For anyone who writes a blog and for all those who like to get information from multiple sites simultaneously, today is a sad day for the sensational news of the closure of Google Reader which for years has been the only tool for reading blog feeds, news sites and any online source with regular or periodic publications. Google Reader is the web application that collects all the news in a single page at the same time they are published, allowing users to scroll and read the headlines quickly and linger or mark items as "unread" or "special" that deserve to be preserved and remembered. Google Reader, despite having a Spartan and a bit old graphics, has always remained a simple and fast site, extremely useful for quickly and effortlessly reading all the news of the day, even from 100 different sites.
Without Google Reader, which will cease to exist from 1 July 2013, you have to find the best alternatives to replace it, the best free feed readers on the internet .
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1) The best replacement for Google Reader is Feedly .
Feedly is a web application that can be used both as an extension for Google Chrome and Firefox, and as a normal web app. There are also applications for iPhone and Android that allow you to synchronize news and readings from PC to mobile phone or tablet. Feedly has the advantage of automatically importing all sources and news received in Google Reader automatically, by logging in with the same Google account. Although the graphics look more like that of a magazine, it can be configured in the options to see the titles of the articles in a row, as is the case today on Google Reader. Even with Feedly you can save the news as special to keep your favorite items. Feedly is very fast to load and uses the same API as Google Reader with an almost identical interface.
2) Inoreader is my second choice after Feedly, a web app for reading feeds very fast to load and practically identical to Google Reader. Currently, you can import all feeds from an OPML file. InoReader does not have mobile applications but the mobile version of the site works very well so it is not even necessary.
3) CommaFeed is the website that is proposed as a copy to replace Google REAder, with the same graphic interface. The web application has extensions for Firefox and Chrome but can also be used without extensions (not as feedly). The site is quick to load and you can choose to import the Google Reader feed before it is closed. Commafeed is a new app, similar to Google Reader, of which the apps for Android and iPhone are expected, which promises very well.
4) Another excellent alternative Google Reader feed reader is The Old Reader which is appreciated for its simple, full-screen, clean and fast graphics.
The Old Reader tries to trace Google Reader with a web application, which can be accessed via a Facebook account, which will only improve if it is not abandoned.
5) NewsBlur is another promising alternative that already looks good, but which will take time to welcome all users abandoned by Google Reader.
NewsBlur however is not completely free; requires payment of $ 1 a month if you want to receive news from over 65 sites simultaneously. NewsBlur has a very simple interface, it allows you to import the feeds saved in Google Reader (by logging in with a Google account), to hide uninteresting news and instead highlight your favorite ones or keep them. NewsBlur also provides applications for Android and iOS, essential for those who want to stay up to date and don't want to read the same things twice.
6) Feedspot is an excellent feed reader that can be customized and follows the list-shaped interface, very convenient, of the old Google Reader.
For each element you can press on the star to mark it to read after and among the favorites.
You can import subscriptions and items saved in Google REader, there will be apps for iPhone and Android and further improvements in functionality.
FeedSpot, although still immature at the time of writing, is a very fast and promising candidate to be a replacement for Google Reader.
7) NetVibes can be used both as an alternative to iGoogle or as a personalized home page, or as an alternative to Google Reader. From the top button you can choose the widget or reader view which is the list of news received from the subscribed feeds. You can import sources from Google Reader by uploading the OPML subscriptions.xml file saved by Google Takeout (see above) so you don't miss anything from your favorite sites. The main flaw of Netvibes that stands out immediately is the almost illegible graphics of the elements marked as already read that become almost invisible on the screen.
8) RSS Owl is a Java based program that works quite well, fast, light and can (indeed could) synchronize feeds with Google Reader.
9) Reedah is a clone of Google Reader very similar graphically, where you can import your subscribed feeds to keep up to date.
10) Yanobs Reader is another Google Reader clone almost identical both in graphics and functionality. Yanobs Reader is also available in a mobile version.
11) FeedReader is a free online feed reader that allows you to collect and aggregate RSS news, blogs and online activities.
12) Bloglovin is a feed aggregator that is easy to read but not very customizable, which can hardly be an alternative to Google Reader but can be used to discover new news.
13) Feeds can also be collected in a PC program
This solution is not convenient if you work online from multiple locations and from tablets or smartphones but it can be useful to those who want to have a desktop client to download the news of the day, read them comfortably, organize them by topics and keep them.
- Seesmic Reader is a modern and functional open source feed reader, where you can import the OPML file or to start aggregating RSS Feeds.
- Omea Reader
14) Those who are not interested in the list of articles but want to browse the news of multiple websites, blogs and newspapers online as if reading a magazine, can instead use the applications only for smartphones and tablets Google News or Flipboard.
Another article lists other "feed reader" alternatives for reading website news from a single interface.
In other articles we also find:
- How to save favorite web pages, news and articles to read them later
- Open and read offline websites without connection on PC, tablet and mobile phones
