Automation requires a Pro account, and it also offers some other great features worth paying for, such as the ability to get full articles, integration with IFTTT and Zapier, offline reading, and my favorite: syncing your YouTube account with RSS reading. You can watch YouTube videos in Inoreader, and the next time you log in to YouTube, you won’t have a ton of unwatched videos.
You can share articles via social media, and you can use the Inoreader browser plug-in to save articles you find around the web (kind of like Instapaper or Pocket).
Inoreader offers a free (with ads) account, which is good for testing whether the service meets your needs.If so, we recommend Professional Account ($7.50/month, billed annually)which brings more advanced features and support for more feeds.
RSS aggregator for beginners
Feedly is probably the most popular RSS reader on the web. It’s well designed and easy to use, and offers great search options so adding all your favorite sites is easy. It’s missing one feature that made Inoreader better for me – YouTube sync – but otherwise Feedly is a great choice.
Feedly has some nice extras, like Evernote integration (you can save articles to Evernote) and an annotation feature for jotting down your thoughts on stories. Feedly also has an AI search assistant that can help filter your feed and show you the content you actually want.I find it works well, but a big reason I like RSS is that it doesn’t have artificial intelligence – which I don’t like think Automatic filtering. However, depending on how you use RSS, this may be a useful feature.
Like the other apps here, Feedly offers iOS and Android apps as well as a web interface. Feedly offers up to 100 feeds for free. A Pro subscription is $8 per month (cheaper if you pay for a year) and offers more features like note-taking, saving to Evernote, and ad-free reading. A Pro+ account gives you AI features, the way to search feeds, follow newsletters like RSS feeds, and more for just $12 per month.
Best for DIY enthusiasts
Photo: News Blur
Newsblur is a refreshingly simple, old-school RSS reader.You won’t find AI features cluttering your feed—it’s for reading the news you Aggregate and move on with your life. It can subscribe to a variety of content (including newsletters and YouTube), read full stories (even from RSS feeds that don’t offer that content), integrate with IFTTT, and even track story changes when publishers update articles.
What sets Newsblur apart is that it is open source. You can view the code on Github, and if you’re comfortable with the command line, you can even set up your own hosted version of Newsblur on your own server.