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24 alternatives to Enkel

The simple RSS reader

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Enkel launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1EA
   Enkel – A clean and simple RSS Reader▲47

   2020 · enkel.fyi · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Enkel RSS Reader▲82

   The clean and simple RSS Reader

   2020 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   RSSence▲167

   Your modern RSS feed, reimagined.

   2025 · try.rssence.com · its alternatives →

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   OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds▲259

   Alternative search engines are neat, as are RSS feeds. OpenOrb is a self-hosted app which allows visitors to search over a list of blogs you love. If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs and not show you any sponsored content or machine-generated garbage (unless... you follow blogs written by machines?) Personal RSS feed readers can usually do this sort of thing, but RSS readers aren’t meant to be shared, so you can think of the search engine as a 'curated feed list as a public service'. I wrote a longer blog post about OpenOrb here:…

   2024 · openorb.idiot.sh · its alternatives →

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   RSS Brain▲139

   I wrote an RSS reader called RSS Brain recently. The motivate is the current RSS readers either don't sort articles by priority, which makes it hard to read posts from HackerNews and Reddit, or sort it with some "smart" algorithm which I don't trust. I also like the Google News feature that can show related story from different source, but the sources are not configurable and the algorithm is not transparent either. So with RSS Brain, I implemented these features: * Recommend related articles from the feeds of your choice. It's backed by ElasticSearch and the algorithm is described on RSS…

   2022 · rssbrain.com · its alternatives →

6. 6AA
   An alternative RSS reader and search engine for news and content▲86

   2020 · newsandrumors.com · its alternatives →

7. 7RS
   RSS Search Engine▲192

   2019 · search.feedi.me · its alternatives →

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   ReadMark▲118

   An RSS reader that is markable.

   2021 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Feedbin▲89

   A simple RSS reader

   2014 · its alternatives →

10. 10
    NetNewsWire 7▲108

    Free and open source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad

    Jan 2026 · netnewswire.com · its alternatives →

11. 11CW
    Convenient web rss-reader▲39

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12FR
    Feediary – RSS reader with zero tracking and zero ads▲109

    2018 · feediary.com · its alternatives →

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    NetNewsWire 5.0▲100

    A free open source RSS reader focusing on real news

    2019 · its alternatives →

14. 14AF
    A fast RSS reader I built with a friend▲50

    2020 · weloverss.com · its alternatives →

15. 15
    readrrr▲78

    A simple web rss reader

    2022 · its alternatives →

16. 16
    Feedibus▲91

    A modern RSS newsreader, powered by machine learning

    2021 · its alternatives →

17. 17
    Nooshub▲75

    RSS Reader with AI to cluster similar content

    2019 · its alternatives →

18. 18IV
    I've Implemented a RSS Reader▲73

    2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

19. 19AS
    A simple and powerful RSS reader for the web▲68

    Hello HN! I've been working on this new open-source project called [name-redacted]. It is a simple and powerful RSS reader for the web with a modern UI, PWA support, and a built-in article reader. Visit it at [link-redacted] View our GitHub repo at [link-redacted]

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Cake Reader▲72

    Simple and fast RSS reader

    2021 · its alternatives →

21. 21RA
    Rufus – a free, open source RSS reader▲53

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

22. 22FA
    Freader, an open source RSS Reader built with Node.js and Angular▲45

    2013 · geekuillaume.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Freshet▲12

    Smart RSS reader dealing with your flow of incoming stories

    2025 · freshet.net · its alternatives →

24. 24BA
    Bulletin, a fast, clean Google Reader replacement▲16

    https://www.bulletin.io My friend and I spent the last 4 months building the fastest, cleanest RSS reader we could. There are a lot of features to come, but for now, I think we have the best experience around. We'd love for you to check it out and give us your feedback. Tell us what features we should put it next.

    2013 · its alternatives →

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