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.
Inoreader. It has a great iOS client and the web interface is fantastic too.
I’ve used Feedly ever since Google Reader shut down. I’ve stuck with it because it does what I need it to do.
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I like Lire on iOS. I use the subway and train a lot and lose service, so it filled the need of offline caching. I like it!
Reeder with Feedly as the source on iOS, Feedly website on the Mac.
What is the advantage of Feedly as a source?
Thinking of getting rss setup again and have a lifetime Feedly account that goes unused.
Mainly just that it’s a web service so I can access it anywhere, but also has good client support for when you want to use an app. I like to use multiple platforms with everything in sync.
Ah. Ok so use it as a common source list regardless of app. Cool.
Was trying out Feedly for the first time in years. Felt a bit dated. Still does it’s job but would be interesting to see how Reeder or others do things.
I’ve been using News Explorer after trying to find something simple and like how it just gets out of the way on all Apple platforms (iOS, iPadOS, macOS).
Reeder 5 NetNewsWire
Feedbin, with Reeder on iOS and Mac.
Lire rss
The developers is frequently updating and he has fixed bugs I reported. Full text is good and it had caching. However you will have to pay for it.
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.
NetNewsWire with syncing through Feedly.
The Feedly web UI is decent, and NNW is great on Mac and iOS.
I use Feedly directly in the web UI primarily on Windows and Linux
It all stays in sync nicely.
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”.
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 indexing storefront
Reeder and Newsblur is a great combo! I don’t even miss Google Reader anymore.
I use Reeder too and have good results. I stopped using a desktop client to avoid distractions and it has worked so far.
Reeder and Newsblur is a great combo!
