Inoreader is one of the best RSS readers available if you follow a lot of feeds. It's not perfect for everyone, though, especially if you want a simpler reader, a built-in read-later store, or markdown-for-agents.
Inoreader's power is also its weakness: the UI is dense, Pro gates a lot of features, and it's specifically a reader rather than a save-anything library.
Feedly is the obvious parallel swap. Readwise Reader bundles RSS with read-later if you want both jobs in one app. Keep covers RSS plus articles, videos, GitHub stars, and agent workflows. Ordered by best match. Keep is our own product, so we list it as our pick above the ranked list.
Our pick
Save anything from the web and get it back as markdown for AI agents or a simple reading feed.
Free, paid from $10/mo
Keep is ours, so of course we put it first. We built it because nothing else saved articles, tweets, and videos as clean markdown, and the free tier is there so you can decide if we are right.
The RSS reader for professionals, with AI summaries and team boards.
Free, paid from $6.99/mo
A read-later app for articles, PDFs, emails, tweets, and YouTube, with deep highlights and AI features.
Free, paid from $9.99/mo
A social magazine that curates stories from publishers, creators, and your network.
Free
All-in-one bookmark manager with collections, tags, and a polished UI across every platform.
Free, paid from $3/mo
A classic read-later app with clean text extraction and distraction-free reading.
Free, paid from $5.99/mo
A curated read-later app with beautiful typography, highlights, and text-to-speech.
Free, paid from $8/mo
Your second brain: capture notes, clip web pages, and find anything in seconds.
Free, paid from $8.25/mo
Save and search X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, TikTok, Threads, Reddit, and Mastodon bookmarks in one place.
Free, paid from $10/mo
Paste an article URL, get a clean reader with AI summaries, audio, and chat.
Free, paid from $6/mo
Here's how the top RSS-and-adjacent alternatives compare on feed limits, AI features, and the extras that usually decide the choice.
| Feature | Inoreader | Keep | Feedly | Readwise Reader | Raindrop | Instapaper | Matter | Evernote | Dewey | SMRY | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | |||||||||||
| Browser extension | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave | Chrome, Firefox | Chrome, Firefox, Safari | Bookmarklet | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge | Web Clipper (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) | Chrome | Chrome extension captures from your authenticated session for paywalled and JS-rendered pages | ||
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS; Android parity unclear | iOS, Android | |||
| Save from email | Forward to in.keep.md | Per-user Reader address | Unique save-by-email address | Premium | Forwarding address | ||||||
| Save tweets | Threads compiled as articles | Partial | Partial | Quoteshots + X integration | Native X bookmarks sync | ||||||
| Save YouTube videos | Via channel feed | With transcripts | Via channel feed | With transcript highlighting | Partial | Partial | URL only | Premium; with transcription | Paste a YouTube URL to get a readable transcript, summary, and TTS | ||
| 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 | Attachments | |||||||
| Save audio files | With Whisper transcription | mp3, wav, aiff, flac | Podcast episodes | Voice memos | |||||||
| Save via API | |||||||||||
| Auto-sync sources | |||||||||||
| RSS auto-sync | Partial | Via IFTTT applet | Premium | Outputs RSS of your bookmarks | |||||||
| YouTube channel sync | Via RSS | ||||||||||
| X bookmarks sync | Auto-sync on paid plans; manual import from extension export on free | Auto sync on Pro | |||||||||
| GitHub stars sync | |||||||||||
| Newsletter inbox sync | Pro | Pro | Partial | Forward-to-save, not a dedicated inbox | Premium | Partial | |||||
| Library and reading | |||||||||||
| Reader view | Partial | 11 themes, custom typography, 6 interface languages | |||||||||
| Offline reading | Partial | Partial | |||||||||
| Full-text search | Supporter+ | Pro | Partial | Pro | Premium | Premium | No personal library to search across | ||||
| Semantic / AI search | Pro (AI Q&A via Inoreader Intelligence) | Pro+ (Leo) | Ghostreader Q&A | Pro (Stella) | |||||||
| Highlights | Highlight from the extension or from inside the reader, with optional notes; renders inline | Unlimited on Premium | Partial | 5 colors, notes per highlight, syncs across devices on Pro | |||||||
| Notes | Unlimited on Premium | Per-highlight notes | |||||||||
| Tags | Boards | ||||||||||
| Collections | Folders | Boards | Folders | Magazines | Nested | Folders | Partial | Notebooks + Spaces | Nested folders | ||
| Public sharing | Partial | Public magazines | Quoteshots for individual quotes | Public folders (Pro) | Share quote links with rich social previews | ||||||
| Full-text RSS extraction | Pro | Pro | Partial | ||||||||
| AI and agents | |||||||||||
| Markdown export for AI agents | Per-item .md URL | Manual highlight export to Markdown only, no per-item markdown URL | |||||||||
| Bulk markdown export | Partial | Highlights export to Markdown / Notion / Obsidian on Pro, not the full article | |||||||||
| MCP server | Official server | ||||||||||
| CLI tool | keep-markdown npm package | ||||||||||
| Claude Code skill | |||||||||||
| AI summaries | Pro (Inoreader Intelligence) | AI summary and AI tagging on every saved article | Pro+ (Leo) | Ghostreader | Pro (Stella) | Premium (AI Co-Reader) | AI Rewrite, AI Meeting Notes, Advanced+ | AI auto-tagging | Summaries in 6 languages, plus chat with the article | ||
| 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 | Export to CSV or JSON. Import plain CSV/TSV plus Omnivore, Raindrop.io, Pinboard, and Wallabag export files. | Partial | Via API | HTML, CSV, TXT only | HTML + CSV | Partial | ENEX | CSV, PDF, Google Sheets | Highlights only, Pro feature | ||
| Send to Kindle | Pro | EPUB delivered to your Kindle email | Premium | Premium | |||||||
| Import Kindle highlights | From My Clippings.txt, no Amazon login required | Via Readwise Kindle sync (Amazon account login) | Premium, via Amazon account sync |
Inoreader is an RSS reader built for people who subscribe to a lot of feeds and want tight control over what they actually read. It supports RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, newsletter-to-RSS, and has keyword-level filtering, rules, and automations across every feed you follow. The product skews toward researchers, journalists, OSINT analysts, and anyone who treats feed reading as a daily workflow rather than background entertainment.
Free caps RSS at 150 feeds, newsletters at 20, monitoring at 30, and has ads. Pro at $7.50/mo annual (or $9.99/mo monthly) adds 2,500 feeds, unlimited newsletters, filters, rules, monitoring, Inoreader Intelligence (AI summaries and Q&A), and removes ads.
Yes, Inoreader has a public REST API. Pro accounts get API access.
Yes, both import and export. Standard feature of RSS readers in this category.
On the fundamentals, yes. Both have free tiers, AI summaries on paid tiers, newsletter support, and team features. The main difference is pricing and how features are split across tiers. Inoreader gives you AI at Pro ($7.50); Feedly requires Pro+ ($12.99) for Leo.
Reeder is widely considered the best third-party RSS reader on iOS and macOS (it syncs with Inoreader, Feedly, Feedbin, and more). Readwise Reader's mobile apps are excellent if you want reading and RSS in one app.
Yes, export OPML from settings and import into any RSS reader. Read/unread and starred state doesn't move, but the subscription list does.
Inoreader Pro handles newsletters natively. Feedly Pro supports them too. Readwise Reader has the best newsletter workflow if reading long-form matters more than feed management. Matter Premium also supports newsletters.
FreshRSS and Miniflux are the two mature self-hosted RSS readers. Both free, both open-source. They require running your own server but give you full control over privacy and feed count.
Feedly Pro+ has Leo. Matter Premium has an AI Co-Reader. Raindrop Pro has Stella. Readwise Reader has Ghostreader. All at different price points and with different strengths.
Inoreader has save-for-later built in, but it's secondary. For a dedicated library, Readwise Reader, Matter, Instapaper, and Keep all focus on the save-and-re-read workflow.
Yes. Many people do: Inoreader for feed discovery, Keep for the items worth keeping with markdown output for AI agents. They don't overlap on the save-and-re-use workflow.