I use Inoreader, the closest I could find to Google Reader, it has all I would need for an RSS reader and way more, I don't know how good their apps are because the web version is just great in desktop and mobile browsers.
I use this also. I have some issues with it, but I won't bother to change unless I find something significantly better.
The feature I love most is being able to filter feed items based on content. This is great for sites that report on lots of different topics, and I can just eliminate the posts I don't care about.
I'm using it basically since Google Reader died. It's reliable and has everything I want. Its one of the few apps I am happily paying for. They often have Black Friday deals, if you want to save a little.
Another vote for Feedly here. I like the interface, it's pretty simple and I don't need much (nor want more). I'm on the free plan. I can get my feeds from any of my devices, which is important to me. The iOS apps for my phone and ipad work great. That's really all I need.
I've been using RSS-to-email since forever. I now run my own RSS-to-email service.
I filter (almost all) of them into folders that don't notify and then they are there ready to read across all of my devices that are logged into my email.
I find that email clients are quite suited to RSS reading. They have folders, searching, filtering and unread/read/deleted tracking that is synced cross-device. And for the few feeds that I want to be "urgent" it is easy to send them to my inbox.
Yes! My favorite RSS feed reader is mutt (and the email ecosystem around it like procmail).
With email I already have infinitely flexible filtering, sorting, on-the-fly modification of headers and content, and a reader with best in class threading and TUI.
So I use RSS to email to inject all the RSS content into this ecosystem and inherit all the goodness of email for RSS as well.
I know. Everyone is different and there is nothing wrong with that. I don't think RSS-to-email is for everyone. And I definitely don't have (most) feeds going to my inbox. That would be far too much. The vast majority of my feeds go to a "Not Important" folder.
I also find it interesting that running an RSS-to-Email service I have noticed that we both fetch feeds from and send mail to kill-the-newsletter.com. I would be curious to know what their use cases are.
I'd love recommendations for a good Android client. Right now I just have the site installed as a web app. It works, but I have a foldable phone and the site displays a little weird when unfolded in landscape.
I self-host FreshRSS. I prefer the feeds to be pulled from a server rather than locally from a browser. This lets me check out news feeds from work without worrying about my computer pinging websites IT doesn't like.
+1 for self hosted FreshRSS.
The only feature I'm missing from it is selecting multiple unread entries and marking them as 'read' instead of opening them one by one or marking the whole feed.
Other than that it gives a feeling like using the Google Reader.
Feedly [0] (web app and on IOS) has been amazing since Google Reader died. On IOS it makes flipping through items and saving them for later a smooth and relatively fast experience.
The iPhone and Mac apps are also great. I've been using them for years. You can use it to show your feeds from popular rss aggregators or it can aggregate by itself via icloud, and it syncs across your devices.
On Android, Handy News Reader from the f-droid.org app store works well, once I went through all the settings and customized it, and got used to it. Except now it doesn't auto-fetch (it used to) and I don't know if I did something wrong, but manually fetching new stories isn't bad.
It is a local reader -- no account required, no server storage, but stores everything on the phone.
I've also used NewsBlur which I would probably like more if I paid. One thing about Handy News Reader is there is a way to see the URLs of existing feeds, which I have not found how to do in NewsBlur.
I use Feedly. It’s a very good app but the company is making some bizarre decisions to try and turn it into an “intelligence platform”. Like lots of weird/useless AI generated summaries that all seem to be related to the financial implications of the article. You can turn most of them off but it’s a worrying trend in general.
There's also Lighthouse (https://lighthouseapp.io/). Compared to typical RSS readers it organizes content into Inbox and Library. Where new content lands in the inbox, where you can sort through it and add content you're interested in to the library.
So it's basically a combination of feed reader and read-it-later app.
NetNewsWire is great, but iOS/iPad/Mac only. It syncs between devices using iCloud, so without a Feedly etc. account. That feature seems to be pretty rare.
If you’re already using a Mac and an iPhone, NetNewsWire is great! It’s native, beautiful, and "just works". I finally ended the chase for the perfect RSS reader and started enjoying my feeds.
Feedly's web app is awesome. I usually use the web version on iPad.
The main problem with RSS apps these days is they respect the article summary and do not render the full article in the app, so you have to read in the in-app browser or default browser. The (iOS) in-app browser doesn't have extensions or dark mode, so
Alternatively, everyone wants you to visit their site so only publish their RSS with a summary.
I use a self hosted instance of tiny tiny rss (tt-rss) for subscriptions and Omnivore for reading.
Omnivore is open source with no data collection.
The iOS app is very good with integration for saving items from the firefox web browser.
The web app works well on the Linux desktop with the Firefox addon for saving articles.
By a mile. The command line doesn't really bother me, and the killer feature is being able to hook it into my crontab, so it acts like Google Reader (without the social features), but it's completely local to my machine.
I honestly don't want to rely on another service again if I can help it, and this tool really scratches that itch.
I'm also using newsboat, mostly in android where I run it via nix-on-droid (https://github.com/nix-community/nix-on-droid). I generate the config and url files via a nix script that has a bunch of functions, for example for taking a twitter username and getting the RSS feed from a nitter instance. It's also using for ensuring that programs used in filter/exec feeds are used - I'm using sed for replacing the nitter instance with x.com like so: "filter:/nix/store/82v9hz5nav5swvdmz4cq53f2m671njcc-gnused-4.9/bin/sed 's#nitter.poast.org#x.com#g':https://nitter.poast.org/<user>/rss"
Yes, without a doubt. It only has sites that I want to read, I can add or remove sites, move them to different folders. I can save stuff for later. It's much more controlled and quiet. That's not to say I don't like Reddit or HN, it's just different in my reader.
I didn't get on with miniflux so I've been using Feeder for Android the past year or so and really like it. I also use Newsboat on desktop which is great but gets used less as I tend to consume feeds on mobile it seems.
It's not longer Feedly, since they introduced that distracting flashing green "AI summary" button. Even disabling all the things it should be doing in the Settings, it still shows.
Im using next cloud news(server and android app). It has a small bug with invisible text and some setting are forgotten over time, but else it is good enough,
When Google Reader shut down I switch to feedly for a bit, don't remember now why but for some reason I didn't like it. So I started self hosting my own instance of ttrss and haven't looked back since.
I second this - been using Netvibes since Google Reader went away. Clean interface and reasonably customizable. At the time, it was the closest to feature parity that I could find and I haven't felt the need to look for a replacement since.
I run the server on a RP4. It pushes the latest article/podcast to my phone via a cronjob running every 60 seconds. Each feed has its own channel. I also throw it into a postgres db on the same RP4 for posterity.
I've been subscribed for probably 6+ years now. I've tried various others but this has the mix of power user and design. Great filters, newsletter sign ups, can get around most paywall.
- https://www.inoreader.com/