Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Freshet
Smart RSS reader dealing with your flow of incoming stories
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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2020 · weloverss.com · its alternatives →
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We all use different kinds of RSS feed readers to fetch news, but as the number of feeds we subscribe to grows, we may wake up to 400+ news items every morning, but very few RSS feed readers can suggest to us what to read first. Smart Reader is a Windows RSS reading app that has a built-in machine learning algorithm for suggesting interesting news. It learns by user's labeling of what news are interesting to them, and as the learning progresses, it will start suggesting among the user's subscribed feeds what it thinks the user might find interesting to read first. Smart Reader also tries to…
2012 · its alternatives →
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2020 · newsandrumors.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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I’ve been using RSS readers for decades, but they’ve started feeling more and more like a chore. Something about the inbox/to-do list design, counts of unread items, managing teams and complex filtering rules... I realized they add to my stress level instead of reducing it. I’ve also come to rely on social media for discovery – hearing about new ideas, tools, papers, people, etc., but I’m so tired of the ads, spam, addictiveness, and toxicity. Apricot is my attempt to distill the best of both worlds. It’s a web app where users subscribe to feeds like an RSS reader then see new items as…
2023 · app.theapricot.io · its alternatives →
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RSS Brain▲139I 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 →
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2023 · boredreading.com · its alternatives →
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2022 · sr.ht · its alternatives →
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NetNewsWire 7▲108Free and open source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad
Jan 2026 · netnewswire.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · dogesec.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · linklonk.com · its alternatives →
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