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. Reams icon
     Like

    Reams is an AI-powered RSS reader that provides a rich reading experience with features such as customizable layouts, a Safari share extension, and an automatic dark mode.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • iPhone
    • iPad
     
  2. RSS Menu icon
     8 likes

    RSS Menu is a systemwide menu that allows you to read and organize your favourite RSS or Atom feeds.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
     
  3. FeedSpin icon
     2 likes

    FeedSpin is a RSS news reader that treats all sources equally, unless you say otherwise. So your must-read sources will always appear first. And any other sources will not be shown again until you have seen the updates of all the other ones.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  4. Sputnik icon
     9 likes

    Sputnik is a simple and practical rss reader for Windows and Mac OS X.

    Pros:

    1. Fun to use: Keyboard (and mouse) shortcuts allows for convenient and fast browsing through articles.
    2. Works offline: All articles are stored on your computer, so you don't need internet connect.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
     
  5. NewsBar icon
     4 likes

    NewsBar is built with a fresh concept: news feeds delivered with a smooth animation, right to your desktop - now with automatic iCloud sync across all Apple devices. Works fine without Google Reader.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • iPhone
     
  6. NewsHub icon
     4 likes

    NewsHub is one of the leading web-based news aggregators. It gathers all the latest and the most thrilling news so that you can easily stay up to date with the most essential updates in different industries.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
     
  7. Tickr icon
     12 likes

    TICKR is GTK-based RSS READER application which displays RSS FEEDS in a TICKER bar on your desktop. With a single click, you get the latest headlines scrolling in a thin window on your desktop, as what can be seen on News TV channels.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  8. Geekttrss icon
     1 like

    Geekttrss is an Tiny Tiny Rss reader application with transparent offline mode for the Android platform.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  9. zzllrr RSS Reader, an offline RSS reader and feed aggregator that supports RSS, ATOM and OPML formats. No need to register.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Chrome OS
     
  10. FocusReader icon
     1 like

    FocusReader is a clean (No Ads) ?modern?beautiful material design news & RSS reader application with a lot of great features.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Android
     
  11. Feedbunch icon
     4 likes

    A simple and elegant feed reader.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
     
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