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Add to SafariWhen comparing Inoreader vs Yahoo News Digest, the Slant community recommends Inoreader for most people. In the question“What are the best news readers?” Inoreader is ranked 1st while Yahoo News Digest is ranked 14th. 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.
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Pros
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.
Pro Beautiful UI design
Great look and feel to the app as you swipe though stories or scroll down on a headline to read more details. Most stories come with custom designed graphs tailored for the story.
Pro Great for a casual reader of the News
Rather than give you full articles, the app creates "Atoms". It's a short summary of the news event, generated from a variety of different sources.
It provides infographs, images, videos and more to help you quickly understand the news event. This means you are able to read through all of the news stories in minutes.
Pro Only shows top few stories
Hard to get lost in reading news when you only get 8-12 stories at a time.
Cons
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.
Con Uses Ram when it is not active (stays in memory)
Con No customization of news headlines or categories
You only get the top 8-10 headlines of the day regardless of news category or source.
Con Meager sharing options
You can share any article in the digest, but it doesn't give many options for tailoring the message that is sent.
