Reeder 3 for iOS. A news reader for Feedbin, Feedly, Feed Wrangler, FeedHQ, NewsBlur. Help; FAQ & Contact; Twitter; Reeder for Mac; Download on the App Store Requires iOS 9.0 or later. Help Gestures. Slide from the left or right edge of the screen to navigate back or forward. Articles are optimized for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so you’ll have a great reading experience no matter which device you’re using. The stories you really care about. The more you read, the better Apple News gets at understanding your interests.
When we talk about free RSS news readers, we're usually talking about Google Reader. Or at least we used to be.
The service, launched in 2005 by Google Labs, is the primary force in RSS reading; almost every piece of desktop software or mobile apps out there syncs with it. Even if you haven't ever visited Google Reader, you've probably had it as the backend for your main RSS reading tool. But now, citing a decline of use—there are more likely reasons—Google has announced that on July 1, 2013, it's shuttering Google Reader forever.
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What's a faithful reader of RSS and Atom feeds to do? Find an alternative, of which there are plenty. In fact many companies provide an API for programmers to take advantage of so you can sync apps with their services.
RSS readers are bountiful even without sync. Some are browser extensions like Brief and Bamboo Feed Reader for Firefox, or Slick RSS for Chrome. But our Best Free Software series is all about your desktop options, be they downloads or Web apps. 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 tablets—products like Flipboard and Zite—that incorporate RSS with their own article choices to get you reading.
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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, 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.)
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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.
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Thanks to Jill Duffy for help with this story.