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.

Calm, chronologically sorted reader that leaves things out on purpose: no ads, no AI summaries, no algorithmic "relevance", no tracking pixels. Focus mode gives one article the whole screen, j/k keyboard nav, OPML in and out; free covers 150 feeds, Pro ($5/mo) adds 250 feeds, more history and the API.

Single-column reader with no unread count: filter the stream by text, audio or video, group feeds into lists that publish their own RSS, Atom and OPML feeds, and bookmark anything with a bookmarklet or iOS shortcut. Webmentions, plus sign-in with your own domain via IndieAuth. 30-day free trial, then €3/month (€5 monthly).

Hosted Google Reader-style reader: chronological, folders, unread counts, j/k/s/m shortcuts, muted words, OPML in and out, and Bluesky profiles as feeds. Free up to 2,000 feeds, with Android and Huawei apps, Chrome, Firefox and Edge extensions, and 21 interface languages.

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

A polished React front-end for Miniflux, deployable as static files or Docker — the modern UI Miniflux itself skips.

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

Multi-user self-hosted reader (Symfony API + Angular SPA) with full-text article extraction, email digests, saved searches and OPML. One-line Docker install.

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.

Minimalist PHP/MySQL aggregator: a cron job fetches and parses every feed in the background, so pages render instantly instead of waiting on the network. Responsive down to a phone, OPML in and out, AGPL-licensed and still shipping releases after 13 years.

The news reader that comes with Nextcloud: subscribe in the browser, read in the web UI or the Android app, with categories, starred items and automatic cleanup. Installs in one click from the app store, and a self-hosted Nextcloud turns into a full reader stack with your own accounts.

A self-hosted start page rather than a reader: YAML-configured cards that pull RSS alongside calendar, GitHub, weather and search. No login by design (it is meant for your own network), English and French, systemd installer included.

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.

Material You Android reader (7k+ stars) that syncs via FreshRSS, Fever or Google Reader APIs — full-text, offline, no account needed.

The Iconfactory's universal Apple app: a unified chronological timeline fed by connectors for RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, Mastodon, Bluesky, Tumblr, YouTube, Reddit and podcasts — plus third-party connectors, muffle/mute rules, and iCloud position sync. Free; Premium is $1.99/mo, $19.99/yr or $79.99 lifetime.

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.

Dutch-developed Apple reader covering every platform — iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch and TV — synced over iCloud with no account to sign up for. Pulls RSS, Atom, JSON, Mastodon, Reddit, YouTube and podcasts, then does full-text extraction, article comments, smart filters, prefilters and rich notes. $4.99 on iOS, $9.99 on macOS, no subscription.

RSS client and read-later in one app, free with premium tiers: sync with Feedly, Inoreader, FreshRSS, Miniflux, BazQux and a dozen more, or run the built-in engine. Smart folders are live-updated searches that can also mark items read or star them, with a share extension, reader mode and YouTube channels over RSS. $2.99/mo or a $29.99 lifetime unlock.

The KDE community feed reader, still shipping steady releases after two decades: fast search, archiving, an internal browser, and a pile of plugins for fetching pages that do not publish a feed. Runs on Linux and Windows.

SwiftUI reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac with its sync service included in the one-time $14.99 price — no subscription. Cached reader HTML and SwiftData queries keep it fast with hundreds of feeds, plus per-feed filters, a Safari subscription extension, Spotlight, Siri and an analytics pane that flags stale feeds.

The 2.8k-star Qt desktop reader for Windows, Linux, BSD and macOS, doubling as a podcast player with built-in mpv. Also speaks XMPP PubSub for real-time entries and the Gemini protocol, and syncs with Feedly, Gmail, FreshRSS, Miniflux, Inoreader, Nextcloud News and Tiny Tiny RSS.

iOS reader that works like a social timeline: no list of blogs to manage, just one chronological stream of items from every feed you subscribe to. RSS, Atom, JSON Feed and OPML import, free with optional tips, and a Mac version on the way.

Android reader that runs entirely on the device: no account, no sync backend, offline reading, notifications, OPML import and export, Material Design. GPL-3.0, on F-Droid and Google Play, and shipping releases since 2014.

Native Mac, iPhone and iPad reader that sorts subscriptions by how often they post, so quiet blogs stop getting buried. Free to start; a one-time upgrade to Super Slow Feeds unlocks the full archive and unread filters.

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.

Self-hosted media library that treats podcasts, YouTube and PeerTube like one inbox: new items land in an inbox, you reorder them into a queue, and it plays the next one when a track ends — chronologically, not by algorithm. Passkey sign-in, invitation-only accounts, OPML import/export, Docker or systemd.

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.

Haskell tool that re-publishes older entries from source feeds into new ones, using weighted sampling so stale posts come back more often and recent ones less. Caches sources, filters by minimum age, handles RSS, Atom and RDF, and ships static binaries, a Docker image and a NixOS module.

Reads an OPML list, fetches every feed concurrently and writes one combined Atom feed — built to run on a GitHub Actions schedule and publish to GitHub Pages, so no server of your own is needed. Keeps a disk cache so one flaky feed does not drop out of the mix.

Turns your Mastodon bookmarks into an RSS feed your reader can subscribe to. Stateless: it stores nothing, and the credentials ride inside the secret feed URL. MIT-licensed, so anyone can run their own copy; the hosted instance is free.

Paste a public Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, X, TikTok, YouTube, Substack, Mastodon, Bluesky or Threads profile and get a hosted feed back: it surfaces the platform's own feed when one exists and builds one when it doesn't. Free, tip-funded one-person project.

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.

Watches your feeds and emails you when one goes missing or breaks: it checks that the XML or JSON actually parses, not just that the URL returns 200. Free, open source, checked roughly every ten minutes, and one click removes a monitor.

Elgato Stream Deck plugin: assign one public RSS or Atom feed to each key and it shows a badge with the new-item count over the source artwork, then opens the site on press. Paste a YouTube channel, GitHub release page or Mastodon profile and it finds the feed for you.

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.

Hosted pipe from RSS or Atom straight into a Mastodon account via OAuth: connect, add a feed, every new item posts itself.

Reverse direction: mention @birb@rss-parrot.net with any site, Substack, podcast or Bluesky profile and it spawns a Mastodon account that toots each new post.

POSSE platform: post at your own domain and it syndicates everywhere — Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, Tumblr, Nostr and more — with ActivityPub and an RSS feed for every post. Also serves photo blogs, newsletters and native apps, and bundles the Inkwell feed reader. $5/month to host your domain; free account if you blog elsewhere.

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.

Firefox extension that brings back RSS detection: a feed indicator in the URL bar, a preview page with a subscribe button, and j/k keyboard navigation between articles.

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.

Read-later with a Rust single binary that turns the links you save into an Atom feed of its own, so it arrives in the reader you already use. Browser extensions, an Apple Shortcut and an Android share-sheet action all post to it; prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS, Windows and FreeBSD, or Docker.

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

Self-hosted read-it-later and bookmark manager in a single Go binary — the lighter, actively developed Wallabag alternative.

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.

Every Mastodon account and tag page already publishes an RSS feed, auto-discoverable from the page: add .rss to a profile URL (dmv.community/@name.rss) or a tag URL (dmv.community/tags/rss.rss) and any reader can follow it. No account, token or third-party service needed.

Turns your Mastodon bookmarks into an RSS feed your reader can subscribe to. Stateless: it stores nothing, and the credentials ride inside the secret feed URL. MIT-licensed, so anyone can run their own copy; the hosted instance is free.

Bridge between the fediverse, the open web and Bluesky: a personal site with a feed shows up as a followable fediverse account, and bridged accounts get timeline feeds in Atom and other formats. CC0-licensed code, run as a free service.

Hosted pipe from RSS or Atom straight into a Mastodon account via OAuth: connect, add a feed, every new item posts itself.

Reverse direction: mention @birb@rss-parrot.net with any site, Substack, podcast or Bluesky profile and it spawns a Mastodon account that toots each new post.

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.

POSSE platform: post at your own domain and it syndicates everywhere — Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, Tumblr, Nostr and more — with ActivityPub and an RSS feed for every post. Also serves photo blogs, newsletters and native apps, and bundles the Inkwell feed reader. $5/month to host your domain; free account if you blog elsewhere.

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

The Iconfactory's universal Apple app: a unified chronological timeline fed by connectors for RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, Mastodon, Bluesky, Tumblr, YouTube, Reddit and podcasts — plus third-party connectors, muffle/mute rules, and iCloud position sync. Free; Premium is $1.99/mo, $19.99/yr or $79.99 lifetime.

Dutch-developed Apple reader covering every platform — iPhone, iPad, Mac, Watch and TV — synced over iCloud with no account to sign up for. Pulls RSS, Atom, JSON, Mastodon, Reddit, YouTube and podcasts, then does full-text extraction, article comments, smart filters, prefilters and rich notes. $4.99 on iOS, $9.99 on macOS, no subscription.

Plain-language walkthrough for following Mastodon accounts and hashtags from any feed reader (add .rss to the address), following RSS feeds from Mastodon via RSS Parrot, and subscribing to PeerTube channels. Public posts only: replies and non-public posts do not appear in the feeds.

Fediverse platform that treats RSS as a first-class citizen: follow any RSS or Atom feed (blogs, WordPress, arbitrary pages with a discoverable feed) and its items land in your timeline as normal posts. AGPL-licensed and self-hostable.