Alternatives to Feedly
Cloud RSS reader with apps, newsletters and AI topic filtering. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Feedly
Cloud RSS reader with apps, newsletters and AI topic filtering.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Feedly.
Inoreader
Power-user cloud RSS reader with rules, filters and full-text search.
Inoreader is also a freemium hosted reader on Android, iOS and web, adding rules, filters and monitoring feeds, which need a paid tier.
NewsBlur
Open-source cloud RSS reader that learns what you like.
NewsBlur is open source and self-hostable, with Android, iOS and web apps, and trains on tags, authors and phrases, though its free tier allows few feeds.
Feedbin
Paid RSS reader that also handles newsletters and YouTube.
Feedbin is paid only with no free tier beyond a trial, open source, and brings newsletters, YouTube and Mastodon into one stream with an open API.
The Old Reader
Hosted feed reader modelled on the original Google Reader.
The Old Reader is a web reader modelled on Google Reader with social sharing and a free tier, but no official mobile apps or AI filtering.
BazQux Reader
Fast Google Reader-style hosted feed reader that shows comments.
BazQux Reader is a paid web-only reader with a fast Google Reader-style interface that shows comment threads, run as a one-person project.
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 host yourself, with no algorithm in between, an API for mobile readers and XPath scraping for sites without feeds.
Feedspot
Reads blogs, YouTube channels, podcasts and social feeds from one dashboard.
Feedspot is a web-only freemium dashboard combining blogs, YouTube, podcasts and social feeds, with topic-ranked directories for discovering sources.
Miniflux
A deliberately minimal feed reader: one Go binary, a PostgreSQL database, and no options you do not need.
Miniflux is an Apache-licensed minimal reader that can be self-hosted as a Go binary with PostgreSQL, stripping trackers and offering full-text search.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Feedly as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Bloglovin
Lifestyle and fashion blog aggregator with a discovery feed.
Feedly covers general news rather than a lifestyle focus, with apps on Android, iOS and web, but its free tier caps feeds and folders tightly.
Capy Reader
A small open-source Android RSS reader for local feeds or Feedbin, Miniflux and FreshRSS accounts.
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.
Feedbro
A browser extension feed reader for RSS, Atom and RDF with a built-in rule engine.
Feedly is a hosted reader with synced Android, iOS and web apps and AI topic filtering, replacing a browser-bound extension, with a free tier that caps feeds.
FeedDeck
An open-source, TweetDeck-style reader that shows RSS and social media feeds in columns.
Feedly is a closed-source cloud reader with mature mobile apps and AI topic filtering, using a single stream instead of columns, with tight free-tier limits.
Feeder
Read RSS, Atom and JSON feeds on Android.
Feedly is a closed-source cloud service requiring an account, syncing across Android, iOS and web, with a free tier that caps feeds and folders.
FeedFlow
A minimal RSS reader that shows your feeds in publication order on mobile and desktop.
Feedly is a closed-source hosted reader for Android, iOS and web with its own syncing, newsletters and AI filtering, but no desktop apps and a capped free tier.
FeedLand
A web-based feed reader and feed management service for reading news and sharing lists of feeds.
Feedly is a hosted reader with Android, iOS and web apps, newsletters and AI filtering, but it lacks shareable feed lists and linkblog features and caps free feeds.
FeedMe
Android feed reader supporting many sync services.
Feedly uses its own cloud service with apps on Android, iOS and web rather than supporting many sync back ends, and its free tier caps feeds.
Feeds Fun
A self-hostable news reader that tags feed entries and ranks them with your own scoring rules.
Feedly offers AI topic filtering in a hosted closed-source service with mobile apps, but the AI filtering requires its more expensive paid tiers.
Folo
An AI-assisted feed reader for RSS and other sources, with desktop, web and mobile apps.
Feedly is a closed-source freemium cloud reader for Android, iOS and web with AI topic filtering, but its free tier caps feeds and folders tightly.
ReadYou
Follow RSS feeds with a Material-style Android reader.
Feedly is a closed-source cloud reader with apps on Android, iOS and web, but its free tier caps feeds and folders tightly.
Reams
Browser-based reader combining RSS feeds, newsletters and saved articles.
Feedly is an established cloud reader with Android and iOS apps that routes newsletters into the feed stream, with tight free-tier limits.
Tapestry
An iOS app that merges RSS feeds, social media, podcasts and YouTube into one chronological timeline.
Feedly is a freemium cloud reader on Android, iOS and web that routes newsletters into one stream, with AI filtering on paid tiers but no social timelines.
Twine
An open-source RSS and Atom reader for Android and iOS with a card-based Material You design.
Feedly is a closed-source cloud reader with mature Android, iOS and web apps and AI topic filtering, though its free tier caps feeds and folders.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
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.
Reeder
Apple-platform timeline reader for feeds, podcasts and videos.
RSS Guard
A desktop feed reader that also logs into Feedly, Inoreader and self-hosted readers, and plays podcasts.
Fiery Feeds
Power-user iOS and macOS reader supporting many back ends.
Kill the Newsletter!
A web tool that turns email newsletters into Atom feeds you can read in a feed reader.
