Automation requires a Pro account, which also offers some other standout features worth paying for, like the ability to pull full articles, integrate with IFTTT and Zapier, read offline, and my favorite: sync Your YouTube account with your RSS reading. You can watch YouTube videos in Inoreader, and next time you log in to YouTube, you won’t have many unwatched videos.
You can share articles via social media and use the Inoreader browser plugin to save articles you find on the internet (similar to Instapaper or Pocket).
Inoreader offers a free account (with ads) that allows you to test whether the service meets your needs. If so, we recommend it Pro Account ($7.50/month, billed annually)which offers expanded features and support for more feeds.
A beginner-friendly RSS aggregator
Feedly is probably the most popular RSS reader on the internet. It’s well-designed and user-friendly, with great search options so you can easily add all your favorite sites. It’s missing one thing that makes Inoreader slightly better for my use – YouTube syncing – but otherwise Feedly is an excellent choice.
Feedly has some nice additional features like Evernote integration (you can save articles to Evernote) and a notes feature for jotting down your thoughts on stories. Feedly also has an AI search assistant that can help you filter your feeds and show the content you really want. I’ve found it works quite well, but a big part of what I like about RSS is that it doesn’t have AI – I don’t want automated filtering. However, depending on how you use RSS, this can be a useful feature.
Like the others here, Feedly offers iOS and Android apps as well as a web interface. Feedly is free for up to 100 feeds. A Pro subscription costs $8 per month (cheaper if you pay for a year) and offers other features like note-taking, saving to Evernote, and ad-free reading. With the Pro+ account, for $12 per month, you get the AI features, a way to search your feeds, follow newsletters like RSS feeds, and more.
Best for DIY enthusiasts
Photo: Newsblur
Newsblur is a refreshingly simple, old-school RSS reader. You won’t find AI features in your feeds – they’re for reading news You aggregate and move on with your life. It can subscribe to all types of content (including newsletters and YouTube), read full articles (even from RSS feeds that don’t offer them), integrate with IFTTT, and even track changes to posts when a publisher updates an article.
One thing that sets Newsblur apart is that it is open source. You can see the code on Github and if you’re comfortable with the command line, you can even set up your own self-hosted version of Newsblur on your own server.