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Discontinued Google Reader was discontinued in July 2013. The alternatives below are active products you can switch to. All discontinued →

Alternatives to Google Reader

Google's beloved RSS reader

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Google's beloved RSS reader. Google Reader has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.

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Who it's for

People who regularly followed many blogs, news sites, and other frequently updated web content and wanted a single place to read it all without visiting each site individually.

What you get

Google Reader aggregated posts from subscribed RSS and Atom feeds into one continuously updated stream. It tracked read/unread status, let users star and share items, organize feeds into folders, and search across subscriptions. Social features let users follow other people's shared items and see friends' activity. It was free and ran entirely in the browser.

How it works

Users subscribed to a site's RSS/Atom feed URL (or searched for feeds within Reader), and new posts from all subscriptions appeared automatically in a unified, sortable list. Google shut the service down on July 1, 2013.

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Ranked alternatives

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01

Indie paid reader with email support.

MIT WebiOS
02

The mainstream RSS service.

Proprietary WebiOSAndroid
03

Next-gen open source feed app.

AGPL-3.0 WebiOSAndroidWindows +2
04

Self-hosted reader with extensions.

AGPL-3.0 Web
05

Power-user filtering and rules.

Proprietary WebiOSAndroid
06

Minimalist self-hosted reader.

Apache-2.0 WebiOSAndroid
07

Free native Apple reader, beautifully done.

MIT iOSmacOS
08

Open source reader with training.

MIT WebiOSAndroidmacOS
09
R

The elegant Apple RSS client.

Proprietary iOSmacOS
10

Google Reader nostalgia, kept alive.

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The self-hosted veteran.

GPL-3.0 Web
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FAQ

Yes. Feedly, Folo and FreshRSS have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.

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