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. Feedspot icon
     165 likes

    A great alternative to Google Reader. Offers awesome productivity features like Search, RSS feeds for your starred items, tags & folder. You can share on X, .

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
     
  2. CommaFeed icon
     154 likes

    Google Reader inspired self-hosted RSS reader, based on JAX-RS, Wicket and AngularJS.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker Hub
    • YunoHost
     
  3. FeedFlow icon
     8 likes

    Follow your favorite RSS feeds with FeedFlow, a minimalistic RSS Reader. Enjoy a clutter-free reading experience, as FeedFlow offers a minimalistic list and opens the articles on their respective websites or in reader mode.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
    • Windows
     
  4. Den for RSS icon
     3 likes

    Create custom landscape views of what's happening with a fast and modern news aggregator.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  5. NewsFlash icon
     9 likes

    A modern feed reader designed for the GNOME desktop. NewsFlash is a program designed to complement an already existing web-based RSS reader account.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  6. StreamSphere icon
     6 likes

    Ad-free, privacy-centric RSS reader with a global reach, featuring customizable content and dark mode for reading comfort.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  7. FeedCord icon
     6 likes

    FeedCord is a dead-simple RSS Reader designed to integrate seamlessly with Discord. With just a few configuration steps, you can have a news feed text channel up and running in your server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Docker
     
  8. Raven Reader icon
     14 likes

    Offline ready desktop RSS Reader without any distractions.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  9. FeedMe icon
     16 likes

    FeedMe is a simple and full featured offline RSS reader for Feedly, InoReader, Bazqux, The Older Reader, Feedbin, Tiny Tiny RSS, FreshRSS, Fever, aiming at providing the best user experience for users to read and manage your favorite articles.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
     
  10. Akregator icon
     28 likes

    Akregator is a news feed reader. It enables you to follow news sites, blogs and other RSS/Atom-enabled websites without the need to manually check for updates using a web browser. Akregator is designed to be both easy to use and to be powerful enough to read hundreds of news...

    214 Akregator alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  11. NewsNinja icon
     5 likes

    AI powered RSS reader.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
    • iPad
    • visionOS
     
  12. RSS Reader extension for Chrome & Firefox. Smart RSS Fork.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mozilla Firefox
     
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    Comments about Smart RSS [Fork] as an Alternative to Brief
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    No sub-folder supported. This is a deal-killer for an alternative to Brief.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    • Smart RSS [Fork] is Free and Open SourceBrief is also Free and Open Source
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