When comparing Tiny Tiny RSS vs Inoreader, the Slant community recommends Inoreader for most people. In the question“What are the best news readers?” Inoreader is ranked 1st while Tiny Tiny RSS is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Inoreader is:
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.
Specs
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Pros
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.
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.
Pro Multiple users per installation
One instance of Tiny Tiny RSS can be used by as many people as necessary.
Pro Organize by tags and labels
Browse and organize feeds and posts by tags and labels.
Pro Android client available
An Android app is available on the Google Play store.
Pro Integrates with a media center
Feeds can be viewed on a TV or dedicated media box.
Pro E-mail digest
Users can request an e-mail to be sent at a set interval with news posts.
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.
Pro Can generate new feeds from folders and tags.
You can resyndicate a curated feed of tagged or organized content.
Pro Loads really fast
The lightweight UI allows Inoreader to display feeds quickly.
Pro Supports multiple views
List, card, or expanded view.
Pro In-depth statistics about sources
Using the built-in dashboard, users can see most read sources, how often they update over time, etc.
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.
Pro Extensive keyboard shortcut support
Shift + O and shift + N can be used in order to scroll quickly through feeds.
Pro Can disable social features
Social interaction features can be disabled if they are not wanted.
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.
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.
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.
Pro Supports OPML files
Collections from other readers can be downloaded in OPML (outline processor markup language) files.
Pro Premium users can search in all public RSS feeds, even in those that they haven't subscribed to
Pro Has a night mode
For people who prefer reading articles at night.
Pro Cross platform
Inoreader has clients for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone, as well as a web app.
Pro Social media integration
Pro version has the ability to search Facebook, Google+ and Twitter feeds as well.
Pro Tags and filter tags
This is one of the best features.
Pro Rules allow you to trigger events
Rules allow for simple or complex conditions that can trigger webhooks, broadcasting, tagging, push notifications, and more, including adding items to a published folder or tag feed.
Cons
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.
Con Ads in free version
Ads appear in both mobile apps and the web version.
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.
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.
Con No sub folders
You can't create sub folders. This makes it a bit harder to organize saved content.
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).
Con Mail2Tags is buggy
Only a small amount of e-mails looks OK. Most e-mails are unreadable.