Best RSS readers

Here are the best RSS readers:

• NetNewsWire, “a free and open source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.”
• Vienna, an open source native MacOS RSS/Atom reader.

Other options

• weloverss, a free web-based RSS reader. Simple, text-based design.
• Fraidycat, a free and open-source reader that can follow RSS, Twitter accounts, even a public TiddlyWiki.
• Feedbin, a $5/month service that follows RSS, Twitter, and email newsletters in a nicely-designed UI.
• Mailbrew can aggregate email newsletters as well as Twitter feeds.
• Kill the Newsletter promises to turn email newsletters into Atom feeds, to be read in an RSS reader.
• This RSS explainer by ncase is a friendly introduction and points to several other readers (Inoreader, Feedly, and The Old Reader).
• Many more alternatives, including some Big Tech-funded tools we don’t recommend, on Wikipedia’s list of feed aggregators.

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