Feedly alternatives: 8 free, open-source and paid readers

Updated September 27, 2026 11 min read

The best Feedly alternatives are Inoreader, Feeder, NewsBlur, Feedbin, NetNewsWire, Reeder, Readwise Reader and FreshRSS. For a free plan with no ads, choose Feeder (200 feeds) or Inoreader (150 feeds). On iPhone, iPad and Mac, NetNewsWire is free and open source. To host your own reader, choose FreshRSS.

Feeder is our product, so we're not neutral. We've placed it where it fits, and every price and limit below comes from each company's own website or app store listing. Prices are in US dollars, checked on September 27, 2026. For a wider list, see the best RSS readers, compared.

Feedly alternatives at a glance

Feedly is in the first row, so you can compare.

Reader	Best for	Free plan	Paid plans from	Apps
Feedly	AI tools on top of your feeds	100 feeds in 3 folders, with sponsored ads	$6 a month billed yearly, or $8 monthly	Web, iOS, Android
Inoreader	Power users who want rules and filters	150 feeds, no ads	$7.50 a month billed yearly, or $9.99 monthly	Web, iOS, Android, extensions for Chrome and Firefox
Feeder	A big free plan, with alerts on every device	200 feeds, no ads	$7.99 a month billed yearly, or $9.99 monthly	Web, iOS, Android, extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Edge
NewsBlur	Training what you see, open source	64 sites	$36 a year	Web, iOS, Android
Feedbin	A quiet paid reader that works with other apps	None, 30-day trial	$7 a month or $70 a year	Web, iPhone and iPad, plus third-party apps
NetNewsWire	Free reading on Apple devices	Free and open source	No paid plan	Mac, iPhone, iPad
Reeder	A timeline on Apple devices	10 feeds	$1.99 a month or $14.99 a year	iPhone, iPad, Mac
Readwise Reader	Reading, saving and highlighting	None, 30-day trial	$9.99 a month billed yearly, or $12.99 monthly	Web, iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, browser extensions
FreshRSS	Self-hosting	Free and open source	No paid plan, you need a server	Your own server, in the browser and in third-party apps

Best Feedly alternative for each need

Free: Feeder, with 200 feeds and no ads, or Inoreader, with 150 feeds and no ads. NetNewsWire is free on Apple devices, and FreshRSS is free if you host it.
Android: Feeder, Inoreader, NewsBlur and Readwise Reader have their own Android apps. Of these, Feeder's free plan follows the most feeds: 200. More options are in RSS feed readers for Android.
iPhone and iPad: NetNewsWire if you want free and open source, Reeder if you like to read a timeline. Feeder, Inoreader, NewsBlur, Feedbin and Readwise Reader have iOS apps too.
Open source: NetNewsWire, NewsBlur and Feedbin (MIT license), FreshRSS (AGPL 3) and Miniflux (Apache 2.0).
Self-hosted: FreshRSS, Miniflux, or NewsBlur, which you can run on your own server with one Docker command.
Power users: Inoreader, with 30 rules and 50 filters on Pro.
Teams: Feeder Professional at $14.99 per user a month billed yearly, or Inoreader's Team plans from $44.99 a month for 3 members. Feedly's team features come with Enterprise, priced on request.
Keeping Feedly, changing the app: NetNewsWire and Reeder Classic can sync with your Feedly account.

1. Inoreader

Inoreader is the closest thing to Feedly: a hosted reader for the web, iOS and Android, with a free plan and a Pro plan. It is made by Innologica, an EU-based company, and built for people who want to automate their reading.

Compared with Feedly: the free plan follows 150 feeds with no ads. Pro follows 2,500 feeds and adds rules, filters, push notifications, newsletters and AI summaries. On Feedly, 2,500 feeds, newsletters and mute filters come with Pro+, and there are no notifications for new articles.
Price: Pro is $7.50 a month billed yearly, or $9.99 monthly. Team plans start at $44.99 a month for 3 members.
Keep in mind: rules, filters, push notifications and AI all need Pro. Feeds refresh at least once an hour by default, and on Pro you can boost 100 feeds to refresh every 10 minutes.

The two are compared side by side in Feedly vs Inoreader.

2. Feeder

Feeder is our RSS reader for the web, with apps for iOS and Android and extensions for Chrome, Firefox and Edge. Besides websites, the free plan follows YouTube channels, subreddits, newsletters and Google News.

Compared with Feedly: the free plan follows 200 feeds with no ads, and it sends push and desktop notifications for new posts. Newsletters and Google News work on Free, where Feedly puts them on Pro+.
Price: Plus is $7.99 a month billed yearly, or $9.99 monthly. It follows 2,500 feeds, checks them as often as every 5 minutes, and adds Rules, filters and e-mail updates. Professional, for teams, is $14.99 per user a month billed yearly.
Keep in mind: Feedly Pro costs less, at $6 a month billed yearly. On Feeder's free plan, feeds update every 2 hours unless you set them to update more often, as often as every 30 minutes. Feeder doesn't sync with third-party apps such as NetNewsWire or Reeder Classic.

3. NewsBlur

NewsBlur is an open-source RSS reader (MIT license) with its own apps for the web, iPhone, iPad and Android, and the apps are open source too. Use the hosted service, or run NewsBlur on your own server with one Docker command.

Compared with Feedly: NewsBlur filters for you on the free plan. You train it by liking or disliking authors, tags and titles. Sites that support real-time updates (PubSubHubbub) arrive right away, even on Free.
Price: Premium is $36 a year for 1,024 sites, faster updates, search and River of News, which shows a whole folder as one list. Premium Archive, $99 a year, adds 4,096 sites, web feeds for any website and Ask AI. Premium Pro, $29 a month, fetches up to 10,000 sites every 5 to 15 minutes. Every new account starts with a free 30-day premium trial, no credit card needed.
Keep in mind: the free plan follows up to 64 sites.

NewsBlur also syncs with apps such as Reeder Classic, ReadKit, Unread and NetNewsWire. See how it compares in Feeder vs NewsBlur.

4. Feedbin

Feedbin is a paid RSS reader with one plan and a clean web app, made in San Francisco since 2013. Besides websites, it follows newsletters (you get your own e-mail address for them), podcasts, YouTube channels and Mastodon. Its code is open source under the MIT license.

Compared with Feedly: "No ads, no tracking," newsletters on the only plan, and full text for feeds that only show a summary. Many apps sync with Feedbin, so you choose where you read.
Price: $7 a month or $70 a year, with "no tiers and no add-ons". Try it free for 30 days, no credit card needed.
Keep in mind: there is no free plan. Feedbin's own app is for iPhone and iPad. On Android you read in a third-party app such as FocusReader, and on a Mac in apps such as NetNewsWire or Leaf.

5. NetNewsWire

NetNewsWire is a free, open-source RSS reader (MIT license) for Mac, iPhone and iPad, built by Brent Simmons and volunteers.

Compared with Feedly: a fast, native Apple app that costs nothing. It keeps your feeds in iCloud, or syncs with a service such as Feedly, Inoreader, Feedbin, NewsBlur or FreshRSS. That means you can keep your Feedly account and read it in NetNewsWire.
Price: free, with no paid plan.
Keep in mind: it runs only on Apple devices, with iOS 17 or later and macOS 15 or newer. There is no Android app and no web app.

6. Reeder

Reeder puts RSS feeds, videos, podcasts and social media posts in one timeline on iPhone, iPad and Mac. It has no unread counts: it remembers your place in the timeline and syncs it through iCloud. Silvio Rizzi, a solo developer, makes it.

Compared with Feedly: a timeline instead of a pile of unread articles, with filters by keyword, media type and feed type. Reeder says it collects no data of its own.
Price: free for up to 10 feeds. The subscription is $1.99 a month or $14.99 a year in the US App Store, and it covers iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Keep in mind: it runs only on Apple devices (iOS 17 or later, macOS 14 or later), and it doesn't sync with Feedly or other services. The free version can't import OPML, so bringing your Feedly feeds needs the subscription.

The older Reeder Classic is still updated and sold once: $4.99 on iPhone and iPad, $9.99 on Mac. It syncs with Feedly, Inoreader, Feedbin and other services.

7. Readwise Reader

Reader, from Readwise, is a read-it-later app that also follows RSS feeds and newsletters. It keeps web articles, PDFs, EPUBs and YouTube videos in one place, and you can highlight and annotate all of them.

Compared with Feedly: if you use Feedly mostly to save articles and highlight them, Reader goes further. Your highlights sync to Readwise, which exports them to Obsidian, Notion, Evernote and other apps. Its AI, Ghostreader, answers questions about what you read.
Price: Reader comes with Readwise Full: $9.99 a month billed yearly, or $12.99 monthly. The first 30 days are free, and students and academics get 50% off by e-mail request. Readwise Lite, at $5.59 a month billed yearly, doesn't include Reader.
Keep in mind: there is no free plan after the trial. Feeds are grouped with Filtered Views instead of folders, and feeds with few subscribers may only refresh when you open the app.

8. FreshRSS

FreshRSS is free, open-source software (AGPL 3) that you install on your own server. It needs PHP 8.1 or newer and a PostgreSQL, SQLite or MySQL database. You can try it first on the demo at demo.freshrss.org.

Compared with Feedly: no company sets your limits. The project says it can handle more than a million articles and 50,000 feeds, and it can build feeds for sites without RSS by scraping them with XPath. Several people can share one server.
Apps: read in the browser, or connect an app through its Google Reader or Fever API, such as Readrops, Read You or FocusReader on Android and NetNewsWire, Reeder Classic or Unread on Apple devices.
Keep in mind: you install, update and back it up yourself. Its update script checks any one feed at most once every 20 minutes.

For something smaller, Miniflux is free to host yourself. Its developer also runs a hosted version for $15 a year, with a 15-day free trial, that updates your subscriptions every 1 to 2 hours.

How to choose a Feedly alternative

Start with your devices. NetNewsWire and Reeder run only on Apple devices. Feeder, Inoreader, NewsBlur and Readwise Reader work in the browser and on iOS and Android. Feedbin and FreshRSS also work with many third-party apps.
Count your feeds. Free plans stop at 10 feeds on Reeder, 64 on NewsBlur, 100 on Feedly, 150 on Inoreader and 200 on Feeder.
Decide whether you need alerts. Feeder sends push notifications on every plan, and Inoreader on Pro. Feedly has none for new articles.
Decide how fast you need news. Feeder Plus checks feeds as often as every 5 minutes, NewsBlur Premium Pro every 5 to 15 minutes, and Inoreader Pro every 10 minutes for up to 100 boosted feeds. For blogs, hourly is plenty.
Pay, or host it yourself. FreshRSS and Miniflux cost nothing if you run a server, and Miniflux's hosted version is $15 a year.

How do I move my feeds from Feedly?

Export from Feedly. Sign in on the web, open feedly.com/i/opml and save the OPML file. The export works only in Feedly's web app, not in its mobile apps.
Import it in your new reader. Inoreader, Feeder, NewsBlur, NetNewsWire, Readwise Reader, FreshRSS and Miniflux all import OPML. In Feeder, open Library, then Import & Export, and choose Import from file.
Add what the export skips. Feedly's OPML file leaves out Boards, Read Later, AI Feeds and Reddit feeds, so add those again by hand.

The Feeder steps are in Import and export your feeds with OPML.

Common questions

Is Feedly still free?

Yes. Feedly Free follows up to 100 feeds in 3 folders, with sponsored ads. Pro, at $6 a month billed yearly or $8 monthly, raises that to 1,000 feeds and hides the ads.

Is there a Feedly alternative without ads?

Yes. Feeder and Inoreader both have free plans without ads. Feedbin promises "no ads, no tracking" on its paid plan, and Miniflux has no telemetry or advertising.

Which Feedly alternative has AI features?

Inoreader Pro ($7.50 a month billed yearly) has AI summaries, transcripts and suggested tags. Feeder includes AI summaries on every plan, 2 a day on Free and 10 on Plus ($7.99 a month billed yearly), and can create AI feeds. NewsBlur Premium Archive ($99 a year) has Ask AI, and Readwise Reader ($9.99 a month billed yearly) has Ghostreader.

Does Feedly still sell a lifetime plan?

No. Feedly's help center says it no longer offers a lifetime license. If you'd rather pay once, Reeder Classic costs $4.99 on iPhone and iPad or $9.99 on Mac, and NetNewsWire is free.

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