Looking to get back into RSS feeds, what are your favourite readers? I used to use Feedly years ago, still a good option?
Commafeed
free and open source, web-based, can be self-hosted
When Google Reader died, I went to search for it’s alternatives, and Commafeed was the only one that used 100% of screen width.I’ve been using FocusReader for a while now to sync with my self hosted RSS provider (FreshRSS), works great and is under active development.
Yeah, FocusReader is my current goto as well. Works great on mobile, and pretty well on a (9") tablet. Clean UI. And syncs with Inoreader.
NewsBlur. The “full article text” feature is excellent.
I like that the Android app is open source and available on F-Droid and that self hosting is an option, so I pay for premium so I don’t have to deal with the hassle of self hosting while I support the developer!
An excellent choice. I do the same with Home Assistant - I COULD set up a wireguard/Tail scale connection to HA, but Nabu Casa works great and supports the developers so they can do more cool stuff like voice assistants so I can finally get rid of the AmazonEars in my house.
Livemarks Add-on for Firefox since I spend most of my time in the browser anyway.
https://f-droid.org/packages/me.ash.reader/
Read You is a beautiful app with material you design. Works great, but the tiny thumbnails, and the fact that not all thumbnails load (whereas in Feeder they do) is my major point of complaint. Still I like using it.
This app made me use RSS on mobile again
Good UI
It can retrieve the whole article if only a preview is available
Freshrss syncIt’s a copy of Reeder on iOS
Quite fond of Innoreader
Works well on PC and mobile.
Feeder
Read You is my choice
I use Feedly on both iPad, Android and PC, it’s simple, it syncs across all my devices, it is nice and it covers all my needs.
This looks really interesting! Do you know of any concerning limitations of the free version anyone should be aware of?
Their free is pretty much just “you get to use a very limited amount of our features, to try em out” and the limited amount is still pretty generous.
I’ve been using them for a very long time, since before the free was actually an option, and have to say they’re absolutely the best RSS aggregator I’ve found
It received an update two months ago, i don’t think it’s abandoned.
From what I saw, the updates are just rare and occasional bug corrections, but never new features.
I don’t use it a lot, but I like Pluma too.
I’m also looking for an RSS reader, privacy friendly and with notifications. Any suggestion?
I use ReadYou. Has more features and easier to understand than Feeder (at least for me).
Requires no permissions (except enabling notifications), can use local (on device) accounts. Only requires RSS links, no other data.
Supports notifications, have not tried it. Also likely requires background refresh, which I don’t use, so don’t know about that.
Thanks
I’m still using Feedly. But I don’t know if is a bad idea (speaking of privacy).
