
I don't use RSS for breaking news, so speed was a little lower on my list. I also spent a long time looking at which readers included tools to help me organize my feeds. Simplicity and a clean design came out on top.

My personal quest for a new RSS feed reader led me to reevaluate what was important. Alternatively, you could move to a more magazine-like experience, such as the Flipboard app provides, where content and sources can be curated, cultivated, and recommended to you.īut if you want the basic RSS stuff of life, a simple scrolling list of updates from your favorite blogs, news sources, and sites of curiosities delivered to an inbox-like environment, then check out the services listed below. And there are dozens and dozens more options to explore, not least of which is giving up RSS altogether, which a few people have mentioned to me they're done. I've found nine very good services that all offer something different.

It's a lot of upheaval around a "really simple" service.įinding the right RSS feed reader need not be a source of pain.

And then, shockingly, users of The Old Reader had a scare when that service threatened to kill off any accounts created in the throes of the Google Reader panic, but that service appears to be run now by a new team entirely and reports to be alive and well. Then Digg (remember Digg?) out of nowhere launched a minimalist-designed RSS feed reader, with an iPhone app, too, putting a jaunty feather in its cap. First Google Reader users got a warning that their service was on the outs (it then closed for good July 1). An unexpected amount of change has disrupted the RSS feed reading market.
