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 RSS Guard.

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  1. MiniRSS icon
     3 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • Apple Watch
     
  2. RSS Bot icon
     2 likes

    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
     
  3. The best feature of FeedR is built-in Feed Search. There is no need to use the Browser and copy / paste or type in long URLs. Simply enter the name of the site or any search key words and be on your way reading your feeds.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  4. Readian News icon
     2 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
     
  5. Headlines icon
     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  6. Snackr icon
     13 likes

    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
     
  7. 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 !

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Chrome OS
    • Google Chrome
     
  8. Readiy icon
     2 likes

    Readiy is the most awesome Feedly client on Windows 8. Feature rich yet fast and beautiful Readiy is RSS reading at it's best.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. Luli Reader icon
     1 like

    Stay informed with Luli Reader, a powerful and elegant RSS feed reader designed for heavy RSS users who demand reliability, offline access, and complete control over their reading experience.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  10. Feedbutler icon
     3 likes

    Simplify your information flow with single email updates that aggregate the latest posts from all your RSS feeds, eliminating the need for a separate feed reader and maintaining efficient, up-to-date content delivery.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  11. NewsFox icon
     18 likes

    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 type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
    • K-Meleon
    • SeaMonkey
    • Firefox
     
  12. Microreader icon
     7 likes

    Microreader - Very simple web based RSS/Atom reader. Written in python with bottle.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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