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. CommaFeed icon
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    Google Reader inspired self-hosted RSS reader, based on JAX-RS, Wicket and AngularJS.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker Hub
    • YunoHost
     
  2. Den for RSS icon
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    Create custom landscape views of what's happening with a fast and modern news aggregator.

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  3. NewsFlash icon
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    A modern feed reader designed for the GNOME desktop. NewsFlash is a program designed to complement an already existing web-based RSS reader account.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  4. FeedCord icon
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    FeedCord is a dead-simple RSS Reader designed to integrate seamlessly with Discord. With just a few configuration steps, you can have a news feed text channel up and running in your server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  5. Raven Reader icon
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    Offline ready desktop RSS Reader without any distractions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. FeedMe icon
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    FeedMe is a simple and full featured offline RSS reader for Feedly, InoReader, Bazqux, The Older Reader, Feedbin, Tiny Tiny RSS, FreshRSS, Fever, aiming at providing the best user experience for users to read and manage your favorite articles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  7. NewsNinja icon
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    AI powered RSS reader.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • visionOS
     
  8. Akregator icon
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    Akregator is a news feed reader. It enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites without the need to manually check for updates using a web browser. Akregator is designed to be both easy to use and to be powerful enough to read hundreds of news...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
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    RSS Reader extension for Chrome & Firefox. Smart RSS Fork.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mozilla Firefox
     
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    Comments about Smart RSS [Fork] as an Alternative to Brief
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    No sub-folder supported. This is a deal-killer for an alternative to Brief.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Smart RSS [Fork] is Free and Open SourceBrief is also Free and Open Source
  10. Fraidycat icon
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    Fraidycat is a browser extension for following folks on a variety of platforms. But rather than showing you a traditional 'inbox' or 'feed' view of all the incoming posts - Fraidycat braces itself against this unbridled firehose!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Firefox
     
  11. Feeds icon
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    Feeds is a desktop RSS reader for Linux. It doesn’t integrate or sync with a cloud-based service, but you can import a list of feeds via an .opml file.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
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