Feedly
The RSS reader for professionals, with AI summaries and team boards.
Free, paid from $6.99/mo
- Largest feed catalog and discovery directory
- Leo AI for summarisation and trigger alerts
- Team boards for collaborative research
Compare Feedly and Pocket side by side on features, pricing, and the workflows each one is designed for.
The RSS reader for professionals, with AI summaries and team boards.
Free, paid from $6.99/mo
Save articles, videos, and stories from any publication.
Free, paid from $4.99/mo
Here's how Feedly and Pocket compare across the features people actually look for. They share 8 core capabilities; the differences show up in what each tool focuses on.
| Feature | Feedly | |
|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | ||
| Browser extension | Chrome, Firefox | |
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | iOS, Android |
| Save from email | Send-to-Pocket address | |
| Save tweets | ||
| Save YouTube videos | Via channel feed | URL only |
| Save GitHub stars | ||
| Save PDFs | ||
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | ||
| Save audio files | ||
| Save via API | ||
| Auto-sync sources | ||
| RSS auto-sync | ||
| YouTube channel sync | ||
| X bookmarks sync | ||
| GitHub stars sync | ||
| Newsletter inbox sync | Pro | |
| Library and reading | ||
| Reader view | ||
| Offline reading | ||
| Full-text search | Pro | Premium |
| Semantic / AI search | Pro+ (Leo) | |
| Highlights | Premium | |
| Notes | Partial | |
| Tags | Boards | |
| Collections | Boards | |
| Public sharing | Partial | |
| Full-text RSS extraction | Pro | |
| AI and agents | ||
| Markdown export for AI agents | ||
| Bulk markdown export | ||
| MCP server | ||
| CLI tool | ||
| Claude Code skill | ||
| AI summaries | Pro+ (Leo) | |
| Public API | ||
| Import and export | ||
| OPML import / export | ||
| Pocket import | ||
| Instapaper import | ||
| CSV / JSON export | Partial | |
| Send to Kindle |
Pocket has shut down, so pricing below is for reference only. Feedly is free, paid from $6.99/mo.
Free
Up to 100 feeds, basic reader.
Pro
Unlimited feeds, newsletters, OPML, full-text search. Annual billing.
Pro+
Leo AI, boards with notes and highlights, web alerts, Zapier/IFTTT. Annual billing only.
Enterprise
Threat Intelligence, Market Intelligence. Custom pricing.
Free
Save unlimited items, basic offline reading.
Premium
Permanent library, full-text search, unlimited highlights, suggested tags, premium fonts, ad-free.
Both tools do their category well, but the specifics differ. Here's what each one is good at and where it tends to fall short.
Pocket has shut down and is no longer available. Any of the active alternatives is a safer bet.
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.
Pocket launched in 2007 as Read It Later, pioneered the modern read-later category, and was acquired by Mozilla in 2017. For nearly two decades it was the default way to save web articles and read them later on any device, with a clean reader view and optional offline access. Mozilla shut Pocket down on July 8, 2025. All user data was permanently deleted on November 12, 2025. The apps and extensions no longer work, and any integrations built against the Pocket API have stopped. If you still have an export file from before that date, most modern alternatives (Instapaper, Readwise Reader, Raindrop, Matter, Keep) can import it.