Alternatives to Capy Reader
A small open-source Android RSS reader for local feeds or Feedbin, Miniflux and FreshRSS accounts. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Capy Reader
A small open-source Android RSS reader for local feeds or Feedbin, Miniflux and FreshRSS accounts.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Capy Reader.
Readrops
An Android RSS client that reads local feeds or syncs with FreshRSS, Nextcloud News and others.
Readrops is also an open-source Android client with local feeds, syncing with FreshRSS and Nextcloud News rather than Feedbin.
FeedMe
Android feed reader supporting many sync services.
FeedMe is an Android reader that works with almost every common sync back end and adds filtering rules and offline caching, but it is not open source and has a dated interface.
ReadYou
Follow RSS feeds with a Material-style Android reader.
ReadYou is an open-source GPL-3.0 Android reader with a Material-style interface and OPML exchange, but the roster does not list Feedbin, Miniflux or FreshRSS account support.
Feeder
Read RSS, Atom and JSON feeds on Android.
Feeder is an open-source GPL-3.0 Android reader that keeps subscriptions locally for RSS, Atom and JSON feeds, but it does not sync with remote feed-reader backends.
Handy News Reader
A light Android feed reader, forked from Flym, that loads full article text for offline reading.
Handy News Reader is a GPL-3.0 Android fork of Flym that loads full article text for offline reading, maintained mainly by one developer.
FeedFlow
A minimal RSS reader that shows your feeds in publication order on mobile and desktop.
FeedFlow is open source and runs on Android, iOS, macOS, Windows and Linux, syncing through iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, FreshRSS or Miniflux, though not Feedbin.
Twine
An open-source RSS and Atom reader for Android and iOS with a card-based Material You design.
Twine is an open-source reader for Android and iOS with a card-based Material You layout that is less dense than list-based readers.
Feedly
Cloud RSS reader with apps, newsletters and AI topic filtering.
Feedly moves you to a closed-source hosted service with Android, iOS and web apps, newsletters and AI filtering, with a free tier that caps feeds and folders.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Miniflux
A deliberately minimal feed reader: one Go binary, a PostgreSQL database, and no options you do not need.
FreshRSS
A self-hosted feed reader that is light enough to run on a cheap shared host and still handles hundreds of feeds.
Feedbin
Paid RSS reader that also handles newsletters and YouTube.
Nextcloud News
RSS reader that runs inside a Nextcloud instance.
nom
A terminal RSS feed reader with a simple TUI, Vim-style keys and Markdown-styled articles.
