RSS readers allow you to collect the articles of specific sources in one app, making it a lot easier to find the content you’re interested in without crawling through a lot of noise. RSS (which may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, or one of several other possibilities — nobody seems sure) has been around a while, having been first developed in 1999, although it wasn’t more widely adopted until a few years later.
Feedly, Inoreader, Feeder, Newsblur, Feedbin.
Thanks for the summary! More articles should be concise and more “complete” (e.g. mentioning alternatives like NetNewsWire or Vivaldi’s integrated RSS reader, as mentioned in other comments here).
Unfortunately, so many news sites (and see cooking recipe sites as an example) bloat their articles so they can appear more frequently in search results :(
Is this list available as an rss feed?
Really surprised NetNewsWire did not make this list. Free as in beer and FOSS, and it’s been around for ages
probably because it’s limited to the Apple ecosystem.
Still using feedly since the google reader death, I just hate how browsers stopped doing RSS natively, it was great having the little folders of the sites I love right in the bookmarks bar.
Feedly is still good for me! No maintenance needed and can access it from any device. I like the keyboard shortcuts on desktop too, for rapidly going through articles.
Self hosted tiny tiny RSS for me with Android and iOS clients.
Self hosted FreshRSS is what I’ve been using, it’s very good.
Am I the only one who didn’t want another background service so I just wired a local Feedpushr instance to direct entries to my existing Gotify instance?
I mean, it works fine until some asshole puts HTML that their parser can’t understand in the content section but then you just need to read between the tags…
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I use this as well, have mail/feeds enabled in Vivaldi with no mail accounts added. Then I just removed the mail and calendar icons from my toolbar, and now have a decent feed reader without showing things I don’t use.
That being said - I definitely accidentally deleted all my feeds at once in Vivaldi when trying to erase all received news stories. I’d recommend backing up the main Vivaldi config file somewhere occasionally!
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It’s sad how there’s basically no good local RSS readers anymore, only paid subscription based ones or self-host solutions. At least on Windows that is.
Fluent Reader. I use it with freshrss myself but it is just as good using it fully local.
Fluent Reader would be perfect if it could start on log on and run in the background, but the dev seems to not care about that so…
Just paste a shortcut inside the startup folder? Type shell:startup in the explorer address bar.
After Google reader died and feedly became a subscription I said never again and just started self hosting my own. Currently using fresh rss and have used tiny tiny rss, both are excellent options.
Is Feedly a subscription? I don’t pay for it. Do you have to pay after a certain number of feeds or something?
