official client.
Comment

Con
 Buggy

Logging in can sometimes cause Feedly to struggle. It can become unresponsive and force close.
Comment

Con
 No native desktop applications

Despite access via a web interface, Feedly is specific to mobile software platforms.
Comment

Con
 Inline adds

Free version puts adds in your feeds.
Comment

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.
Comment

Con
 Limit of 100 feeds in free mode

This limit is easy to exceed in a daily, casual news browsing routine. Because you don't read all the items, you're browsing and picking the interesting ones.
Comment

Con
 Organization/sorting features lacking

There is no ability to sort feeds within a folder, and moving feeds between folders is difficult with lots of content.
Comment

Con
 Steals page views

Feedly has had issues multiple times with hijacking page views from original publishers. See: Feedly WAS (is) Hijacking Shared Links And Cutting Out Original Publishers Feedly Found a New Way to Steal Page Views From Publishers
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.
Comment

Con
 Slow interface

Comment

Con
 No in-app browser

If you wanted to stay in the Mac app and not go to your browser there is no way to do that.
Comment

Con
 No keyword filtering

Feedly has no ability to filter a feed by keyword like a lot of other RSS readers do.
Comment

Con
 The layout isn't like Google's original or Inoreader's of which is much easier to browse and read quickly

Comment

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.
Comment

Con
 Forces external account to log in

Users are forced to use Twitter, Facebook, Google or Microsoft login credentials.
Comment

Pro
 Integrates with read-it later apps

Integrates with Instapaper, Pocket and Readability.
Comment

Pro
 Integrates with a wide variety of RSS services

Reeder supports Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler, Fever, FeedHQ, Inoreader, NewsBlur, Minimal Reader, The Old Reader and BazQux Reader.
Comment

Con
 Can't remove unused tags

Once you create a tag, it will always show up in tag selection screen. There's no way to delete it from the list.
Comment

Pro
 Has dark theme

Beautiful dark theme for best reading.
Comment

Pro
 Integrates with Instapaper

Comment

Pro
 Nice keyboard shortcuts

You can also customise keyboard shortcuts.
Comment

Con
 Can't edit tags

If you've made a typo, you have to create a new tag. You can't rename the existing one.
Comment

Con
 No longer works in Safari 11

Comment

Pro
 No additional software to purchase

Safari comes bundled with macOS. There's nothing to purchase or install.
Comment

Con
 Outdated Rendering engine

All other browsers and toolkits (Qt/GTK) have shifted to Googles Blink-fork of KHTML/Webkit so Apple is currently the only main contributor left.
Comment

Con
 Terrible support for open source formats like .VP9 or .ogg

Apple does not support open source formats. Instead, they use H.264 and H.265.
Comment

Pro
 Works elegantly in OSX

The rendering of the pages and the browser compatibility with OSX works smoothly, when compared to other browsers. Also you get very high battery life with Safari, when compared to Chrome.
Comment

Pro
 Sleek design

– No distraction stuff like favicons in tabs, all that borders, bevels and embosses in panels like in other browsers, no ugly shaped tabs. – Neat adress bar. – Good looking start “show all tabs” screen.
Comment

Con
 Proprietary

While Safari er is currently available gratis (without monetary charge) on Mac OS X, it is currently not libre (meaning that it does not allow users to view the source code used to create, to modify that code, or to redistribute modifications) and is therefore neither free nor open-source software.
Comment

Con
 Poor support for new web technologies

Safari usually takes its time when it comes to adopting new and useful web technologies meaning that the user gets an inferior experience compared to other modern browsers.
Comment

Con
 No categorization options

Safari will display a unified list of RSS feeds from newest to oldest. There's no way to categorize them.
Comment

Con
 OSX only

Apple dropped Windows support after Safari 5.
Comment

Pro
 Open Source

Vienna is an Open Source project. That means that every single detail of its implementation is freely available.
Comment

Pro
 Great Interface

Comment

Pro
 Powerful keyboard navigation

There are easy to remember single keystrokes to scroll through a post, mark it a (un-) read etc.
Comment

Con
 No longer functions as Apple blocks its launch for security reasons

This have been fixed.
Comment

Pro
 Organize by tags and labels

Browse and organize feeds and posts by tags and labels.
Comment

Con
 Has to be set up manually, tech-savviness and patience required

Using Tiny Tiny RSS is not as simple as creating an account on another service. Merely completing the installation procedure will take at least a few hours. Main requirements include a physical server or a web host supporting PHP and MySQL. The know-how’s also needed, but there are several guides online that explain all the steps quite well. Anyone familiar with computers, even not being an expert, who is willing to spend some hours reading and learning should be able to set up this software.
Comment

Pro
 Full control of the service

Since this reader is open-source and self-hosted, users can have full control of the service and its data when used on a private server. This means they don’t need to rely on a third party service that can be discontinued anytime. It also ensures the cost for using the reader will not increase and it protects user privacy by not giving up personal data.
Comment

Pro
 Highly customizable via plugins

The main way to customize Tiny Tiny RSS is via functionality plugins. Some come with the basic installation, but many additional ones are available from third parties. Users can also change the way information is shown, create themes or skins using CSS or download ones created by the community. All this is possible because Tiny Tiny RSS is open-source--anyone can create modifications for it and publicly share them. You just have to look out for possible bugs and security issues with user-made content.
Comment

Pro
 Android client available

An Android app is available on the Google Play store.
Comment

Pro
 Built-in iCloud sync

Comment

Pro
 Supports all Apple platforms

Comment

Con
 No Smart Folders

While it comes with pre-existing views for "latest" and "unread" it lacks the ability to create your own custom smart folders.
Comment

Pro
 Built-in search for new RSS feeds

Comment

Pro
 Supports RSS, Atom, JSON and Twitter feeds

Comment

Pro
 Themes

Comment

Pro
 Integration with Pocket and Instapaper

Comment

Pro
 Notifications support

Comment

Pro
 Syncs with Feedly, Newsblur, FeedBin and Feed Wrangler

Comment

Pro
 Let's you know when an RSS feed has gone stale

The app will inform you of dead, stale, or otherwise bad feeds.
Comment

Con
 Unreliable

It will sometimes skip over news items.
Comment

Pro
 Read "Instapaper", "Pocket" and "Readability"

Read It Later for OS X that combines Instapaper, Pocket and Readability into one app, which is convenient for those that use multiple services.
Comment

Pro
 Concurrency

Multiple threads allows to load / update content very quickly
Comment

Con
 Can't have unread items older than a 14 days/month

This is a premium feature.
Comment

Con
 Freemium

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

Pro
 No need to install anything

Comment

Pro
 Simple, organised interface

Comment

Pro
 Periodic alerts

Comment

Pro
 Instant usage

Comment

Pro
 Easy to use

Comment

Con
 Techy interface

While easily understandable, it could feel a bit techy for some
Comment

Con
 Telegram required

Comment

Pro
 Minimalistic

Comment

Pro
 Sleek UI

UI is very smooth for read purpose.
Comment

Pro
 Cross Platform

App is build with PWA support, so install it any device.
Comment

Pro
 Full-text Fetching

A few feeds only provide summaries. It is nice to be able to get the full contents by checking a single box.
Comment

Con
 No Forever-free Plan

They do offer a trial but eventually you will have to pay.
Comment

Pro
 No ads

It is a paid service but I like that they don't have ads anywhere. I even checked their page and there were no trackers at all!
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