Alternatives to Feedspot
Reads blogs, YouTube channels, podcasts and social feeds from one dashboard. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Feedspot
Reads blogs, YouTube channels, podcasts and social feeds from one dashboard.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Feedspot.
Feedly
Cloud RSS reader with apps, newsletters and AI topic filtering.
Feedly adds mature Android and iOS apps and routes newsletters into the same stream, while AI filtering and search need its more expensive tiers.
Inoreader
Power-user cloud RSS reader with rules, filters and full-text search.
Inoreader adds Android and iOS apps plus rules, filters and full-text search for triage, with those features and higher feed counts on a paid tier.
NewsBlur
Open-source cloud RSS reader that learns what you like.
NewsBlur is open source and self-hostable with Android and iOS apps, and trains on tags, authors and phrases, but lacks topic-ranked directories.
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 usable free tier, focused on RSS rather than podcasts and social feeds.
Feedbin
Paid RSS reader that also handles newsletters and YouTube.
Feedbin is a paid, open-source web reader that brings newsletters, YouTube and Mastodon into one stream, with an API for third-party apps.
Bloglovin
Lifestyle and fashion blog aggregator with a discovery feed.
Bloglovin is free on web, iOS and Android with a discovery feed, but leans toward lifestyle and fashion blogs and lacks power-user filtering.
Folo
An AI-assisted feed reader for RSS and other sources, with desktop, web and mobile apps.
Folo is a free AI-assisted reader for RSS and other sources with desktop, web and mobile apps, replacing a web-only dashboard.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Feedspot 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.
Feedspot also combines RSS with YouTube, podcast and social feeds in one web dashboard, but it is not open source and adds topic-ranked discovery directories.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
RSS.app
An online service that generates RSS feeds from websites, social media, keyword searches and newsletters.
FetchRSS
An online RSS generator that builds feeds from almost any web page or social media page.
GetRSSFeed
A web tool that finds the RSS feed URL behind podcast pages, YouTube channels and websites.
Readwise Reader
Read-it-later app for articles, PDFs, RSS, YouTube, and ePubs.
