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.
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.
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 shows up where it ranks, we don't push it up the list.
A powerful RSS reader for power users, researchers, and journalists.
Free, paid from $4.99/mo
A read-later app for articles, PDFs, emails, tweets, and YouTube, with deep highlights and AI features.
Free, paid from $9.99/mo
Save anything from the web and get it back as markdown for AI agents or a simple reading feed.
Free, paid from $10/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 curated read-later app with beautiful typography, highlights, and text-to-speech.
Free, paid from $8/mo
A classic read-later app with clean text extraction and distraction-free reading.
Free, paid from $5.99/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
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 | Inoreader | Readwise Reader | Keep | Raindrop | Matter | Instapaper | Evernote | Dewey | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | ||||||||||
| Browser extension | Chrome, Firefox | Chrome, Firefox, Safari | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave | Bookmarklet | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge | Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge | Web Clipper (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) | Chrome | ||
| Mobile apps | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | iOS; Android parity unclear | iOS, Android | iOS, Android | ||
| Save from email | Per-user Reader address | Forward to in.keep.md | Premium | Unique save-by-email address | Forwarding address | |||||
| Save tweets | Threads compiled as articles | Partial | Partial | Quoteshots + X integration | Native X bookmarks sync | |||||
| Save YouTube videos | Via channel feed | Via channel feed | With transcript highlighting | With transcripts | Partial | Partial | Premium; with transcription | URL only | ||
| Save GitHub stars | ||||||||||
| Save PDFs | Converted to markdown | Full-text search Pro only | Premium | |||||||
| Save files (docs, spreadsheets) | PDFs, EPUBs, HTML | Word, Excel, CSV, HTML, OpenDocument | 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 Pro | |||||||||
| GitHub stars sync | ||||||||||
| Newsletter inbox sync | Pro | Pro | Partial | Premium | Forward-to-save, not a dedicated inbox | Partial | ||||
| Library and reading | ||||||||||
| Reader view | Partial | |||||||||
| Offline reading | Partial | Partial | ||||||||
| Full-text search | Pro | Supporter+ | Partial | Pro | Premium | Premium | ||||
| Semantic / AI search | Pro+ (Leo) | Pro (AI Q&A via Inoreader Intelligence) | Ghostreader Q&A | Pro (Stella) | ||||||
| Highlights | Unlimited on Premium | Partial | ||||||||
| Notes | Unlimited on Premium | |||||||||
| Tags | Boards | |||||||||
| Collections | Boards | Folders | Folders | Magazines | Nested | Partial | Folders | Notebooks + Spaces | Nested folders | |
| Public sharing | Partial | Public magazines | Quoteshots for individual quotes | 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 | Partial | |||||||||
| MCP server | Official server | |||||||||
| CLI tool | keep-markdown npm package | |||||||||
| Claude Code skill | ||||||||||
| AI summaries | Pro+ (Leo) | Pro (Inoreader Intelligence) | Ghostreader | AI summary and AI tagging on every saved article | Pro (Stella) | Premium (AI Co-Reader) | AI Rewrite, AI Meeting Notes, Advanced+ | 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 | Via API | HTML, CSV, TXT only | Partial | HTML + CSV | ENEX | CSV, PDF, Google Sheets | |||
| Send to Kindle | Pro | Premium | Premium |
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.
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.