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Add to SafariWhen comparing Feedbin vs gReader, the Slant community recommends Feedbin for most people. In the question“What are the best news readers?” Feedbin is ranked 5th while gReader is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Feedbin is:
Uncluttered and intuitive to use.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Clean UI
Uncluttered and intuitive to use.
Pro Free and open source
Licensed under MIT. Code available on GitHub.
Pro Full API
Feedbin has a fully-featured, free, REST-style API.
Pro Supports JSON Feed
JSON Feed is a new syndication format that uses JSON instead of XML to store its data. JSON is generally considered easier to read and write than XML, making for less error-prone data structuring and broken feeds.
Pro Classy interface
The web interface is nice, and the apps give a great native experience regardless of what platform you're on.
Pro Paid
This won't disappear in a year or two if ad revenue falls off.
Pro Privacy, hides user details from pulled content
Pro Integrates Twitter posts
Pro Built-in text-to-speech
The app can read the news stories out lout to you.
Pro Has a lockscreen widget
The widget allows checking the news without having to unlock the phone.
Pro Integrates with multiple read it later services
gReader integrates with Pocket, Instapaper and Readability.
Pro Integrates with third-party RSS services and works as a standalone RSS reader
While the app can integrate with third-party RSS services, like Feedly and The Old Reader, it can be used as a standalone RSS reader as well.
Cons
Con No Team Integration
No ability to share information with others within the native app.
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 $3/month.
Con Free version has very basic widget support
The free version includes just the icon widget, other widgets can be accessed with the pro version which costs $4.69.
Con Free version has ads
