The 12 Best RSS Reader Apps to Follow Your Favorite Blogs, Sites, and Feeds

The internet is overloaded with content. Even if you only set out to read the most important articles and watch the top videos, you'll never get done.
Just staying up-to-date and informed is a challenge. You have news to read, blogs to check, and YouTube hits you've got to watch. But instead of opening each site a half-dozen times a day, you can use an RSS app to curate your content automatically.
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication. It's a file that most websites update with their newest blog posts, videos, deals and more, so you can "subscribe" to sites and have new content automatically pushed to you. Instead of checking the 40 websites you follow, you can just open an RSS reader app and see what's new on all of those sites together.
In the years since Google Reader died, a wide range of RSS feed reader apps have come and gone. Today, there are still a number of great RSS tools that are actively being improved, apps you can use to follow your favorite sites—from powerful crowd favorites like Feedly to simple Chrome extensions like Feeder. Whether you want a simple app for consuming news on the go, or a powerful tool that archives the best content from hundreds of sites, there's an app here for you.

The Best RSS Reader Apps

For over a decade, Google Reader was the gold standard for RSS apps. That is, until July 2013, when Google abruptly stopped supporting the tool to focus on other products. The internet let out a collective groan.
Suddenly RSS readers were popular again, with hundreds of apps competing for Google Reader's former users on sites like ReplaceReader. Today, many of these apps are polished, high-quality feed readers that are a great tool for following your favorite sites.
At their core, RSS reader apps let you subscribe to content from your favorite sites. Typically, they'll download images and text from articles so you can read them offline, and will list all of the stories in chronological order. Many RSS apps then include tools to discover sites based on your favorite topics and let you save favorite articles to reference later.
There's two main types of RSS readers: online RSS services, and native RSS apps. The former run automatically in the background, finding new articles as soon as they're published. You can read your articles online, or typically sync them with apps for your phone or computer—either made by the RSS service, or from third-party developers. Then, native RSS apps sync RSS feeds directly on your device and often work with popular RSS services.
There are apps for every reading style, budget, and platform—here are some of the best ones.

The Best Hosted RSS Services


AppIcon: Best for:PricePlatform
FeedlyFeedlyBuilding a personalized newsfeedFree; $7/mo.Web, iOS, Android
PandaPandaA custom reading layoutFree; $4.99/mo.Web, iOS, Chrome
FeedbinFeedbinAdvanced search$3/mo.Web
NewsBlurNewsBlurPredictive article filteringFree; $2/mo.Web, iOS, Android
Feed WranglerFeedWranglerAdvanced feed organization$1.60/mo.Web, iOS
InoreaderInoreaderLong term content archivingFree; $1.25+/mo.Web, iOS, Android, Windows Phone
SelfossSelfossCustomizing your RSS readerFreeSelf-hosted





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