Alternatives to Elfeed
An extensible web feed reader for GNU Emacs supporting Atom, RSS and JSON Feed. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Elfeed
An extensible web feed reader for GNU Emacs supporting Atom, RSS and JSON Feed.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Elfeed.
Newsboat
Terminal RSS and Atom reader with heavy keyboard control.
Newsboat moves reading from Emacs to the terminal on macOS and Linux, with query feeds, macros and sync with several reader back ends, configured through a file.
Newsraft
Small terminal feed reader with section-based navigation.
Newsraft is a small, fast terminal reader for macOS and Linux that groups feeds into sections, without needing Emacs, though its feature set is smaller.
nom
A terminal RSS feed reader with a simple TUI, Vim-style keys and Markdown-styled articles.
nom is a terminal reader with Vim-style keys, Markdown-styled articles and Miniflux and FreshRSS backends, suited to keyboard users who do not use Emacs.
russ
A terminal RSS and Atom reader written in Rust with vim-style controls and offline storage.
russ is a Rust terminal reader with vim-style controls and local SQLite storage, installed by building with cargo and offering no sync between devices.
sfeed
Suckless RSS and Atom parser that outputs plain text.
sfeed is a tiny ISC-licensed C parser that outputs plain text for Unix tools, so you build your own reading workflow instead of extending Emacs Lisp.
Offpunk
An offline-first command-line browser and feed reader for Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and the web.
Offpunk is an offline-first command-line browser that doubles as a feed reader and also covers Gemini, Gopher and Spartan, with its own command interface.
RSS Guard
A desktop feed reader that also logs into Feedly, Inoreader and self-hosted readers, and plays podcasts.
RSS Guard is a graphical GPL-3.0 desktop reader for Windows, macOS and Linux that logs into Feedly, Inoreader and self-hosted readers and plays podcasts.
Liferea
GTK desktop feed reader for Linux with offline reading.
Liferea is a graphical GTK reader for Linux only, with offline reading and sync to hosted and self-hosted accounts, replacing keyboard-driven Emacs navigation with three panes.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
rss2email
A community-maintained command-line tool that forwards new RSS feed items to your email address.
Akregator
KDE feed reader integrated with the Kontact suite.
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.
