1.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
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 shows up where it ranks, we don't push it up the list.
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
Save anything from the web and get it back as markdown for AI agents or a simple reading feed.
Free, paid from $10/mo
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
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 | Feedly | Readwise Reader | Keep | Raindrop | Instapaper | Matter | Evernote | Dewey | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capture and save | ||||||||||
| Browser extension | Chrome, Firefox | Chrome, Firefox, Safari | Bookmarklet | Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave | 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 | iOS; Android parity unclear | iOS, Android | ||
| Save from email | Per-user Reader address | Forward to in.keep.md | 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 | Via channel feed | With transcript highlighting | Partial | With transcripts | Partial | URL only | Premium; with transcription | ||
| 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 | Forward-to-save, not a dedicated inbox | Premium | Partial | ||||
| Library and reading | ||||||||||
| Reader view | Partial | |||||||||
| Offline reading | Partial | Partial | ||||||||
| Full-text search | Supporter+ | Pro | Partial | Pro | Premium | Premium | ||||
| Semantic / AI search | Pro (AI Q&A via Inoreader Intelligence) | Pro+ (Leo) | Ghostreader Q&A | Pro (Stella) | ||||||
| Highlights | Unlimited on Premium | Partial | ||||||||
| Notes | Unlimited on Premium | |||||||||
| Tags | Boards | |||||||||
| Collections | Folders | Boards | Folders | Magazines | Nested | Folders | Partial | Notebooks + Spaces | Nested folders | |
| Public sharing | Public magazines | Partial | Quoteshots for individual quotes | Public folders (Pro) | ||||||
| Full-text RSS extraction | Pro | Pro | Partial | 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 (Inoreader Intelligence) | Pro+ (Leo) | Ghostreader | AI tagging on capture | 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 / JSON export | Partial | Via API | HTML, CSV, TXT only | HTML + CSV | Partial | ENEX | CSV, PDF, Google Sheets | |||
| Send to Kindle | Pro | Premium | Premium |
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.