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. NewsFire icon
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    Simple to use and packed with features, NewsFire makes it a joy to keep atop the constant flow of information on the web.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  2. BlogBridge icon
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    BlogBridge is an open source Java-based feed aggregator.

    BlogBridge is aimed for those people who are subscribed to many feeds, including journalists, PR professionals and OPML enthusiasts.

    BlogBridge also gives users the option to create an account with the free "BlogBr.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Read where you write! Bring your feed reader into the wordpress admin. You can blog directly from Orbital and publish to your WordPress site.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Wordpress
     
  4. D7 Reader icon
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    D7 Reader is a simple, fast and powerful RSS client for Android, lets you to access your reading list and manage your subscriptions with ease from a native application, which is always in sync with the chosen reader service.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  5. News Worm icon
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    News Worm is a simple, yet usable news aggregator for Windows. It has a practical and well designed user interface which stays out of the way.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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    NorthReader is an RSS feed reader created with love and determination of progression in a pioneer world of digital media.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  7. SwarmIQ icon
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    SwarmIQ is a Web-based Feed Aggregator that helps users manage, monitor and curate their RSS feeds with a set of compelling free and premium tools.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Android
     
  8. xFeed icon
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    The fastest, leanest, most user friendly feed reader for the iPhone and iPad!

    xFeed helps you gather all of your favorite news, sports, blogs or whatever and makes them simple to import, customize and view. Once you have your favorite sites saved you can enjoy how quick and eas.

    180 xFeed alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  9. RSS Savvy icon
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    Follow your favorite News, Sport, Technology, Entertainment sites in a single, snappy app, organized by you, drawn directly from the websites you follow. Be up and running in seconds with no understanding of RSS required.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
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    "After Google Reader retired I found "Spase rss" which I modfied for my needs".

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  11. Sparse RSS icon
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    Sparse rss is a very simple and basic RSS reader for Android 1.5 or later. It includes a desktop widget.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
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    Readefine Desktop is an AIR app which uses Flex, creating a really nice, clean layout for your RSS / Google Reader feeds, text or HTML content. Read content in a book like multi-column layout and tweak settings like justification, column width...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Adobe AIR
     
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