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. Rosselo icon
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    Simple beautiful web-based dashboard for all your RSS newsfeeds. It's simple and handy, neat, focused on oversight ability and empowers you to effectively pick up the articles you are truly interested in, even from an incredible number of sources.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    JustReader is fast, customizable and easy-to-use RSS Reader client for Android. There are two versions: free and pro.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  3. Yandex Zen icon
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    Zen searches the internet for content that will interest you — articles, news, and video — and displays it in a personalized feed on the start screens of Yandex.Browser and Yandex Launcher.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
     
  4.  3 likes
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    newsrdr is a Web based RSS/Atom news reader that allows you to follow the latest news from your favorite websites in one place.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    The application allows you to quickly aggregate information from various sources, enabling you to have all the news grouped and organized in one place. Unlike social networks, where article priority is determined by algorithms, in this app, news remains in chronological order.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  6. Drop Feeds icon
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    Displays a sidebar that lets you manage your RSS feeds in a folder tree view in Firefox 57+. A "Legacy" theme is available to have look close to "Sage".

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Firefox
     
  7. Newspeye icon
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    Get news by keywords or phrases any topic any person, anything. Right to your mobile newsfeed.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Windows Phone
     
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    Feed On Feeds is a server-based RSS aggregator written in PHP. It provides a simple firehose-style interface with the capability of filtering on tags and individual sites.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  9. Rnews icon
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    Rnews is a server-side feed aggregator that can manage your hundreds of RSS and Atom feeds. It is:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  10. RSS Bot icon
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    RSS Bot is your perfect companion to keep up to date with all of your RSS feeds in a simple, sleek and friendly manner.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  11. MiniRSS icon
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    A simple yet capable RSS reader designed specifically for the Apple Watch.

    Log in with your The Old Reader account and start reading!

    Supports glances to see how many unread items are in your RSS queue and from what sources.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • Apple Watch
     
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