RSS Readers

The internet is a mess. Ignore the algorithm, and distill the web down to the things you actually care about. RSS Readers are the way to go.

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  1. Web app (online)

  2. Folo icon
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    As they say, your thoughts are what you read—and we’ve been consuming noisy feeds for too long! Follow organizes content into one timeline, keeping you updated on what matters, noise-free. Share lists, explore collections, and enjoy distraction-free browsing.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Homebrew
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  3. Inoreader icon
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    Inoreader lets you follow your favorite websites and creators, collect articles, and discover inspiring content from across the web. You can customize your feed, automate updates, filter out the noise, and collaborate with your team on Inoreader. +1

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Kindle Fire
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Inoreader screenshot 1
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  4. Feedbin icon
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    Feedbin is a modern web reader to follow websites, Twitter feeds and email newsletters in one place. It boasts a clean interface, is ad-free, and costs $5/month. You can keep everything in sync with iOS, Mac & Android apps, and Feedbin is supported by many popular RSS clients like Reeder , NetNewsWire and more.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • ReadKit
    • FeedMe
    • Slow Feeds
    • Reeder
    • NetNewsWire
    Feedbin homepage as of 2018-03
    Feedbin default view (day) as of 2018-03
    Feedbin night mode view as of 2018-03
  5. Feedly icon
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    Feedly is a better way to organize, read and share the content of your favorite sites. It weaves the content from the RSS feeds of your favorite websites into a fun magazine-like experience and provides seamless integration with social networks. +1

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Kindle Fire
    • Mozilla Firefox
    Feedly screenshot 1
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    +7
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  6. FeedReader Online is a FREE RSS news aggregation solution that provides robust, state-of-the-art features in an intuitive, user-friendly environment.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    FeedReader Online screenshot 1
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    +2
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  7. NewsBlur icon
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    NewsBlur is a personal news reader bringing people together to talk about the world.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Kindle Fire
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    NewsBlur screenshot 1
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    +8
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  8. Desktop app (CLI)

  9. Newsboat icon
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    Newsboat is an RSS/Atom feed reader for the text console.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Newsboat screenshot 1
  10. Photon icon
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    Photon is an RSS/Atom reader with the focus on speed, usability, and a bit of UNIX philosophy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    Photon screenshot 1
    Photon screenshot 1
  11. Desktop app (GUI)

  12. Akregator icon
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    Akregator is a news feed reader. It enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites without the need to manually check for updates using a web browser. Akregator is designed to be both easy to use and to be powerful enough to read hundreds of news sources conveniently. It comes with a fast search, advanced archiving functionality and an internal browser for easy news reading. +1

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    Akregator screenshot 1
  13. BazQux Reader is a very fast RSS feed reader with simple and clean user interface.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    Google Reader-like list view
    Night theme
    List view on mobile
    +8
    Full width images on mobile
  14. Feedbro icon
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    Advanced Feed Reader - Read news & blogs or any RSS/Atom/RDF source. +1

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Microsoft Edge
    • Google Chrome
    • Firefox
    Feedbro has built-in integrations to various social media sites - even the ones that don't provide RSS natively like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter
    Feedbro screenshot 1
    Feedbro includes a powerful rule engine for automatic processing, highlighting etc.
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    Dark mode provided built-in
  15. It is free for Mac, Windows and Linux if you download it from GitHub, and it's paid ($2) for Android and iOS. +1

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    Fluent Reader screenshot 1
    Fluent Reader screenshot 1
  16. Liferea icon
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    Liferea is a web feed reader/news aggregator that brings together all of the content from your favorite subscriptions into a simple interface that makes it easy to organize and browse feeds. Its GUI is similar to a desktop mail/news client, with an embedded web browser.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
    Reading news feeds in an email client like interface.
    Hide read feeds from the subscription list.
    Three pane view mode for wide screens.
    +6
    Play SoundCloud music in Liferea.
  17. NetNewsWire is a news RSS aggregator for MacOS, iOS and iPadOS. +1

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    NetNewsWire screenshot 1
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    +7
    NetNewsWire screenshot 3
  18. NewsFlash icon
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    A modern feed reader designed for the GNOME desktop. NewsFlash is a program designed to complement an already existing web-based RSS reader account. +1

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
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  19. Reeder  icon
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    A news reader for the Mac with support for various sync services.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
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  20. ReadKit icon
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    ReadKit supports services from Pinboard and Delicious. Browse and manage your Pinboard and Delicious bookmarks with ReadKit. In addition, you can download and store the contents of these bookmarks locally.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    ReadKit screenshot 1
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    +10
    ReadKit screenshot 3
  21. RSS Guard icon
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    RSS Guard is simple, light and easy-to-use RSS/ATOM feed aggregator developed using Qt framework which supports online feed synchronization. +1

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    RSS Guard screenshot 1
    RSS Guard screenshot 1
  22. Free email application that’s easy to set up and customize - and it’s loaded with great features! It also supports RSS Feeds.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • AppImageHub
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • PortableApps.com
    • F-Droid
    • Haiku
    • Homebrew
    • Chocolatey
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  23. Vienna icon
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    Vienna is an RSS and Atom newsreader, packed with powerful features that help you make sense of the blogs and news.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    Vienna screenshot 1
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    Built-in Browser with Tabs & Feed Autodetection
    +3
    Vienna screenshot 3
  24. Vivaldi icon
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    Vivaldi Feed Reader helps you build a private news feed based on your interests, not what you do online. You can migrate from your current feed reader to Vivaldi by exporting your feed list in “OPML” format. Name the file feeds.xml. Open it in Vivaldi and away you go.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Snapcraft
    • Android Auto
    • Flathub
    • HUAWEI AppGallery
    • Samsung Galaxy Store
    The only web browser powerful enough for you!
    Vivaldi on desktop Welcome screen
    Vivaldi on desktop Speed Dial
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    Vivaldi v7.0 on desktop
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  25. Mobile app

  26. FeedMe icon
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    FeedMe is a simple and full featured offline RSS reader for Feedly, InoReader, Bazqux, The Older Reader, Feedbin, Tiny Tiny RSS, FreshRSS, Fever, aiming at providing the best user experience for users to read and manage your favorite articles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
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    +20
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  27. FocusReader is a clean (freemium with ads) modern, beautiful material design news & RSS reader application with a lot of great features.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    FocusReader screenshot 1
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  28. Newsify icon
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    Newsify caches articles and images from your feed, so that you can read without a WiFi or 3G connection. It integrates with Readability, Instapaper, Evernote, Buffer, Facebook, Twitter, and a multitude of other services for easy accessibility and sharing.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    Newsify screenshot 1
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  29. Feeder is a fully free/libre feed reader. It supports all common feed formats, including JSONFeed. It doesn't track you. It doesn't require any setup. It doesn't even need you to create an account! Just setup your feeds, or import them from your old reader via OPML, then get on with syncing and reading.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
    Feeder RSS feed reader screenshot 1
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    Feeder RSS feed reader screenshot 3
  30. Read You icon
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    This is a copy of Reeder, in order to give Android an RSS reader similar to Reeder, combines the interaction logic of Reeder with the design style of Material Design 3 (You).

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    Read You screenshot 1
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  31. Twine: A multiplatform RSS reader built using Kotlin and Compose

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
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  32. Web app (self-host)

  33. FreshRSS icon
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    FreshRSS is a free, self-hosted RSS aggregator. It is quite lightweight, fast (it can manage +100k articles without complaining) and powerful (e.g. shortcuts, filters, responsive design, multi-views, multi-themes, multi-users, statistics, provides a Google Reader API, etc.) +1

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
    Configuration page
    FreshRSS screenshot 1
  34. RSS Monster is an easy to use web-based RSS aggregator and reader compatible with the Fever API, created as an alternative for Google Reader.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    RSS Monster screenshot 1
  35. Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling as close to a real desktop application as possible.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Cloudron
    Tiny Tiny RSS screenshot 1
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Comments

David
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There's a new winner for me: Folo icon Folo, which is compatible with Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, Linux, and the web. It has an incredible interface and is free and open source. What more could you want?

David
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Thanks a lot! I would like to use NetNewsWire it is FOSS and looks very beautiful but it is only for macOS, and I only have Linux and Windows. Now I only use Inoreader icon Inoreader visiting as a web app on the desktop with select list of rss feeds.

I have tried many apps (except macos apps) and for me the best are: Inoreader (web + mobile app), Feedbro (web extension), Akregator, NewsFlash (Linux apps). Each app with a good interface, still maintained and free to use (Inoreader is freemium).

I like GUI apps easy to install and use, I don't like to self host an app on your own server (because you need to pay for the server and maintain it) and I don't like CLI apps because you can't navigate things easily.

RemovedUser
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I use NetNewsWire icon NetNewsWire on my mobile and Fluent Reader icon Fluent Reader on my desktop. Good list!

Review by a new / low-activity user.
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