Alternatives to Readrops
An Android RSS client that reads local feeds or syncs with FreshRSS, Nextcloud News and others. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Readrops
An Android RSS client that reads local feeds or syncs with FreshRSS, Nextcloud News and others.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Readrops.
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 supports Feedbin, Miniflux and FreshRSS instead of Nextcloud News, alongside local feeds.
FeedMe
Android feed reader supporting many sync services.
FeedMe works with almost every common sync back end and adds offline caching and filtering rules, but is closed source with some paid features.
ReadYou
Follow RSS feeds with a Material-style Android reader.
ReadYou is a GPL-3.0 Android reader with a Material-style design and OPML exchange, though sync services are not listed among its features.
Feeder
Read RSS, Atom and JSON feeds on Android.
Feeder is a GPL-3.0 Android reader that keeps subscriptions locally without an account, but does not sync with remote feed-reader backends.
Handy News Reader
A light Android feed reader, forked from Flym, that loads full article text for offline reading.
Handy News Reader is a GPL-3.0 Android fork of Flym that loads full article text for offline reading, but offers no sync services.
FeedFlow
A minimal RSS reader that shows your feeds in publication order on mobile and desktop.
FeedFlow is open source and also runs on iOS and desktop, syncing through iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive or FreshRSS and Miniflux rather than Nextcloud News.
Twine
An open-source RSS and Atom reader for Android and iOS with a card-based Material You design.
Twine is an open-source card-based Material You reader that runs on both Android and iOS, with a less dense visual layout.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
FreshRSS
A self-hosted feed reader that is light enough to run on a cheap shared host and still handles hundreds of feeds.
Nextcloud News
RSS reader that runs inside a Nextcloud instance.
Miniflux
A deliberately minimal feed reader: one Go binary, a PostgreSQL database, and no options you do not need.
