Best Feedly alternatives
Feedly is a solid RSS reader on the free tier and an increasingly enterprise-focused product at the paid tiers. If you don't need the monitoring and threat-intelligence side, there are cheaper and often better options.
Why look for a Feedly alternative?
Feedly users usually look elsewhere for price (Inoreader is cheaper at the same tier), for markdown/agent-ready export, or because the free tier's 100-feed cap has been hit.
What Feedly does well
- Largest feed catalog and discovery directory
- Leo AI for summarisation and trigger alerts
- Team boards for collaborative research
- Strong enterprise threat intelligence offering
Where it falls short
- Most power-user features require Pro+ or Enterprise
- Ads on the free tier
- No structured markdown export aimed at AI agents
- Not designed for read-later / bookmark workflows
The best alternatives to Feedly
Inoreader is the most direct RSS-to-RSS swap. Readwise Reader is the upgrade if you also want to read long-form in the same app. Keep handles RSS alongside articles, videos, and agent output. Ordered by best match. Keep is our own product, so we list it as our pick above the ranked list.
Our pick
Keep
Save anything as Markdown your AI agents can search, including articles, posts, videos, feeds, files, and notes.
Free, paid from $5/mo
- Everything you save becomes clean Markdown
- MCP and CLI search across notes and saved sources
- Auto-sync from RSS, YouTube, GitHub, email, and optional X bookmarks
Keep is ours, so it sits outside the ranked list. It turns saved pages, posts, videos, feeds, files, and notes into Markdown your agents can search. Start free. Personal is $10/month. X bookmark sync is a $5 add-on.
1. Inoreader
A powerful RSS reader for power users, researchers, and journalists.
Free, paid from $4.99/mo
- Inoreader Intelligence AI summarises, answers questions, and runs custom prompts
- Advanced rules and filters for keyword-level feed control
- Supports RSS, newsletters, podcasts, YouTube, Bluesky, Mastodon, Reddit
2. Readwise Reader
A read-later app for articles, PDFs, emails, tweets, and YouTube, with deep highlights and AI features.
Free, paid from $9.99/mo
- Fastest, most polished app in the read-later category
- Rich highlighting with Readwise sync to note apps
- Handles articles, PDFs, newsletters, tweets, YouTube in one inbox
3. Raindrop
All-in-one bookmark manager with collections, tags, and a polished UI across every platform.
Free, paid from $3/mo
- Best-in-class UI for organising a large library of saves
- Nested collections and tags for serious curators
- Native apps on every major platform including browsers
4. Instapaper
A classic read-later app with clean text extraction and distraction-free reading.
Free, paid from $5.99/mo
- One of the cleanest text extractions in the category
- Long track record and stable apps
- Email-in works out of the box for forwarding articles and newsletters
5. Dewey
Save and search X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Reddit, and Mastodon bookmarks in one place.
Free, paid from $10/mo
- One of the only tools that syncs X bookmarks natively
- Supports LinkedIn, Bluesky, Threads, TikTok, Reddit, Mastodon, Substack bookmarks too
- AI auto-tagging for fast organization of thousands of saves
Feature comparison
Here's how Feedly's alternatives compare on feed limits, AI, and the export formats that matter when you want to move your saves into other tools.
| Feature | Feedly | Keep | Inoreader | Readwise Reader | Raindrop | Instapaper | Dewey |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | |||||||
| Browser extension | ✓Chrome, Firefox | ✓Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave | ✓ | ✓Chrome, Firefox, Safari | ✓Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge | ✓Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge | ✓Chrome |
| Mobile apps | ✓iOS, Android | × | ✓iOS, Android | ✓iOS, Android | ✓iOS, Android | ✓iOS, Android | × |
| Save from email | × | ✓Forward to in.keep.md | × | ✓Per-user Reader address | × | ✓Unique save-by-email address | × |
| Save tweets | × | ✓ | × | ✓Threads compiled as articles | −Partial | × | ✓Native X bookmarks sync |
| Save YouTube videos | −Via channel feed | ✓With transcripts | −Via channel feed | ✓With transcript highlighting | −Partial | −URL only | × |
| Save GitHub stars | × | ✓ | × | × | × | × | × |
| Save PDFs | × | ✓Converted to markdown | × | ✓ | ✓Full-text search Pro only | ✓Premium | × |
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | × | ✓Word, Excel, CSV, HTML, OpenDocument | × | −PDFs, EPUBs, HTML | ✓PDF, EPUB, images, video | × | × |
| Save audio files | × | ✓With Whisper transcription | × | × | ✓mp3, wav, aiff, flac | × | × |
| Save via API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | × |
| Auto-sync sources | |||||||
| RSS auto-sync | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | −Via IFTTT applet | × | −Outputs RSS of your bookmarks |
| YouTube channel sync | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | −Via RSS | × | × | × |
| X bookmarks sync | × | ✓Automatic sync is a $5/month add-on. Manual CSV or JSON import on every plan. | × | × | × | × | ✓Auto sync on Pro |
| GitHub stars sync | × | ✓ | × | × | × | × | × |
| Newsletter inbox sync | ✓Pro | ✓ | ✓Pro | ✓ | × | −Forward-to-save, not a dedicated inbox | × |
| Library and reading | |||||||
| Reader view | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | × |
| Offline reading | ✓ | −Partial | ✓ | ✓ | × | ✓ | × |
| Full-text search | −Pro | ✓ | −Supporter+ | ✓ | −Pro | −Premium | ✓ |
| Semantic / AI search | ✓Pro+ (Leo) | ✓ | −Pro (AI Q&A via Inoreader Intelligence) | −Ghostreader Q&A | −Pro (Stella) | × | × |
| Highlights | ✓ | ✓Highlight from the extension or from inside the reader, with optional notes; renders inline | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | × |
| Notes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tags | ✓Boards | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Collections | ✓Boards | ✓ | ✓Folders | ✓Folders | ✓Nested | ✓Folders | ✓Nested folders |
| Public sharing | ✓ | −Partial | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | × | ✓Public folders (Pro) |
| Full-text RSS extraction | −Pro | ✓ | −Pro | −Partial | × | × | × |
| AI and agents | |||||||
| Markdown export for AI agents | × | ✓Per-item .md URL | × | × | × | × | × |
| Bulk markdown export | × | ✓ | × | × | × | × | × |
| MCP server | × | ✓ | × | × | ✓Official server | × | × |
| CLI tool | − | ✓keep npm package | × | × | × | × | × |
| Claude Code skill | × | ✓ | × | × | × | × | × |
| AI summaries | ✓Pro+ (Leo) | ✓AI summary and AI tagging on every saved article | ✓Pro (Inoreader Intelligence) | ✓Ghostreader | ✓Pro (Stella) | × | −AI auto-tagging |
| Public API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | × |
| Import and export | |||||||
| OPML import / export | ✓ | ✓Import from and export to any OPML-compatible reader | ✓ | ✓ | × | × | × |
| Pocket import | ✓ | ✓ZIP, CSV, and legacy HTML exports | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | × |
| Instapaper import | ✓ | ✓CSV export with folders, archive, and starred state | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | × | × |
| CSV / JSON export | −Partial | ✓Export to CSV or JSON. Import plain CSV/TSV plus Omnivore, Raindrop.io, Pinboard, and Wallabag export files. | ✓ | ✓Via API | −HTML, CSV, TXT only | ✓HTML + CSV | ✓CSV, PDF, Google Sheets |
| Send to Kindle | × | ✓EPUB delivered to your Kindle email | −Pro | ✓ | × | ✓Premium | × |
| Import Kindle highlights | × | ✓From My Clippings.txt, no Amazon login required | × | ✓Via Readwise Kindle sync (Amazon account login) | × | × | × |
Move Feedly subscriptions into Keep
Feedly OPML covers public RSS subscriptions. Boards, Read Later, AI Feeds, and Reddit feeds need a separate export.
- 1Export OPML from the Feedly web app.
- 2Keep an untouched copy.
- 3Open Settings, Data, then Import OPML in Keep.
- 4Check folders and a few quiet feeds after the import.
- 5Move saved articles separately if you used Boards or Read Later.
About Feedly
Feedly is the largest RSS reader on the web, with a free tier capped at 100 feeds and Pro/Pro+ plans that layer on AI summaries (Leo), team boards, web alerts, and enterprise intelligence. Pro is $6.99/mo, Pro+ is $12.99/mo (annual billing only), and Enterprise covers the threat and market intelligence verticals at custom pricing. The product has spent the last several years pivoting from consumer RSS to a serious monitoring and research platform. The free tier is still a legitimate RSS reader; the paid tiers are increasingly aimed at analysts, PR teams, and security researchers who need to track topics across thousands of sources.
Frequently asked questions
Pro ($6.99/mo annual) adds unlimited feeds, newsletters, OPML, and full-text search. Pro+ ($12.99/mo, annual-only) adds Leo AI for summaries and topic filtering, team boards with highlights and notes, Zapier/IFTTT automations, and web alerts.
Not as built-in features. OPML export of your feed list is supported, but there's no bulk article export as markdown. The Feedly Cloud API can be used to pull individual items.
For most use cases, yes. Inoreader's Pro tier ($7.50/mo annual) covers the same ground as Feedly Pro with unlimited feeds and filter rules, plus its own AI layer (Inoreader Intelligence) that summarises and answers questions.
Export OPML from your Feedly account (Pro feature), then import into Inoreader, Readwise Reader, Feedbin, NewsBlur, or any other RSS reader that accepts OPML. Your subscription list moves over; read/unread state does not.
Inoreader Free allows 150 feeds vs Feedly's 100. NewsBlur and The Old Reader have more generous free tiers but lean older in UI. Feedbin has no free tier.
Inoreader has a Teams plan with shared folders and collaboration. For dedicated team research workflows, Feedly's enterprise tiers (Threat Intelligence, Market Intelligence) are the most developed, worth considering rather than switching if that's why you're on Feedly.
Readwise Reader and Matter for long-form reading on mobile. For dedicated RSS reading, Reeder is the best-regarded paid mobile client (syncs with most providers). Inoreader's mobile apps are also solid.
Keep is designed for this: pull feeds in as one source, save the articles you want to remember, access them later as markdown URLs. Readwise Reader also handles RSS plus read-later in one app.
Raindrop and Keep both have official MCP servers. Neither Feedly nor Inoreader ships one directly, though both have REST APIs you can wrap.
FreshRSS and Miniflux are both mature self-hosted RSS readers with active development. Both require running a server and some setup, but they're free, open-source, and privacy-friendly.
Readwise Reader has the smoothest newsletter-to-inbox workflow. Matter Premium supports newsletters well. Inoreader Pro handles newsletter-to-RSS as first-class. Feedly Pro also supports newsletters.
What's Feedly Pro+ vs Pro?
Pro ($6.99/mo annual) adds unlimited feeds, newsletters, OPML, and full-text search. Pro+ ($12.99/mo, annual-only) adds Leo AI for summaries and topic filtering, team boards with highlights and notes, Zapier/IFTTT automations, and web alerts.
Does Feedly have a markdown or JSON export?
Not as built-in features. OPML export of your feed list is supported, but there's no bulk article export as markdown. The Feedly Cloud API can be used to pull individual items.
Is Inoreader a straight replacement?
For most use cases, yes. Inoreader's Pro tier ($7.50/mo annual) covers the same ground as Feedly Pro with unlimited feeds and filter rules, plus its own AI layer (Inoreader Intelligence) that summarises and answers questions.
How do I move my feeds from Feedly to another reader?
Export OPML from your Feedly account (Pro feature), then import into Inoreader, Readwise Reader, Feedbin, NewsBlur, or any other RSS reader that accepts OPML. Your subscription list moves over; read/unread state does not.
Which alternative has the best free tier?
Inoreader Free allows 150 feeds vs Feedly's 100. NewsBlur and The Old Reader have more generous free tiers but lean older in UI. Feedbin has no free tier.
Does any alternative match Feedly's team features?
Inoreader has a Teams plan with shared folders and collaboration. For dedicated team research workflows, Feedly's enterprise tiers (Threat Intelligence, Market Intelligence) are the most developed, worth considering rather than switching if that's why you're on Feedly.
Which alternative has the best mobile reading experience?
Readwise Reader and Matter for long-form reading on mobile. For dedicated RSS reading, Reeder is the best-regarded paid mobile client (syncs with most providers). Inoreader's mobile apps are also solid.
Can I save articles from feeds to a separate library?
Keep is designed for this: pull feeds in as one source, save the articles you want to remember, access them later as markdown URLs. Readwise Reader also handles RSS plus read-later in one app.
Does any alternative have an MCP server?
Raindrop and Keep both have official MCP servers. Neither Feedly nor Inoreader ships one directly, though both have REST APIs you can wrap.
Is there a self-hosted alternative to Feedly?
FreshRSS and Miniflux are both mature self-hosted RSS readers with active development. Both require running a server and some setup, but they're free, open-source, and privacy-friendly.
Which alternative is best for newsletter reading?
Readwise Reader has the smoothest newsletter-to-inbox workflow. Matter Premium supports newsletters well. Inoreader Pro handles newsletter-to-RSS as first-class. Feedly Pro also supports newsletters.