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. Liferea icon
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    Liferea is a web feed reader/news aggregator that brings together all of the content from your favorite subscriptions into a simple interface that makes it easy to organize and browse feeds.

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    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  2. Serial Tube icon
     16 likes

    A snappy, customizable video feed. Designed to show you exactly the content you want to see and nothing else.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  3. Read You icon
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    This is a copy of Reeder, in order to give Android an RSS reader similar to Reeder, combines the interaction logic of Reeder with the design style of Material Design 3 (You).

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    • Android
     
  4. Twine is a beautifully crafted RSS reader app. Access all of your favorite feeds in a single app.

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    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
     
  5. Tapestry icon
     13 likes

    Tapestry weaves your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  6. Bulletin is a beautiful RSS news reader app built with macOS design guidelines in mind, and supercharged with powerful AI capabilities.

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    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • Apple Watch
    • visionOS
     
  7. Folo icon
     9 likes

    As they say, your thoughts are what you read—and we’ve been consuming noisy feeds for too long! Follow organizes content into one timeline, keeping you updated on what matters, noise-free. Share lists, explore collections, and enjoy distraction-free browsing.

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Homebrew
     
  8. FeedDeck icon
     16 likes

    FeedDeck is an open source RSS and social media feed reader, inspired by TweetDeck. FeedDeck allows you to follow your favorite feeds in one place on all platforms.

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    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  9. Feedbin icon
     212 likes

    Feedbin is a modern web reader to follow websites, Twitter feeds and email newsletters in one place. It boasts a clean interface, is ad-free, and costs $5/month.

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    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Online
    • iPhone
    • Self-Hosted
    • ReadKit
    • FeedMe
    • Slow Feeds
    • Reeder
    • NetNewsWire
     
  10. Fusion RSS icon
     8 likes

    A lightweight, self-hosted friendly RSS aggregator and reader.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  11. Glean icon
     5 likes

    Self-hosted reader for RSS and Atom feeds offering a distraction-free view, multi-level folder and tag organization, Read Later support, external link saving, auto cleanup, automatic filtering, and background sync every 15 minutes to manage your reading.

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    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
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