RSS readers allow you to collect the articles of specific sources in one app, making it a lot easier to find the content you’re interested in without crawling through a lot of noise. RSS (which may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, or one of several other possibilities — nobody seems sure) has been around a while, having been first developed in 1999, although it wasn’t more widely adopted until a few years later.
It’s sad how there’s basically no good local RSS readers anymore, only paid subscription based ones or self-host solutions. At least on Windows that is.
Fluent Reader. I use it with freshrss myself but it is just as good using it fully local.
Fluent Reader would be perfect if it could start on log on and run in the background, but the dev seems to not care about that so…
On Windows, I’ve been very happy with RSSOwlnix, even though it hasn’t seen any changes in 2 years.
Am I the only one who didn’t want another background service so I just wired a local Feedpushr instance to direct entries to my existing Gotify instance?
I mean, it works fine until some asshole puts HTML that their parser can’t understand in the content section but then you just need to read between the tags…
That’s why I like reeder on Apple devices.
Instead of needing yet another service to subscribe to RSS feeds and have them sync + potentially pay a fee for service, Reeder allows users to subscribe locally and sync it to iCloud across all devices. It was and is a major appeal of the app compared to others in the Apple ecosystem.
Newsblur is definitely my go-to. I love that I can train it to filter out toxic topics for me. It’s not 100% as sometimes the topic is just a repeat of the title.
But 90% of the time I can and it does.
I’ve been using the Feedbro extension in Firefox for about 4-5 years now. It is pretty great.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
RSS (which may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, or one of several other possibilities — nobody seems sure) has been around a while, having been first developed in 1999, although it wasn’t more widely adopted until a few years later.
The Pro version ($72 a year) lets you collect up to 1,000 RSS feeds, save to other apps such as Evernote and OneNote, share to several sites such as LinkedIn, and hide sponsored ads.
Along with the personalized dashboard and the ability to create folders, you can automatically highlight keywords (making it easier to spot relevant passages), use a podcast player, and save to Pocket, Evernote, OneNote, Google Drive, and Dropbox.
While many of the apps here try to walk a center line between simplicity and lots of features, Feeder tries a different tack: it works either as a basic RSS feed reader or as one for professionals.
You can train the app to pick out your preferred feeds by marking various characteristics — such as authors — as green or red, and see statistics like how often stories are updated and how many are in that source’s archive.
Flipboard is a handy mobile reader that’s been around awhile and, as its name implies, allows you to flip through your various feed articles; it’s available for iOS and Android devices.
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