Back in the olden times, I was an avid user of Google Reader. I had dozens of RSS feeds and went through my feeds religiously. When Reader was killed I jumped to Feedly, and while it was alright for a while I just couldn’t get into it and eventually fell off and found Reddit.
Well, it’s been around a decade and I’m interested in jumping back into RSS. I’ve seen a lot of suggestions, but right now Reeder and News Explorer are the two I’m looking at. Ideally I’m looking for one that can at least sync between macOS, iPadOS, and iOS; but watchOS would be a an excellent bonus (and tvOS is ludicrous, but News Explorer supports it, so sure?).
Do you use an RSS reader anymore? What do you use or recommend, and why? I’d love to know.
NetNewsWire with Feedly
Note that it deletes posts older than 30 days. This came as a surprise to me and was not a nice thing to notice.
My choice too. I used Feedly mixed with Reeder for a while but after a while didn’t want to use Feedly anymore, so just using the feeds directly inside of NetNewsWire. The only thing I wish it had was a mute filter feature. Sometimes I want to filter words to avoid spoilers if a movie/game/whatever is coming out soon. Haven’t found a great looking RSS app with a mute filter feature without a subscription. I’m happy to pay for an app if it has what I want, but I’m not interested in a subscription.
I have tried many and Reeder is my default rss reader on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Reeder 5
Agreed. Fed by my self hosted FreshRSS server.
I love this implementation. No charges, no random shut down, etc. basically free. Amazing. Glad I’m not the only one.
this is the way to go
Saw yours and others recommendation for reeder5 and tried it today. Really liking it so far. Thank you for that.
+1 for Reeder
NetNewsWire is free and light weight in a good way.
Reeder, since 10 years maybe
Reeder 5 NetNewsWire
This doesn’t meet your platform requirements, but for non-Appley types reading - Feeder:
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/
Very minimal (in a good way) and clean RSS reader that can sync across Android devices. I think if it had a Web version it’d be perfect.
For iOS it’s Reeder. I’ve been using it forever. It’s awesome. I use an RSS aggregator on my rPi FreshRSS which uses an API to connect to my phone. Works really well.
Another +1 for NetNewsWire. Its simple, ad-free, syncs over iCloud, can set an entire feed to reader mode (so convenient for certain feeds that only broadcast the headline), and its FOSS.
The creators encourage supporting other FOSS devs and accept no donations to themselves or NNW.
Feedly is the one I used since Google Reader died, haven’t looked back since.
I had been using Feedly as well, as my GReader replacement. But they put a lot of features behind an arbitrary paywall with a few quite high. I understand people need to feed their families, but Reeder had the better value proposition for me (especially since I am already paying for iCloud storage).
Inoreader. It has a great iOS client and the web interface is fantastic too.
Definitely NetNewsWire (https://netnewswire.com/).
I stopped using Feedly after all the creepy AI stuff. Reeder synced over iCloud with an OPML export every now and then keeps it so I’m not reliant on a central service and can run it all locally should I choose.
Anyone using Feedly, or equivalent, hasn’t learnt the lessons of Google Reader. Manage it yourself, don’t rely on a central service that’s going to do creepy monitoring on you to power their AI model.
What AI stuff? I use freedly as a backend for Reeder so never touch the website. This might be the push I need to either go local or roll my own.
My slightly vague recollection was that they were basically feeding “enterprise customers” a load of information including stuff that could be used for union busting, monitoring protests etc. Their enterprise plan has
Feedly AI Advanced Skills: Market intelligence Threat intelligence Biopharma research Competitive intelligence
as features. So yeah, creepy as fuck. And they said at the time that this was all done using “AI”.
Looks like they just made a fancy google keyword alerts notifier to cash in on the AI craze. Poor marketing example but feels like blaming google for your search results.
My slightly vague recollection was that they were basically feeding “enterprise customers” a load of information including stuff that could be used for union busting, monitoring protests etc. Their enterprise plan has
Feedly AI Advanced Skills: Market intelligence Threat intelligence Biopharma research Competitive intelligence
as features. So yeah, creepy as fuck. And they said at the time that this was all done using “AI”.
I use Reeder and like it. I also have Reader by Readwise and tried to use the RSS feature in that, but it didn’t work as well as Reeder last I tried it.
I use Inoreader though I don’t have any experience with using it in an Apple ecosystem. And if you want yet another alternative look at The Old Reader.
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It still works for Reddit post-API change. Just add .rss to the sub you want to read and it’ll pull it in as an RSS feed.
How long will that keep working remains to be seen.
