That depends. Goodlinks, for example, is more than a read later app. It is a web clipper that removes advertisements, etc. and some other “obstructions”.
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feeder.co - works/syncs great, fairly modern look and can pull the native site “look” on the mobile app. I used NetNewsWire for awhile before this but it wasn’t picking up certain posts from Kottke and a couple other sites.
I am using Tapestry from Iconfactory, but still not managing to read through my feeds. Too many great articles being posted by so many smart people. It’s almost become my Read-Never service.
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Tapestry.
It’s fabulous, especially for somebody who is most interested in not having multiple “inboxes” to check, especially when they become redundant. Before Tapestry, I checked Mastadon, Micro.blog, and NewNewsWire at various times. Now Tapestry puts them all in one place—and even recognizes and collapses (at my option) redundant posts.
I use Feedbin to sync feeds and NetNewsWire to read.
Feedbin syncing, readkit on Mac, ios and iPadOS, Goodlinks to capture things I want to use (and shortcut to pass articles from Goodlinks to Craft). Instapaper for reading later on my Kobo.
Feedly + Reeder Classic
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Glad it works for you. I couldn’t think of anything worse.
For me, they are different things. Mastodon is the water cooler. RSS is the (tech + aviation) news. Slack is for specific communities (and one, shudder, in Discord). I don’t want to see a Dad joke, a phone review, and discussion of how to sort out a recalcitrant Apple Watch, all in the same place.
Would you, I wonder, want your email in Tapestry, too? What about your calendar or reminders? Posts from this forum? Genuinely curious how far people would take it.
That’s the classic 
It seem most people go with Reeder Classic + Goodlinks…
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Tapestry is for consumption of content. I use Mastodon and Bluesky much as I used to use Twitter—for following commentary and news, primarily on tech topics. Before Tapestry I would most often read an article when I saw the author’s post about it on Twitter. When I went into NetNewsWire, I would already have read most of the articles in there, though a few would not have been tweeted about. Tapestry puts all that in one place so it’s easy to review. It adds in the ability to follow things like comic strips (from GoComics) that don’t play nice with RSS readers or with Mastadon, and it takes away the overhead of having to go/check/clear multiple places when I’m just consuming content.
Tapestry is not built for creation/interaction. I’m not aware of any plugin for Slack or Discord. (What would that even look like?) I wouldn’t want or expect things that require interaction (email, calendar, task apps) to be in my consumption app. If your use of Mastodon or Bluesky is more focused on posting or commenting, then Tapestry probably isn’t as appealing (at least not for those services). But for those who mostly just observe, it’s a fantastic and lovely tool.
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Fiery Feeds. it’s the best.
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What a great topic!
I use GoodLinks for saving and reading. I keep my unread list sorted by most recent first, but also keep a widget on my Home Screen to show me a random unread article. This gives has the fun effect of shouting headlines at me for articles that I already know I want to read, and that I’ll get to read without ads.
For feed subscriptions, I do not use an RSS app or reader. I use Mailbrew, which sends me an RSS digest to my email on a cadence of my choosing. And you can set up multiple digests from different sets of sources to come at different cadences, of course. This allows me to be “email first,” which I like - and makes it easy to subscribe to substacks and blogs newsletters and everything else that is email first. And removes any compulsive feed scrolling, since I always know when the next digest will come.
This email-based system is truly only enabled by the fact that I use HEY email. HEY has a dedicated “Feed” folder for news updates, so it’s not mixed in with all my other email. But SaneBox could do much of the same thing.
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So you still have the duplication. It just makes it ever so slightly easier to deal with.
I wanted to like Tapestry, but once I kicked out Mastodon and BlueSky due to the lack of interactivity (I follow people, not entities), it became just another RSS reader and not a very good one at that. I could never get the information density right. I looked for ‘cool’ hooks into other services but I just couldn’t find any. All I found was “Some guy whose web site doesn’t have RSS and I’ve written this cool hack” and some random services that are only of value to a handful of people.
I wonder what proportion of users are using any more than RSS, Mastodon, and BlueSky.
It was a great idea but, at least in the time I tried it (for several months from its launch), it was a solution in search of a problem. For me.
Your only objection to Reeder Classic in your original post seems to be that it doesn’t get updates, which isn’t right but in any case doesn’t feel like a reason not to use something. It doesn’t need significant changes because it’s a stable product and is very well-designed for its task. It doesn’t need updates unless a bug appears. I’ve been using Reeder Classic since the end of Google Reader many years ago, and I won’t change until I’m forced to.
Me too! Well, mine renews mid-Oct so I’m currently in the laborious task of switching. I only used it for Read It Later and highlighting and it’s just not worth it for me. I’ve switched to GoodLinks, which also offers highlighting. (The only downside is that Goodlinks doesn’t work on Android e-readers, but I consider that more the blame of Apple’s continued failure to release an e-ink device rather than the fault of Goodlinks!)
Why do you prefer ir over other apps?
Brazilian here, too
No, now i have just a single app where I can see and read everything. And where people post announcements multiple places, Tapestry’s “crosstalk” feature minimizes the duplication.
I also “follow people, not entities.”. But, for the most part I feel no compulsion to engage them in conversation. On occasions when I do, it’s easy to tap the link in Tapestry to open up your favorite service-specific client so that you can post.
Sorry Tapestry isn’t good for you. For me, it’s nearly perfect.
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I have been using News Explorer for quite a long time and it’s awesome and well maintained, it’s not like the developer is trying to reimagine what a feed reader should be.
Since January this year I’m a Inoreader subscriber and while I love the fact that it syncs faster than News Explorer’s native iCloud sync, but not sure the value for money is there and I also miss the native UI so I may go back to News Explorer after all.