I’m getting increasingly impatient with Inoreader–again. For the millionth time.
I’m subscribing to more and more newsletters, and Inoreader tries to apply formatting rules to make them more readable. In fact, these rules make them LESS readable–in some cases, unreadable. Additionally, setting up mail forwards from Gmail to Inoreader is difficult.
Feedbin does a great job with newsletters. I’m thinking of switching to that.
Before I do: What’s your favorite RSS reader, and why?
I like a newsreader that can also consume Twitter lists and subreddits.
I like the idea of NewsBlur’s filters, in theory. But every time I try it, I find the UI cluttered and ugly.
I haven’t really looked at Feedly. It seems to be the most popular choice post-Google Reader.
Feedbin for the back because of newsletters and twitter capabilities
Reeder for the front because it has the most torque of the readers around and is consistent across mobile, tablet and desktop. The only thing it could do better is provide more options for sharing.
Newsify front end and Feedly backend. For years on the Mac it was NetNewsWire then Reeder on iOS as the iPad became my favorite reading device. I never questioned the layout of these two apps with the 2 or 3 panes with article sources, articles, then the story. Until I used Apple News for awhile and grew to prefer the newspaper layout style. Now I can’t go back. Especially when using the iPad in landscape, it seems like too much space is wasted viewing the articles in a narrow list. With Newsify I can have an Apple News-like layout with differently sized articles and larger images taking up the full screen until I tap through to read an article. I’ve tried several times to go back to Reeder and it doesn’t stick.
Reeder across Mac and iOS (phone/iPad)… switched in recent version to use the iCloud sync, but used to use Inoreader and it’s a good service. I am actually using Reeder for read later stuff now as well, and liking it.
I would love love love a “real” reader with good highlighting support. Feedly was it for a while, but the highlights it saved were only really accessible and usable within Feedly’s ecosystem.
So, I use DEVONthink.
Every feed item gets converted to PDF, and I use smart rules to govern what happens to them depending on which feed it is, etc.
It’s actually quite nice, with the caveat that real-time mobile access requires a roundabout with a desktop machine running somewhere:
DEVONthink 3 downloads the items
DT3 converts them to PDFs
DT3 uploads them to sync
DTTG download them from sync
read items on DTTG
sync any annotations back to DT3
In turn, it isn’t for you if you want a conventional seamless, feed-like RSS experience. It’s very document-driven.
But for me, it makes DEVONthink:
the backend service
the RSS reader
the save for later service
the annotation service
…and with rich PDF-based annotations and lots of automation support to boot.
NetNewsWire and feedbin. For read later I use GoodLinks. If it something temporary I will just delete after I read it. Otherwise if it something I want to keep, save as markdown to DEVONthink.
Feedbin supports subreddits yes. First I maybe had around 20+ subs, but it become quickly overwhelming. Tried to read twitter thru feedbin in NNW, but prefer more Twitterrific on mac. I actually subscribed to feedbin earlier this year. Before that I used to read locally in NNW on iPad. It was a pain to manage if I wanted temporary to delete NNW from my devices to stay focused. Now I can delete NEtNewsWire for few days and don’t worry that my feeds will be out of sync or miss few articles etc.
My share menu on the M1 is bigger as I can share to all of the iOS apps I have sideloaded like GVConnect, Notability, and pre configured imessages thru launch center pro.
Both Fiery Feeds and Unread can parse footnotes from Feedly (in which they omit the needed absolute urls from footnotes). Fiery Feeds can also manage Feedly’s tags.
Tried Fiery Feeds macOS but it is very slow and unstable. I find the NetNewsWire the fastest to sync and process feeds on macOS. I don’t use the iOS version of NetNewsWire because it doesn’t allow feed content text selection, if I tap and hold on the content’s text, it triggers url share sheet.
All in Feedbin for RSS and Twitter. Tried everything else but Feedbin is the best combination of fast, reliable and no bullshit RSS service
It’s so good that I use the Feedbin app on mobile and the website when on desktop for everything as wel. From there, with a short key, I send to Pocket for longer articles. Do not need any other RSS client. It’s super fast compared to the others (reeder, Fiery feeds etc) which take a while in downloading/retrieving articles.
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