Protest lists despite – Google did not change, and tomorrow, Monday, July 1, Google Reader will retire for good. But that does not mean people need good rss services and RSS readers have disappeared. Fortunately, there are alternatives to Google Reader. Mobile has put together a list of five sharp apps that are ready to take over when the reader throwing in the towel.
Feedly
Available at: Android, iOS (to be released to the Windows Phone 8)
Price: Free
Feedly is ranked among the top tier when it comes to RSS readers. App’s interface is admirably simple and snygggt; Swiping to the right you can access a menu where all your feeds are in categories you either have set up in Google Reader or the web version of Feedly. Unsorted rss feeds fall into a “Uncategorized” folder.
When you read the article in Feedly, it is easy to share on to Gmail, Pocket and social services such as Facebook and Twitter. Rss reader also has a feature that makes it possible to “save” articles you want to read later. These saved articles added to a special group rate Saved folder. A big plus with Feedly is that the service is completely cloud based. You can then access your Feedly account both the cell phone and a computer in any browser. No sync between devices works perfectly, meaning that I can “save” articles in my mobile on the way to work and then access them quickly when I started my work computer.
team behind Feedly has invested very hard to take over the baton from Google Reader, and has therefore made it very easy to migrate your RSS subscriptions from Google Reader to Feedly. The process itself is as I said very simple, but unfortunately this is not completely reliable. For example, I’ve had to do so on several occasions when I have logged in to the app.
class=”positive”> Plus: Neat and easy to grasp. Possible to save articles to read later. Many adjustments. Adapted for both phone and tablet.
class=”negative”> Minus: Slightly unstable. Might take a while to load flows in your various folders. Some problems with the Reader integration.
Flip Board
Available at: Android, iOS
Price: Free
Flip Board is no RSS readers in the traditional sense. Instead they want to be a kind of social news service. The service works in such a way that you are able to add subscriptions in different categories – such as technology, food and design. What Flip Board then do is to collect items in these categories from a variety of news sources. The texts are presented in a neat, magsinsliknande interface in the app.
You can also relax there Facebook, Instagram or Twitter account to the service and then see all the new posts directly in Flip Board. Do an article you like, you can create your own “magazine” in Flip Board where all your saved articles collected. You can also invite your friends to participate so that all your saved articles then gather in your joint magazine. Flip Board may be a powerful app with a lot of features, but a downside is that you can not add subscriptions in the same way as in more traditional RSS readers. You also have no option to transfer your Google Reader feeds directly into the Flip Board.
class=”positive”> Plus: Smart ways to gather content from a variety of sources. Neat and simple. Support for saving articles in offline mode.
class=”negative”> Minus: Get Swedish news sources. Hard to add subscriptions in the same way more traditional RSS readers. Only available as app – desktop version is missing.
NewsBlur
Available at: Android, iOS (Also tredjepartsappar for Windows Phone 8 – such Metroblur)
Price: Gratis/160 crowns year
Popular NewsBlur is a one man project and is owned not to any large company. In terms of design, neither the web version or apps the best looking I’ve seen, but the service is fast and very efficient. NewsBlur available in both free and paid service. The free version is fine when it comes to features, but there are certain things that make it feel restricted.
The biggest problem is that you can only add a total of 64 subscription feeds. Another flaw with grativersionen is that you only get to read the preambles to the articles. Want to read the whole text, you must open it in an external browser. Paid version of the service (called a “super-mega premium” account) costs about 160 dollars per year, and is among other remedy to the above problem as the limited number of flows and that you can not read the full articles in the app.
class=”positive”> Plus: Cloud-based service – you can access your account on both the phone and the computer. Ability to collect saved articles in a special “Blurblog.”
class=”negative”> Minus: Something cluttered interface. Limited functionality in the free version of the service.
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Feed Me
Available at: Windows Phone 8
Price: Free / Paid Version 15.9 crowns
Feed Me is a simple and efficient RSS reader for Windows Phone 8. Having said that does not mean that the reader is simple: It does its job and does this well. A minus is that you only can see your folders and possibly unsorted news sources on the app’s home screen. Want to access news sources that are in your folders, you need to simply click through and open one of the folders. A trivial to remark, maybe some think. But for me – and possibly other – this is something that pulls down slightly on the overall impression.
The app allows you to share further articles to Instapaper, Pocket, and social networks such as Twitter. Do you want to “save” an article in the app, you can star marking it and then read the text later. Another feature I like is that it can be attached to both individual news feeds and news folder tiles on your Windows Phone 8 start screen. You can also set the latest news displayed as notifications on your lock screen. Besides Google Reader, you can also import feeds directly from NewsBlur. The app is available in both a free version (advertising) and a paid version, which costs just over SEK 16.
class=”positive”> Plus: Easy to use. Easily migrate your old Google Reader account. Can be attached flows trays directly on the homescreen.
class=”negative”> Minus: Some limited interface. Sync with multiple service is NewsBlur and Google Reader have been desirable.
Taptu – DJ your news
Available at: Android, iOS
Price: Free
“DJ Your News” – Taptu want to be the young, hip alternative to the other rss-readers on the market. But in addition to the classical input gear has changed to one that looks like a mixreglage, we do not särsklit much rethinking of Taptu. In the app you can add subscriptions from selected news sources, most of which are American sites. You can also choose to subscribe to a particular category of news (here called streams (“stream”), such as “U.S. Tech & Gadgets.”
Taptu is also support for importing feeds directly from Google Reader. Sorry, you need to make this flow of flow – there is no way to import the whole shebang at once. If you have a large number of Reader feeds, it is easy to feel it becomes too cumbersome to move them to Taptu.
app to app, you can choose to combine different flows into a single folder (“Stream”) which you can then select the color to distinguish it from other folders. Taptu is also available in a desktop version, which makes it possible to access your feeds, both in mobile as on a computer. No sync between your various devices is good overall. One advantage of the desktop version, it is easier to add new subscriptions (supports drag & drop) than the mobile.
A big minus is that you can not reorder your feed folders in the content hierarchy directly in the app, which is annoying after you see all the content in a vertical flow. Sure, you can adjust this in the web version of the service, but it would have been easy to get the chance to do it directly in the app.
class=”positive”> Plus: Easy to manage your different flows / total news folders. Ability to gather articles by bookmarking them.
class=”negative”> Minus: Needless difficult to migrate feeds from Google Reader. Can not change showview for flows.
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