Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

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I use Inoreader for a while, but know it started to limit subscriptions, or switch to payed version, do you know a good free alternative ?

Dotnaught• 7 years ago

I wrote one I like, but I was looking for a specific use-case. https://github.com/Dotnaught/vulture-feeds

cyberpanther• 7 years ago

https://www.inoreader.com/

orschiro• 7 years ago

Feedly and Blogtrottr.

kencausey• 7 years ago

https://newsblur.com/

xpil• 7 years ago

Tried gazillions of them, NewsBlur is the best (unless you need some fancy pants features like tiles or whatever).

Killer feature for me is the ability to group your feeds then making them availale via separate rss channels.

The mobile client is also pretty damn good.

WorldMaker• 7 years ago

Newsblur did add (somewhat recently) a "tiles" like view for graphic/image blogs to the web version. Newsblur might not always be the fastest at picking up hip new features, but I find that Samuel is pretty reliable about eventually adding the "greatest hits" of what everybody else has been doing.

It's also open source for those that want to try to directly contribute code fixes/ideas, but I've rarely felt that need. I'm happy enough just paying the Premium subscription every year and knowing that suggestions on the forums (used to be UserVoice, now is Discourse) get responses pretty quick.

jszymborski2• 7 years ago

I'd really like a way to "shuffle" stories, such that if, say, CNN pushes out 10 stories and the Guardian pushes out 10 stories 15m later, that the order of presentation shuffles the two of them instead of just showing one source.

Also, link deduplication, because sometimes articles from the e.g. the CNN Politics RSS overlap with the CNN US RSS

JeffDClark• 7 years ago

I have been using NewsBlur for years (ever since Google killed Reader). I quite like it.

beagle3• 7 years ago

Another vote for newsblur (not affiliated, just a satisfied paying customer).

Other than being a generally well-designed feed reader, my favorite feature is that you can configure it - on a feed by feed basis - to render the post website itself (which it trims down to the specific post), rather than the snippet - so with (at most) one click per subscribed feed, I read all the articles inside my feed reader, whether the RSS feed contains an entire article or just a snippet + "click here for more".

bjnord• 7 years ago

I'm a happy Newsblur subscriber. The developer has continued to extend and improve it since the days when he was suddenly mobbed by Google Reader refugees like me. It's got great uptime, I've hardly ever had an issue with it.

onnnon2• 7 years ago

ViennaRSS

https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss

mstroeck• 7 years ago

I was the lead dev for Vienna for several years, and it still feels great to see a shout-out like this. Glad you enjoy it :-)

jsilence• 7 years ago

Used and loved it back when I was on OSX. Thank you for your work! Much appreciated!

onnnon2• 7 years ago

I use it every day, so thank you!

henrymazza• 7 years ago

Feedly

hjek• 7 years ago

Thunderbird

jcantero• 7 years ago

liferea - https://lzone.de/liferea/

avian• 7 years ago

TheOldReader

ksec• 7 years ago

Feedly, it is free with small ads ( I do wish they highlight the ads in different colour though ).

I still wish there is an RSS Reader within Safari. Since all my bookmarks are synced to iCloud, there is no reason why my list of RSS feeds can't live within my iCloud as well.

jweather• 7 years ago

Another vote for Feedly... it imported my Google Reader list ages ago and checks that box well enough for my tastes. I don't remember seeing any ads in it - maybe I'm ad-blind by now, or maybe uBlock is taking care of that for me.

MivLives• 7 years ago

The Oldreader.

I don't have enough feeds to need their pro tier.

I am probably going to write my own soon for practice.

wtdata• 7 years ago

FreshRss installed as a docker container in my local little server.

altmind• 7 years ago

bazqux.com - it tries to mimic old google reader closely, have very compact ui, support hotkeys and loads comments inline. written by 1 guy in haskell/urweb. unfortunately its not free.

x0re4x• 7 years ago

Slick RSS (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/slick-rss/ealjoljn...)

pndy• 7 years ago

Feedly via Nextgen Reader for majority of news and Foxish live RSS in Vivaldi to mimic Firefox live bookmarks, for local general news

skishor• 7 years ago

Newsboat (open source) https://newsboat.org

JohnFen• 7 years ago

What I do is a bit elaborate, and probably isn't for everyone. I run Tiny Tiny RSS on my home web server. It aggregates all of the RSS feeds that I'm interested in, then provides them as one or more RSS feeds that it generates (which I read with gReader on Android) or in a decent web interface (which I use when I'm not using a mobile device).

bzg• 7 years ago

GNU Emacs + Gnus, using http://gwene.org to convert RSS feeds into newsgroups.

thibaultamartin• 7 years ago

I use Nextcloud’s News app. On iOS I read it directly from my instance as it is responsive. On Android I used the Nextcloud News Android app from F-Droid

jks• 7 years ago

Miniflux (https://github.com/miniflux) has a paid version but you can host it yourself

nikivi• 7 years ago

I use Inoreader with Reeder.

https://github.com/nikitavoloboev/knowledge/blob/master/rese...

johnjones4• 7 years ago

I built a bare-bones one for myself a while back: https://github.com/johnjones4/FeedPage/ All you need to use it is a link to an OPML file with your feeds and Docker. Here's what my OPML file looks like: https://gist.github.com/johnjones4/0fd1b1b47d62d826164bea990...

callmekit• 7 years ago

Akregator

bhhaskin• 7 years ago

Tiny Tiny RSS https://tt-rss.org/ I host it myself and love it.

stevekemp• 7 years ago

Honestly I use a trivial client to download RSS-feeds and convert them to emails.

(I rewrote rss2email in golang.)

It means I don't need yet-another application/client and I can do sorting, tagging, etc as I would for emails. Doesn't matter which host I'm on, or where I am, the state of "new" vs "read" is maintained, for example.

jszymborski2• 7 years ago

I use the Brief firefox plug-in, but I mostly use it for tracking YouTube subscriptions w/o an account

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/

dominik• 7 years ago

Reeder (with Feedly as the backend)

neonate• 7 years ago

Sage with Waterfox. Old, but I've never found anything better. When it stopped working in FF I had a day of mourning, and then when I found Waterfox I had a day of rejoicing.

dodgyb• 7 years ago

After running into Inoreader's limits I found Feedbro, it is a free extension for Chrome and Firefox and it does the job very well.

https://nodetics.com/feedbro/

It is not open source but I haven't managed to find any negative comments on the developer.

paulopontesm• 7 years ago

Slack

Created a slack for myself and do all kinds of integrations. Including several rss channels.

Usage: /feed http://...

doomzone• 7 years ago

QuiteRSS on CentOS @ work. I like it

ScottFree• 7 years ago

Another vote for QuiteRSS here. It's the only reader I've come across that's both decently fast on a large number of feeds and lets me define complex, REGEX based filters.

tbolt• 7 years ago

Feedbin for syncing and web. Readkit on MacOS. Reeder for iOS.

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