AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Smart Reader - native RSS reading app that suggests interesting news
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…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Smart Reader - native RSS reading app that suggests interesting news launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2020 · weloverss.com · its alternatives →
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2024 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Stories Now▲130Read RSS news as instagram stories! For iOS and Android. ☕
2021 · n4no.com · 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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Hey HN, cofounder of Readwise here. We've been working on this cross-platform reader app for about 2 years, excited to finally share it in public beta. Probably the most notable thing that makes Reader unique is that it supports almost any content type you could want to save/read/highlight: * web pages * emails/newsletters * PDFs * ePubs * twitter threads * youtube videos (with transcripts) * RSS feeds With all of your knowledge content in one place, we built powerful reading and highlighting, as well as a bunch of novel triage/organization features, so you can actually…
2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →
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BoredReading is a curation of the best articles from around the internet.
2023 · boredreading.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · newsandrumors.com · its alternatives →
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Freshet▲12Smart RSS reader dealing with your flow of incoming stories
2025 · freshet.net · its alternatives →
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Feedibus▲91A modern RSS newsreader, powered by machine learning
2021 · feedibus.app · its alternatives →
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Feeder▲59Simple and fast RSS reader, efficient access to articles
2022 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · feediary.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · linklonk.com · its alternatives →
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Maidio▲146Turn your RSS into a podcast like Notebooklm does
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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This was my first attempt of making something truly appealing and useful. I've learned a lot and I'm pretty happy with the result. What do you think?
2011 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Substack Reader▲173Substacks RSS Reader for their newsletters
2020 · substack.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · zuperlist.com · its alternatives →
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