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. FeedHQ icon
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    FeedHQ is a simple, lightweight web-based feed reader. Main features: User-facing features

    RSS and ATOM support Grouping by categories Awesome pagination and intelligent browsing Great readability on all screen sizes (smatphones, tablets and desktops) Mobile-.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  2. TTRSS-Reader icon
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    TTRSS-Reader is a client application for the project Tiny Tiny RSS , a PHP-based online feedreader which runs on your own webspace. If you want to host your own feedreader, want a cross-device-solution and don't want to use...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
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    Do you want to read your news using RSS & Atom feeds in the most efficient (compact grid), no-nonsense way, with no requirement to setup or use an existing service account? If you do, Heartfeed might be the app for you.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  4. Fresh Reader icon
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    Fresh Reader is a web-based, server type RSS and Atom feed reader. You can download and install it into your server or PC, just extract the downloaded file to the folder where your web server can get access.

    Runs fast in your hands

    Fresh Reader runs on your server or PC, which.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Agr Reader icon
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    Agr Reader is a minimalist, elegant Material3-styled RSS reader that offers extensive customization options and a range of powerful features for an enhanced, personalized reading experience.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
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    Feeds is a new type of Feed-reader that learns what you like using an on-device AI. It can generate feeds from most news-like websites, and updates when there are new articles. It also supports RSS, Atom and JSON-feed. Also has widget!

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once or Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  7. Journalist icon
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    journalist is a lightweight daemon and CLI written in Go, focused on simplicity and integrability. As usually, I chose GO because it’s simply the quickest way to put things like these together, and it gives a statically-linked, single a.out in the end.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • NetBSD
    • OpenBSD
     
  8. Newsflow icon
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    Newsflow brings all news of your favorite websites in one place, so you don't have to spend time on web browsing any more, you'll always be in touch with the latest news and articles from around the world.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Windows Mobile
     
  9. Geekttrss icon
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    Geekttrss is an Tiny Tiny Rss reader application with transparent offline mode for the Android platform.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  10. Sismics Reader icon
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    Looking for a simple and open feed reader?

    Free, open source, easy to use, Sismics Reader is what you need to keep your feeds under control.

    Central

    Access all your RSS and Atom feeds in one central easy readable place.

    Easy

    Sismics Reader can be installed in few steps on al.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Omea Reader icon
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    Omea Reader is a free and easy to use RSS reader, NNTP news reader, and web bookmark manager. It's fast, it aggregates, and it keeps you organized. Check out the additional features: lightning-fast desktop search, flexible information organizer, contextual access, and quick...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. Byline Reader icon
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    Read the latest news from your favorite sites and blogs on your iPhone or iPod Touch, even when you’re offline.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
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