What's your favorite RSS feed reader?

[jtwoodhouse]

I've been using a subpar tool lately that has proven increasingly buggy over time. I'm curious what other options are out there.

[dobladov]

I use Inoreader, the closest I could find to Google Reader, it has all I would need for an RSS reader and way more, I don't know how good their apps are because the web version is just great in desktop and mobile browsers.

- https://www.inoreader.com/

[Apreche]

I use this also. I have some issues with it, but I won't bother to change unless I find something significantly better.

The feature I love most is being able to filter feed items based on content. This is great for sites that report on lots of different topics, and I can just eliminate the posts I don't care about.

[splitbrain]

I'm using it basically since Google Reader died. It's reliable and has everything I want. Its one of the few apps I am happily paying for. They often have Black Friday deals, if you want to save a little.

[nickthegreek]

Love inoreader. It also lets you sub to facebook pages, newsletters, reddit feeds and telegram channels.

[Thristle]

+1 They also have a solid API i use for some automations

[nikole9696]

Another vote for Feedly here. I like the interface, it's pretty simple and I don't need much (nor want more). I'm on the free plan. I can get my feeds from any of my devices, which is important to me. The iOS apps for my phone and ipad work great. That's really all I need.

[marjancek]

I'm also on the free plan, and it has everything I need, in sync between all my devices and platforms.

[marojejian]

I also love Feedly, and pay for it. "mute filters" are a great feature. I can exclude keywords from feeds.

So, for example, I consume HN via rss, and filter out all the stories about tech & political celebrities, which have low intellectual caloric content.

I should probably add a filter to exclude "?" to apply Betteridge's law...

[kevincox]

I've been using RSS-to-email since forever. I now run my own RSS-to-email service.

I filter (almost all) of them into folders that don't notify and then they are there ready to read across all of my devices that are logged into my email.

I find that email clients are quite suited to RSS reading. They have folders, searching, filtering and unread/read/deleted tracking that is synced cross-device. And for the few feeds that I want to be "urgent" it is easy to send them to my inbox.

I have written about my workflow in the past:

https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/

https://kevincox.ca/2023/06/27/decade-of-rss-via-email/

[jjav]

Yes! My favorite RSS feed reader is mutt (and the email ecosystem around it like procmail).

With email I already have infinitely flexible filtering, sorting, on-the-fly modification of headers and content, and a reader with best in class threading and TUI.

So I use RSS to email to inject all the RSS content into this ecosystem and inherit all the goodness of email for RSS as well.

(This is how I follow HN, for instance.)

[jonwinstanley]

Funnily enough, I've recently been looking at email-to-RSS to clear some newsletters out of my inbox :-)

[williamjackson]

I run an instance of FreshRSS [0] and access it from a browser, but I also use NetNewsWire [1] as a client on platforms where it is available.

[0] https://freshrss.org/

[1] https://netnewswire.com/

[kreddor]

I use FreshRSS as well and I use it exclusively from Android (Firefox Browser). Works surprisingly well even if it looks a bit dated.

[kohbo]

I'd love recommendations for a good Android client. Right now I just have the site installed as a web app. It works, but I have a foldable phone and the site displays a little weird when unfolded in landscape.

[zelifcam]

I’m run an instance as well. I use Lire as client for iOS.

[kohbo]

I self-host FreshRSS. I prefer the feeds to be pulled from a server rather than locally from a browser. This lets me check out news feeds from work without worrying about my computer pinging websites IT doesn't like.

[dkwr]

+1 for self hosted FreshRSS. The only feature I'm missing from it is selecting multiple unread entries and marking them as 'read' instead of opening them one by one or marking the whole feed. Other than that it gives a feeling like using the Google Reader.

[illiac786]

IT doesn’t like the domain I use for self hosted stuff… ;(

[blakesterz]

I've been using NewsBlur since the demise of Google Reader.

[paulio]

+1 for NewsBlur https://newsblur.com/

[theshrike79]

Another +1.

Simple if you want it, you can make it complex if you need it. Decent price from the start.

And I can attach Reeder to it directly.

[haunter]

+1 for Newsblur

[tiimbz]

Feedly [0] (web app and on IOS) has been amazing since Google Reader died. On IOS it makes flipping through items and saving them for later a smooth and relatively fast experience.

[0] https://feedly.com

[imartin2k]

Yes, plus it can be used as a RSS “engine” for iOS reader apps such as Reeder, which is my favorite way of consuming my feeds.

[xlrl]

Self-hosted miniflux (golang based). Very minimalist, I used to miss a phone app for it but the mobile webpage is good enough for me.

I turned to it when the tiny tiny reader maintainer turned out to be a huge p*ck. Wasn't just me, others confirmed.

Think I am using miniflux for 6-7 years now

[xlrl]

https://miniflux.app/

[crabsand]

You can also use FeedMe Android app with Miniflux.

[rcalder]

Self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS works well, supporting OPML import/export, mobile clients, and a Reader-like theme. https://tt-rss.org

[Buxato]

NewsBlur so I could have everything (articles that are read, saved ...) synced between my laptop and smartphone.

https://www.newsblur.com

[Eric_WVGG]

Reeder for iPad! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/reeder-5/id1529445840

[twiceaday]

The iPhone and Mac apps are also great. I've been using them for years. You can use it to show your feeds from popular rss aggregators or it can aggregate by itself via icloud, and it syncs across your devices.

[lcall]

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. It is a local reader -- no account required, no server storage, but stores everything on the phone.

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.

A previous discussion from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24658424

And from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34108413

I haven't tried any of the others in comments here, so can't make comparisons; that might be interesting.

[jjj123]

I use Feedly. It’s a very good app but the company is making some bizarre decisions to try and turn it into an “intelligence platform”. Like lots of weird/useless AI generated summaries that all seem to be related to the financial implications of the article. You can turn most of them off but it’s a worrying trend in general.

[AndrewDucker]

Feedly paid-for plan. Just works in both browser and Android versions.

[domysee]

There's also Lighthouse (https://lighthouseapp.io/). Compared to typical RSS readers it organizes content into Inbox and Library. Where new content lands in the inbox, where you can sort through it and add content you're interested in to the library. So it's basically a combination of feed reader and read-it-later app.

[Tomte]

NetNewsWire is great, but iOS/iPad/Mac only. It syncs between devices using iCloud, so without a Feedly etc. account. That feature seems to be pretty rare.

[thiht]

If you’re already using a Mac and an iPhone, NetNewsWire is great! It’s native, beautiful, and "just works". I finally ended the chase for the perfect RSS reader and started enjoying my feeds.

[lardissone]

Another good one that does iCloud sync only is News Explorer.

[jkmcf]

Feedly's web app is awesome. I usually use the web version on iPad.

The main problem with RSS apps these days is they respect the article summary and do not render the full article in the app, so you have to read in the in-app browser or default browser. The (iOS) in-app browser doesn't have extensions or dark mode, so

Alternatively, everyone wants you to visit their site so only publish their RSS with a summary.

[rado]

https://netnewswire.com also one of my favourite apps of any kind

[bkaczynski]

Gnus in Emacs (recently Atom support [1] has been added by Daniel Semyonov)

1. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/lisp/gnus...

[brm100]

I use a self hosted instance of tiny tiny rss (tt-rss) for subscriptions and Omnivore for reading. Omnivore is open source with no data collection. The iOS app is very good with integration for saving items from the firefox web browser. The web app works well on the Linux desktop with the Firefox addon for saving articles.