Alternatives to Fiery Feeds
Power-user iOS and macOS reader supporting many back ends. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Fiery Feeds
Power-user iOS and macOS reader supporting many back ends.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Fiery Feeds.
NetNewsWire
Free, open-source feed reader for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
NetNewsWire is free and MIT-licensed on Mac, iPhone and iPad with iCloud sync and many back ends, but has no filtering or rules.
Reeder Classic
The classic Reeder feed reader, still sold separately.
Reeder Classic is a paid Apple app with folders and unread counts that supports nearly every sync back end, though it is no longer developed actively.
Reeder
Apple-platform timeline reader for feeds, podcasts and videos.
Reeder uses one chronological timeline across feeds, podcasts and videos with iCloud sync, replacing the classic unread-count workflow and smart views.
Unread
iOS and macOS feed reader designed around comfortable reading.
Unread focuses on typography, gestures and automatic full-text fetching on iOS and macOS, and also needs a subscription for most functionality.
lire
iOS and macOS reader that downloads full articles for offline use.
lire is a paid per-platform purchase for iOS and macOS that downloads full articles for offline reading and searches their text.
Vienna RSS
Open-source RSS and Atom reader for macOS with smart folders.
Vienna RSS is free, Apache-licensed and native on macOS only, with smart folders built from criteria, but more limited sync support and no iOS app.
ReadKit
An RSS and read-later client for iPhone, iPad and Mac that syncs with many feed services.
ReadKit syncs with many RSS and read-later services on iPhone, iPad and Mac, adding a built-in RSS engine, smart folders and offline image caching.
News Explorer
A feed reader for Mac and iOS that syncs feeds and read status through iCloud.
News Explorer is a paid Mac and iOS reader syncing through iCloud without a separate account, following Reddit, Mastodon, YouTube and podcasts, rather than many back ends.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Feedbin
Paid RSS reader that also handles newsletters and YouTube.
Inoreader
Power-user cloud RSS reader with rules, filters and full-text search.
FreshRSS
A self-hosted feed reader that is light enough to run on a cheap shared host and still handles hundreds of feeds.
Feedly
Cloud RSS reader with apps, newsletters and AI topic filtering.
Miniflux
A deliberately minimal feed reader: one Go binary, a PostgreSQL database, and no options you do not need.
