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.

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  1.  3 likes

    newsrdr is a Web based RSS/Atom news reader that allows you to follow the latest news from your favorite websites in one place.

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    • Online
     
  2. 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.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
  3. Rnews icon
     8 likes

    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
     
  4. 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
     
  5. 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
     
  6. 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
     
  7. 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
     
  8. 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
     
  9. 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 types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  10. 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
     
  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 types

    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 types

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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