I've been on NewsBlur since Google Reader was put down. I'm still happy with it. Both the web and phone version are nice, and it rarely has issues.<p><a href="https://www.newsblur.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.newsblur.com/</a>
I use Feedly, not sure why it's not more frequently recommended.<p><a href="https://feedly.com/" rel="nofollow">https://feedly.com/</a>
I've been self-hosting miniflux [0] for a couple years. Rock solid performance, deployment is easy, upgrades are small but meaningful, and doesn't use anything exotic in the tech stack (mainly Go, some vanilla JS, persists data in PostgreSQL).<p>I mainly browse on my laptop, but it's pretty decent on mobile.<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/miniflux/v2">https://github.com/miniflux/v2</a>
I use netnewswire because I'm in the Apple ecosystem.<p><a href="https://netnewswire.com/" rel="nofollow">https://netnewswire.com/</a>
I use “Reeder” - <a href="http://reederapp.com" rel="nofollow">http://reederapp.com</a><p>I connect/subscribe it to various things - one of which is a previously curated FreshRSS instance, running in a docker container. So reeder connects and updates read/new feed additions too.
I pay for Bazqux reader because I’d like for it to stick around as a small business with a vested interest in serving my feeds and not pivoting to newsletters or algorithmic news or whatever:<p><a href="https://bazqux.com/" rel="nofollow">https://bazqux.com/</a><p>That gets read from the Reeder app on iOS or on the web on Windows. Longer pieces get saved to Instapaper for Kindle-reading and archived on pinboard.
Miniflux. I'm incredibly happy with how simple and usable it is. I mostly use it as a PWA on my phone.<p><a href="https://miniflux.app/" rel="nofollow">https://miniflux.app/</a>
Not sure if it's just me, but I have not used a RSS reader as a serious reading software for years. Instead, I only use a RSS reader software to quickly go through all the unread items and send interesting articles to a read-later or bookmark service. The main reasons are:<p>- Some feeds only provide title/summary and not the full text article (yes, I know there are full-text extraction service, but last time I tried them, none of them was perfect, and I don't want to play the guessing game -- "Am I reading the full article, or a broken extraction?")<p>- Some feeds are just better to be read in a web browser. e.g.: Project release notes on GitHub, which usually come with links to PRs, commits...etc, so I need to open several browser tabs to consume the content anyways.<p>- Some personal blog sites have very beautiful (or interesting) designs that I find myself actually enjoys poking around.<p>- Ad-blocking -- given the current popularity of RSS, I don't know if it really makes sense financially for websites to do so, but I notice some feeds do inject ads.<p>- If I ever need to click a link in an article, jumping from a reader software to a browser is too big of a context switch that disrupts my flow -- just let me go through all the feeds right now, and I will decide how to prioritize the most interesting ones and allocate my reading time later.<p>For my use cases, Unread on iOS gave me the best experience. All the gestures optimized for single-hand operations are just fantastic. Sadly, they switched from one-time payment to monthly subscription and I can't justify the cost when I only use it in a very light way(just for sorting items). Reeder is not as good, but is comfortable enough for me.
If you are on Apple ecosystem, NetNewsWire is free, reliable and syncs between devices. You don’t need a paid third party service to use it.<p><a href="https://netnewswire.com/" rel="nofollow">https://netnewswire.com/</a>
Related ongoing threads:<p><i>This is the year of the RSS reader</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105572" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105572</a><p><i>It's time for an RSS revival (2018)</i> - <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105558" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34105558</a>
Self-hosted instance of FreshRSS [0], Readrops [1] as the client on Android, html2rss [2] for websites that don't have RSS feeds and AtoMail [3] to get newsletters as RSS feeds instead.<p>Edit: forgot to mention RssBridge [4] to get tweets that match certain criteria as an RSS feed. RssBridge also provides access to many other platforms.<p>[0]: <a href="https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS">https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS</a><p>[1]: <a href="https://github.com/readrops/Readrops">https://github.com/readrops/Readrops</a><p>[2]: <a href="https://github.com/html2rss/html2rss-web">https://github.com/html2rss/html2rss-web</a><p>[3]: <a href="https://github.com/remko/atomail">https://github.com/remko/atomail</a><p>[4]: <a href="https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge">https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge</a>
QuiteRSS on Windows. I was using newsbeuter/newsboat when I was on Linux and I really liked it. My wants from a reader are very basic though, I'm really only interested in getting the title and links, I don't care if it even has a content viewer beyond text-only.
I use NetNewsWire these days, but for anyone who wants to dabble in RSS with minimal investment, I highly recommend FeedBro, a well-executed Firefox add-on.<p>It has a highly customizable UI.<p>It handles all the fetching/refreshes/storage right in your browser, no need to install anything else or self-host a backend.<p>And you can import/export OPML feed collections, so you can easily switch to another solution when you outgrow it.<p>The only downside I've found: it doesn't sync between machines (at least, not for free). That's totally fine when you're just trying out RSS for the first time, but it does get annoying if you eventually want to read on, say, a phone, tablet, and laptop in different situations. For that use case, NNW + FreshRSS is my current, excellent solution.
I've been using FreshRSS [0] for a while now as my RSS reader, it's open source and can be self-hosted. It's been reliable and easy to use.<p>0: <a href="https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS">https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS</a>
Drop Feeds[0] - a Firefox browser extension[1] that continues in style of the original Sage (and Sage++) extensions. You can configure it to only show unread feeds and automatically poll for changes, so you always have the latest updates right there in your browser sidebar without having to go to a different application or site.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds">https://github.com/dauphine-dev/drop-feeds</a><p>[1] <a href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drop-feeds/" rel="nofollow">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/drop-feeds/</a>
I use my own RSS-to-Email service <a href="https://feedmail.org/" rel="nofollow">https://feedmail.org/</a>. I've written about my setup and why I prefer RSS-to-Email on my blog nearly a decade ago <a href="https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/" rel="nofollow">https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/</a>.<p>I used to use <a href="https://blogtrottr.com" rel="nofollow">https://blogtrottr.com</a> which I do still think is a good product, they just didn't quite fit my needs so after about 8 years I ended up creating my own.
Not technically for <i>reading,</i> but for downloading podcasts via their RSS feeds I use castero and am very happy with it. <a href="https://github.com/xgi/castero">https://github.com/xgi/castero</a>
I’m using Reeder with Feedly. Reeder makes processing a lot of feeds pretty easy.<p>I keep hoping Feedly will help separate the wheat from the chaff in my feeds with their ML work, but it seems to require me doing more than clicking on what to read to identify my likes and dislikes.<p>I’ve played with Matter and Readwise Reader, and so far I’m not impressed. I like Readwise in theory, but the RSS reading UI is a bit slow though I might need to tweak the settings to make it quicker.
NetNewsWire on macOS and iOS.<p>It's just so incredibly polished and fast. Plus, it's open source!<p><a href="https://netnewswire.com" rel="nofollow">https://netnewswire.com</a>
Feedbin for sync and for email ingest. A key fact about this is that unlike Feedly and Newsblur, it keeps old content indefinitely. That means that if I don't check feeds for a while, or something is too heavy to read one month, I don't lose it forever.<p>iOS: Unread, which is just supremely beautiful. I'm amazed that the "double tap to mark read/unread" interaction isn't standard.<p>Mac: Reeder, which is nice and flexible though not perfect.
I was a Feedly user since 2013 but have since moved to Readwise Reader<p><a href="https://readwise.io/read" rel="nofollow">https://readwise.io/read</a><p>Also recently did I little write up of my workflow:
<a href="https://www.liamjbennett.me/posts/2022-12-23-workflow-2023/" rel="nofollow">https://www.liamjbennett.me/posts/2022-12-23-workflow-2023/</a>
Feeder: <a href="https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/" rel="nofollow">https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.nononsenseapps.feeder/</a><p>One of the surprisingly few readers I could find that is local-only and doesn't require an account.<p>I self host a lot of services but don't see the need for an RSS reader server-side.
On Android, Handy News Reader from the f-droid.org app store works well, once I went through all the settings and customized it, and got used to it. Except now it doesn't auto-fetch (it used to) and I don't know if I did something wrong, but manually fetching new stories isn't bad.<p>It is a local reader -- no account required, no server storage, but stores everything on the phone.<p>I've also used NewsBlur which I would probably like more if I paid. One thing about Handy News Reader is there is a way to see the URLs of existing feeds, which I have not found how to do in NewsBlur.<p>A previous discussion from 2020: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424</a><p>I haven't tried any of the others in comments here, so can't make comparisons; that might be interesting.
Subscribed back in the day to a lifetime deal for Feedly, which is very good at filtering out themes/keywords I'm not interested in.
On the app side, I haven't found anything more enjoyable than Reeder (mac and iOS). Keyboard shortcuts are great too.
For many years, I used Feedity for generating RSS feeds from webpages without one. They've since renamed to New Sloth, and also have a nice although basic feed reader. I like its article grouping feature, and use the whole package (feed creation and reading) for my research work on a daily basis.<p><a href="https://newsloth.com" rel="nofollow">https://newsloth.com</a>
Same comment as last time<p>Never understood why nobody talks about NewsExplorer<p><a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/id1032668306" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/app/id1032668306</a>, the only third party app on my phone that is available on ALL iDevices it’s actually insane<p>iCloud sync without needed rss backend, snapshot/export/import/folder
Also reads Twitter private lists and feed<p>Search inside articles<p>Stable with tens of thousands of articles unread
Currently using Feedly, but my subscription is ending in January. I'm thinking of taking advantage of an Inoreader offer that is active until December 28 and switching to there.
It is advisable?<p>I don't usually read my feeds in the RSS service, but I look at the headlines and mark what interests me to send it to Pocket and read it quietly there or on the original website of the site.
Whats with all of these RSS stories suddenly on the front page today? Feels like exactly what PG was talking about in The Submarine[1] but who would be behind pushing RSS feeds all of a sudden? Is there a Big RSS lobby I don't know about?<p>1. <a href="http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html</a>
Sfeed: <a href="https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html" rel="nofollow">https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html</a><p>It's better and more customizable than Newsboat, plus there is an option to transfer everything from the Newsboat to it. It is not really a reader but a parser, but that's what makes it great.
I use Quite rss on the web, Akregator in Linux and Feeder on Android. I have over 500 feeds so most services ask for payment to get all those enabled. These work great, are open source and usable for me and the best is I get them for free.
I use River5 (<a href="https://github.com/scripting/river5">https://github.com/scripting/river5</a>), and pipe the output to a web app (<a href="https://readinglist.andysylvester.com/" rel="nofollow">https://readinglist.andysylvester.com/</a>).
I'm self-hosting my own RSS reader implementation. Feel free to check it out <a href="https://github.com/nearsyh/near-rss">https://github.com/nearsyh/near-rss</a>.
The Nextcloud News app, I started using it when it was still the Owncloud news app many years ago. Initially I used it in combination with the related Own/Newscloud News app for Android but just use the web interface now since this is always up to date and does not need any synchronisation.
I've been using Feedbin for a few years and have been happy with it, especially since it syncs with my preferred iOS client, Reeder.<p><a href="https://feedbin.com" rel="nofollow">https://feedbin.com</a><p><a href="https://www.reederapp.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.reederapp.com</a>
Newsboat[1].<p>Having everything happen locally on my own machine is great - I never want to be in the position of losing Google Reader again. And the option to do non-interactive refresh makes is almost as nice for high volume feeds.<p>---<p>1. <a href="https://newsboat.org/" rel="nofollow">https://newsboat.org/</a>
Initially I used Mailbrew, but for the last 5 months I've been happily using my own open-source tool through Obsidian: <a href="https://github.com/piqoni/matcha">https://github.com/piqoni/matcha</a><p>It is a daily digest and supports also terminal mode.
I happen to be using my own. I wrote my website from scratch in Go and decided to build a RSS reader into it. Anyone can view the list of articles I’m reading at <a href="https://dwayne.xyz/reader" rel="nofollow">https://dwayne.xyz/reader</a>
+1 for Reeder (iPhone only) using Feedly for free as the backend (RIP Google Reader)<p>I only do RSS browsing on my phone, triage what I'm interested in to emails sent to myself or send to pinboard for archiving/maybe visit later (although probably moving away from PB soon)
Feedly with the Feedly Android app, which syncs unread items with the desktop web app (so unread == not visited). I don't read anything in Feedly itself -- makes me wonder if there are RSS apps focused just on aggregation.
Yarr: <a href="https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr.git">https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr.git</a><p>Super neat and minimal web based rss reader. It also needs minimal resources and virtually no maintenance.
ttRSS, because RSS2Email is next to useless in the modern crappy feed usage where full articles are NOT on the feed... While as a concept it's very nice since I use notmuch, so I can manage mails and especially search&tag them very well.<p>I've used elfeed, it demand too much time to skim many posts, similar to Miniflux who is quicker but still demand too much time. ttRSS allow to scroll marking read, that's enough for me. Feeds nowadays simply have much value as a tool, but too little values per mean post.<p>Gnus with scoring is nice, but again too slow to skim, even with scoring help.
Been using Feedbin with Reeder pretty much since Google Reader shut down. I’ve tried a bunch of others and always come back to this winning combo. Worth noting that Feedbin’s web app is also great.
I self host <a href="https://github.com/urandom/readeef">https://github.com/urandom/readeef</a> which I wrote some time after the demise of google reader
I host yarr in my home K8s with GitHub oauth for security. Then I just access via browser.<p><a href="https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr">https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr</a>
I'm using <a href="https://theoldreader.com/" rel="nofollow">https://theoldreader.com/</a>. It is very similar to the discontinued Google Reader.
Feedly on the web, and Reeder or NetNewsWire on mobile. I keep meaning to try Unread as well.<p>Both of the mobile options integrate with Feedly for sync'd read/unread status, etc.
Netvibes, I've been using it continuously since at least 2008: <a href="https://www.netvibes.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.netvibes.com</a>
I've been using a TinyTinyRSS instance on Docker. I've also been playing with FreshRSS but there's some things that I don't like as much.
rawdog (RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur) [1].<p>It's a simple script that I manually trigger once a day to check my list of feeds from a config file. It caches the known posts and generates static HTML with summaries of the new posts for me to browse locally.<p>[1] <a href="http://offog.org/code/rawdog/" rel="nofollow">http://offog.org/code/rawdog/</a>