RSS isn't dead. It's the resistance.

The biggest hosted reader. Clean, fast, and AI-assisted (Leo) for monitoring and research. Free up to 100 sources.

The power-user pick: rules, keyword alerts, global full-text search, and newsletter-to-RSS. Free tier supports up to 150 sources.

Hosted reader with social layers: train your feed with a learning filter, share stories, and read the original site view.

A fast, calm, well-designed paid reader ($5/mo). Bonus: it mints an email address that turns newsletters into RSS.

Quiet, fast, reliable hosted reader with RSS/Atom/JSON feed support, comments, and full-text extraction.

Google Reader's spiritual heir: folders, star, share, and a social following model without the algorithm.

New sync service (Aug 2026) that speaks Google Reader, FreshRSS and Fever, so the app you already use just keeps working — plus a keyboard-first web reader, automations, and newsletter-to-RSS. 14-day trial, then $29–39/yr.

Read-later and RSS in one app, with serious highlighting, search, and AI note-taking on top of your feeds.

AI-native reader from the RSSNext crew, built to pair with RSSHub. Roughly $1/mo — an "info aquarium" of one stream.

Newer cross-platform reader (web, desktop, iOS, Android) that pulls feeds, newsletters and podcasts into one library, with AI summaries and duplicate-story merging.

Lightweight Google Reader-style reader — use the hosted instance or run it yourself with Docker.

Ranked daily-sweep reader: groups repeated stories, learns from what you open, and installs as a PWA. Your public profile doubles as an RSS linklog.

The minimalist's dream: a single Go binary + PostgreSQL, text-first UI, Fever and Google Reader APIs for mobile clients. Sips ~100MB RAM.

The most popular PHP self-hosted reader: categories, tags, filters, stats, webhooks, extensions, and multi-protocol APIs.

The veteran PHP reader with a plugin system and dedicated mobile clients. A settled workflow for seasoned self-hosters.

"Yet another rss reader": one binary, embedded SQLite, zero fuss. Runs as a tray app or headless over the browser. Fever API included.

Yarr's younger, prettier sibling — Go + TypeScript, proper PWA, Fever API. Deliberately ships zero AI features.

New 2026 multi-user reader (Docker, Postgres or SQLite) with rule engines, webhooks, ntfy/Telegram alerts, and a Google Reader API for mobile clients.

Self-hosted Python + HTMX reader: CSS-selector scraping for pages without feeds, rule-based filtering, full-text extraction, and bring-your-own-key AI summaries and morning briefings.

A modern self-hosted web front-end for FreshRSS: three-column desktop layout, installable PWA with offline reading, Readability extraction, and nested labels — over the Google Reader API.

A "multipurpose" PHP reader: RSS, live streams, and mashups in one self-hosted web app.

The gold standard free Apple reader (Mac/iOS). iCloud sync or connect Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, FreshRSS and more.

The design benchmark on Mac/iOS. The new timeline-style app mixes RSS with podcasts, YouTube, Mastodon and Bluesky in one stream.

New Apple-native reader built around a "river" instead of unread counts: each source ages at its own speed, so nothing piles up. Syncs Feedbin, Miniflux, FreshRSS and more.

Customizable iPhone/iPad/Mac reader, pay once: free up to 6 local and 6 iCloud feeds; one purchase unlocks sync with The Old Reader, Miniflux, FreshRSS, Feedbin and Inoreader.

Polished iOS and Mac reader with standout typography. Base app free; Premium adds article actions, custom icons, and native FreshRSS + Miniflux sync (5.0, Sept 2026).

iOS reader that excels at offline full-text: it fetches complete articles automatically, so your reading survives the subway.

Privacy-first iPhone/iPad reader: fully offline, strictly chronological, no account, no tracking — optional iCloud sync keeps your devices in step.

The GNOME desktop client for web readers: desktop notifications, fast search, keyboard shortcuts, sync through your service.

Cross-platform (Windows/macOS/Linux) Electron reader with a clean Fluent UI and full dark mode. Local or service sync.

The terminal reader, actively maintained fork of Newsbeuter. Also works as a client for NewsBlur, The Old Reader, FeedHQ and friends.

Android reader with an unusually long list of service backends, plus local and self-hosted options.

Material You Android reader; syncs via Google Reader / Fever compatible APIs.

A smallish, friendly Android reader for Feedbin, FreshRSS, Miniflux and local feeds. On F-Droid and Play, no ads.

Standalone Android reader from the Smart Launcher team, spun out of the launcher's built-in feed. In Google Play early access; free with Smart Launcher Pro.

Linux desktop reader that syncs with the usual services (Feedbin, TT-RSS, Nextcloud News, etc.).

Young Rust + Tauri desktop reader built for calm reading: offline mode, full-text search, feed discovery, and Google Reader API sync to FreshRSS, Miniflux or TT-RSS.

The long-running free native Mac reader, still quietly maintained.

Yes, the email client. Feeds are built in — a perfectly good reader for people who already live in their inbox.

Completely open Android podcast player. Subscribe to any RSS feed, download episodes, no account required.

Open-source, ad-free, account-free podcast app with web, mobile and desktop versions.

Open podcast client (Linux desktop + mobile) with sync through gpodder.net.

The world's largest RSS network: 5,000+ instances turning hundreds of platforms into feeds. "Everything is RSSible."

PHP tool that generates feeds for sites that don't have them — 400+ bridges (YouTube, Mastodon, Telegram, Reddit and more).

Garbage in, sanity out: self-hosted Docker service that rewrites clickbait headlines into neutral ones with factual 100-word summaries (via Claude) and republishes a clean feed. Bring your own Anthropic key.

Commercial generator for any URL or social profile, plus widgets, Discord/Slack/Telegram bots and an API.

Visual RSS builder: point at a page, click the blocks you want, get a hosted feed URL. Also generates from social pages.

Free, privacy-minded service: it hands you an email address, and every newsletter sent there becomes an Atom feed entry.

Newsletter-to-RSS service with a dedicated address per newsletter, so subscriptions stay out of your real inbox.

Free: get an address, every message it receives lands in an RSS feed. Keeps the 10 most recent emails, 30-day retention.

Personal email digests: newsletters plus RSS feeds combined into one scheduled brew in your inbox.

Self-hosted automation agents that can watch, scrape, transform, and emit RSS feeds — your own private IFTTT.

Watch pages, feeds and JSON for changes; alert across 85+ channels (Discord, Slack, Telegram, email…). Self-host or use the cloud.

Commercial visual change monitoring: browser extension plus web app that watches any part of any page.

Feed-to-email with schedules, digests, filters and webhooks — plus a REST API for managing subscriptions programmatically.

The classic glue: new feed item triggers everything from email and notifications to smart home actions.

Automation platform with RSS triggers — push feed items into thousands of apps.

Auto-posts RSS feeds to social networks on a schedule — the feed-to-social pipe.

GitHub Actions framework that turns feeds into a daily AI-ranked digest: dedupes near-identical stories, ranks with Gemini, and delivers Markdown or email — $0/month on free tiers.

Self-hosted cross-poster: watches RSS, Atom or JSON feeds and echoes new items to Mastodon, Bluesky, micro.blog or email — Jinja2 templates, keyword filters, drip pacing, Docker.

The same engine as a managed service at feedecho.net — invite-only beta, 14-day free trial. Feeds post to social or inbox on autopilot, with alt-text generation and digest mode.

A search engine for blogs and podcasts — and every search itself is an RSS feed you can subscribe to.

Big open directory: 11,000+ publishers, 61,000+ feeds, full-text searchable.

Massive curated directory of blogs and podcasts by topic, with RSS links on every list.

One of the longest-running blog directories, still accepting submissions.

Search engine that deliberately favors the small, independent, and interesting web — where RSS lives.

The canonical RSS 2.0 spec, maintained by the RSS Advisory Board.

The org that maintains RSS 2.0, plus a feed validator and assorted tools.

Validate your RSS and Atom feeds before you ship them to the world.

The JSON syndication format (v1.1) from Manton Reece and Brent Simmons — same idea as RSS, no XML.

Check a JSON Feed document against the spec.

The outline format every reader uses to import/export subscriptions. Your feeds, portable.

The W3C standard for real-time feed push: hubs ping subscribers the instant something publishes.

The Atom Syndication Format — the more rigorously specified cousin of RSS.

An open RSS namespace extending feeds for transcripts, chapters, funding, and more — backwards compatible.

The open, free podcast feed index and search API — podcasting without the platform.

The <podcast:> namespace spec, released to the public domain (CC0).

The Python universal feed parser — RSS 0.9x/1.0/2.0, Atom 0.3/1.0, RDF. The standard answer.

The PHP feed parser that put the "simple" back in RSS.

Generate Atom and RSS 2.0 feeds from Python.

The full Feedbin Rails app, open source — run the whole thing yourself if you want.

Free API that converts any feed to JSON — handy for embedding feeds in JavaScript.

REST API to create, list and delete feeds programmatically from any URL.

JavaScript library that tidies the HTML inside feed items — lazy-loaded images, relative URLs, tracking pixels, broken embeds — so ugly feeds render properly.

CLI that turns an RSS feed or a folder of Markdown into a sendable email newsletter, with a browser studio for curating each issue.

The PHP aggregator from 2004, rebuilt for 2026 (v2.0): RSS/Atom/JSON in, templated HTML out, one line of PHP to embed. OPML subscriptions, caching, no database, no build step.

Browser extension that detects RSS feeds — and RSSHub routes — on any site you visit.

RSSHub Radar for iOS, built on the Shortcuts app.

RSSHub Radar for Android, built with Flutter.

A full feed reader that lives in your browser (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi), with a built-in rule engine and social integrations.

The classic curated list of RSS/Atom/syndication links: readers, libraries, formats.

A massive, community-maintained index of RSS tools, services and feed sources, kept alive by a Telegram community.

2,000+ curated, HTTP-validated feeds across 30 categories, with ready-to-import OPML files.

~500 recommended feeds plus 250+ news sources across countries, all in OPML.

The original read-later service, still going. Save articles, read offline, highlight.

Read-later for RSS purists (v2, Sept 2026): save any article into your own personal RSS/Atom feed and read it in your normal reader. One PHP file, no database, no accounts.

Self-hosted read-it-later: your articles, your server, your data.

Open-source bookmarking + read-later (formerly Hoarder) with auto-tagging and full-text search.

The read-later with the best tooling on top — listed again because it really is the RSS + saving combo.