Comments on: Fantastic RSS Readers to replace Google Reader

By: DaveR

DaveR — Sat, 23 May 2009 17:54:23 +0000

My beef with Google Reader is the errors. A whole feed was reconstituted as “unread”, and on the iPhone, the biggest problem is that you offlink and go back to the reader and it reloads when it shouldn’t. And when it reloads, it marks an item as “read”, which is a total pain.

I think the interface in Google Reader is ugly, but that’s pretty typical of Google–their UI designers are nowhere near the caliber of their app developers. Why I can’t rename a folder is beyond me.

What about other iPhone readers?

By: JohnH

JohnH — Sat, 16 May 2009 20:45:13 +0000

I don’t think any of these RSS Readers allow you to ’share’, i.e. in Google Reader I can ’share’ an item I like which then populates my own rss feed friends can subscribe to. Anyone know of another RSS app which does allow sharing?

By: Edwin Khodabakchian

Edwin Khodabakchian — Fri, 15 May 2009 17:23:40 +0000

No feedly (www.feedly.com) in this list? Boo. I am sad.

By: Danh ba web 2.0

Danh ba web 2.0 — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:54:04 +0000

I used Feedreader

By: MoiN

MoiN — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:48:46 +0000

Yes, Rishi. I did had a look at Feedly earlier. Again, I’m not a huge fan of managing (almost) everything through firefox extensions. I do agree that the interface looks awesome but we’re focusing more on how easily you can manage your feeds instead.

NewzCrawler and Blog Bridge aren’t bad either if you’re going for the looks along with the work ==)

By: Rishi Talreja

Rishi Talreja — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:36:51 +0000

Have you tried using feedly? If Google Reader lacks something, feedly more than makes up for it by providing a magazine like interface and ff & twitter integration.

By: MoiN

MoiN — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:42:52 +0000

Not comparing, just providing better alternatives. There are other web based RSS readers like NetVibes, Sage (Mentioned above) but desktop based apps are more convenient. You don’t have to go log in everytime to see what’s new

By: Rishi Talreja

Rishi Talreja — Thu, 14 May 2009 10:38:56 +0000

Well, if you are comparing those readers with Google Reader, the one thing that you missed mentioning is how Google Reader is online and still feature rich. Plus being online as its advantages too…