![]() ![]() ![]() Users can share stories to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and LinkedIn, as well as star items for later reading. Several views are available, from a traditional list to a pane view similar to the Microsoft Outlook email client. One of two new entrants into the RSS reader market, AOL Reader has promise. As described above, the first 4 apps are Search, Filters, Alerts and Save-for-Later.ĭisclosure: Definitely biased, since I'm on the team that built SwarmIQ.AOL Reader. Save-for-later integrations with 10+ popular services including Evernote and Google+.Alerts can be applied to any feed or folder. Email alerts to get notified when new items show up.Keyboard-based filters on Author, Body, Title or Category to monitor feeds on an ongoing basis.Full text search on your feeds or across the SwarmIQ universe of feeds.turn off social if you're not into sharing or following people. App dashboard to control what features you want to see in your reader e.g.Social features to share with and follow other people using SwarmIQ.Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter integrations for sharing.Support for upto 200 RSS Feeds, Folders, Tags, Starring, Interests (bundles of related RSS feeds). ![]() If you have less than a hundred feeds its free, with added plans for more feeds. Its the closest in terms of features and usage style to google reader IMO, though its not completely free. I'm not angry that I lost a free service (Quite more that I was a little broken hearted, its a great app, but the uncertainty meant I decided not to rely on third parties). They also had capacity issues, and ended up booting off most of their users. I used to use the old reader in the past - Unfortunately, when I used to use it, they had less restrictions and my needs are significantly greater than what their free tier offers. I've no idea how often it checks for new feeds Its still in active development, and I do believe they intend to reach parity with google reader pre shutdown Its reached the point where if I wasn't running ttrss, I'd run it, since I could tweak it into working for me I didn't use it originally cause it lacked a few key features I wanted (For example hiding empty feeds and folders). I used to run an instance on a VM at home, and I currently run it on a VPSĭigg reader is probably the one you should go with if you're looking to a nice, ad-free non self hosted alternative. price - free/open source, though you may need to pay for hosting.updates can be set per feed, but the minimum update time is 15 minutes.ads? What ads, you're running it yourself.After having google reader, and then another alternative I tried closed down, running my own seemed the best way to ensure I'd have a RSS feed reader I could rely on If you don't mind running your own (or can find a instance of it yourself ) tt-rss is a great RSS feed reader. It talks about new or revised features as they come out, but with a recent full makeover this will quickly give you an idea of what the whole system looks like. Their release blog is a good place to get a dime tour. The service is free for most usage (although a paid version exists that allows you to do extras like search through ALL feeds they track, not just your subscribed ones) and you will not be bothered by any advertising. It has a low key but highly functional interface that provides an efficient work flow for consuming feeds while staying out of your face both in browser and on mobile, integrates without being invasive and has never left me wishing "if only this did/had X".įeeds can be organized using folders (actually work like tags because a feed can be in multiple categories) and you can also filter for finer tuned control.įeeds are updates instantly in the interface as the crawler finds new posts, and the notification system either from inside the site or using a browser extension cat make you aware of the updates in a timely manner. Not only does it sport feature parity with what Google Reader was, it allows a number of usage and interface customization out of the box that I used to turn to elaborate user-scripts for. Adding feeds from mobile was also a pain and there were other minor annoyances, so I went hunting again.Įventually I dug up InoReader and have not looked back! I actually love the service. ![]() While the interface is polished and it does most things well, after a couple weeks I was frustrated with how little customization could be done. I eventually settled on Feedly and tried to camp out there. In fact there is something better than "the original".Īfter Google Reader turned out the lights, I experimented with a long string or RSS readers and aggregation systems. ![]()
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