RSS readers allow you to collect the articles of specific sources in one app, making it a lot easier to find the content you’re interested in without crawling through a lot of noise. RSS (which may stand for Really Simple Syndication, Rich Site Summary, or one of several other possibilities — nobody seems sure) has been around a while, having been first developed in 1999, although it wasn’t more widely adopted until a few years later.
Feedly, Inoreader, Feeder, Newsblur, Feedbin.
Thanks for the summary! More articles should be concise and more “complete” (e.g. mentioning alternatives like NetNewsWire or Vivaldi’s integrated RSS reader, as mentioned in other comments here).
Really surprised NetNewsWire did not make this list. Free as in beer and FOSS, and it’s been around for ages
Still using feedly since the google reader death, I just hate how browsers stopped doing RSS natively, it was great having the little folders of the sites I love right in the bookmarks bar.
Self hosted tiny tiny RSS for me with Android and iOS clients.
I love the fact that the browser I use, Vivaldi, has a local RSS reader built-in. It works great and I use it heavily for news.
I use this as well, have mail/feeds enabled in Vivaldi with no mail accounts added. Then I just removed the mail and calendar icons from my toolbar, and now have a decent feed reader without showing things I don’t use.
That being said - I definitely accidentally deleted all my feeds at once in Vivaldi when trying to erase all received news stories. I’d recommend backing up the main Vivaldi config file somewhere occasionally!
