Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Unlicense)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- GNU Emacs

BirdReader is described as 'Birdreader - Home-made, Open-source Google Reader replacement powered by Node.js and CouchDB (Cloudant)' and is a RSS Reader in the news & books category. There are more than 100 alternatives to BirdReader for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, Windows, Mac and iPhone apps. The best BirdReader alternative is Feedly, which is free. Other great apps like BirdReader are Inoreader, Feeder RSS feed reader, Fluent Reader and RSS Guard.

NewsFox is an efficient 3-pane(email) style Atom/RSS feed reader. NewsFox allows you to group your feeds as you wish, read feed content offline, update feeds when you want, 1-click subscribe with the Firefox URL bar icon, and read other feeds while updating.

Photon is an RSS/Atom reader with the focus on speed, usability, and a bit of UNIX philosophy.


Yoleo is an RSS feed reader. Free for all, but allows a donation to ensure that development continues.

Palabre is an all in one news app, acclaimed as the best user experience as a Feedly reader, a RSS Reader, Google News (Google Reader) and has gotten really good press.
Feeds is a new type of Feed-reader that learns what you like using an on-device AI. It can generate feeds from most news-like websites, and updates when there are new articles. It also supports RSS, Atom and JSON-feed. Also has widget!







Next Generation Content Discovery Platform where People can discover new and interesting content from around the web also users can share their stories with everyone.



Canto is an Atom/RSS feed reader for the console that is meant to be quick, concise, and colorful. It's meant to allow you to crank through feeds like you've never cranked before by providing a minimal, yet information packed interface. No navigating menus.

KrISS feed is a simple and smart (or stupid) feed reader. To see an online example: http://tontof.net/feed Feel free to contribute: https://github.com/tontof/kriss_feed.




Snackr was built using Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR 1.0. It's an RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. When you see a title that looks interesting, you can click on it to pop up the item in a window.

TTRSS-Reader is a client application for the project Tiny Tiny RSS , a PHP-based online feedreader which runs on your own webspace. If you want to host your own feedreader, want a cross-device-solution and don't want to use...



