This is a list of RSS related stuff. Every single sentence in isRSSdead.com has been extended into exact apps, tools and services recorded in this list. Contents are mainly organized based on the posts in the Telegram Channel @AboutRSS (in Chinese).
If anything related to the item has been introduced in the Telegram Channel @AboutRSS, it will be specified by a superscript number with link to that post in the TG Channel. Those superscripts start with letter “t” means they are Twitter links.
No particular order.
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Open-source software with link to its repo if it has
Totally free
Web service available, with link to its official webpage
for Windows, with link to its download page
for Mac OS, with link to its Apple store page
for Linux system, with link to its official download page
for iOS/iPadOS, with link to its Apple store page
for Android, with link to its Play store page
Chrome app or extension available, with link to its page in Chrome app/extension store
Firefox Add-on available, with link to its page in Firefox Add-on store
for Greasemonkey, with link to its official download page
Proofite : AI daily digest of your feeds, newsletters and web searches, also as a podcast; an MCP server lets an AI assistant retune what reaches you.
IntelCue RSS Reader: free web reader with no signup and no feed limit, keeps subscriptions, read marks and saved items in browser local storage, auto-discovers a feed from a site URL, and supports OPML import/export, full-text search and a keyword watchlist
reader : Google Reader clone with three-pane UI, OPML import, snooze, saved lists with public RSS, Mastodon/Bluesky/Reddit ingestors with optional LLM filtering; Electron desktop or hosted web service from one TypeScript codebase. (Demo)
FeedThing : a Django reader with a two-pane catch-up model and river-of-news folders, self-hosted on gunicorn
Tuvix : an open-source RSS aggregator, self-host it or use the free hosted app
Simple Feed Reader : a self-hosted multi-user reader with full-text extraction, email digests and Bluesky/Mastodon timelines and lists as feeds, Docker Compose deploy
🔗 RSS Readers/Tools/Services Connections Demonstrated by An Interactive Node Chart
For example, sync with another app via API, multi-platform support, sync across different devices, multi-content source support, or read-it-later service support.747
Note: has not been updated for a while.
Click the picture above to access the interactive chart.
Trace: tech and AI news from 100+ sources (RSS/Atom feeds, Hacker News, Reddit, Product Hunt), merged into one story per event with every source linked; a web page, a daily email and public daily briefs, self-hostable with Docker Compose
What’s New : follows the changelogs of over a thousand software products. One feed per product, one for everything, with the release notes carried in content:encoded
PressPlayed: reads the text each source makes available aloud as one continuous briefing, auto-advancing through the queue; playback continues while the screen is locked on supported phones
rss-pod: Self-hosted tool that turns RSS articles into multi-speaker conversational podcasts using LLMs and TTS, with scheduled generation and podcast RSS output.
SearQ: a RESTful API that simplifies the search for data from RSS feeds. 1308
RSS Emit: generates Atom and JSON Feed output from web pages, source lists, or a topic prompt, and can deliver new items as a newsletter, to chat, or to an HTTP endpoint
🏗️ Tools for parsing / decoding RSS
SyndiKit: Swift Package for Decoding RSS Feeds 1426
SimplePie: A simple Atom/RSS parsing library for PHP 1426
RSS Gen: A comprehensive Rust library for generating, parsing, serializing, and deserializing RSS feeds across various RSS versions 1483
Crawler-Buddy: A server that parses RSS links, and provides output as standardized JSON. Provides feeds for input links
Feedsmith: A fast JavaScript and TypeScript library for parsing and generating RSS, Atom, RDF, JSON Feed and OPML, with support for 30+ namespaces
Noozra: news feeds by category, drawn from 70+ publications, each item carrying the publisher’s own description
Cheltenham Open Data feeds: local feeds for Cheltenham, UK, including a daily news round-up and an alerts feed that merges flood warnings, power cuts, travel disruption and road closures
MyFeed : 103 public topic feeds (AI, Rust, security, privacy and more), each built from hundreds of RSS sources and news outlets and AI-picked into one feed; every topic publishes its own RSS, e.g. AI, Rust and Privacy
Raindrop.io: every collection still has public RSS feed but Raindrop does not plan to support further improvements for RSS due to possible privacy issues. 399
Thank you to all RSS supporters! It’s you who have created these marvelous tools, apps, etc. and still keep bringing new ideas and innovation to the realm of RSS. Furthermore, thanks very much to members / followers of the 「AboutRSS」 channel / twitter account.
Please consider supporting my work as a lot of effort takes place to generate this list! You can be a sponsor by sharing accounts of your self-hosted services or redeem codes of your apps with these RSS lovers in my telegram channel, or by providing your spare VPS so that I can set up a public RSSHub service etc., or whatever else. Thanks a lot.