Brief Alternatives
Brief is described as 'Light-weight feed reading extension for Mozilla Firefox . Designed to be easy to use and streamlined, with exactly the right set of features' and is a popular RSS Reader in the news & books category. There are more than 100 alternatives to Brief for a variety of platforms, including Web-based, Android, iPhone, Mac and iPad apps. The best Brief alternative is Feedly, which is free. Other great apps like Brief are Inoreader, FreshRSS, Feeder RSS feed reader and Fluent Reader.
Alternatives list
Feed On Feeds is a server-based RSS aggregator written in PHP. It provides a simple firehose-style interface with the capability of filtering on tags and individual sites.

Rnews is a server-side feed aggregator that can manage your hundreds of RSS and Atom feeds. It is:
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Self-Hosted

A simple yet capable RSS reader designed specifically for the Apple Watch.
Log in with your The Old Reader account and start reading!
Supports glances to see how many unread items are in your RSS queue and from what sources.


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RSS Bot is your perfect companion to keep up to date with all of your RSS feeds in a simple, sleek and friendly manner.
Cost / License
- Free
- Proprietary
Platforms
- Mac


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Readian lets you stay up to date with what is happening around the world, to learn new skills and to find relevant information for your work, by granting you access to unlimited amount of news and useful articles from anywhere you wish it to be from.


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Snackr was built using Adobe Flex 3 and Adobe AIR 1.0. It's an RSS ticker that pulls random items from your feeds and scrolls them across your desktop. When you see a title that looks interesting, you can click on it to pop up the item in a window.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application type
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Adobe AIR

Introducing Headlines, a brand new way to keep up with the news you care about, right on your Home Screen. Choose your favorite feeds, add a widget and start reading.


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With this extension you can follow rss in your new tabs on Google Chrome. It permit to take a quickly look at news that you want to read. You can now see the shots from Dribbble ! Now the datas are saved into your google account !

NewsFox is an efficient 3-pane(email) style Atom/RSS feed reader. NewsFox allows you to group your feeds as you wish, read feed content offline, update feeds when you want, 1-click subscribe with the Firefox URL bar icon, and read other feeds while updating.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source
Application types
Alerts
- Discontinued
Platforms
- Windows
- Linux
- K-Meleon
- SeaMonkey
- Firefox
































