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Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?

73 points by sbolt 4y ago

With two posts on the front page on the revival of RSS I'm wondering what RRS Reader I should use.

prirai 4y ago
I use Quite rss on the web, Akregator in Linux and Feeder on Android. I have over 500 feeds so most services ask for payment to get all those enabled. These work great, are open source and usable for me and the best is I get them for free.
BinaryBird 4y ago
For many years, I used Feedity for generating RSS feeds from webpages without one. They've since renamed to New Sloth, and also have a nice although basic feed reader. I like its article grouping feature, and use the whole package (feed creation and reading) for my research work on a daily basis. https://newsloth.com https://newsloth.com
Nearsyh 4y ago
I'm self-hosting my own RSS reader implementation. Feel free to check it out https://github.com/nearsyh/near-rss https://github.com/nearsyh/near-rss.
mzur 4y ago
I just use good old Thunderbird.
- ranger207 4y ago
  So do I, since I'm subscribed to a lot of email newsletters and it's nice to have them all together, but the lack of sync between devices is annoying
  - Moustache6471 4y ago
    Can you recommend me any newsletters? Thanks in advance.
    - ranger207 4y ago
      I'm subscribed to Matt Levine's Money Stuff[0] about finance, computers are bad[1] about retrotechnology, and A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry[2] about history. The common theme through all of these is their focus on big picture systems, which I enjoy. I'm also subscribed to the Orbital Index[3] which is about space, and is more focused on small scale current events than the others. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff [1] https://computer.rip https://computer.rip, run by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jcrawfordor https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jcrawfordor [2] https://acoup.blog https://acoup.blog [3] https://orbitalindex.com/ https://orbitalindex.com/
animesh 4y ago
QuiteRSS until the end.
AndySylvester01 4y ago
I use River5 (https://github.com/scripting/river5 https://github.com/scripting/river5), and pipe the output to a web app (https://readinglist.andysylvester.com/ https://readinglist.andysylvester.com/).
jibbers 4y ago
NetNewsWire on macOS and iOS. It's just so incredibly polished and fast. Plus, it's open source! https://netnewswire.com https://netnewswire.com
jshwlkr 4y ago
https://www.inoreader.com/ https://www.inoreader.com/
- j_crick 4y ago
  Been using it for the last two years and it’s been great so far. Not sure if sub price would be justified for other people but for me the cheapest paid tier covers basically everything I need from a reader.
  - nickthegreek 4y ago
    I pay for Inoreader as it most closely matches the Google Reader social experience for me. You can follow other users, share articles to your feed for other users to discover and comment back and forth. I always said I would have paid Google to keep Reader going, so I put my money where my mouth was with Inoreader. I do find it’s search capabilities somewhat lacking tho. Mobile app is decent, desktop website is great.
- mdoar 4y ago
  Yes for inoreader. Not free, but works well for me
  - gandalfgreybeer 4y ago
    There's a free tier with ads which I don't mind since they're non-intrusive (I honestly can't tell when the last time I noticed an ad was, and I use it daily).
- stranded22 4y ago
  I’ve been using Inoreader pro for 3+ years now. Much better than freely imho. And helps me get headlines quickly
- MollyRealized 4y ago
  I use Inoreader as well. They run annual Black Friday specials that end up giving you 18 months for the cost of 12. They have advanced filtering and rules. They have some social features I don't use but that approximate what Google Reader was mourned for. I really rather wholeheartedly recommend them. The only negative thing I could say about them is that they seem rather close-minded in a rather non-P.R.-friendly way to feature requests, and don't seem very interested in improving the product in ways their customers request, although they do, however, still (slowly) improve the product. It's not in stasis as many other products sometimes tend to be (cough Remember the Milk cough cough) That having been said, to me, the product feels rather rock solid as it is in its existing functionality, and to me, it feels like a solid power tool.
trickjarrett 4y ago
Selfhosted FreshRSS for me
hjuutilainen 4y ago
If you are on Apple ecosystem, NetNewsWire is free, reliable and syncs between devices. You don’t need a paid third party service to use it. https://netnewswire.com/ https://netnewswire.com/
- cyberge99 4y ago
  Newsify is also good for a simple, visual block news scroll. It pulls images from the source site, so it’s like browsing with a polished news app.
oxymoron 4y ago
I’ve been using self-hosted TTRSS since Google Reader shut down.
- Krisjohn 4y ago
  Me too. I've been using the Bitnami builds. VM for ages, but currently the Windows app.
MrUssek 4y ago
I use Feedly, not sure why it's not more frequently recommended. https://feedly.com/ https://feedly.com/
- CharlesW 4y ago
  Feedly's great. A huge plus is that most mobile reader apps seem to be able to sync with it.
- tholman 4y ago
  Have been on the feedly train ever since google axed reader, was able to transfer all feeds via import ++ will help you get some kinda feed (can break with big site redesigns but has been pretty solid) from sites without RSS. Haven't needed to shop around at all since 2013.
- pentium10 4y ago
  Feedly is fenomenal, its my 2nd most used app after email. I really love the advanced features of mute filters, web alerts and Leo - Feedly's AI Engine.
- pintxo 4y ago
  Unfortunately the iOS App has major problems for some users, see the app reviews. I like it, but as of now it's barely usable.
  - atsjie 4y ago
    It has a 4.6 rating which is good, especially if I can't recall ever being bothered by those automated rating popups. I use it everyday and works fine, "some" might be a small but vocal group? Might not be representative for a common user.
    - TylerE 4y ago
      Is it? iOS reviews to work like Amazon.,, a 4.5 is an F
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kevincox 4y ago
I use my own RSS-to-Email service https://feedmail.org/ https://feedmail.org/. I've written about my setup and why I prefer RSS-to-Email on my blog nearly a decade ago https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/ https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/. I used to use https://blogtrottr.com https://blogtrottr.com which I do still think is a good product, they just didn't quite fit my needs so after about 8 years I ended up creating my own.
- aag 4y ago
  I have used Blogtrottr since Google Reader went away, and I love it. It's great not having to check yet another app for updates, and all the filtering and labeling tools of modern email clients can be used.
vpol 4y ago
Reeder for iOS/macOS
- docdeek 4y ago
  I'm also a fan. Been using it since v3 (it's v5 now) and it's great. Sync via iCloud on all devices, great piece of software.
curiousfab 4y ago
rss2email + mutt
- lothar_m 4y ago
  Exactly the same setup on my machines. Works fine and can be integrated with any other sync programs as needed. A flexible and robust approach to RSS. Newsboat is also a great option, for those who prefer a dedicated RSS app.
blakesterz 4y ago
I've been on NewsBlur since Google Reader was put down. I'm still happy with it. Both the web and phone version are nice, and it rarely has issues. https://www.newsblur.com/ https://www.newsblur.com/
- Eddy_Viscosity2 4y ago
  Exactly me, from google reader to newsblur.
- bilal4hmed 4y ago
  Another one for Newsblur, since day 1
- alexott 4y ago
  Same for me - sometimes UI changes aren’t good, but usually they were addressed
- quaintdev 4y ago
  If anyone is looking for some self hosted RSS reader I have covered them in blog post, check it out https://rohanrd.xyz/posts/rss-readers-that-you-can-self-host/ https://rohanrd.xyz/posts/rss-readers-that-you-can-self-host...
  - eddiequinn 4y ago
    As it happens I was going to set up a homelab in the new year, and an RSS reader was one of the things I wanted to host. Thank you!
- greenyoda 4y ago
  Yet another paying NewsBlur subscriber, from the earliest days. I use them to subscribe to hundreds of RSS feeds. I've been increasingly using their search feature, which allows you to search for text across a "folder" (group of subscriptions) or across all your subscriptions. Another nice feature: If you enter just the home URL for a web site when creating a new subscription, it'll automatically search commonly used URLs (/feed, /rss, etc.) to find their RSS feed for you.
ctbeiser 4y ago
Feedbin for sync and for email ingest. A key fact about this is that unlike Feedly and Newsblur, it keeps old content indefinitely. That means that if I don't check feeds for a while, or something is too heavy to read one month, I don't lose it forever. iOS: Unread, which is just supremely beautiful. I'm amazed that the "double tap to mark read/unread" interaction isn't standard. Mac: Reeder, which is nice and flexible though not perfect.
mesbahamin 4y ago
Miniflux. I'm incredibly happy with how simple and usable it is. I mostly use it as a PWA on my phone. https://miniflux.app/ https://miniflux.app/
- number6 4y ago
  I also use miniflux but not as pwa. What changes if you use it as a pwa?
  - mesbahamin 4y ago
    Not much. It just has its own button on the home screen (iOS) and behaves (mostly) like a native app. A browser bookmark would work as well. Miniflux is designed to work well on a small screen with touch input. So the fact that, unlike some other options, it doesn't have a native app is not too much of a limitation.
    - TylerE 4y ago
      I suspect that’s because most “native apps” are really just web views running spas
- rlue 4y ago
  I really like miniflux, but I really wish it had a weighted post ordering rather than a simple chronological ordering. I posted a feature request about this earlier this year[0], but the gist is this: If you subscribe to some feeds that post 100+ times a day (like a major news outlet) and others that post only once every couple months or so (like many personal blogs), you'll never catch the latter because those posts are always drowned in a sea of the former. Reddit deals with this problem by weighting posts from each subreddit you subscribe to so that your frontpage contains content from as many of your subs as possible. All I want for Christmas is for this idea to get some traction. Hoping to make the time to hack on this myself Q1 of next year. [0]: https://github.com/miniflux/v2/issues/1493 https://github.com/miniflux/v2/issues/1493
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CharlesW 4y ago
Feedly on the web, and Reeder or NetNewsWire on mobile. I keep meaning to try Unread as well. Both of the mobile options integrate with Feedly for sync'd read/unread status, etc.
erenkaplan 4y ago
I use netnewswire because I'm in the Apple ecosystem. https://netnewswire.com/ https://netnewswire.com/
- jonwinstanley 4y ago
  Net News Wire is awesome, both iPhone and Mac apps are really nicely done.
- ajdude 4y ago
  Also using NetNewsWire, combined with Feedbin. It works flawlessly across all of my Apple devices, macOS and iOS.
- vanilla_nut 4y ago
  Beautiful native apps. Works great with self-hosted FreshRSS. Possibly my favorite software release of 2022!
- roydivision 4y ago
  I seem to be the only person who doesn’t like NetNewsWire. The fact that you still can’t configure global settings that cover all feeds makes it useless for me.
  - janandonly 4y ago
    Not useless, but less usefull.
- rado 4y ago
  Same here. It’s great, one of the best apps of any kind.
- stmpjmpr 4y ago
  Also a happy NNW user. I'd been using Feedbin, which is also good, but since I'm a Mac and iOS user, I switched to using NNW with iCloud syncing, which has been working great. It's so nice to have fully-native apps!
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hprotagonist 4y ago
Feedly; i'm lazy and that was where i landed after google reader went pow
justinvoss 4y ago
I've been using Feedbin for a few years and have been happy with it, especially since it syncs with my preferred iOS client, Reeder. https://feedbin.com https://feedbin.com https://www.reederapp.com https://www.reederapp.com
nordsieck 4y ago
Newsboat[1]. Having everything happen locally on my own machine is great - I never want to be in the position of losing Google Reader again. And the option to do non-interactive refresh makes is almost as nice for high volume feeds. --- 1. https://newsboat.org/ https://newsboat.org/
safety1st 4y ago
Not technically for reading, but for downloading podcasts via their RSS feeds I use castero and am very happy with it. https://github.com/xgi/castero https://github.com/xgi/castero
flandish 4y ago
I use “Reeder” - http://reederapp.com http://reederapp.com I connect/subscribe it to various things - one of which is a previously curated FreshRSS instance, running in a docker container. So reeder connects and updates read/new feed additions too.
- rcarmo 4y ago
  Same here. Reeder across all my Apple gear. I haven’t found anything anywhere as nice for Fedora or Windows. 200+ feeds, using it since 1.0.
- roydivision 4y ago
  Reeder for iOS with a Feedbin subscription. This combination has worked perfectly for years.
- D13Fd 4y ago
  I used to use Reeder/Feedbin but I moved to NetNewsWire/Feedbin when they started updating NNW again. I like NNW a bit better.
sqwrell 4y ago
feedbro browser extension is pretty powerful
quaintdev 4y ago
I've been using FreshRSS [0] for a while now as my RSS reader, it's open source and can be self-hosted. It's been reliable and easy to use. 0: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
vanilla_nut 4y ago
I use NetNewsWire these days, but for anyone who wants to dabble in RSS with minimal investment, I highly recommend FeedBro, a well-executed Firefox add-on. It has a highly customizable UI. It handles all the fetching/refreshes/storage right in your browser, no need to install anything else or self-host a backend. And you can import/export OPML feed collections, so you can easily switch to another solution when you outgrow it. The only downside I've found: it doesn't sync between machines (at least, not for free). That's totally fine when you're just trying out RSS for the first time, but it does get annoying if you eventually want to read on, say, a phone, tablet, and laptop in different situations. For that use case, NNW + FreshRSS is my current, excellent solution.
- daydream 4y ago
  NetNewsWire can sync between multiple devices using iCloud, no third party service needed. It works very well for me.
buster 4y ago
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feedr https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feedr
wavesounds 4y ago
Whats with all of these RSS stories suddenly on the front page today? Feels like exactly what PG was talking about in The Submarine[1] but who would be behind pushing RSS feeds all of a sudden? Is there a Big RSS lobby I don't know about? 1. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- kgwxd 4y ago
  I think it's stemming from the Twitter migration trend. Lots of people moving to Mastodon are talking about their personal blogs or thinking about starting one up again. Zeitgeist is thinking about taking back content ownership and creating tighter communities. I'm diggin' it.
OscarCunningham 4y ago
I've been using the Feedbro browser extension for Firefox since I ran out of room on Feedly.
musictubes 4y ago
RSS reader? Unread on iOS/iPadOS and Newsblur on the web. I use Newsblur as my aggregator.
LunarAurora 4y ago
Fraidycat [1] (+ Feedly) [1] https://fraidyc.at/ https://fraidyc.at/
- kilroy123 4y ago
  Same here but I really wish I could use it on my phone.
ohCh6zos 4y ago
I use Freshrss as my backend and Reader as my frontend.
rambambram 4y ago
I use the built-in RSS reader from HeyHomepage.com (disclaimer: I built that).
RistrettoMike 4y ago
I pay for Bazqux reader because I’d like for it to stick around as a small business with a vested interest in serving my feeds and not pivoting to newsletters or algorithmic news or whatever: https://bazqux.com/ https://bazqux.com/ That gets read from the Reeder app on iOS or on the web on Windows. Longer pieces get saved to Instapaper for Kindle-reading and archived on pinboard.
- spiffytech 4y ago
  I'm a happy Bazqux user, too. It's a simple, no-frills experience that reminds me of what I liked about Google Reader. I use their PWA on mobile, which works really well.
breput 4y ago
Drop Feeds[0] - a Firefox browser extension[1] that continues in style of the original Sage (and Sage++) extensions. You can configure it to only show unread feeds and automatically poll for changes, so you always have the latest updates right there in your browser sidebar without having to go to a different application or site. [0] https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drop-feeds/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drop-feeds/
jtthe13 4y ago
Subscribed back in the day to a lifetime deal for Feedly, which is very good at filtering out themes/keywords I'm not interested in. On the app side, I haven't found anything more enjoyable than Reeder (mac and iOS). Keyboard shortcuts are great too.
wtf77 4y ago
selfhosted FreshRSS + NetNewsWire
mike503 4y ago
+1 for Reeder (iPhone only) using Feedly for free as the backend (RIP Google Reader) I only do RSS browsing on my phone, triage what I'm interested in to emails sent to myself or send to pinboard for archiving/maybe visit later (although probably moving away from PB soon)
tbolt 4y ago
Feedbin + Reeder Also hi sbolt
devinegan 4y ago
Self-hosted tiny tiny rss via browser or iOS client tiny Reader. I use filters aggressively to remove topic saturation. Highly recommend.
rupi 4y ago
Readwise Reader for a week and so far I am really liking it. Before that, I used Feedly and Google Reader before that.
juancn 4y ago
I use Reeder but as a client for Feedly.
knowsuchagency 4y ago
Readwise Reader looks promising https://readwise.io/read https://readwise.io/read
shashurup 4y ago
My own, feedcircuit.kibardin.name
simonmic 4y ago
https://bazqux.com https://bazqux.com ! I use it daily for years, can highly recommend.
MongoTheMad 4y ago
I host yarr in my home K8s with GitHub oauth for security. Then I just access via browser. https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr
lf-non 4y ago
Yarr: https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr.git https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr.git Super neat and minimal web based rss reader. It also needs minimal resources and virtually no maintenance.
europeanguy 4y ago
I use newsboat. Comes with debian. It's the lightest RSS reader I've ever used.
ibobev 4y ago
I'm using https://theoldreader.com/ https://theoldreader.com/. It is very similar to the discontinued Google Reader.
- bitsoda 4y ago
  Same here. Does what I need it to do, but I've noticed that it only syncs one-way with NetNewsWire (pulls feeds in, but won't update read status), unfortunately. It's still good enough for my needs as I'm not subbed to that many feeds.
- lostinthecode 4y ago
  Completely agree. I love theoldreader.com, and it's compatible with apps like Reeder. I used to host tt-rss, but I don't want to continually patch and update anymore.
georgeoliver 4y ago
Feedly with the Feedly Android app, which syncs unread items with the desktop web app (so unread == not visited). I don't read anything in Feedly itself -- makes me wonder if there are RSS apps focused just on aggregation.
kkfx 4y ago
ttRSS, because RSS2Email is next to useless in the modern crappy feed usage where full articles are NOT on the feed... While as a concept it's very nice since I use notmuch, so I can manage mails and especially search&tag them very well. I've used elfeed, it demand too much time to skim many posts, similar to Miniflux who is quicker but still demand too much time. ttRSS allow to scroll marking read, that's enough for me. Feeds nowadays simply have much value as a tool, but too little values per mean post. Gnus with scoring is nice, but again too slow to skim, even with scoring help.
deafpolygon 4y ago
I use newsboat, and feedly on the web. I don't use it on mobile.
MattDemers 4y ago
I've been using a TinyTinyRSS instance on Docker. I've also been playing with FreshRSS but there's some things that I don't like as much.
John_R_S 4y ago
Outlook
CoBE10 4y ago
Sfeed: https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html It's better and more customizable than Newsboat, plus there is an option to transfer everything from the Newsboat to it. It is not really a reader but a parser, but that's what makes it great.
zzyzxd 4y ago
Not sure if it's just me, but I have not used a RSS reader as a serious reading software for years. Instead, I only use a RSS reader software to quickly go through all the unread items and send interesting articles to a read-later or bookmark service. The main reasons are: - Some feeds only provide title/summary and not the full text article (yes, I know there are full-text extraction service, but last time I tried them, none of them was perfect, and I don't want to play the guessing game -- "Am I reading the full article, or a broken extraction?") - Some feeds are just better to be read in a web browser. e.g.: Project release notes on GitHub, which usually come with links to PRs, commits...etc, so I need to open several browser tabs to consume the content anyways. - Some personal blog sites have very beautiful (or interesting) designs that I find myself actually enjoys poking around. - Ad-blocking -- given the current popularity of RSS, I don't know if it really makes sense financially for websites to do so, but I notice some feeds do inject ads. - If I ever need to click a link in an article, jumping from a reader software to a browser is too big of a context switch that disrupts my flow -- just let me go through all the feeds right now, and I will decide how to prioritize the most interesting ones and allocate my reading time later. For my use cases, Unread on iOS gave me the best experience. All the gestures optimized for single-hand operations are just fantastic. Sadly, they switched from one-time payment to monthly subscription and I can't justify the cost when I only use it in a very light way(just for sorting items). Reeder is not as good, but is comfortable enough for me.
- Moustache6471 4y ago
  Same here. Currently I don't read my feeds in the RSS reader, but I mark what interests me and send it to Pocket to read later in this application or directly on the original website.
- kgwxd 4y ago
  > I have not used a RSS reader as a serious reading software for years Same here but I think we were mostly forced into it. Site owners care more about getting you on their site than the quality of the content. There's no incentive to include a bare bones version for RSS so, if they even have an RSS feed, it's just links. Aggregate sites can't even include the content. Also, there's just too much multimedia content these days, a proper browser will always be more reliable for viewing it. I really don't mind it. I just love not having to re-scan over headlines I've already seen or intentionally skipped over.
arcatech 4y ago
I happen to be using my own. I wrote my website from scratch in Go and decided to build a RSS reader into it. Anyone can view the list of articles I’m reading at https://dwayne.xyz/reader https://dwayne.xyz/reader
- animesh 4y ago
  Had a similar idea as one of the features for my static generator. Really glad to see it in action.
kgwxd 4y ago
QuiteRSS on Windows. I was using newsbeuter/newsboat when I was on Linux and I really liked it. My wants from a reader are very basic though, I'm really only interested in getting the title and links, I don't care if it even has a content viewer beyond text-only.
- timbit42 4y ago
  QuiteRSS also runs on Linux.
fitblipper 4y ago
Tiny tiny rss on docker desktop with tailscale so I can access it anywhere.
dang 4y ago
Related ongoing threads: This is the year of the RSS reader - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105572 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105572 It's time for an RSS revival (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105558
jkmcf 4y ago
I’m using Reeder with Feedly. Reeder makes processing a lot of feeds pretty easy. I keep hoping Feedly will help separate the wheat from the chaff in my feeds with their ML work, but it seems to require me doing more than clicking on what to read to identify my likes and dislikes. I’ve played with Matter and Readwise Reader, and so far I’m not impressed. I like Readwise in theory, but the RSS reading UI is a bit slow though I might need to tweak the settings to make it quicker.
notmuchserious 4y ago
i use hacker news
leethargo 4y ago
rawdog (RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur) [1]. It's a simple script that I manually trigger once a day to check my list of feeds from a config file. It caches the known posts and generates static HTML with summaries of the new posts for me to browse locally. [1] http://offog.org/code/rawdog/ http://offog.org/code/rawdog/
BerislavLopac 4y ago
Netvibes, I've been using it continuously since at least 2008: https://www.netvibes.com https://www.netvibes.com
saturn_vk 4y ago
I self host https://github.com/urandom/readeef https://github.com/urandom/readeef which I wrote some time after the demise of google reader
liamjbennett 4y ago
I was a Feedly user since 2013 but have since moved to Readwise Reader https://readwise.io/read https://readwise.io/read Also recently did I little write up of my workflow: https://www.liamjbennett.me/posts/2022-12-23-workflow-2023/ https://www.liamjbennett.me/posts/2022-12-23-workflow-2023/
- blbuford 4y ago
  Out of curiosity, what are your “daily check in” podcasts?
the_third_wave 4y ago
The Nextcloud News app, I started using it when it was still the Owncloud news app many years ago. Initially I used it in combination with the related Own/Newscloud News app for Android but just use the web interface now since this is always up to date and does not need any synchronisation.
lcall 4y ago
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. A previous discussion from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424 I haven't tried any of the others in comments here, so can't make comparisons; that might be interesting.
wink 4y ago
As of a few months ago, self-hosted FreshRSS + FeedMe on Android.
ryangibb 4y ago
Feeder: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ One of the surprisingly few readers I could find that is local-only and doesn't require an account. I self host a lot of services but don't see the need for an RSS reader server-side.
- nephanth 4y ago
  Feeder's great, I personally dont need anything more complicated
d3vr 4y ago
Self-hosted instance of FreshRSS [0], Readrops [1] as the client on Android, html2rss [2] for websites that don't have RSS feeds and AtoMail [3] to get newsletters as RSS feeds instead. Edit: forgot to mention RssBridge [4] to get tweets that match certain criteria as an RSS feed. RssBridge also provides access to many other platforms. [0]: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS [1]: https://github.com/readrops/Readrops https://github.com/readrops/Readrops [2]: https://github.com/html2rss/html2rss-web https://github.com/html2rss/html2rss-web [3]: https://github.com/remko/atomail https://github.com/remko/atomail [4]: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
lexoj 4y ago
Initially I used Mailbrew, but for the last 5 months I've been happily using my own open-source tool through Obsidian: https://github.com/piqoni/matcha https://github.com/piqoni/matcha It is a daily digest and supports also terminal mode.
d4a 4y ago
FreshRSS for sync and on my computer, with NetNewsWire on my phone
josephd79 4y ago
I use Otter RSS. Simple, minimal rss reader.
bradbarrish 4y ago
Been using Feedbin with Reeder pretty much since Google Reader shut down. I’ve tried a bunch of others and always come back to this winning combo. Worth noting that Feedbin’s web app is also great.
nipperkinfeet 4y ago
QuiteRSS. I stuck with it for years, still works.
sh33sh 4y ago
Same comment as last time Never understood why nobody talks about NewsExplorer https://apps.apple.com/app/id1032668306 https://apps.apple.com/app/id1032668306, the only third party app on my phone that is available on ALL iDevices it’s actually insane iCloud sync without needed rss backend, snapshot/export/import/folder Also reads Twitter private lists and feed Search inside articles Stable with tens of thousands of articles unread
- miguel-muniz 4y ago
  +1 for News Explorer. Took a bit to configure, but I use it every day with no issues. Even use the Watch app sometimes
gen220 4y ago
I've been self-hosting miniflux [0] for a couple years. Rock solid performance, deployment is easy, upgrades are small but meaningful, and doesn't use anything exotic in the tech stack (mainly Go, some vanilla JS, persists data in PostgreSQL). I mainly browse on my laptop, but it's pretty decent on mobile. [0]: https://github.com/miniflux/v2 https://github.com/miniflux/v2
- jhot 4y ago
  Also a happy miniflux holster. On Android I use Miniflutt [0] as a client, mainly for the mark as read on scroll feature. Any fever API compatible app will work, though. 0 https://github.com/DocMarty84/miniflutt https://github.com/DocMarty84/miniflutt
- ekovarski 4y ago
  Self hosted miniflux as well but kept running into 403/429 errors when using reddit rss feeds, went back to freshrss. The biggest issue is that once you invest in a reader, your data aside from the feed opml, is stuck in that reader so your favourites, labels, and content can't migrate.
  - gen220 4y ago
    Interesting feedback on reddit RSS feeds. I'm only subscribed to a single reddit feed, but it's totally possible that miniflux was spamming requests and that led to a rate limit. It isn't super customizable in terms of how frequently it pings to see if new items have been added, it's a fair criticism. I'd gently push back on the migration issue. As long as you're going the self-hosted route, all of this data exists on your machine. A tool for painless migration from X reader to Y reader might not exist, but at least it's feasible to build. If your data is in some hosted solution, you're at the mercy of the provider to implement data exports.
sjs382 4y ago
Ive been using Feedbin basically since Google Reader shut down. The web interface is very usable for someone who mostly navigated GR via the keyboard.
heywoodlh 4y ago
I self-host FreshRSS and mostly consume my feeds through Reeder on my iPhone. When I want to connect to FreshRSS on desktop I typically use NewsBoat.
bradwood 4y ago
https://newsboat.org/ https://newsboat.org/
seba_dos1 4y ago
CommaFeed
Moustache6471 4y ago
Currently using Feedly, but my subscription is ending in January. I'm thinking of taking advantage of an Inoreader offer that is active until December 28 and switching to there. It is advisable? I don't usually read my feeds in the RSS service, but I look at the headlines and mark what interests me to send it to Pocket and read it quietly there or on the original website of the site.
nokya 4y ago
QuiteRSS on Windows. Still not perfect in terms of features but it's fast.
- timbit42 4y ago
  QuiteRSS also runs on Linux.
JasonFruit 4y ago
I'm amazed to search this whole conversation and not find anyone using Liferea. Simple, free, and effective. I have no complaints.
- timbit42 4y ago
  I used Liferea for some years. Then I found QuiteRSS, which is much better.

73 points by sbolt 4y ago

With two posts on the front page on the revival of RSS I'm wondering what RRS Reader I should use.

I use Quite rss on the web, Akregator in Linux and Feeder on Android. I have over 500 feeds so most services ask for payment to get all those enabled. These work great, are open source and usable for me and the best is I get them for free.

BinaryBird 4y ago

For many years, I used Feedity for generating RSS feeds from webpages without one. They've since renamed to New Sloth, and also have a nice although basic feed reader. I like its article grouping feature, and use the whole package (feed creation and reading) for my research work on a daily basis. https://newsloth.com https://newsloth.com

Nearsyh 4y ago

I'm self-hosting my own RSS reader implementation. Feel free to check it out https://github.com/nearsyh/near-rss https://github.com/nearsyh/near-rss.

mzur 4y ago

I just use good old Thunderbird.

ranger207 4y ago
So do I, since I'm subscribed to a lot of email newsletters and it's nice to have them all together, but the lack of sync between devices is annoying
- Moustache6471 4y ago
  Can you recommend me any newsletters? Thanks in advance.
  - ranger207 4y ago
    I'm subscribed to Matt Levine's Money Stuff[0] about finance, computers are bad[1] about retrotechnology, and A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry[2] about history. The common theme through all of these is their focus on big picture systems, which I enjoy. I'm also subscribed to the Orbital Index[3] which is about space, and is more focused on small scale current events than the others. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff https://www.bloomberg.com/account/newsletters/money-stuff [1] https://computer.rip https://computer.rip, run by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jcrawfordor https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jcrawfordor [2] https://acoup.blog https://acoup.blog [3] https://orbitalindex.com/ https://orbitalindex.com/

animesh 4y ago

QuiteRSS until the end.

AndySylvester01 4y ago

I use River5 (https://github.com/scripting/river5 https://github.com/scripting/river5), and pipe the output to a web app (https://readinglist.andysylvester.com/ https://readinglist.andysylvester.com/).

jibbers 4y ago

NetNewsWire on macOS and iOS. It's just so incredibly polished and fast. Plus, it's open source! https://netnewswire.com https://netnewswire.com

jshwlkr 4y ago

https://www.inoreader.com/ https://www.inoreader.com/

j_crick 4y ago
Been using it for the last two years and it’s been great so far. Not sure if sub price would be justified for other people but for me the cheapest paid tier covers basically everything I need from a reader.
- nickthegreek 4y ago
  I pay for Inoreader as it most closely matches the Google Reader social experience for me. You can follow other users, share articles to your feed for other users to discover and comment back and forth. I always said I would have paid Google to keep Reader going, so I put my money where my mouth was with Inoreader. I do find it’s search capabilities somewhat lacking tho. Mobile app is decent, desktop website is great.
mdoar 4y ago
Yes for inoreader. Not free, but works well for me
- gandalfgreybeer 4y ago
  There's a free tier with ads which I don't mind since they're non-intrusive (I honestly can't tell when the last time I noticed an ad was, and I use it daily).
stranded22 4y ago
I’ve been using Inoreader pro for 3+ years now. Much better than freely imho. And helps me get headlines quickly
MollyRealized 4y ago
I use Inoreader as well. They run annual Black Friday specials that end up giving you 18 months for the cost of 12. They have advanced filtering and rules. They have some social features I don't use but that approximate what Google Reader was mourned for. I really rather wholeheartedly recommend them. The only negative thing I could say about them is that they seem rather close-minded in a rather non-P.R.-friendly way to feature requests, and don't seem very interested in improving the product in ways their customers request, although they do, however, still (slowly) improve the product. It's not in stasis as many other products sometimes tend to be (cough Remember the Milk cough cough) That having been said, to me, the product feels rather rock solid as it is in its existing functionality, and to me, it feels like a solid power tool.

trickjarrett 4y ago

Selfhosted FreshRSS for me

hjuutilainen 4y ago

If you are on Apple ecosystem, NetNewsWire is free, reliable and syncs between devices. You don’t need a paid third party service to use it. https://netnewswire.com/ https://netnewswire.com/

cyberge99 4y ago
Newsify is also good for a simple, visual block news scroll. It pulls images from the source site, so it’s like browsing with a polished news app.

oxymoron 4y ago

I’ve been using self-hosted TTRSS since Google Reader shut down.

Krisjohn 4y ago
Me too. I've been using the Bitnami builds. VM for ages, but currently the Windows app.

MrUssek 4y ago

I use Feedly, not sure why it's not more frequently recommended. https://feedly.com/ https://feedly.com/

CharlesW 4y ago
Feedly's great. A huge plus is that most mobile reader apps seem to be able to sync with it.
tholman 4y ago
Have been on the feedly train ever since google axed reader, was able to transfer all feeds via import ++ will help you get some kinda feed (can break with big site redesigns but has been pretty solid) from sites without RSS. Haven't needed to shop around at all since 2013.
pentium10 4y ago
Feedly is fenomenal, its my 2nd most used app after email. I really love the advanced features of mute filters, web alerts and Leo - Feedly's AI Engine.
pintxo 4y ago
Unfortunately the iOS App has major problems for some users, see the app reviews. I like it, but as of now it's barely usable.
- atsjie 4y ago
  It has a 4.6 rating which is good, especially if I can't recall ever being bothered by those automated rating popups. I use it everyday and works fine, "some" might be a small but vocal group? Might not be representative for a common user.
  - TylerE 4y ago
    Is it? iOS reviews to work like Amazon.,, a 4.5 is an F
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kevincox 4y ago

I use my own RSS-to-Email service https://feedmail.org/ https://feedmail.org/. I've written about my setup and why I prefer RSS-to-Email on my blog nearly a decade ago https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/ https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/. I used to use https://blogtrottr.com https://blogtrottr.com which I do still think is a good product, they just didn't quite fit my needs so after about 8 years I ended up creating my own.

aag 4y ago
I have used Blogtrottr since Google Reader went away, and I love it. It's great not having to check yet another app for updates, and all the filtering and labeling tools of modern email clients can be used.

vpol 4y ago

Reeder for iOS/macOS

docdeek 4y ago
I'm also a fan. Been using it since v3 (it's v5 now) and it's great. Sync via iCloud on all devices, great piece of software.

curiousfab 4y ago

rss2email + mutt

lothar_m 4y ago
Exactly the same setup on my machines. Works fine and can be integrated with any other sync programs as needed. A flexible and robust approach to RSS. Newsboat is also a great option, for those who prefer a dedicated RSS app.

blakesterz 4y ago

I've been on NewsBlur since Google Reader was put down. I'm still happy with it. Both the web and phone version are nice, and it rarely has issues. https://www.newsblur.com/ https://www.newsblur.com/

Eddy_Viscosity2 4y ago
Exactly me, from google reader to newsblur.
bilal4hmed 4y ago
Another one for Newsblur, since day 1
alexott 4y ago
Same for me - sometimes UI changes aren’t good, but usually they were addressed
quaintdev 4y ago
If anyone is looking for some self hosted RSS reader I have covered them in blog post, check it out https://rohanrd.xyz/posts/rss-readers-that-you-can-self-host/ https://rohanrd.xyz/posts/rss-readers-that-you-can-self-host...
- eddiequinn 4y ago
  As it happens I was going to set up a homelab in the new year, and an RSS reader was one of the things I wanted to host. Thank you!
greenyoda 4y ago
Yet another paying NewsBlur subscriber, from the earliest days. I use them to subscribe to hundreds of RSS feeds. I've been increasingly using their search feature, which allows you to search for text across a "folder" (group of subscriptions) or across all your subscriptions. Another nice feature: If you enter just the home URL for a web site when creating a new subscription, it'll automatically search commonly used URLs (/feed, /rss, etc.) to find their RSS feed for you.

ctbeiser 4y ago

Feedbin for sync and for email ingest. A key fact about this is that unlike Feedly and Newsblur, it keeps old content indefinitely. That means that if I don't check feeds for a while, or something is too heavy to read one month, I don't lose it forever. iOS: Unread, which is just supremely beautiful. I'm amazed that the "double tap to mark read/unread" interaction isn't standard. Mac: Reeder, which is nice and flexible though not perfect.

mesbahamin 4y ago

Miniflux. I'm incredibly happy with how simple and usable it is. I mostly use it as a PWA on my phone. https://miniflux.app/ https://miniflux.app/

number6 4y ago
I also use miniflux but not as pwa. What changes if you use it as a pwa?
- mesbahamin 4y ago
  Not much. It just has its own button on the home screen (iOS) and behaves (mostly) like a native app. A browser bookmark would work as well. Miniflux is designed to work well on a small screen with touch input. So the fact that, unlike some other options, it doesn't have a native app is not too much of a limitation.
  - TylerE 4y ago
    I suspect that’s because most “native apps” are really just web views running spas
rlue 4y ago
I really like miniflux, but I really wish it had a weighted post ordering rather than a simple chronological ordering. I posted a feature request about this earlier this year[0], but the gist is this: If you subscribe to some feeds that post 100+ times a day (like a major news outlet) and others that post only once every couple months or so (like many personal blogs), you'll never catch the latter because those posts are always drowned in a sea of the former. Reddit deals with this problem by weighting posts from each subreddit you subscribe to so that your frontpage contains content from as many of your subs as possible. All I want for Christmas is for this idea to get some traction. Hoping to make the time to hack on this myself Q1 of next year. [0]: https://github.com/miniflux/v2/issues/1493 https://github.com/miniflux/v2/issues/1493
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CharlesW 4y ago

Feedly on the web, and Reeder or NetNewsWire on mobile. I keep meaning to try Unread as well. Both of the mobile options integrate with Feedly for sync'd read/unread status, etc.

erenkaplan 4y ago

I use netnewswire because I'm in the Apple ecosystem. https://netnewswire.com/ https://netnewswire.com/

jonwinstanley 4y ago
Net News Wire is awesome, both iPhone and Mac apps are really nicely done.
ajdude 4y ago
Also using NetNewsWire, combined with Feedbin. It works flawlessly across all of my Apple devices, macOS and iOS.
vanilla_nut 4y ago
Beautiful native apps. Works great with self-hosted FreshRSS. Possibly my favorite software release of 2022!
roydivision 4y ago
I seem to be the only person who doesn’t like NetNewsWire. The fact that you still can’t configure global settings that cover all feeds makes it useless for me.
- janandonly 4y ago
  Not useless, but less usefull.
rado 4y ago
Same here. It’s great, one of the best apps of any kind.
stmpjmpr 4y ago
Also a happy NNW user. I'd been using Feedbin, which is also good, but since I'm a Mac and iOS user, I switched to using NNW with iCloud syncing, which has been working great. It's so nice to have fully-native apps!
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hprotagonist 4y ago

Feedly; i'm lazy and that was where i landed after google reader went pow

justinvoss 4y ago

I've been using Feedbin for a few years and have been happy with it, especially since it syncs with my preferred iOS client, Reeder. https://feedbin.com https://feedbin.com https://www.reederapp.com https://www.reederapp.com

nordsieck 4y ago

Newsboat[1]. Having everything happen locally on my own machine is great - I never want to be in the position of losing Google Reader again. And the option to do non-interactive refresh makes is almost as nice for high volume feeds. --- 1. https://newsboat.org/ https://newsboat.org/

safety1st 4y ago

Not technically for reading, but for downloading podcasts via their RSS feeds I use castero and am very happy with it. https://github.com/xgi/castero https://github.com/xgi/castero

flandish 4y ago

I use “Reeder” - http://reederapp.com http://reederapp.com I connect/subscribe it to various things - one of which is a previously curated FreshRSS instance, running in a docker container. So reeder connects and updates read/new feed additions too.

rcarmo 4y ago
Same here. Reeder across all my Apple gear. I haven’t found anything anywhere as nice for Fedora or Windows. 200+ feeds, using it since 1.0.
roydivision 4y ago
Reeder for iOS with a Feedbin subscription. This combination has worked perfectly for years.
D13Fd 4y ago
I used to use Reeder/Feedbin but I moved to NetNewsWire/Feedbin when they started updating NNW again. I like NNW a bit better.

sqwrell 4y ago

feedbro browser extension is pretty powerful

quaintdev 4y ago

I've been using FreshRSS [0] for a while now as my RSS reader, it's open source and can be self-hosted. It's been reliable and easy to use. 0: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS

vanilla_nut 4y ago

I use NetNewsWire these days, but for anyone who wants to dabble in RSS with minimal investment, I highly recommend FeedBro, a well-executed Firefox add-on. It has a highly customizable UI. It handles all the fetching/refreshes/storage right in your browser, no need to install anything else or self-host a backend. And you can import/export OPML feed collections, so you can easily switch to another solution when you outgrow it. The only downside I've found: it doesn't sync between machines (at least, not for free). That's totally fine when you're just trying out RSS for the first time, but it does get annoying if you eventually want to read on, say, a phone, tablet, and laptop in different situations. For that use case, NNW + FreshRSS is my current, excellent solution.

daydream 4y ago
NetNewsWire can sync between multiple devices using iCloud, no third party service needed. It works very well for me.

buster 4y ago

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feedr https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feedr

wavesounds 4y ago

Whats with all of these RSS stories suddenly on the front page today? Feels like exactly what PG was talking about in The Submarine[1] but who would be behind pushing RSS feeds all of a sudden? Is there a Big RSS lobby I don't know about? 1. http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html

kgwxd 4y ago
I think it's stemming from the Twitter migration trend. Lots of people moving to Mastodon are talking about their personal blogs or thinking about starting one up again. Zeitgeist is thinking about taking back content ownership and creating tighter communities. I'm diggin' it.

OscarCunningham 4y ago

I've been using the Feedbro browser extension for Firefox since I ran out of room on Feedly.

musictubes 4y ago

RSS reader? Unread on iOS/iPadOS and Newsblur on the web. I use Newsblur as my aggregator.

LunarAurora 4y ago

Fraidycat [1] (+ Feedly) [1] https://fraidyc.at/ https://fraidyc.at/

kilroy123 4y ago
Same here but I really wish I could use it on my phone.

ohCh6zos 4y ago

I use Freshrss as my backend and Reader as my frontend.

rambambram 4y ago

I use the built-in RSS reader from HeyHomepage.com (disclaimer: I built that).

RistrettoMike 4y ago

I pay for Bazqux reader because I’d like for it to stick around as a small business with a vested interest in serving my feeds and not pivoting to newsletters or algorithmic news or whatever: https://bazqux.com/ https://bazqux.com/ That gets read from the Reeder app on iOS or on the web on Windows. Longer pieces get saved to Instapaper for Kindle-reading and archived on pinboard.

spiffytech 4y ago
I'm a happy Bazqux user, too. It's a simple, no-frills experience that reminds me of what I liked about Google Reader. I use their PWA on mobile, which works really well.

breput 4y ago

Drop Feeds[0] - a Firefox browser extension[1] that continues in style of the original Sage (and Sage++) extensions. You can configure it to only show unread feeds and automatically poll for changes, so you always have the latest updates right there in your browser sidebar without having to go to a different application or site. [0] https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drop-feeds/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drop-feeds/

jtthe13 4y ago

Subscribed back in the day to a lifetime deal for Feedly, which is very good at filtering out themes/keywords I'm not interested in. On the app side, I haven't found anything more enjoyable than Reeder (mac and iOS). Keyboard shortcuts are great too.

wtf77 4y ago

selfhosted FreshRSS + NetNewsWire

mike503 4y ago

+1 for Reeder (iPhone only) using Feedly for free as the backend (RIP Google Reader) I only do RSS browsing on my phone, triage what I'm interested in to emails sent to myself or send to pinboard for archiving/maybe visit later (although probably moving away from PB soon)

tbolt 4y ago

Feedbin + Reeder Also hi sbolt

devinegan 4y ago

Self-hosted tiny tiny rss via browser or iOS client tiny Reader. I use filters aggressively to remove topic saturation. Highly recommend.

rupi 4y ago

Readwise Reader for a week and so far I am really liking it. Before that, I used Feedly and Google Reader before that.

juancn 4y ago

I use Reeder but as a client for Feedly.

knowsuchagency 4y ago

Readwise Reader looks promising https://readwise.io/read https://readwise.io/read

shashurup 4y ago

My own, feedcircuit.kibardin.name

simonmic 4y ago

https://bazqux.com https://bazqux.com ! I use it daily for years, can highly recommend.

MongoTheMad 4y ago

I host yarr in my home K8s with GitHub oauth for security. Then I just access via browser. https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr

lf-non 4y ago

Yarr: https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr.git https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr.git Super neat and minimal web based rss reader. It also needs minimal resources and virtually no maintenance.

europeanguy 4y ago

I use newsboat. Comes with debian. It's the lightest RSS reader I've ever used.

ibobev 4y ago

I'm using https://theoldreader.com/ https://theoldreader.com/. It is very similar to the discontinued Google Reader.

bitsoda 4y ago
Same here. Does what I need it to do, but I've noticed that it only syncs one-way with NetNewsWire (pulls feeds in, but won't update read status), unfortunately. It's still good enough for my needs as I'm not subbed to that many feeds.
lostinthecode 4y ago
Completely agree. I love theoldreader.com, and it's compatible with apps like Reeder. I used to host tt-rss, but I don't want to continually patch and update anymore.

georgeoliver 4y ago

Feedly with the Feedly Android app, which syncs unread items with the desktop web app (so unread == not visited). I don't read anything in Feedly itself -- makes me wonder if there are RSS apps focused just on aggregation.

kkfx 4y ago

ttRSS, because RSS2Email is next to useless in the modern crappy feed usage where full articles are NOT on the feed... While as a concept it's very nice since I use notmuch, so I can manage mails and especially search&tag them very well. I've used elfeed, it demand too much time to skim many posts, similar to Miniflux who is quicker but still demand too much time. ttRSS allow to scroll marking read, that's enough for me. Feeds nowadays simply have much value as a tool, but too little values per mean post. Gnus with scoring is nice, but again too slow to skim, even with scoring help.

deafpolygon 4y ago

I use newsboat, and feedly on the web. I don't use it on mobile.

MattDemers 4y ago

I've been using a TinyTinyRSS instance on Docker. I've also been playing with FreshRSS but there's some things that I don't like as much.

John_R_S 4y ago

Outlook

CoBE10 4y ago

Sfeed: https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html It's better and more customizable than Newsboat, plus there is an option to transfer everything from the Newsboat to it. It is not really a reader but a parser, but that's what makes it great.

zzyzxd 4y ago

Not sure if it's just me, but I have not used a RSS reader as a serious reading software for years. Instead, I only use a RSS reader software to quickly go through all the unread items and send interesting articles to a read-later or bookmark service. The main reasons are: - Some feeds only provide title/summary and not the full text article (yes, I know there are full-text extraction service, but last time I tried them, none of them was perfect, and I don't want to play the guessing game -- "Am I reading the full article, or a broken extraction?") - Some feeds are just better to be read in a web browser. e.g.: Project release notes on GitHub, which usually come with links to PRs, commits...etc, so I need to open several browser tabs to consume the content anyways. - Some personal blog sites have very beautiful (or interesting) designs that I find myself actually enjoys poking around. - Ad-blocking -- given the current popularity of RSS, I don't know if it really makes sense financially for websites to do so, but I notice some feeds do inject ads. - If I ever need to click a link in an article, jumping from a reader software to a browser is too big of a context switch that disrupts my flow -- just let me go through all the feeds right now, and I will decide how to prioritize the most interesting ones and allocate my reading time later. For my use cases, Unread on iOS gave me the best experience. All the gestures optimized for single-hand operations are just fantastic. Sadly, they switched from one-time payment to monthly subscription and I can't justify the cost when I only use it in a very light way(just for sorting items). Reeder is not as good, but is comfortable enough for me.

Moustache6471 4y ago
Same here. Currently I don't read my feeds in the RSS reader, but I mark what interests me and send it to Pocket to read later in this application or directly on the original website.
kgwxd 4y ago
> I have not used a RSS reader as a serious reading software for years Same here but I think we were mostly forced into it. Site owners care more about getting you on their site than the quality of the content. There's no incentive to include a bare bones version for RSS so, if they even have an RSS feed, it's just links. Aggregate sites can't even include the content. Also, there's just too much multimedia content these days, a proper browser will always be more reliable for viewing it. I really don't mind it. I just love not having to re-scan over headlines I've already seen or intentionally skipped over.

arcatech 4y ago

I happen to be using my own. I wrote my website from scratch in Go and decided to build a RSS reader into it. Anyone can view the list of articles I’m reading at https://dwayne.xyz/reader https://dwayne.xyz/reader

animesh 4y ago
Had a similar idea as one of the features for my static generator. Really glad to see it in action.

kgwxd 4y ago

QuiteRSS on Windows. I was using newsbeuter/newsboat when I was on Linux and I really liked it. My wants from a reader are very basic though, I'm really only interested in getting the title and links, I don't care if it even has a content viewer beyond text-only.

timbit42 4y ago
QuiteRSS also runs on Linux.

fitblipper 4y ago

Tiny tiny rss on docker desktop with tailscale so I can access it anywhere.

dang 4y ago

Related ongoing threads: This is the year of the RSS reader - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105572 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105572 It's time for an RSS revival (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105558 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105558

jkmcf 4y ago

I’m using Reeder with Feedly. Reeder makes processing a lot of feeds pretty easy. I keep hoping Feedly will help separate the wheat from the chaff in my feeds with their ML work, but it seems to require me doing more than clicking on what to read to identify my likes and dislikes. I’ve played with Matter and Readwise Reader, and so far I’m not impressed. I like Readwise in theory, but the RSS reading UI is a bit slow though I might need to tweak the settings to make it quicker.

notmuchserious 4y ago

i use hacker news

leethargo 4y ago

rawdog (RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur) [1]. It's a simple script that I manually trigger once a day to check my list of feeds from a config file. It caches the known posts and generates static HTML with summaries of the new posts for me to browse locally. [1] http://offog.org/code/rawdog/ http://offog.org/code/rawdog/

BerislavLopac 4y ago

Netvibes, I've been using it continuously since at least 2008: https://www.netvibes.com https://www.netvibes.com

saturn_vk 4y ago

I self host https://github.com/urandom/readeef https://github.com/urandom/readeef which I wrote some time after the demise of google reader

liamjbennett 4y ago

I was a Feedly user since 2013 but have since moved to Readwise Reader https://readwise.io/read https://readwise.io/read Also recently did I little write up of my workflow: https://www.liamjbennett.me/posts/2022-12-23-workflow-2023/ https://www.liamjbennett.me/posts/2022-12-23-workflow-2023/

blbuford 4y ago
Out of curiosity, what are your “daily check in” podcasts?

the_third_wave 4y ago

The Nextcloud News app, I started using it when it was still the Owncloud news app many years ago. Initially I used it in combination with the related Own/Newscloud News app for Android but just use the web interface now since this is always up to date and does not need any synchronisation.

lcall 4y ago

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. A previous discussion from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424 I haven't tried any of the others in comments here, so can't make comparisons; that might be interesting.

wink 4y ago

As of a few months ago, self-hosted FreshRSS + FeedMe on Android.

ryangibb 4y ago

Feeder: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/ One of the surprisingly few readers I could find that is local-only and doesn't require an account. I self host a lot of services but don't see the need for an RSS reader server-side.

nephanth 4y ago
Feeder's great, I personally dont need anything more complicated

d3vr 4y ago

Self-hosted instance of FreshRSS [0], Readrops [1] as the client on Android, html2rss [2] for websites that don't have RSS feeds and AtoMail [3] to get newsletters as RSS feeds instead. Edit: forgot to mention RssBridge [4] to get tweets that match certain criteria as an RSS feed. RssBridge also provides access to many other platforms. [0]: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS [1]: https://github.com/readrops/Readrops https://github.com/readrops/Readrops [2]: https://github.com/html2rss/html2rss-web https://github.com/html2rss/html2rss-web [3]: https://github.com/remko/atomail https://github.com/remko/atomail [4]: https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge

lexoj 4y ago

Initially I used Mailbrew, but for the last 5 months I've been happily using my own open-source tool through Obsidian: https://github.com/piqoni/matcha https://github.com/piqoni/matcha It is a daily digest and supports also terminal mode.

d4a 4y ago

FreshRSS for sync and on my computer, with NetNewsWire on my phone

josephd79 4y ago

I use Otter RSS. Simple, minimal rss reader.

bradbarrish 4y ago

Been using Feedbin with Reeder pretty much since Google Reader shut down. I’ve tried a bunch of others and always come back to this winning combo. Worth noting that Feedbin’s web app is also great.

nipperkinfeet 4y ago

QuiteRSS. I stuck with it for years, still works.

sh33sh 4y ago

Same comment as last time Never understood why nobody talks about NewsExplorer https://apps.apple.com/app/id1032668306 https://apps.apple.com/app/id1032668306, the only third party app on my phone that is available on ALL iDevices it’s actually insane iCloud sync without needed rss backend, snapshot/export/import/folder Also reads Twitter private lists and feed Search inside articles Stable with tens of thousands of articles unread

miguel-muniz 4y ago
+1 for News Explorer. Took a bit to configure, but I use it every day with no issues. Even use the Watch app sometimes

gen220 4y ago

I've been self-hosting miniflux [0] for a couple years. Rock solid performance, deployment is easy, upgrades are small but meaningful, and doesn't use anything exotic in the tech stack (mainly Go, some vanilla JS, persists data in PostgreSQL). I mainly browse on my laptop, but it's pretty decent on mobile. [0]: https://github.com/miniflux/v2 https://github.com/miniflux/v2

jhot 4y ago
Also a happy miniflux holster. On Android I use Miniflutt [0] as a client, mainly for the mark as read on scroll feature. Any fever API compatible app will work, though. 0 https://github.com/DocMarty84/miniflutt https://github.com/DocMarty84/miniflutt
ekovarski 4y ago
Self hosted miniflux as well but kept running into 403/429 errors when using reddit rss feeds, went back to freshrss. The biggest issue is that once you invest in a reader, your data aside from the feed opml, is stuck in that reader so your favourites, labels, and content can't migrate.
- gen220 4y ago
  Interesting feedback on reddit RSS feeds. I'm only subscribed to a single reddit feed, but it's totally possible that miniflux was spamming requests and that led to a rate limit. It isn't super customizable in terms of how frequently it pings to see if new items have been added, it's a fair criticism. I'd gently push back on the migration issue. As long as you're going the self-hosted route, all of this data exists on your machine. A tool for painless migration from X reader to Y reader might not exist, but at least it's feasible to build. If your data is in some hosted solution, you're at the mercy of the provider to implement data exports.

sjs382 4y ago

Ive been using Feedbin basically since Google Reader shut down. The web interface is very usable for someone who mostly navigated GR via the keyboard.

heywoodlh 4y ago

I self-host FreshRSS and mostly consume my feeds through Reeder on my iPhone. When I want to connect to FreshRSS on desktop I typically use NewsBoat.

bradwood 4y ago

https://newsboat.org/ https://newsboat.org/

seba_dos1 4y ago

CommaFeed

Moustache6471 4y ago

Currently using Feedly, but my subscription is ending in January. I'm thinking of taking advantage of an Inoreader offer that is active until December 28 and switching to there. It is advisable? I don't usually read my feeds in the RSS service, but I look at the headlines and mark what interests me to send it to Pocket and read it quietly there or on the original website of the site.

nokya 4y ago

QuiteRSS on Windows. Still not perfect in terms of features but it's fast.

timbit42 4y ago
QuiteRSS also runs on Linux.

JasonFruit 4y ago

I'm amazed to search this whole conversation and not find anyone using Liferea. Simple, free, and effective. I have no complaints.

timbit42 4y ago
I used Liferea for some years. Then I found QuiteRSS, which is much better.