When comparing Feedbro vs The Old Reader, the Slant community recommends The Old Reader for most people. In the question“What are the best news readers?” The Old Reader is ranked 6th while Feedbro is ranked 10th. The most important reason people chose The Old Reader is:
People from Facebook or Google can be found on The Old Reader so posts can be shared and discussed.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Allows filtering out unwanted articles
Built-in rule engine let's you filter out articles you don't care about.
Pro Readability-style full article fetching
Pro Can highlight articles with specific keywords in them
Using regexp.
Pro No online services needed
Pro Can read Twitter and Instagram directly
Pro Supports also Firefox (add on available in Mozilla Add-on store)
Pro Supports feed previewing and easy discovery
Pro Great for managing Youtube subscriptions
Pro Supports MathJax for LaTeX and TeX math rendering
Pro Supports IFTTT
Pro Can read intranet feeds and blogs
Pro Built-in support for Youtube, Youtube Search, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Yammer, Vimeo, Bitchute, LinkedIn Groups, LinkedIn Jobs, Slideshare
Pro Supports VK.com (read channels as feeds)
Pro Supports Discord notifications
Pro Supports Slack notifications
Pro Social
People from Facebook or Google can be found on The Old Reader so posts can be shared and discussed.
Pro Very similar to the dismissed Google Reader
Ever since Google Reader has ceased to be an option, The Old Reader has grown in popularity.
Pro Great UI
A clean, easy to use interface.
Pro Easy to use
Intuitive, easy to overview service.
Pro OPML import
Allows for easy migration from any service that supports OPML.
Pro Freemium
Free version has a limit of 100 sites, upgrade to unlimited sites costs $25/year. Being freemium is a nice option for those that would like to try the app out without putting down any money first.
Cons
Con Not free/libre
This application is proprietary, and thus cannot be modified, freely distributed, or trusted to be secure. Also, if the developer abandons it again, there will be no way for others to continue to update it.
Con No mobile app
Lacks an official native mobile app, but the mobile version of the site is quite usable and there are apps which support syncing with The Old Reader.
However, users have created many apps for a variety of platforms using The Old Reader API. You can check them out here.
Con Not very customizable
While the sources can be added or removed, the feed cannot be filtered in any other way. Display options are limited as well, leaving the user with the standard view.