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Inoreader vs NewsBlur vs Feedly

 vs CommaFeed vs Nooshub vs The Old Reader vs Feedreader Online vs Flow Reader vs newsify vs FeedBucket vs Paperoak vs FeedMail vs Monocle Reader vs Newsfeeder vs Digg Reader

Specs

Platforms

Web, iOS, Android, Windows Phone

Search

Yes

Offline support

Yes

Subscriptions in Free Plan

150

Night Theme

Yes

OPML support

Import & export

Filtering

Yes

API

Yes

Browser Extensions

Chrome

Keyword alerts

Yes

Highlighting support

Yes

Team edition

Yes

Save / Share

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

Analytics

Yes

Annotation

Yes

Keyboard shortcuts

Yes

Rules

Yes

IFTTT Support

Yes

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

-

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Platforms

Web, iOS, Android

Search

Yes

Offline support

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

Night Theme

-

OPML support

-

Filtering

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Team edition

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

-

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Platforms

Web, iOS, Android, Kindle

Search

Yes

Offline support

Yes

Subscriptions in Free Plan

100

Night Theme

No

OPML support

import & export

Filtering

Yes

API

Yes

Browser Extensions

Chrome, Firefox, Safari

Keyword alerts

Yes

Highlighting support

Yes

Team edition

Yes

Save / Share

-

Analytics

Yes

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

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

Cloud storage/sync

Dropbox

Annotation support

Yes

IFTTT support

Yes

SSO/SAML

Yes

Email roundup

Yes

Zapier support

Yes

OPML Import

-

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Offline support

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

Night Theme

-

OPML support

-

Filtering

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Team edition

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

-

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Platforms

Web, iOS

Search

Yes

Offline support

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

Night Theme

Yes

OPML support

Yes

Filtering

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Team edition

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

Yes

Price

1mo free, then 4$/month

Dark Theme

Yes

Export

Yes

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Platforms

Web

Search

-

Offline support

No

Subscriptions in Free Plan

100

Night Theme

-

OPML support

Yes

Filtering

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Team edition

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

-

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Offline support

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

Night Theme

-

OPML support

-

Filtering

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Team edition

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

-

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Offline support

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

Night Theme

-

OPML support

-

Filtering

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Team edition

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

-

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Offline support

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

Night Theme

-

OPML support

-

Filtering

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Team edition

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

-

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Offline support

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

Night Theme

-

OPML support

-

Filtering

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Team edition

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

-

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Platforms

Web, Android

Search

Yes

Offline support

Yes

Subscriptions in Free Plan

Unlimited

Night Theme

Yes

OPML support

-

Filtering

Yes

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Team edition

-

Save / Share

Android Share, Facebook, Google+, twitter and more

Analytics

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

Yes

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

Yes

View recently read articles

Yes

RSS/Atom Import

Unlimited

Active

Discontinued

Platforms

-

Search

-

Offline support

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

Night Theme

-

OPML support

-

Filtering

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Team edition

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

-

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Platforms

-

Search

-

Offline support

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

Night Theme

-

OPML support

-

Filtering

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Team edition

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

-

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Platforms

Web, Android

Search

-

Offline support

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

Night Theme

-

OPML support

-

Filtering

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Team edition

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

-

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Platforms

iOS, Android, Web

Search

-

Offline support

-

Subscriptions in Free Plan

-

Night Theme

-

OPML support

-

Filtering

-

API

-

Browser Extensions

-

Keyword alerts

-

Highlighting support

-

Team edition

-

Save / Share

-

Analytics

-

Annotation

-

Keyboard shortcuts

-

Rules

-

IFTTT Support

-

Share/save

-

Cloud storage/sync

-

Annotation support

-

IFTTT support

-

SSO/SAML

-

Email roundup

-

Zapier support

-

OPML Import

-

Price

-

Dark Theme

-

Export

-

Mark as read

-

View recently read articles

-

RSS/Atom Import

-

Active

-

Pros + Cons

Pro
 Free 150 feeds

Like most other news reader services, Inoreader restricts the amount of sources you can subscribe to in the free version to 150.
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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
 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
 Loads really fast

The lightweight UI allows Inoreader to display feeds quickly.
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Pro
 Free search for all users

Unlike Feedly where search is a paid service, Inoreader allows search for free users. If you want to find content you have read by some keyword, it is free for everyone.
Comment

Con
 No sub folders

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

Inoreader has clients for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. As well as a web app.
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Pro
 Supports multiple views

List, card, or expanded view.
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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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Con
 Adding some feeds on IOS free version is laborious

Nitter feeds, for example
Comment

Con
 Uses Ram when it is not active (stays in memory)

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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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Pro
 Tags and filter tags

This is one of the best features.
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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
 Can disable social features

Social interaction features can be disabled if they are not wanted.
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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
 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
 Social media integration

Pro version has the ability to search Facebook, Google+ and Twitter feeds as well.
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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
 Supports OPML files

Collections from other readers can be downloaded in OPML (outline processor markup language) files.
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Con
 Ads in free version

Ads appear in both mobile apps and the web version.
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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
 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.
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Pro
 Cross-platform

Works on iOS and Android and as a webapp.
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Pro
 Freemium service

Free version has a limit of 64 sites, upgrade to unlimited sites costs $1/month.
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Pro
 Free / Libre software

NewsBlur is FOSS, so it can be freely modified & redistributed.
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Pro
 View content in the original site

NewsBlur offers an option of reading articles just like they are displayed on the original site.
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Pro
 Multiple layout & style options

NewsBlur allows users to customize the font size, line spacing, story layout, and type faces.
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Pro
 Fast

Very fast to navigate around the UI and load articles.
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Pro
 Keyboard shortcuts

By default arrow keys and spacebar are used to quickly navigate stories, but they can be rebound for premium accounts.
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Pro
 Recommended articles that improves over time

NewsBlur has a discovery algorithm, that users can "train" to show stories they are interested in and hide one's that they don't care about.
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Pro
 Blurblogs

Burblog is a simple, customizable website for sharing stories with comments that people can subscribe to.
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Pro
 Aggregates email newsletters

You can forward email newsletters to a user-specific email address to have them aggregated in your feed reader along with your RSS content.
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Con
 Can't have unread items older than a 14 days/month

This is a premium feature.
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Con
 Freemium

This service is free, but can cost up to $24 per year for premium users.
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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 and it offers many ways to share a story from within the application, including social networks, e-mail, etc.
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Con
 Buggy

Logging in can sometimes cause Feedly to struggle, it can become unresponsive and force close.
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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.
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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
 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.
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Con
 Inline ads

Free version puts ads in your feeds.
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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
 Similar mobile experience to Google Reader

It supports a list UI similar to Google Reader, among other more graphical layouts.
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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.
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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 more sharing and saving options, alerts, backup, support or integrations with collaborative tools.
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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.
Comment

Con
 Slow interface

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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
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Con
 Forces external account to log in

Users are forced to use Twitter, Facebook, Google, or Microsoft login credentials.
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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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Pro
 Free / Libre software

CommaFeed is FOSS, so it can be freely modified & redistributed.
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Pro
 OPML import and export

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Pro
 Cleans your feed by automatic grouping of similar articles

This feature can be turned off though.
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Pro
 Search through your collections

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Pro
 Works on mobile and tablet

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Pro
 Dark mode

Has an auto mode that activates dark mode in the evening
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Pro
 No ads

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Pro
 Plays podcasts

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Pro
 No ads

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Pro
 Highlights topics that have many articles

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Pro
 Live updates

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Pro
 Readymade collections

Can be cloned and tweaked.
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Con
 Can't mark older articles as unread

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

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Pro
 OPML Import and Export

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Pro
 Dark Mode

Has an auto mode that activates dark mode in the evening
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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.
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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.
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Con
 Not free/libre

This application is proprietary, and thus cannot be modified, freely distributed, or trusted to be secure. Also, if the developer abandons it again, there will be no way for others to continue to update it.
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Pro
 Social

People from Facebook or Google can be found on The Old Reader so posts can be shared and discussed.
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Pro
 Easy to use

Intuitive, easy to overview service.
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Con
 No mobile app

Lacks an official native mobile app, but the mobile version of the site is quite usable and there are apps which support syncing with The Old Reader. However, users have created many apps for a variety of platforms using The Old Reader API. You can check them out here.
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Pro
 Great UI

A clean, easy to use interface.
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Con
 no longer available

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Pro
 Doesn't contain ads

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Pro
 It's free

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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
 It's fast

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Pro
 Import sources to PaperOak with RSS URL

It is possible to import new sources to PaperOak. submit the RSS url in Paperoak and you'll be able to read articles from the source.
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Con
 Not available on iOS

PaperOak does not have an iOS version yet.
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Pro
 Import RSS/Atom feed

You can now import RSS/Atom feeds right from within the Android app.
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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.
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Pro
 Website and Android application for reading

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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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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.
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Pro
 Fast Updates

According to their website they support real-time updates for some feeds. For other feeds I have noticed it being consistently faster than other services.
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Pro
 Digest Option

For most feeds I like the real-time notifications. However some sources are just too noisy so I have grouped them into a daily digest.
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Pro
 Multiple Email Support

By adding different addresses to my account I only have to set up a few filters, then I can easily move feeds between different addresses to change what folder they map to without modifying filters.
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Con
 No Web-based Viewing

The only view is via email.
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Pro
 Privacy

User friendly interface, fast, open source
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