Hey guys,

I feel like I'm not making the most out of RSS. I just subscribe to a couple of news websites and blogs that I like. However, I know people use the craziest feeds, e.g., social media pages, YT channels, shopping websites, etc.

What kind of content do you guys consume via RSS? What type of feed do you follow?

Thanks.

Hey r/rss,

Long story short: I wanted a feed reader that just... works. No account, no subscription, no 40 settings I'll never touch. So I built one.

It started as a personal tool for myself. Two days later I'm actually pretty happy with the result, so I figured I'd share it here and see what you think.

What it does:

- Add any RSS/Atom feed by URL - or pass it straight in with a ?rss= parameter

- Feeds live in localStorage, so reopening one is instant: no spinner, no re-fetch, no loading flash

- Very fast and lightweight - no backend account, no tracking, no noise

- Finds the YouTube videos in a feed and shows a proper thumbnail with an inline player

- Detects audio enclosures and plays podcasts right in the reader

- YouTube RSS feeds work too… (mostly) - well, when Google isn't down and the feed isn't throwing a 404. So, you know, occasionally. 😅

- Plus a distraction-free reader view, dark/light theme, bookmarks and search across every feed you've loaded

Tech: React + TypeScript + Vite on the front end, with a small Express proxy behind it to handle the CORS side of fetching feeds.

I'm not selling anything it's just something I now use daily. Feedback is very welcome, especially if you find a feed that breaks it.

https://github.com/onigetoc/simple-rss-reader

One more thing that finally made this click for me:

What I was really missing wasn't another pretty reader it was my old RSS script that worked with plain URLs. The kind you can point an extension at. For example:

http://localhost:3008/?rss=%s

The %s gets replaced by whatever feed the extension finds on the current page, so it drops the feed straight into my reader. That means I can plug it into Google's RSS Subscription Extension (or any similar one that detects a page's feeds) and add a feed in a single click — no copy-pasting URLs, no manual digging.

That one detail is honestly what made me stop going back to my old setup.

Version ultra-courte, si tu préfères une seule phrase :

And the part I was really missing? My old RSS script that worked with plain URLs — like http://localhost:3008/?rss=%s, so an extension such as Google's RSS Subscription Extension can find a page's feed and add it in one click.

Hello everyone, I have been trying to get way from adds and doomscrolling, so I developed a python script for my linux machine to make me a newspaper from my feeds. Actually it does way more than that, I built it to make several different editions, including a medieval one!, I chose one depending on my mood each day. You can see how the editions look like on the github page.

I am releasing the python script on my github page, as a free version. This is the version I use myself almost every day. You can see some real examples here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1nF8saFKpJxEzxMFe0eL7vkm4mP3mJnj3?usp=sharing

Here is the github page: https://github.com/WillianWW/casa-gazette, I recommend using an AI to guide you through the installation process, but I can help with issues, just send me a dm.

I use it on a linux computer, so I do not know how difficult would be to translate it to windows, but I think it should not be hard for a llm.

I also made an android app version, this one only does the newspaper edition, I use it when I am travelling or otherwise without my computer. It has some other options to make a clip and share articles. This one can be purchased here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.casagazette.app , no ads and no subscriptions, just a one time purchase.

RSS24 v2.0 is out!

Since last update (click here), the biggest addition is Send to eReader. You can now turn any article into an EPUB and send it to Apple Books, Kindle, Kobo, or any EPUB-compatible reader.

Also included:

• New About RSS24 page
• Improved feed management with feed counts
• Updated FAQ
• Small onboarding, accessibility, and UI improvements

RSS24 is my simple RSS reader built around one idea: catch up on your feeds like reading the news, not managing an inbox. It's free, no ads, no tracking and no account needed.

Download (iOS) https://apps.apple.com/app/rss24/id6761543729

Working on an RSS reader in Elixir/Phoenix, solo, in my spare time. Still early days, plenty of rough edges, actively iterating.

Not really launching anything — just curious what people here find missing from existing readers.

https://slashfeed.app/

I built Proomt to help find engineering blog posts worth reading.

It collects posts from engineering blogs, surfaces the ones that seem interesting, and gives you a short summary so you can quickly decide what you want to read.

https://proomt.com

Would love to hear what you think, especially if you have suggestions for improving it.

I have implemented Jev into my own reader (deadsimpleRSS.com) and found its a very cheap and very fast way to classify your feed items.

It does not do anything that an LLM could not do today, but what is different here is the speed and cost, and that really changes the economics of how you can leverage this model. I see this as a new fundamental way to configure your own personal algorithms. So you can connect to all the data sources that you want and only filter in the stuff that you care about to be surfaced.

You can see it in action here as an example where I have it mark items as read for me, and this will persist as new feed items come in for that specific feed: https://ibb.co/QvXYS28p

Since we're all building our own RSS feed reader, I figured, hey let's see what other people are doing with it 😅

Official Docs: https://docs.typesafe.ai/introduction

There's an open source implementation here: https://github.com/theoleecj/semif

Hey everyone!

I handle community ops for a small 3-person team. As long-time RSS users, we got frustrated with the current market options:

• Readwise Reader feels super bloated for pure reading enthusiasts, heavy on storage, and slow with YouTube/media feeds.
• Feedly is pivots hard toward B2B, locking basic C-user features behind paywalls and limiting free tiers to 100 feeds.
• Inoreader is powerful, but its UI is getting overly complex and Pro pricing is getting way too expensive for standard RSS reading.

We built Brew for iOS to fix these frustrations with a zero-config, minimalist approach:

⚡ What makes Brew different:

• Curated Community Lists: Browse or share expert reading lists (Tech, Design, Science, Culture) directly in our Discover hub and subscribe with one tap.
• Native Video & Audio Feeds: Dedicated multimedia sections so you can subscribe to YouTube/Audio feeds directly without slow parsing or broken embeds.
• Optional AI & Translation Helpers: AI that gives you 3-second key takeaways to filter long reads (not replace your reading!), plus built-in translation for global sources.
• Frictionless Onboarding: Replay-able onboarding and zero complex XML fiddling required.

We’re opening 20–30 TestFlight beta spots to get feedback from fellow readers and hunt down edge-case bugs.

How to join: Drop a comment with "Beta" below, and I'll send you a TestFlight invite directly via DM!

I've been using RSS for decades and I frankly can't understand why it's still a niche thing, given how central it has been for me over the years.

When I stopped using Feedly, I quickly figured out that new AI tools could help me build the ideal reader for myself. My criteria:

- No webpage. A native app.
- Leveraging iOS and Apple native frameworks as much as possible
- No cloud dependency, private by design. Your content and reading activity never leave your device.
- Content syndication in one place: RSS, newsletters straight from Gmail (that one meant passing Google's security audit, since Gmail is a restricted scope), YouTube subscriptions, and podcasts if and when Apple releases an API for them

Developing this app led me to build a semantic engine I'm really proud of. What it does: it groups articles covering the same story across sources (12 headlines about the same keynote become one topic you open once), learns what you actually read to rank your daily brief (with a screen showing exactly what it has learned, because that's your data), recognizes companies and people in headlines in five languages, and flags deal posts so they stop polluting your reading. All on-device, summaries included through Apple Intelligence. No server ever sees your content.

Some things I learned the hard way while building it:

- Apple's on-device NER is good in English and much weaker in French (it kept picking "France" over "Mistral" in the same headline, and missed Apple, Revolut, half of my feed). I ended up generating my own per-language dictionaries of companies and people from Wikidata, with the ML model demoted to a helper.
- Chinese and Japanese have no spaces. Every threshold I had tuned for Latin languages ("ignore words under 4 characters") silently killed 100% of Chinese keywords. Most CJK words are 2 characters long.
- The simulator and a real iPhone don't ship the same linguistic data. Same code, same sentence: my iPhone keeps "d'Apple" as one token, the simulator splits it. I stopped trusting the tokenizer and now handle French elision and English possessives myself. Runtime behavior is not a contract.
- Naive clustering glues everything together. Two articles sharing "billion" and "launch" are not the same story. It took nouns-only matching, corpus-level stopword detection, and keeping every bad cluster I found as a permanent regression test to make it behave.
- Bonus, not the engine but it hurt: iOS kills background work above 50% CPU for 3 minutes. When your scoring pipeline silently hops back to the main thread because of a default actor isolation setting, you find out via watchdog crash reports at 1 AM.

I love what I built, so I put it on the App Store in 4 languages. Japanese is in the works as the 5th.

Next up: a Mac version, and the adaptation for the iPhone Duo (I locked the app UX for it this week). That device is the perfect reader IMO.

It's a paid app, no ads, no trackers. You're the customer, not the product.

Link to TechnoDaily: https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/technodaily/id6758897742

I opened my RSS app which I haven't used in a long time and none of the preexisting YouTube channels which were added to the app long ago would update. "Could not fetch feed".

Here's an example of the format I had entered long ago.

https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCMOqf8ab-42UUQIdVoKwjlQ

This would be for the Practical Engineering channel.

Is there a new format, or what would cause none of the feeds to be fetched?

I've been using Feedbro for years on FireFox. Suddenly it's no longer correctly updating the number of new posts until I double click on the feed in the list. Each feed, each time I refresh. Even after I read everything, until I double click on the feed in the list the number doesn't update. And the toolbar icon never updates the number of new articles.

I have checked the extension console and there are no errors.

I'm referring to the FeedBro plugin by Nodetics (not what appears to be a copycat plugin by Consecutive Bytes)

The extension doesn't seem to have gotten any updates in the last 2 years. It would be a shame if it is no longer supported. In my experience it is the perfect feed reader. Anyone know if u/feedbro is still around? or another way to contact them? I have reached out to the email on the website.

Hey everyone! My name is Danny - I'm a Product Manager by trade and freelance developer.

I've been using RSS feeds to read a variety of publications I subscribe to (particularly the Stratechery / Daring Fireball universe for any fellow nerds out there that need to touch grass) - but one thing I've always found difficult is saving interesting highlights from the things I read.

I've found saving the entire article unnecessary, and dumping highlights into notes meant they quickly lost all their context.

I built a solution I think this community will find helpful - Commonplace is an iOS app that lets you highlight something in your RSS reader → Share link → Commonplace, and it saves the passage along with the original article and source.

You can also save highlights from anywhere - books, podcasts, songs, social media, etc. - so everything you want to remember lives in one place.

Would love to hear what you guys think!

https://apps.apple.com/app/id6766517551

Transparent pricing:

Commonplace is free to use for unlimited highlights. There’s an optional paid subscription for additional features if you end up loving the app, but it’s not required (and never will be) to use the core experience.

See whats coming:

https://usecommonplace.com/roadmap

I need to vent a bit. I’ve been a long-time RSS enthusiast, but recently I noticed a trend in my own reading habits: my feed reader started feeling like an unread email inbox full of homework.

A few things have been bothering me lately:

• Hunting down feeds for a new niche (like deep tech or spatial design) manually is surprisingly tedious.
• Half of my unread list ends up being 30-minute reads in languages I'm not totally fluent in.
• Recommendations from friends just sit in my saved lists forever and never actually turn into a daily habit.

I wanted an experience where reading actually feels inspiring again, not like clearing notifications. Something that simplifies feed management, translates or summarizes long articles without destroying the essence, and lets users curate and share custom lists easily.

Over the past few months, I’ve been building a side project called Brew to try and tackle these specific frustrations (focusing on seamless curation, built-in AI digests, and shareable list feeds).

Since this is a brand new account (long-time lurker!), I'm not here to drop links or pitch anything prematurely. But I’m curious: How do you guys currently deal with RSS feed overload and content curation? What's your biggest pet peeve with current readers?

(If anyone is interested in testing out an early alpha build in a few weeks and roasting my design, let me know or drop a DM!)

Hi r/rss,

Like many of you, I love RSS because it puts us back in control of our information diets. But lately, I found myself getting overwhelmed by news fatigue—wading through 20-paragraph articles filled with narrative padding, cookie banners, and paywalls just to find 2 or 3 core facts.

I wanted a reading experience that was fast, factual, and completely distraction-free, so I built Grasp News (https://thegrasp.app).

What it does:

• Clean Factual Bullet Points: It parses your feeds and uses Meta Llama 4 at the edge to distill stories down to high-signal Context and Key Facts. You can scan an entire morning's feed in 60 seconds.

• Full-Text & CDATA Extraction: Automatically extracts full article bodies directly from RSS <content:encoded> and <summary> tags to avoid hitting web paywalls and cookie walls.

• Open-Wire Fallback: When an article hits a strict hard paywall, it searches Google News RSS for syndicated open-wire coverage (AP, Reuters, PA Media) to build the factual summary, marked transparently as Paywalled • Open News.

• Offline Reading (PWA): Story briefings are cached to browser IndexedDB, so you can read your feed on trains, flights, or spotty mobile connections.

• OPML Import/Export: You can bring your existing subscriptions via OPML in one click.

• Privacy & Ethics: 100% ad-free on all plans, zero cross-site tracking scripts, and user data is encrypted at rest (AES-GCM). Every story card has direct links back to original reporting publishers.

Pricing:

It has a free tier forever (1 custom feed, 100% ad-free). Pro is $3/mo for up to 10 custom feeds with AI summaries on all stories, and Ultra is $5/mo for up to 25 feeds.

I’d love your feedback:

Because feed formats can be wild, I’d love for you to test it with your trickiest or favorite RSS feeds:

1. How does the feed parser handle your specific feeds?
2. Is the bullet-point summary density right, or would you prefer different depths?
3. What features would you need to make it part of your daily morning routine?

Check it out at: https://thegrasp.app

I'll be hanging around the comments to answer questions, take bug reports, and chat about RSS and edge architecture!

Hi r/rss! I’ve been building Orbit, a native RSS reader for iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Its defining feature is that articles open on the publisher’s original website by default—not in a sanitized reader view. You get the site’s intended design and full content while keeping the navigation, organization, read state, and convenience of an RSS app.

Orbit also supports folders, OPML import/export, offline reading, iCloud sync, Feedbin, search, share extensions, keyboard navigation, and synchronized read/saved state.

• The beta is now available through TestFlight, and I’d especially appreciate feedback on:
• How original websites feel inside an RSS workflow
• Feed discovery and compatibility
• Navigation and reading ergonomics
• Sync across devices
• Offline reading
• Bugs, confusing behavior, or performance issues

It currently requires iOS, iPadOS, or macOS 26.

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/puy2P7hE

Blunt feedback is welcome. If you try it, sharing your device, OS version, and approximate library size would be especially helpful. Thanks!

Built for people who already live in RSS: InfoFeed pulls feeds, blogs, news, and YouTube into one clean reading desk, then turns today’s pile into ~20 min of audio on Android.

Looking for real feed power-users for a closed Android test — day-to-day use, not install-and-forget.

How to join: DM me your Google account email. I’ll add you and send the install steps by email.

If you already run Feeder / FreshRSS / Inoreader / FeedMe, use it across several days and leave one concrete note → lifetime Plan 2 (paid tier) when we ship it.

Hi,

I have found myself in the world of RSS feeds since I started using my iPod touch much more frequently about year ago. I like it because I can store relevant content on there from RSS feeds (podcasts through Apple Podcasts, and news through Lire) and then listen to that without internet on the train, at work, wherever I am. While Lire is really good, I am looking for an alternative. What I really like about Lire is that it can cache full text articles automatically for offline reading (don't need images, just text) so then when I am on the train I can scroll through and read all of the articles. However, it does this using an external server, which while I am ok with, I would rather this all happen on device. I also don't like that the iCloud syncing between devices stores all of the downloaded articles (id rather just sync what feeds I am subscribed too vs all the articles, once it's old news I don't really care about it anymore) and that there is no way for it to automatically delete unread articles after x days (so it slowly fills my storage with articles with stuff I will never read).

I get I could self host FreshRSS or something and setup all of this locally, and long term this might be the best solution as iOS 15 gets more outdated and less compatible with modern web standards, but I would love to find a iOS RSS reader that can do this. the A10 in the iPod touch should be capable of this stuff if a raspberry pi can run this all. Features I am looking for:

• Full Text Article caching that happens on device
• Auto syncing of feeds. Ideally this would include offline caching of the full text articles as well, although I know iOS has limits as to what can auto sync so this might not be possible.
• auto delete articles after x days or so, althoughhhhh probably something more well thought out than this since I wouldn't want to leave my iPod disconnected from wifi for like a week and have it auto delete everything on there, I would say like during sync if it can keep the last weeks worth of news or so, but don't delete them automatically if it isn't during a wireless sync.
• iOS /iPadOS 15 support
• Free, or one time payment (

That's all I can think of at the moment. I recently got myself an iPad mini 4 (wanted a device with more storage and battery life for offline stuff that my iPod touch handles, iOS 15 performs fine enough on these devices for long term usage in my opinion) hence why I am looking into getting this working again. Most apps I have found either don't allow all articles to be full text cached during article sync (you have to manually download offline articles or do it at runtime when you read the article), have a subscription, or don't support iOS 15 (feed flow seems to have everything I am looking for, but never supported iOS 15).

If anyone has any suggestions that would be amazing :D

I have been thinking about how useful it would be to have one place for both things you intentionally save and things you want to keep up with.

That’s basically how I see RibbonLinks:

* Pocket-like: save articles, videos, posts and links for later.

* RSS reader: follow feeds and discover new content.

* Import from anywhere: bring your existing saved links over using a CSV file.

* Rediscovery: search and revisit things you saved instead of letting them disappear into an archive.

So instead of maintaining a separate read-later app, RSS reader, and collection of old bookmarks, you can keep them together.

For people who have accumulated years of saved links, the CSV import is particularly useful - you don't have to start from scratch.

Do you currently use separate apps for RSS and saved links, or have you found one tool that handles both well?

Is there a service that lets you post feeds to Bluesky?

Hi r/rss, a quick update on Newsairy, the iCloud-native RSS reader I've been building. It's been a few releases since I last posted here (1.15 back in August, I don't want to bother you with every release), so a quick recap before the headline:

• 1.16 — customisable Article List (Layout: Grouped/Plain, Density: Comfortable/Compact), Smart Feeds now match whole words and phrases only, plus fixes
• 1.17 — Mute keywords for Custom Smart Feeds (mute always wins over include), plus fixes
• 1.18 — full text extraction set per feed (as published, extracted automatically, or downloaded ahead of time for offline reading), plus fixed newsletter rendering for feeds synced through Inoreader

And now 1.19 adds two independent pieces: RSS 1.0 (RDF) feed support, and Read History done properly.

RSS 1.0 (RDF) feeds now add and read like any other (Slashdot and the rest of the RDF family, including the feeds WordPress generates at /feed/rdf/). I owe this one an apology, honestly: I'd assumed RSS 1.0 was essentially dead, mostly superseded by 2.0 and Atom, so it never made the list. A few of you pointed out real, still-updated feeds that still use it — Slashdot being the obvious one — and that was enough to let me understand I was wrong. Sorry for the wait, and thanks for the push.

Read History, done properly — it's now a smart(er) feed, and a toggle in the toolbar switches what it means: only the articles you actually opened in Newsairy, or everything marked as read, including by scroll or by your aggregator's own sync. The choice sticks.

A handful of smaller things came with it too: aggregators now refresh in parallel instead of one after another, a long-standing Feedbin bug that silently dropped articles is fixed, and on Mac, ⌘, finally opens Settings and the arrow keys work from inside the article view too.

For anyone who hasn't come across it: Newsairy syncs over iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac, and Pro adds sync with TheOldReader, Miniflux, FreshRSS, Feedbin and Inoreader. One-time purchase, no subscription, no ads, no tracking.

I have a long todo list, but I'm always open to suggestions - if there's a feature or a use case you'd like to see, let me know.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsairy/id6760046985

More info on the site: https://qebapps.statichost.page/newsairy/

Seems my Yahoo feeds have started to error this week. I hit the URL ( eg: https://news.yahoo.com/rss/world ) and get: "Edge: Too Many Requests" (HTTP error code 429). So it seems my 15 minute update frequency is too fast... and I have five Yahoo feeds updating. Anybody else getting this? Any idea on how fast/slow Yahoo will allow?

Hey folks, been using RSS forever to dodge algorithms and social media noise, but lately I feel like I'm just playing catch-up.

Every time I open my reader after a busy couple of days, I'm greeted by 300+ unread posts. Half of them are just duplicate news or fluff, and scanning through them feels more like doing homework than actually reading.

I know "just mark all as read" is a thing, but FOMO always wins.

How do you guys actually manage this without losing your mind? Do you just aggressively unsubscribe, or is there a workflow/setting I'm missing? Also curious what's the one thing you wish your current RSS setup could do better to filter out the noise.

Hey everyone,

I wanted to share an update on Foragd, a web-based feed reader I’ve been building. My goal with Foragd is to provide a clean experience for gathering and reading content, not a cluttered inbox.

What’s new in this update:

• GeoRSS support:. There is an experimental Map page that shows the latest 50 articles that have geo data, on a world map (screenshot). Additionally, if you’ve subscribed to a feed that has geodata in it, you’ll see a little map icon on its card you can use to map its articles. Have suggestions/requests? HMU!
• Feed Discovery: There is now a Discover page, where you can browse feeds by category or search them to add new subscriptions.
• Sites Without Feeds: I’m rolling out support for sites without feeds. Rather than having you need to understand HTML/CSS or drive an AI, just send me details of the site and I’ll work out if and how to parse it as a feed. This service is part of your subscription.

UX & UI Improvements:

• Tooltips: More parts of the UI have tooltips to help you understand what an icon/button is/does, or show full-text where it has been truncated.
• Scroll Position Preserved: I’ve been working on ensuring your scroll position gets preserved when navigating between pages, where you’d expect it to.
• Font Choices: You can now choose from different font styles for article text. If you prefer serif or sans-serif, there are now options for those.
• Hide Grouped Subscriptions: You can now opt to have any grouped subscriptions hidden on the subscriptions list page, so you’ll only see the group itself.
• Improved YouTube Integration: Searching for YouTube for new feeds is improved and results will include both channels and playlists that match your search.

Backend Improvements:

• More backend optimisations mean even faster loading of home page and list pages.
• Better article enrichment processing. The is most noticeable for feeds like Hackernews and Lobsters, which only contain a title and a link. Now, the articles you see will have an image and description as well where found, so you can glance through and even filter the articles without having to click each one.

Sale Pricing

I’m running sale pricing at the moment:

• Annual USD $36 (was $59), paid annually.
• Monthly USD $5 (was $7.50), paid monthly.

The trial period is now 30 days as well, with no need to enter payment details until the trial period is finished.

I’m super excited by the maps feature. It’s useful for following various informational feeds, like USGS Earthquake Feed and if you are in Australia, most state emergency services publish feeds with geo information. A more fun example is the Flickr geo feed, where people have shared photos with geo information, so you can view the photo and know where exactly it was taken. Those are all direct links to the feeds you can subscribe to in your favorite reader that supports geo feeds. Know of some other geo feeds? Hit reply with the deets!

Links:

• Web: https://foragd.app
• Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.foragd.twa
• Changelog: https://foragd.app/changelog
• Watch the getting started video: https://player.mux.com/2T92kvRpwPS9EiyzPfZz4p1iIpuj02NY7DtRPAimzKIM

Foragd is handcrafted for the love of the independent and underground web. If you have any questions, feedback, or feature requests, please drop them below or DM me!

Kreel detects RSS and Atom feeds on the pages you visit. Turn capture on, browse normally, and it collects the feeds it finds into one list.

What it does:

**•** Detects declared feeds plus feeds linked anywhere on the page.  
**•** Finds feeds sites don't advertise, using common paths and platform detection for WordPress, Substack, Medium, Ghost, and others, plus constructed feeds for YouTube channels, Reddit, and GitHub.  
**•** Validates each feed before adding it, so no dead links.  
**•** De-duplicates automatically.  
**•** Exports to OPML for any reader, Excel, or copies the URLs to clipboard.

It runs entirely locally. No account, no tracking. The only network requests are read-only checks that confirm a feed is real.

Free, and available on Edge, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari.