Turns out most reader options are the latter, providing access anywhere. All the better to compete with (and now take over for) Google Reader. Many have mobile apps and the best synchronize with mobile so you're never reading the same feed posts twice. There's also a category of mobile-only apps, especially for tabletsproducts like Flipboard and Zitethat incorporate RSS with their own article choices to get you reading. If you are a current Google Reader user with a lot of feeds, make sure to back up now. Google's default is to send you to Google Takeout (Opens in a new window), a service that lets you download the complete feed in an XML file. (Most RSS readers can import or export an OPML file, but it's actually just XML, so you may see both extensions used.) #DESKTOP FEED READER DOWNLOAD# One major unknown remains that we couldn't cover in this story: Digg. The one-time powerhouse in social news is under new management and has announced big plans to create a Google Reader clone/replacement/improvement. Unfortunately it still hasn't launched as of this writing. It will have to be pretty amazing to take on a service as thorough and ambitious as Feedly but only time, and testing, will tell. Thanks to Jill Duffy for help with this story. Top Free RSS Readersįeedly doesn't need to import your Google Reader feeds with an OMPL or XML file it links directly to your Google account (so get there before July 1, 2013.). It has one of the best-looking designs in all of RSS land, making it a go-to app for reading Google Reader accounts even before Google decided to kill its service.įeedly has spent the last two months bulking up its back-end servers to deliver on the promise of a totally seamless switchover following Google Reader's demise. As of this week, an import of your Google Reader feeds is permanent and there's no longer any synch with Google Readerit's all part of Feedly plan to become the new backend to a number of feed readers, especially mobile apps such as Reeder, G Reader, Press, NextGen, and Newsifyall of which relied on sync with Google Reader. That's all well and good, but is Feedly a worthy RSS reader? In short, yes. It has an interface unlike almost any other, designed to be much more than just text on a screen (not to mention there are some ads).
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