When comparing Cronycle vs Feedly, the Slant community recommends Feedly for most people. In the question“What are the best content curation tools?” Feedly is ranked 1st while Cronycle is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose Feedly is:
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.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Advanced filters
Filter out the noise and get relevant information using advanced filters.
Pro Pre-curated topics
Smart AI that suggests relevant automated topics to discover content.
Pro RSS aggregation
Aggregate content to feeds from multiple RSS sources.
Pro Collaboration boards
Collaborate with teams efficiently to enrich curated content.
Pro Content publishing and newsletters
Publish curated content to multiple social media channels/enterprise messaging apps or Wordpress websites, and host newsletters directly from Cronycle
Pro Analyzing trends using metrics and analytics
Measures content engagement and trends using metrics
Pro Clean UI and user friendly
Pro Added functionality through shared feedback
Ask your team mates for feedback and collaborate to create intelligence from the articles you read. This is on par with most Feedly alternatives.
Pro Easy to manage sources in feeds
Ability to aggregate from anywhere on the web by adding sources and managing them in the sources library.
Pro iOS app
Pro Curate content from twitter
Curate information and content from Twitter without the noise and have complete control over feeds.
Pro Fast and smooth
Clean UI that loads quicky.
Pro Desktop extension 'Content Clipper'
Makes Cronycle a Pocket / Feedly alternative, by being a news feed reader as well as a place to save articles for easier reading.
Pro Good onboarding and customer support
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.
Pro Integrates other services for ease of use and sharing
Feedly sign-in is done with Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Microsoft credentials. It offers many ways to share a story from within the application, including social networks, e-mail, etc.
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.
Pro Great article recommendations
Search a topic and Feedly will offer resources that are related to that topic.
Pro Supports OPML export/import
With this feature, all subscriptions can be saved.
Pro Seamless Google Reader migration
Feedly have made it especially easy to navigate away from Google Reader.
Pro Similar mobile experience to Google Reader
It supports a list UI similar to Google Reader, among other more graphical layouts.
Pro Browser extensions
Feedly's extension lets users add feeds directly from websites, but also lets users curate pages, save them to Evernote or Facebook, email, or Tweet pages.
Pro Open API
There are multitudes of third party clients available for many platforms.
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.
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.
Cons
Con No android app yet
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 include sharing and saving options, alerts, backup, support or integrations with collaborative tools.
Con No push notifications
Among the most requested features for Feedly is push notification support. The feature was officially requested in 2011 and currently has over 600 votes on Feedly's Uservoice.
Con Log-in is buggy
Logging in can sometimes cause Feedly to struggle. It can become unresponsive and force close.
Con The layout isn't like Google's original or Inoreader's of which is much easier to browse and read quickly
Con Inline adds
Free version puts adds in your feeds
Con No keyword filtering
Feedly has no ability to filter a feed by keyword like a lot of other RSS readers do.
Con No offline support
There is no offline support with the official client.
Con Forces external account to log in
Users are forced to use Twitter, Facebook, Google, or Microsoft login credentials.
Con Steals page views
Feedly has had issues multiple times with hijacking page views from original publishers. See:
Con Organization/sorting features lacking
There is no ability to sort feeds within a folder, and moving feeds between folders is difficult with lots of content.