The automation requires a pro account, which also offers some other notable features worth paying for, like the ability to get full articles, integrate with IFTTT and Zapier, read offline, and my favorite: keep your YouTube account in sync with your RSS reading. You can watch YouTube videos in Inoreader, and the next time you log into YouTube, you won’t have many unwatched videos.
You can share articles via social media, and you can use the Inoreader browser plugin to save articles you find on the web (kind of like Instapaper or Pocket).
Inoreader offers a free (with ads) account, with which you can test whether the service meets your needs. If this is the case, we recommend the Pro account ($7.50/month, billed annually)that offers more advanced features and support for more feeds.
A beginner-friendly RSS aggregator
Feedly is probably the most popular RSS reader on the Internet. It’s well designed and easy to use and offers great search options so you can easily add all your favorite sites. There’s one thing missing that makes Inoreader a little better for my use: the YouTube sync, but otherwise Feedly is an excellent choice.
Feedly has some nice extra features, like Evernote integration (you can save articles to Evernote) and a notes feature that lets you jot down your thoughts on stories. Feedly also has an AI search assistant, which can help you filter your feeds and surface the content you really want. I found it worked well enough, but a big part of what I like about RSS is that there is no AI. want to automated filtering. However, depending on how you use RSS, this can be a useful feature.
Like the others here, Feedly offers iOS And Android apps along with a web interface. Feedly is free for up to 100 feeds. A Pro plan costs $8 per month (cheaper if you pay for a year) and offers more features like notes, saving to Evernote, and ad-free reading. With the Pro+ account, you get the AI features, a way to search your feeds, follow newsletters like RSS feeds, and more for $12 per month.
Best for DIYers
Photo: Newsblur
Newsblur is a refreshingly simple old-fashioned RSS reader. You won’t find any AI features in your feeds; it is for reading the news you collect and move on with your life. It can subscribe to all kinds of content (including newsletters and YouTube), read full stories (even from RSS feeds that don’t offer them), integrate with IFTTT, and even track story changes when a publisher updates an article.
One thing that sets Newsblur apart is that it is open source. You can see the code on Github, and if you’re comfortable with the command line, you can even set up your own self-hosted version of Newsblur on your own server.
