Readwise Reader is a read-later app: it is built for reading, highlighting and keeping everything you save, from web articles and PDFs to ebooks, newsletters and RSS feeds. Feeder is an RSS reader: it is built for following many sources and telling you when they post something new. Feeder has a free plan with 200 feeds. Reader comes with Readwise Full, at $9.99 a month billed yearly, after 30 free days.
What is Readwise Reader?
Reader is the reading app from Readwise, a company that calls itself "bootstrapped and profitable since 2017". You save web articles to it to read later, and it also takes RSS feeds, e-mail newsletters, PDFs, EPUB ebooks, YouTube videos and X threads. You highlight and annotate as you read, and your highlights sync to Readwise, which exports them to Obsidian, Notion, Evernote and other apps. Reader runs on the web, iOS, Android, Mac and Windows.
What is Feeder?
Feeder is an RSS reader for the web, with extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Edge and apps for iOS and Android. It works in Safari through the web app. You follow websites, YouTube channels, subreddits, newsletters, Mastodon and Bluesky accounts, and Google News searches. Feeder checks each one on a schedule, shows new posts in one list, and can notify you when something arrives.
Feeder vs Readwise Reader at a glance
Prices are in US dollars, taken from each company's pricing page on September 27, 2026.
| Feeder | Readwise Reader | |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Following many sources and hearing about new posts | Reading, highlighting and keeping what you save |
| Free plan | 200 feeds, as many folders as you like, no ads | None. Readwise is free for the first 30 days. |
| Paid plans | Plus: $7.99 a month billed yearly ($95.88 a year), or $9.99 monthly Professional: $14.99 per user a month billed yearly, or $19.99 monthly Enterprise: price on request | Readwise Full, which includes Reader: $9.99 a month billed yearly ($119.88 a year), or $12.99 monthly Readwise Lite, $5.59 a month billed yearly, does not include Reader 50% off for students and academics, on request |
| Feeds | Free 200, Plus 2,500, Professional 10,000 | No feed limit published |
| Update speed | Free every 2 hours by default, or as often as every 30 minutes. Plus and Professional every 10 minutes by default, or as often as every 5 minutes on Plus and every minute on Professional | About every 5 minutes. Feeds with fewer subscribers may only refresh when you open the app. |
| Platforms | Web, iOS and Android, plus extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Safari through the web app. | Web, iOS and Android, desktop apps for Mac and Windows, extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Safari, and an e-ink mode |
| Organizing and filtering | Folders, including folders inside folders, and collections on every plan. Rules and keyword filters on Plus. | Filtered Views group your feeds, instead of classic folders |
| Highlights and notes | Highlight text in a post and add a note, on Plus | Highlight and annotate articles, PDFs, ebooks, feeds and video transcripts. Highlights sync to Readwise and on to Obsidian, Notion, Evernote and others. |
| Sources | RSS, YouTube, Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky, Google News, Google Alerts and e-mail newsletters on every plan. Telegram on Plus. Feeder can also make a feed for a site that has none. | RSS feeds, e-mail newsletters, web articles you save, PDFs, EPUB ebooks, YouTube videos and X threads |
| Search and listening | Search your newest posts on Free, full search on Plus | Full-text search, also offline, and text to speech |
| Teams | Professional: shared feeds, folders and collections, workspaces and user permissions. Posts to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord and webhooks. | Two plans, Lite and Full, and no team plan among them |
| AI features | AI summaries of posts (2 a day on Free, 10 on Plus, 60 on Professional) and AI feeds. On Plus and up, an MCP server connects Feeder to AI assistants. | Ghostreader answers questions about what you read, defines terms and simplifies text |
| Import and export | OPML import and export on every plan. Import also reads CSV and XLS files. | OPML import. Exports feeds as OPML, documents as CSV and highlights as Markdown. Reader is "built API-first". |
Can Readwise Reader replace an RSS reader?
For a small set of feeds you read closely, it can. Reader follows RSS feeds, imports your OPML file and refreshes feeds about every 5 minutes. Two things to know:
- Quiet feeds may wait. Readwise says feeds with fewer subscribers may only refresh when you open the app.
- There are no classic folders. You group feeds with Filtered Views instead.
If you follow dozens or hundreds of sources and skim most of them, an RSS reader such as Feeder fits that job better. If you save a few long pieces a day and study them, Reader does, and you pay for that whole reading app: there is no feeds-only plan.
How much does Readwise Reader cost?
Reader is included only in Readwise Full: $9.99 a month billed yearly ($119.88 a year), or $12.99 billed monthly. The cheaper Readwise Lite, at $5.59 a month billed yearly or $6.99 monthly, does not include Reader. Readwise is free for the first 30 days, and students and academics can ask for 50% off by e-mail. There is no free plan after the trial.
Feeder costs less: its free plan follows 200 feeds with no ads, and Plus is $7.99 a month billed yearly ($95.88 a year), or $9.99 monthly. To be fair to Readwise, its price also covers Readwise itself, where your highlights are collected and exported, and reading PDFs and ebooks, which Feeder isn't built for.
Which is better for following many feeds?
Feeder, because that is the job it is built for. It checks each feed on a schedule, whether or not you have the app open: every 2 hours by default on Free, which you can set to as often as every 30 minutes, and every 10 minutes by default on Plus, or as often as every 5 minutes. A feed that has been quiet for a month is checked at most once an hour until it posts again. How often Feeder checks your feeds has the details.
When a new post arrives, push and desktop notifications work on every plan, and you choose which feeds send them. On Plus, Feeder can also e-mail you each new post, or a daily, weekly or monthly summary. To keep a long list under control, you sort feeds into folders, and on Plus, Rules and keyword filters can star, hide or collect the posts that match.
How do highlights and notes compare?
Readwise Reader is the stronger tool here. You can highlight and annotate articles, PDFs, ebooks, feeds and even YouTube transcripts, and search all of it, offline too. Ghostreader, its AI helper, answers questions about the text, defines terms and simplifies hard passages.
Feeder covers the basics for posts from your feeds. On Plus, you can highlight text in a post and add a note, and your notes and annotations are listed in the Notes section of the sidebar. On every plan, you can save posts to collections.
When Readwise Reader is the better choice
- You read deeply rather than widely. You save a few long pieces and want to highlight them, annotate them and come back to them.
- Your reading goes beyond feeds. PDFs, EPUB ebooks, YouTube transcripts and X threads live in the same app.
- Your notes live in another app. Highlights flow through Readwise to Obsidian, Notion, Evernote and others.
- You want AI help while you read. Ghostreader answers questions and explains terms.
- You want desktop apps or e-ink. Reader has apps for Mac and Windows and an e-ink mode.
When Feeder is the better choice
- You follow many sources. 200 feeds on the free plan and 2,500 on Plus, in folders you arrange yourself.
- You want to know when something new arrives. Push and desktop notifications on every plan, and e-mail updates on Plus.
- You want a free plan. Feeder Free has no time limit and no ads.
- You follow more than websites. Reddit, Google News, Google Alerts and Bluesky work on the free plan, and Feeder can make a feed for a site that has none.
- You work in a team. Professional is $14.99 per user a month billed yearly, with shared feeds and folders, and posts to Slack or Microsoft Teams.
How do I move from Readwise Reader to Feeder?
- Export your feeds from Reader. Reader exports your feeds as an OPML file.
- Import them into Feeder. Sign in to Feeder on the web, open Library, then Import & Export, and choose Import from file. See Import and export your feeds with OPML.
- Sort them into folders. If your feeds arrive without folders, create folders and drag your feeds into them.
OPML moves your feeds, not your saved documents or highlights. Reader exports those separately: documents as a CSV file and highlights as Markdown. The free plan updates up to 200 feeds. If your file has more, Feeder tells you after the import, and only the first 200 are updated until you upgrade. Going the other way works too: Feeder exports OPML, and Reader imports it.
Common questions
Is Readwise Reader free?
No. Readwise is free for the first 30 days. After that, Reader needs Readwise Full, at $9.99 a month billed yearly or $12.99 monthly.
Readwise Reader vs Inoreader or Feedly: which is better for RSS?
For following feeds, Inoreader and Feedly are RSS readers first, and both have free plans: 150 feeds with no ads on Inoreader, and 100 feeds with sponsored ads on Feedly. Reader is the better pick for highlighting and for PDFs and ebooks. To compare the two, see Feedly vs Inoreader.
Can I use Feeder and Readwise Reader together?
Yes, as two separate apps. Follow your sources and get alerts in Feeder, and save the long pieces you want to study to Reader.
Try Feeder
Feeder is an RSS reader for the web, iOS and Android, with extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Edge. The free plan follows up to 200 feeds, updated as often as every 30 minutes, with no ads. Plus is $7.99 a month, billed yearly, for 2,500 feeds, updates as often as every 5 minutes and e-mail summaries.
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