Alternatives to ReadYou
Follow RSS feeds with a Material-style Android reader. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
ReadYou
Follow RSS feeds with a Material-style Android reader.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as ReadYou.
Feeder
Read RSS, Atom and JSON feeds on Android.
Feeder is another free GPL-3.0 Android reader keeping subscriptions locally without an account, and it also does not sync with remote reader back ends.
FeedMe
Android feed reader supporting many sync services.
FeedMe is a closed-source freemium Android reader that works with almost every common sync back end, with a dense, dated interface and some paid features.
Feedly
Cloud RSS reader with apps, newsletters and AI topic filtering.
Feedly is a closed-source cloud reader with apps on Android, iOS and web, but its free tier caps feeds and folders tightly.
Inoreader
Power-user cloud RSS reader with rules, filters and full-text search.
Inoreader is a closed-source hosted reader on Android, iOS and web with rules and full-text search, most of which need a paid tier.
NewsBlur
Open-source cloud RSS reader that learns what you like.
NewsBlur is an open-source cloud reader with Android and iOS apps that learns your preferences, though its free tier covers only a few feeds.
Capy Reader
A small open-source Android RSS reader for local feeds or Feedbin, Miniflux and FreshRSS accounts.
Capy Reader is an open-source Android reader for local feeds that also works with Feedbin, Miniflux and FreshRSS accounts, with a deliberately small feature set.
FeedFlow
A minimal RSS reader that shows your feeds in publication order on mobile and desktop.
FeedFlow is an open-source chronological reader that also runs on iOS and desktop and syncs through cloud storage, FreshRSS or Miniflux.
Folo
An AI-assisted feed reader for RSS and other sources, with desktop, web and mobile apps.
Folo offers AI-assisted reading across Android, iOS, desktop and web with RSS and other sources, but its license details are not stated.
Also worth comparing
These listings name ReadYou as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Handy News Reader
A light Android feed reader, forked from Flym, that loads full article text for offline reading.
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.
Readrops
An Android RSS client that reads local feeds or syncs with FreshRSS, Nextcloud News and others.
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.
Twine
An open-source RSS and Atom reader for Android and iOS with a card-based Material You design.
ReadYou is a GPL-3.0 Material-style reader for Android only, dropping iOS support compared with Twine's shared-code apps.
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.
Miniflux
A deliberately minimal feed reader: one Go binary, a PostgreSQL database, and no options you do not need.
Nextcloud News
RSS reader that runs inside a Nextcloud instance.
Tiny Tiny RSS
Long-running self-hosted news aggregator with plugins and filters.
RSSHub
Generates RSS feeds for sites that do not publish one.
