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• What Kind of RSS Reader Do I Want?

Criteria are the foundation of saying something valuable or not. Therefore, criteria go first.

What are the expected features?

• Can Sync with services such as Inoreader
• Clean

Applications

RSS Guard

• https://github.com/martinrotter/rssguard
  • Feed reader which supports RSS/ATOM/JSON and many web-based feed services.
  • RSS Guard is simple RSS/ATOM feed reader for Windows, Linux, BSD, OS/2 or macOS which can work with RSS/ATOM/JSON feeds and also supports many online feed services:
    • Tiny Tiny RSS,
    • Inoreader (via Google Reader API plugin),
    • Nextcloud News,
    • Gmail,
    • FreshRSS (via Google Reader API plugin),
    • The Old Reader (via Google Reader API plugin),
    • Bazqux (via Google Reader API plugin),
    • Reedah (via Google Reader API plugin),
    • Feedly.

Readrops

• https://github.com/readrops/Readrops
  • Android multi-services RSS client
  • Local RSS parsing : support for RSS 2, RSS 1, ATOM and JSONFeed
  • Nextcloud news support
  • FreshRSS support

RSSOwl

• https://github.com/Xyrio/RSSOwlnix
  • RSSOwlnix is a fork of RSSOwl a powerful application to organize, search and read your RSS, RDF & Atom news feeds in a comfortable way.
  • Highlights are saved searches, notifications, filters, fast fulltext search and a flexible, clean user interface.
• https://github.com/rssowl/RSSOwl
  • RSS Owl is a powerful application to organize, search and read your RSS, RDF & Atom news feeds in a comfortable way.
  • Highlights are saved searches, google reader sync, notifications, filters, fast fulltext search and a flexible, clean user interface.
  • Please use Xyrio/RSSOwlnix which is the new place for RSSOwl.
  • RSSOwl is unmaintained and has several known vulnerabilities. Please do not use it any more.
• http://www.rssowl.org/
  • Download RSSOwl now and start making the best out of your feeds: Windows, Mac, Linux

NewsBlur

• https://newsblur.com/
  • NewsBlur is a personal news reader
  • NewsBlur is free on the web, iPad, iPhone, and Android.
  • Free Account
    • Up to 64 sites

Feedbin

• https://feedbin.com/home
  • Follow your passions with RSS, Twitter, and email newsletters.
  • Free Trial…then only $5 a month
• https://feedbin.com/blog/2013/08/27/feedbin-is-open-source/
  • Feedbin is Open Source

Good references

• https://www.tailor.to/rss/rss-reader/best-rss-feed-reader-apps-open-source
  • Best Open Source RSS Reader Apps
    • Winds
      • Source code: https://github.com/GetStream/Winds
      • New project – JavaScript based, built using React.js
      • Online demo available
    • Raven
      • Source code: https://github.com/hello-efficiency-inc/raven-reader
      • Cross-platform, available on Windows, Mac and Linux, built using Electron
    • FreshRSS
      • Source code: https://github.com/FreshRSS/FreshRSS
      • Online demo available
    • Miniflux
      • Source code: https://github.com/miniflux
      • Hosting plan is $15 if you don’t want to self-host
    • Vienna
      • Source code: https://github.com/ViennaRSS/vienna-rss
      • for macOS
    • RSSOwl
      • Source code: https://github.com/rssowl/RSSOwl
      • Written in Java
    • Tickr
      • Source code: https://packages.debian.org/bullseye/tickr
      • Linux desktop application
    • Tiny Tiny RSS
      • Source code: https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/tt-rss
      • They also have an Android client
        • https://git.tt-rss.org/fox/tt-rss-android
        • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fox.ttrss

• https://nextcloud.github.io/news/clients/
  • My
    • The REST API of News is not RSS API (not Google Reader API)
  • Clients are applications that use the REST API of News.
  • A sync client can be used to read news and synchronize via the API.

Name	OS/Platform	License	Source
RSS Guard	Windows, Linux, OS/2, macOS	GPL-3.0 License	GitHub
Nextcloud News Reader	Android	GPL-3.0 License	GitHub
OCReader	Android	GPL-3.0 License	GitHub
Newsout	Android	Apache-2.0 License	GitHub
Readrops	Android	GPL-3.0 License	GitHub
CloudNews	iOS	BSD-2-Clause License	GitHub
Fiery Feeds	iOS, macOS	–	–
Nextnews	iOS	–	–
News Checker	Google Chrome	–	GitHub
own News	Blackberry	–	–
FeedSpider	Firefox OS, webOS, LuneOS	MIT License	GitHub
fastReader	Windows Phone	–	–
py3status	i3wm	BSD-3-Clause License	GitHub
newsboat	Unix Terminal	MIT License	GitHub
Newsie	Ubuntu Touch	GPL-3.0 License	GitLab

• https://wordpress.org/support/article/wordpress-feeds/
  • WordPress Feeds
  • WordPress Built-in Feeds
    • RDF/RSS 1.0 feed
    • RSS 0.92 feed
    • RSS 2.0 feed
    • Atom feed
  • As of 2019, no major browsers have the ability to display feeds without third-party add-ons or extensions.
  • A feed is a stream of data meant to be interpreted by a feed reader, like NewsBlur or RSSOwl.