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 Monster icon
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    RSS Monster is an easy to use web-based RSS aggregator and reader compatible with the Fever API, created as an alternative for Google Reader.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. Handy News Reader is a free no-ads RSS reader for reading offline contents from RSS feeds or web sites without RSS feeds.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  3. Photon icon
     1 like

    Photon is an RSS/Atom reader with the focus on speed, usability, and a bit of UNIX philosophy.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  4. Vienna icon
     36 likes

    Vienna is an RSS and Atom newsreader, packed with powerful features that help you make sense of the flood of information that is distributed via these formats today.

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  5. Feedspot icon
     165 likes

    A great alternative to Google Reader. Offers awesome productivity features like Search, RSS feeds for your starred items, tags & folder. You can share on X, .

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  6. Newsdrop icon
     2 likes

    Newsdrop is a smart news curation app for iPhone and Apple Watch. It is based around minimalist news summaries crafted to deliver the maximum amount of information with minimal reading effort required from the end-user.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
     
  7. Awasu icon
     7 likes

    Awasu is a state-of-the-art feed reader that comes loaded with features for both casual personal use and professional, high-powered information management.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  8. Mr. Reader icon
     6 likes

    Mr. Reader is a powerful RSS News Reader for your iPad that synchronizes with popular services. Due to the large article preview and image thumbnails, it is easy to read only the articles you are interested in.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • iPad
     
  9. "An Otter RSS Reader" is the world's newest most okayest RSS reader with a high key adorable otter icon!

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  10. Want My RSS icon
     2 likes

    An extension for Firefox that restores some of RSS functionality which Firefox abandoned. Functionality includes:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Firefox
     
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