Brief Alternatives

Brief is described as 'Light-weight feed reading extension for Mozilla Firefox . Designed to be easy to use and streamlined, with exactly the right set of features' and is a popular RSS Reader in the news & books category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Brief for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, Mac and iPad apps. The best Brief alternative is Feedly, which is free. Other great apps like Brief are Inoreader, FreshRSS, Feeder RSS feed reader and RSS Guard.

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  1. Newsprompt icon
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    Chrome extension to read breaking news and personalized articles in browser's new tab. It gathers news across 1000s of sources, learns your reading habits and recommends articles based on your profile and topics you are interested in.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
     
  2. PaperOak icon
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    PaperOak is a free RSS aggregator to read the hottest news, blogs, articles, and feeds on the internet. With active news updates to our servers from the many RSS feeds every minute, there is never a shortage of interesting feeds to read.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Android
     
  3. RSS Captor icon
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    RSS Captor is an easy-to-use RSS client with a three-pane interface. Feeds are listed on the left, a list of stories on the top right, and details on the lower right. Tabs offer quick access to sections where you can set up folders for automatically saved messages and manually...

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  4. Pulp icon
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    Pulp is a unique and innovative news reader that turns your favourite news sites into your own personalized newspaper, making scanning through the news quicker and more enjoyable than ever before. By putting multiple news feeds onto a single page, Pulp lets you quickly browse...

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPad
     
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    Clusterss is a web content dashboard designed for people who consume lots of information. It presents a rolling window of pages from your feed, grouping closely related items together. Browser notifications are provided for new items that relate to previously bookmarked pages.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. Canto icon
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    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  7. ReadHQ icon
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    All your favorite feeds in one place.

    ReadHQ is a new RSS reader which allows you to import, add, manage, organize and enjoy your feeds. ReadHQ has:

    • Simple Pricing
    • Innovative Features
    • Fast, realtime
    • Private
    • Readable, beautiful.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  8. Slow Feeds icon
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    Slow Feeds: Rediscover your feeds with this unique and smart RSS client for iOS.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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    SFR is a free, full-featured RSS, RDF and ATOM news reader. Manage your news automatically with smart filtering, organize Feeds Groups by any criteria you choose – music, sport, movies and international news, and rate the most interesting readings.

    168 Smart Feed Reader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  10. Bundle News icon
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    Get news by source, topic or breaking news from push notifications.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • Android Wear
     
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