1 yr. ago • 97%

Favourite RSS reader?

Looking to get back into RSS feeds, what are your favourite readers? I used to use Feedly years ago, still a good option?

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Feeder is my choice on Android anyway.

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- The decentralized cross-device sync works surprisingly well! It's a great app with no ads, minimal but attractive UI, a nice reader mode. The closest successor to Press reader.
  
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  It also supports MaterialYou color theming, which always a nice addition to any app.
  
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- Same. Works exactly how a RSS reader should.
  
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- How does it compare to feedly? It's got great reviews.
  
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  I havent used feedly so i have no idea
  
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Inoreader

Has a feature-set that is unrivaled.

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- This looks really interesting! Do you know of any concerning limitations of the free version anyone should be aware of?
  
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  Their free is pretty much just "you get to use a very limited amount of our features, to try em out" and the limited amount is still pretty generous.
  
  I've been using them for a very long time, since before the free was actually an option, and have to say they're absolutely the best RSS aggregator I've found
  
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Small shout for FreshRSS.

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- Big shout for FreshRSS. No issues with privacy (you self-host on a simple PHP/MySQL server), and you can do as many filters as you like (instead of paying for it on feedly). then get an android reader like FeedMe that supports the FreshRSS stream and you're golden!
  
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  Just did this exact setup last week. Loving it.
  
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  Fwiw, I'm pretty sure mine is just SQLite db. I set it up a bit ago but don't remember a big db install. Granted it's mainly me and just a couple others at most so that should be fine.
  
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Read You looks beautiful

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FeedMe

It's the most feature full and compatible with miniflux for syncing

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.seazon.feedme

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- +1 for FeedMe
  
  Would love to switch to feeder which is open source but the following are preventing me from switching :
  
  as soon as an article is marked as read it is removed from articles list. FeedMe only remove it when switching tag / folder
  
  can't lock an article as unread. You can save one but it's less convenient
  
  can't customize swipe gestures
  
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Self hosted Tiny Tiny RSS instance with the Tiny Tiny RSS for Android app. Works really well and never had any issues.

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https://f-droid.org/packages/me.ash.reader/

Read You is a beautiful app with material you design. Works great, but the tiny thumbnails, and the fact that not all thumbnails load (whereas in Feeder they do) is my major point of complaint. Still I like using it.

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- This app made me use RSS on mobile again
  
  Good UI
  It can retrieve the whole article if only a preview is available
  Freshrss sync
  
  It's a copy of Reeder on iOS
  
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Quite fond of Innoreader

Works well on PC and mobile.

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Hands down my favorite right now is this website where you can setup feeds to send you the entire article into your email. You can also do digests of a weeks or days worth of rss feeds. It's super reliable and just perfect for my use case.

My referral link: https://feedmail.org/user/new?referrer=150

Normal link: Https://feedmail.org

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Feedly, but only because it has a web browser URL I can use if I want. I'd have probably gone for a FOSS solution otherwise.

Come to think of it, that's also the only reason I use Google Keep. Maybe I should look at self hosting...

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Read You is my choice

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Will leave this one up but would just flag rule 2 in the sidebar. !askandroid@lemdro.id is the place for questions - thanks!

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NewsBlur. The "full article text" feature is excellent.

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- I like that the Android app is open source and available on F-Droid and that self hosting is an option, so I pay for premium so I don't have to deal with the hassle of self hosting while I support the developer!
  
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  An excellent choice. I do the same with Home Assistant - I COULD set up a wireguard/Tail scale connection to HA, but Nabu Casa works great and supports the developers so they can do more cool stuff like voice assistants so I can finally get rid of the AmazonEars in my house.
  
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I love feedly. It works great.

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Feeder

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I use Feedly on both iPad, Android and PC, it’s simple, it syncs across all my devices, it is nice and it covers all my needs.

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I'm also looking for an RSS reader, privacy friendly and with notifications. Any suggestion?

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- I use ReadYou. Has more features and easier to understand than Feeder (at least for me).
  
  Requires no permissions (except enabling notifications), can use local (on device) accounts. Only requires RSS links, no other data.
  
  Supports notifications, have not tried it. Also likely requires background refresh, which I don't use, so don't know about that.
  
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On desktop, Feedbro (for webcomics) and Livemarks (for news) in Firefox.

On mobile, Feeder.

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I use Feedly but many websites only show a extract and I need to go direct to their website, I'm guessing this is a limitation impsoed by site owners... Is there any "perfect client" for this?

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- Some readers like Feeder allow you to click into the article with a simplified Reader view. Next best thing to having the full content in the RSS entry itself
  
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  Man, I keep hearing good stuff about Feeder, I might actually move from Feedly to that one lol, is there like an easy migration tool?
  
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I have a self-hosted Nextcloud instance, and I use the Nextcloud News app on Android.

Works really well. There's also Inoreader, which is really good. There's also a couple of good ones on F-Droid that you can check out.

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I've been using FocusReader for a while now to sync with my self hosted RSS provider (FreshRSS), works great and is under active development.

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- Yeah, FocusReader is my current goto as well. Works great on mobile, and pretty well on a (9") tablet. Clean UI. And syncs with Inoreader.
  
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Must admit I'm perfectly happy with the free tier of feedly.

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Feedly is still pretty good. You can also look into Inoreader.

I personally use FeedMe and Read You with my selfhosted FressRSS and RSS-bridge servers.

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I'm still using Feedly. But I don't know if is a bad idea (speaking of privacy).

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I've only ever used Feedly and it does what I want it to do.

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Commafeed
free and open source, web-based, can be self-hosted
When Google Reader died, I went to search for it's alternatives, and Commafeed was the only one that used 100% of screen width.

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I use NewsFlash.

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I've been using Palabre for years. It's an app for Feedly but so much better than the official app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.levelup.palabre

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- This is my choice as well. Sadly it has long since stopped getting updates - while basic RSS features will always work, hoping Feedly integration keeps working.
  
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  True, I wouldn't know which app to use if it ever breaks.
  
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Flym. The development stopped in 2020 but it's still the best one for me.

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- Seconded. Open source. No login required.
  
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I use simplerssreader.com. Reminds me of Google Reader

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Livemarks Add-on for Firefox since I spend most of my time in the browser anyway.

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Feedly. Been using em daily since the day Google Reader went arse-up.

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For years I've used Feedly, but recently tried "Feeder" on Android. I like the minimalist and no ad aspects. Even better it has a "fetch full article" function that works even for some paywalled sites. - downside is no website.

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Nextcloud News - the Nextcloud RSS reader

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I really like Pluma, but it looks like that the dev just abandoned it

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- It received an update two months ago, i don't think it's abandoned.
  
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  From what I saw, the updates are just rare and occasional bug corrections, but never new features.
  
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  I don't use it a lot, but I like Pluma too.
  
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Feedbro has a simple and customizable UI and supports both Chrome and Firefox.

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