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. RSS Bandit icon
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    RSS Bandit is a standalone reader that has many attractive features, allowing a user to merge news headlines from multiple sources onto a single page, and organize articles based on keyword, read/unread status, and date.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  2. moonmoon icon
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    Moonmoon is a web based aggregator similar to Planet . It can be used to blend articles from different blogs with same interests into a single page.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. ReaderBlocks icon
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    Browser based rss feed reader.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    BerryVine RSS Reader is an extremely useful application for easy RSS reading. Stay up to date with all your favorite RSS feeds and read about news, sports, science, entertainment and whatever is out there. Once you start using it, you won't go back!

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Blackberry
     
  5. Lector icon
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    Read your news with a no-frills experience, and a blazing-fast reader.

    Unlimited

    There are no restrictions on how many feeds you can subscribe to. The only limit is how much information you can handle.

    Readability

    Clean, simple, straight to the point interface. Our main goal.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  6. evalRSS icon
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    evalRSS is a social RSS aggregator. Follow your favorite websites and discuss posts with the community.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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    "Read: a simple RSS reader. Read designed to be fast, beautiful and easy to use. We designed it to be simple, without complicated menus. Oh, and Read will be free (and ad-free) forever!".

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  8. Pulp RSS icon
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    Pulp provides a workflow focused on reading through an excessive number of RSS feeds with the goal of regularly marking all read, resting in a state akin to an empty inbox.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
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    Weekly Dashboard is a powerful reader and feed aggregator in the form of customizable dashboards.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  10. ShareRace icon
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    ShareRace helps everyone to be more informed by providing a social news reader with a ranking system which shows the most relevant news in dozens of news feeds to give everyone an overview about the news.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Followall icon
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    Mix the most popular posts from any site into a infinite scrollable feed that you control. Amplify your favourite social media sites, blogs, RSS feeds and any other sites you can think of by votes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  12. Pulsefeed icon
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    Pulsefeed is an RSS reader on steroids. We use your favorite topics, social accounts & websites to build you a personalized magazine which is full of fresh, interesting content. And it takes less than minute to setup... Supports OpenID Login.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
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