Glean Alternatives

Glean is described as 'Self-hosted tool for reading RSS and Atom feeds in a distraction-free view with multi-level folders, tags, auto-filtering, Read Later option, and 15-minute background sync' and is a RSS Reader in the news & books category. There are more than 50 alternatives to Glean for a variety of platforms, including Android, iPhone, Mac, Web-based and iPad apps. The best Glean alternative is Feedly, which is free. Other great apps like Glean are Inoreader, FreshRSS, Feeder RSS feed reader and Fluent Reader.

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  1. Pétrolette icon
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    Pétrolette is a news reading home page, Free, Libre, and Open-Source Software. It is immediately usable without registration with the same URL on the desktop or a mobile device.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  2. selfoss icon
     47 likes

    selfoss is a multipurpose RSS reader and feed aggregation web application. It allows you to easily follow updates from different websites, social networks and other platforms, all in a single place. It is written in PHP, allowing you to run it basically anywhere.

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    Application types

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Feeds icon
     3 likes

    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

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  4. RSSOwlnix icon
     13 likes

    RSSOwlnix is a fork of RSSOwl a powerful application to organize, search and read your RSS, RDF & Atom news feeds in a comfortable way. Highlights are saved searches, google reader sync, notifications, filters, fast fulltext search and...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Lire icon
     2 likes

    RSS feeds are an effective way to follow updates on your preferred website. However, some websites only show a portion of each entry in their feeds, prompting you to visit their actual website. Unlike other RSS feed readers that either direct you to a browser or require you to...

    Cost / License

    • Pay once
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  6. BazQux Reader icon
     112 likes

    BazQux Reader is a very fast RSS feed reader with simple and clean user interface.

    Cost / License

    • Subscription
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Flym icon
     17 likes

    Flym News Reader is a light, modern, totally free (no ads) and opensource project which keeps you inform by fetching your websites/blogs and displaying them in a mobile-optimized way.

    213 Flym alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  8. 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
     
  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. Velox Reader icon
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    Velox Reader - An open source RSS reader with no account needed. Feeds are saved locally and it works offline! It's also a PWA, so you can install it on your phone by tapping the share button and then "add to home...

    Cost / License

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. Yomu is the RSS reader born to the concept "which looks through all the reports single hand". In the list screen which carried out the form of the palette, a site can be crossed and a report can be read.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  12. 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, .

    206 Feedspot alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
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