Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (Unlicense)
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Self-Hosted
- GNU Emacs

Fluent Reader is described as 'It is free for Mac, Windows and Linux if you download it from GitHub, and it's paid ($2) for Android and iOS' and is a popular RSS Reader in the news & books category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Fluent Reader for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, iPhone, Android, iPad and Mac apps. The best Fluent Reader alternative is Feedly, which is free. Other great apps like Fluent Reader are Inoreader, FreshRSS, Feeder RSS feed reader and RSS Guard.

Get news by keywords or phrases any topic any person, anything. Right to your mobile newsfeed.




Snackr was built using Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR 1.0. It's an RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. When you see a title that looks interesting, you can click on it to pop up the item in a window.

Ridly is not only a replacement for Google Reader but also a brand new reading experience that is brought to you by the Reader+ development team.



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...


TICKR is GTK-based RSS READER application which displays RSS FEEDS in a TICKER bar on your desktop. With a single click, you get the latest headlines scrolling in a thin window on your desktop, as what can be seen on News TV channels.




NewsHub is one of the leading web-based news aggregators. It gathers all the latest and the most thrilling news so that you can easily stay up to date with the most essential updates in different industries.


MuzeRoom is a personalised feed of music news, new releases, and music videos - but only for the artists you like and listen to!.

Keep all your favorite news, blogs, and updates in clean feeds. No ads, no tracking, no distractions — just the stories that matter to you. With smart syncing, your content is always ready when you are.




R3R is a reader for RSS, ESF and Atom feeds. It has a simple GUI that gathers your subscribed feeds on startup and displays them into a single list.
