Alternatives to Feedbin
Paid RSS reader that also handles newsletters and YouTube. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Feedbin
Paid RSS reader that also handles newsletters and YouTube.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Feedbin.
Inoreader
Power-user cloud RSS reader with rules, filters and full-text search.
Inoreader is closed source with a free tier and Android and iOS apps, adding rules, filters and full-text search that need a paid tier.
Feedly
Cloud RSS reader with apps, newsletters and AI topic filtering.
Feedly offers a free tier and mature Android, iOS and web apps, also routing newsletters into the stream, with AI filtering on expensive paid tiers.
NewsBlur
Open-source cloud RSS reader that learns what you like.
NewsBlur is MIT-licensed, self-hostable and freemium with Android and iOS apps, and trains on tags, authors and phrases to reduce noise.
BazQux Reader
Fast Google Reader-style hosted feed reader that shows comments.
BazQux Reader is also a paid web reader but closed source, with a fast Google Reader-style interface that shows comment threads alongside articles.
The Old Reader
Hosted feed reader modelled on the original Google Reader.
The Old Reader is closed source with a usable free tier and Google Reader-style social sharing, but has no official mobile apps and no newsletter handling.
FreshRSS
A self-hosted feed reader that is light enough to run on a cheap shared host and still handles hundreds of feeds.
FreshRSS is free AGPL software you run yourself on PHP and a database, with an API for mobile readers and XPath scraping for sites lacking feeds.
Miniflux
A deliberately minimal feed reader: one Go binary, a PostgreSQL database, and no options you do not need.
Miniflux is a freemium Apache-licensed reader you can self-host as one Go binary with PostgreSQL, adding tracker stripping and a clean API.
FeedHQ
Minimal hosted feed reader with an open-source server.
FeedHQ is a minimal freemium hosted reader with an open-source BSD server and a Google Reader-compatible API, but no newsletters or official mobile apps.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Feedbin as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
FeedDeck
An open-source, TweetDeck-style reader that shows RSS and social media feeds in columns.
Feedbin brings newsletters, YouTube and Mastodon into one reading stream rather than columns, and is a paid web service with no free tier beyond the trial.
FeedLand
A web-based feed reader and feed management service for reading news and sharing lists of feeds.
Feedbin is a paid open-source hosted reader combining RSS, newsletters, YouTube and Mastodon, with an API for third-party apps but no shared feed lists.
Feedspot
Reads blogs, YouTube channels, podcasts and social feeds from one dashboard.
Feedbin is a paid, open-source web reader that brings newsletters, YouTube and Mastodon into one stream, with an API for third-party apps.
Folo
An AI-assisted feed reader for RSS and other sources, with desktop, web and mobile apps.
Feedbin is a paid open-source web reader that brings newsletters, YouTube and Mastodon into one stream and works with many third-party apps.
Reams
Browser-based reader combining RSS feeds, newsletters and saved articles.
Feedbin is a paid RSS reader that also takes newsletters, YouTube and Mastodon in one stream, with an open API for third-party apps.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Reeder
Apple-platform timeline reader for feeds, podcasts and videos.
NetNewsWire
Free, open-source feed reader for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Fiery Feeds
Power-user iOS and macOS reader supporting many back ends.
Readwise Reader
Read-it-later app for articles, PDFs, RSS, YouTube, and ePubs.
Matter
Read-it-later app that combines newsletters, RSS feeds, and saved articles.
Capy Reader
A small open-source Android RSS reader for local feeds or Feedbin, Miniflux and FreshRSS accounts.
