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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I know. Everyone is different and there is nothing wrong with that. I don't think RSS-to-email is for everyone. And I definitely don't have (most) feeds going to my inbox. That would be far too much. The vast majority of my feeds go to a "Not Important" folder.
I also find it interesting that running an RSS-to-Email service I have noticed that we both fetch feeds from and send mail to kill-the-newsletter.com. I would be curious to know what their use cases are.
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.
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.
+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.
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.
Readit News
- https://www.inoreader.com/
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.
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...
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/
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.)
I also find it interesting that running an RSS-to-Email service I have noticed that we both fetch feeds from and send mail to kill-the-newsletter.com. I would be curious to know what their use cases are.
[0] https://freshrss.org/
[1] https://netnewswire.com/
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.
[0] https://feedly.com
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