Alternatives to Handy News Reader
A light Android feed reader, forked from Flym, that loads full article text for offline reading. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Handy News Reader
A light Android feed reader, forked from Flym, that loads full article text for offline reading.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Handy News Reader.
ReadYou
Follow RSS feeds with a Material-style Android reader.
ReadYou is a GPL-3.0 Android reader with a Material-style interface and OPML exchange, but full article loading for offline reading is not listed among its strengths.
Feeder
Read RSS, Atom and JSON feeds on Android.
Feeder is a GPL-3.0 Android reader that keeps subscriptions locally without an account, and likewise does not sync with remote feed-reader backends.
Readrops
An Android RSS client that reads local feeds or syncs with FreshRSS, Nextcloud News and others.
Readrops is an open-source Android client that adds sync with FreshRSS, Nextcloud News and others, alongside local feeds.
Capy Reader
A small open-source Android RSS reader for local feeds or Feedbin, Miniflux and FreshRSS accounts.
Capy Reader is a small open-source Android reader that adds Feedbin, Miniflux and FreshRSS accounts alongside local feeds, with a deliberately small feature set.
FeedMe
Android feed reader supporting many sync services.
FeedMe works with almost every common sync back end and adds on-device filtering rules, but is not open source and some features require payment.
Twine
An open-source RSS and Atom reader for Android and iOS with a card-based Material You design.
Twine is an open-source reader with a card-based Material You design that also runs on iOS, though its layout is less dense than list-based readers.
FeedFlow
A minimal RSS reader that shows your feeds in publication order on mobile and desktop.
FeedFlow is an open-source reader that prefetches full articles for offline reading and also runs on iOS and desktop, with cloud or FreshRSS and Miniflux sync.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
wallabag
Self-hosted read-it-later service that keeps a clean copy of articles.
Instapaper
A read-it-later service that saves web pages so you can read them later on other devices.
Readeck
A self-hosted read-it-later app that saves web articles, pictures and videos for clean reading later.
