RSS readers allow you to collect the articles of specific sources in one app, making it a lot easier to find the content you’re interested in without crawling through a lot of noise. RSS (which may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, or one of several other possibilities — nobody seems sure) has been around a while, having been first developed in 1999, although it wasn’t more widely adopted until a few years later.
Feedly, Inoreader, Feeder, Newsblur, Feedbin.
Thanks for the summary! More articles should be concise and more “complete” (e.g. mentioning alternatives like NetNewsWire or Vivaldi’s integrated RSS reader, as mentioned in other comments here).
Unfortunately, so many news sites (and see cooking recipe sites as an example) bloat their articles so they can appear more frequently in search results :(
Is this list available as an rss feed?
Inoreader and gReader for Android, amazing! I switched when Good Reader died, haven’t looked back, works amazing even in the free plan.
Really surprised NetNewsWire did not make this list. Free as in beer and FOSS, and it’s been around for ages
probably because it’s limited to the Apple ecosystem.
I haven’t used this in years! TY for reminding me.
I discovered this about 5 hours ago while searching for a reader for a new MacBook… definitely beats the $12 Reeder imo
Still using feedly since the google reader death, I just hate how browsers stopped doing RSS natively, it was great having the little folders of the sites I love right in the bookmarks bar.
Feedly is still good for me! No maintenance needed and can access it from any device. I like the keyboard shortcuts on desktop too, for rapidly going through articles.
Self hosted tiny tiny RSS for me with Android and iOS clients.
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I use this as well, have mail/feeds enabled in Vivaldi with no mail accounts added. Then I just removed the mail and calendar icons from my toolbar, and now have a decent feed reader without showing things I don’t use.
That being said - I definitely accidentally deleted all my feeds at once in Vivaldi when trying to erase all received news stories. I’d recommend backing up the main Vivaldi config file somewhere occasionally!
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It’s sad how there’s basically no good local RSS readers anymore, only paid subscription based ones or self-host solutions. At least on Windows that is.
On Windows, I’ve been very happy with RSSOwlnix, even though it hasn’t seen any changes in 2 years.
Fluent Reader. I use it with freshrss myself but it is just as good using it fully local.
Fluent Reader would be perfect if it could start on log on and run in the background, but the dev seems to not care about that so…
Just paste a shortcut inside the startup folder? Type shell:startup in the explorer address bar.
Yeah. Anything worth developing takes up quite a bit of time and doing that for free doesn’t really work out for many devs. Only one I can think of that’s close to what you mentioned is maybe Thunderbird?
After Google reader died and feedly became a subscription I said never again and just started self hosting my own. Currently using fresh rss and have used tiny tiny rss, both are excellent options.
I’ve been using Nextcloud News with my Nextcloud provider, works pretty well.
I’ve tried to self host next cloud but it’s just feels too bloated :(. I’m running it on a pretty solid machine too, not like it’s a raspberry pi but everything just feels sluggish.
How is this working for you? The ui for it is completely busted on the newest version of nextcloud for me. I’ve been slowly moving most of my stuff to nextcloud but the news just isn’t working so I’ve kept my freshrss instance up and running.
I mostly use it on my phone with the News app.
Is Feedly a subscription? I don’t pay for it. Do you have to pay after a certain number of feeds or something?
They have subscription tiers, some make sens like lifting the cap on subscriptions, others like hiding sponsored ads are what made me bail on it. Really loved the ui though
this is the way; I did this too, built my own: https://s.marko.tech and some
Yeah, I saw that, made me do Inoreader. Was gonna self host, but figured wasn’t worth it, due to moving around a lot.
I have been loving miniflux. It has been pretty set and forget. They have nice android apps and you can pay them to host it for you
I used to love miniflux but they migrated to Go and now I can’t run it on my shared host service. Luckily freshrss replaced it.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
RSS (which may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, or one of several other possibilities — nobody seems sure) has been around a while, having been first developed in 1999, although it wasn’t more widely adopted until a few years later.
The Pro version ($72 a year) lets you collect up to 1,000 RSS feeds, save to other apps such as Evernote and OneNote, share to several sites such as LinkedIn, and hide sponsored ads.
Along with the personalized dashboard and the ability to create folders, you can automatically highlight keywords (making it easier to spot relevant passages), use a podcast player, and save to Pocket, Evernote, OneNote, Google Drive, and Dropbox.
While many of the apps here try to walk a center line between simplicity and lots of features, Feeder tries a different tack: it works either as a basic RSS feed reader or as one for professionals.
You can train the app to pick out your preferred feeds by marking various characteristics — such as authors — as green or red, and see statistics like how often stories are updated and how many are in that source’s archive.
Flipboard is a handy mobile reader that’s been around awhile and, as its name implies, allows you to flip through your various feed articles; it’s available for iOS and Android devices.
The original article contains 2,035 words, the summary contains 223 words. Saved 89%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!
Newsblur is definitely my go-to. I love that I can train it to filter out toxic topics for me. It’s not 100% as sometimes the topic is just a repeat of the title.
But 90% of the time I can and it does.
Self hosted FreshRSS is what I’ve been using, it’s very good.
I’ve been using the Feedbro extension in Firefox for about 4-5 years now. It is pretty great.
Fluent reader for linux has been the best iv ever used
Am I the only one who didn’t want another background service so I just wired a local Feedpushr instance to direct entries to my existing Gotify instance?
I mean, it works fine until some asshole puts HTML that their parser can’t understand in the content section but then you just need to read between the tags…
That’s why I like reeder on Apple devices.
Instead of needing yet another service to subscribe to RSS feeds and have them sync + potentially pay a fee for service, Reeder allows users to subscribe locally and sync it to iCloud across all devices. It was and is a major appeal of the app compared to others in the Apple ecosystem.
