![]() ![]() You can’t add sites that the apps don’t carry. However, Google News and Apple News have drawbacks. Google News and Apple News both offer a variety of news sources, and can be a way of staying on top of events. One possible RSS reader alternative is using the built-in news apps on your mobile (and in Apple’s case, desktop) devices. Like NewsBlur, Inoreader offers free and paid tiers the free tier is ad-based and allows up to 150 feeds.Īlternative to RSS readers: Google News, Apple News “ RSS” by fczuardi is licensed under CC BY 2.0. A web-based RSS reader with iOS/Android apps. A self-hosted, open-source reader option that works with your web browser. The free tier has a 64 feed limit, while the paid tier starts at $36/year annually (for 1,000 feeds). A web-based reader with iOS/Android apps. Other RSS readers (cross-platform)īelow are readers I haven’t personally tried, but still seemed popular enough they were worth mentioning. If you want a reader you can also use on a mobile device (or computers running Windows or MacOS), you’ll have to look elsewhere. The only major drawback of Liferea is it’s limited to Linux desktop environments. It can even play podcasts if you want, though I’d go with a music player or standalone podcast program for that. ![]() Like NetNewsWire, it’s open source and free, and offers plenty of features. Still, if you’re an Apple device user who wants to buy a reader (instead of using a free option or paying for a subscription), Reeder is probably your best choice. Reeder costs $10 for the Mac version, or $5 for the iOS version. ![]() Like NetNewsWire, it offers a large number of features, including iCloud syncing, support for third-party RSS services, and more. Reeder is a paid RSS reader that’s well designed. Android or Windows users will want to look into another RSS reader instead. NetNewsWire also offers the ability to import Feedly accounts into it, which is useful if you’re switching services.Īgain, the only downside is NetNewsWire is limited to Apple devices. With it, I can switch between my iPhone and Mac easily. One useful feature for iCloud users is the ability to sync between Apple devices. It’s also the reader I use on my devices. It takes full advantage of MacOS/iOS features, is easy to use, free, and is open source based. NetNewsWire is my recommended RSS reader for Apple device users. Thus, I’ve removed it from my recommendations list. As of this writing, Feedly took down its blog post advertising the service after facing backlash a screenshot’s available here. However, recently they’ve made some questionable decisions, including advertising an AI service as a way for companies to track protesters or striking workers. Update: A previous version of this post recommended Feedly. Users have full control over what sites they follow.įavorite RSS readers NetNewsWire. Contrast that to closed platforms like Spotify, which don’t allow adding podcasts they don’t carry. For instance, podcasts traditionally are just RSS feeds to an MP3 file, so podcast players can run on anything. RSS works on everything, so it doesn’t matter what device or operating system you use. ![]() It’s also not locked to a specific platform, unlike Apple News. This means, like email or HTML, anyone can use it, and it can’t be bought out or eliminated by questionable wealthy interests (or “spring cleaned” in Google Reader’s case). RSS is a non-proprietary, open standard.No algorithms or “fake news.” You’ll always get a chronological feed of all posts from a site, and you can subscribe to reputable sources (versus Fox News or Breitbart).Advantages of RSS feeds and readersīack in 2018 I wrote about the advantages of RSS. Below, I look at a few of my favorite RSS readers. Even with Google Reader gone, other readers still exist. (Especially given, as of this writing, Twitter’s chaotic state.) While Google Reader’s demise years ago has led many to write off RSS feeds, they’re still a basic part of Web infrastructure, and included with most sites by default. RSS readers still exist as a way to keep up with the news. ![]()
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