Inoreader vs Feedly
Inoreader and Feedly are the two heavyweights in the dedicated RSS reader space. Both have free tiers, AI summaries, team features, and API access. The differences show up in price, feature depth at each tier, and how they scale past casual use.
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
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
Feature comparison
Inoreader and Feedly overlap on the fundamentals. The differences are in which AI features require which paid tier, and how each product treats non-RSS sources like newsletters and social.
| Feature | Inoreader | Feedly | Keep |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | |||
| Browser extension | ✓ | ✓Chrome, Firefox | ✓Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave |
| Mobile apps | ✓iOS, Android | ✓iOS, Android | × |
| Save from email | × | × | ✓Forward to in.keep.md |
| Save tweets | × | × | ✓ |
| Save YouTube videos | −Via channel feed | −Via channel feed | ✓With transcripts |
| Save GitHub stars | × | × | ✓ |
| Save PDFs | × | × | ✓Converted to markdown |
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | × | × | ✓Word, Excel, CSV, HTML, OpenDocument |
| Save audio files | × | × | ✓With Whisper transcription |
| Save via API | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Auto-sync sources | |||
| RSS auto-sync | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| YouTube channel sync | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| X bookmarks sync | × | × | ✓Automatic sync is a $5/month add-on. Manual CSV or JSON import on every plan. |
| GitHub stars sync | × | × | ✓ |
| Newsletter inbox sync | ✓Pro | ✓Pro | ✓ |
| Library and reading | |||
| Reader view | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Offline reading | ✓ | ✓ | −Partial |
| Full-text search | −Supporter+ | −Pro | ✓ |
| Semantic / AI search | −Pro (AI Q&A via Inoreader Intelligence) | ✓Pro+ (Leo) | ✓ |
| Highlights | ✓ | ✓ | ✓Highlight from the extension or from inside the reader, with optional notes; renders inline |
| Notes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tags | ✓ | ✓Boards | ✓ |
| Collections | ✓Folders | ✓Boards | ✓ |
| Public sharing | ✓ | ✓ | −Partial |
| Full-text RSS extraction | −Pro | −Pro | ✓ |
| AI and agents | |||
| Markdown export for AI agents | × | × | ✓Per-item .md URL |
| Bulk markdown export | × | × | ✓ |
| MCP server | × | × | ✓ |
| CLI tool | × | − | ✓keep npm package |
| Claude Code skill | × | × | ✓ |
| AI summaries | ✓Pro (Inoreader Intelligence) | ✓Pro+ (Leo) | ✓AI summary and AI tagging on every saved 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 | ✓ | −Partial | ✓Export to CSV or JSON. Import plain CSV/TSV plus Omnivore, Raindrop.io, Pinboard, and Wallabag export files. |
| Send to Kindle | −Pro | × | ✓EPUB delivered to your Kindle email |
| Import Kindle highlights | × | × | ✓From My Clippings.txt, no Amazon login required |
Pricing
Inoreader: Free (150 feeds), Supporter $4.99/mo, Pro $7.50/mo annual or $9.99/mo monthly. Feedly: Free (100 feeds), Pro $6.99/mo, Pro+ $12.99/mo annual-only. Enterprise on both is custom.
Inoreader
- Free
- 150 RSS feeds, 20 newsletters, 30 rules, 50 filters, ads.
- Free
- Supporter
- Ad-free, article translations, full-text search.
- $4.99/mo
- Pro
- $7.50/mo annual or $9.99/mo monthly. 2,500 feeds, unlimited rules and monitoring, Inoreader Intelligence AI, API access.
- $7.5/mo
- Custom
- Team and enterprise pricing.
- Custom
Feedly
- Free
- Up to 100 feeds, basic reader.
- Free
- Pro
- Unlimited feeds, newsletters, OPML, full-text search. Annual billing.
- $6.99/mo
- Pro+
- Leo AI, boards with notes and highlights, web alerts, Zapier/IFTTT. Annual billing only.
- $12.99/mo
- Enterprise
- Threat Intelligence, Market Intelligence. Custom pricing.
- Custom
Keep
- Starter
- Bookmark saves from the web app and browser extension, plus a limited note library.
- Free
- Personal
- Full-content Markdown, search, sources, automations, MCP, CLI, API, and export. Also available as a one-time lifetime purchase.
- $10/mo
- X bookmark sync
- Optional add-on. Automatic private X bookmark sync. Requires Personal.
- $5/mo
Strengths and weaknesses
Inoreader's edge is feature density for individual power users. Feedly's edge is team features and enterprise intelligence. Both are solid, neither is perfect.
What Inoreader does well
- 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
- Keyword and brand monitoring across all subscribed feeds
Where it falls short
- UI is dense, with a steep learning curve for casual readers
- The best power-user features require Pro
- No structured markdown export for LLM or agent workflows
- Not designed for long-form read-later use cases
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
Which one should you pick?
Pick Inoreader if…
You want one of the most feature-dense RSS readers available with advanced rules, filters, and AI summaries included at the Pro price. Also a strong fit if you follow feeds across RSS, newsletters, podcasts, YouTube, Mastodon, Bluesky, and Reddit in one place.
Pick Feedly if…
You need team-level features (boards, shared research) or you're already using Feedly in a professional setting with threat or market intelligence needs. Feedly's enterprise positioning is the most developed in the category.
About Inoreader
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.
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
Inoreader Pro at $7.50/mo annual covers what Feedly Pro+ covers at $12.99/mo, including AI summaries (Inoreader Intelligence vs Leo). For an individual, Inoreader is the better value.
Yes. Both support OPML import and export, which is the standard format for RSS subscription lists. Moving feeds between them is a two-click operation.
No. Neither Feedly nor Inoreader has an official Model Context Protocol server yet. Both have REST APIs you can script against, but for agent-native integration you'd need to build your own adapter.
Inoreader Free allows 150 feeds, 20 newsletters, 30 rules, and 50 filters. Feedly Free allows 100 feeds. Both have ads on free. Inoreader's free tier is slightly more usable if you want to test power-user features.
Both offer team tiers. Feedly's enterprise offerings are more developed (Threat Intelligence, Market Intelligence). Inoreader's Teams plan is simpler but covers shared folders and team dashboards.
Inoreader Pro has first-class newsletter-to-RSS with a per-user email. Feedly Pro supports newsletters too. For users who treat newsletters as a primary source, either works.
Both have solid iOS and Android apps. Inoreader's is denser with more power features exposed. Feedly's is cleaner. Reeder (third-party) works with both and is the most polished if you want the best mobile experience.
Both support YouTube channel feeds, Mastodon, Bluesky, Reddit, and podcasts. Inoreader also includes Telegram channels and Facebook pages. Both sit well beyond pure RSS at the paid tiers.
Inoreader Pro's rules and filters are widely considered the most powerful in the category: per-feed keyword rules, regex, author filtering, auto-tagging. Feedly Pro+ has AI triggers via Leo but fewer manual rule primitives.
FreshRSS and Miniflux are both mature self-hosted RSS readers with active development. Neither has the AI features, but both are free, private, and give you full control over your feed list.