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by jhull 3969 days ago
What's a good RSS reader tool these days?
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Feedly? Honestly almost every single one of them is identical and they fall into two camps: one is the utility feed reader where all it does is display things in lists and keeps unread statuses (feedly, bunch of other misc apps) and the other camp tries to make them fancy / look nicer (instapaper, pocket, even evernote) but also keeps track of unread statuses, etc.

They're all "good" though I'm not convinced anyone provides a great experience in the read-it-later game. But now I'm getting off topic and ranting.

Feedly might be great, but until I can sign up with my email address (not through connecting it to another social account), then they're not really an option.
I'm pretty partial to Newsblur, when I'm in an RSS mood. For a while now I've just been in the habit of manually going to X sites.

https://newsblur.com/

There are different layout options, in case you don't like the default.

http://i.imgur.com/meKnG6B.png

The mobile app is nice, too.

Inoreader functions very similarly to how Google Reader worked:

https://www.inoreader.com

If you're on a Mac I can highly recommend ReadKit http://readkitapp.com/

I actually use Feedly to store the RSS feeds in the cloud but this is integrated into the app. On iOS I use Reeder http://reederapp.com/ios/

If you're looking for an offline reader, and you happen to be on OSX + iOS, I recommend Reeder. http://reederapp.com
Liferea, for Linux users: https://github.com/lwindolf/liferea
I've been using Feedly since Google Reader shut down.

http://feedly.com/