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Add to SafariWhen comparing Feedbin vs DEVONthink, the Slant community recommends Feedbin for most people. In the question“What are the best news readers?” Feedbin is ranked 5th while DEVONthink is ranked 22nd. The most important reason people chose Feedbin is:
Uncluttered and intuitive to use.
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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 Can store any file type
File types containing text are indexed.
Pro Very flexible
An extensive feature set makes it easy to adapt to your work flow.
Pro Completely offline
Pro Sync
Sync between different macs and/or ios devices is fast, safe and easy. You can sync via iCloud, Dropbox, WebDAV or WiFi.
Pro Full text search
Pro Webpage Clipper
A flexible web clipper can add contents of any web page to DevonThink.
Pro One-time purchase vs monthly subscription.
Pro Paperless office functions available in PRO Office version
Includes processing of scanned documents, OCR etc.
The OCR function is based on FineReader and is probably the best one on the market.
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 Only runs on Macs, iPoneOS, iPadOS & Web
It does not run on Windows, Android, and Linux.
Con Stores in a proprietary format
It stores the whole database in a proprietary file package, that you cannot easily access from another app or from the Finder. Considering you might be classifying a huge quantity of files there, it is quite problematic if you want to interact with this data from other applications.
Con Very limited automation
While the marketing claims are about an intelligent document manager, it actually does not offer many automation features, such as automatic classification, tagging and renaming of the files. It's much more like an extended file explorer.
Con Costs US$79.95 for just the Personal version
One-time purchase instead of monthly subscription.
Con Non free/libre (proprietary)
