Glean AlternativesOnly apps from the EU

The best alternative to Glean is Inoreader, which is free. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Glean and 12 are so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting alternatives to Glean are FreshRSS, Feeder RSS feed reader, Liferea and Miniflux.

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Glean alternatives are mainly RSS Readers, but if you're looking for News Readers or Text to Speech Services you can filter on that. You can also filter by region, for example EU-based alternatives if you prefer software developed in the European Union. These are just examples - use the filter bar below to find more specific alternatives to Glean.
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  1. Inoreader icon
     1457 likes

    Aggregate feeds from RSS, social media, and newsletters with advanced filtering, OPML management, website monitoring, IFTTT automation, cloud syncing, text-to-speech, dark mode, and collaboration tools for flexible and efficient content consumption across devices.

    288 Inoreader alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

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    Platforms

    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Chrome OS
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Google Chrome
    • Safari
    • Kindle Fire
    • Opera
    • Mozilla Firefox
     
  2. FreshRSS icon
     178 likes

    FreshRSS is a free, self-hosted RSS aggregator. It is quite lightweight, fast (it can manage +100k articles without complaining) and powerful (e.g. shortcuts, filters, responsive design, multi-views, multi-themes, multi-users, statistics, provides a Google Reader API, etc.)

    125 FreshRSS alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
     
  3. Feeder is a fully free/libre feed reader. It supports all common feed formats, including JSONFeed. It doesn't track you. It doesn't require any setup. It doesn't even need you to create an account!

    270 Feeder RSS feed reader alternatives

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • F-Droid
     
  4. Liferea icon
     159 likes

    Liferea is a web feed reader/news aggregator that brings together all of the content from your favorite subscriptions into a simple interface that makes it easy to organize and browse feeds.

    244 Liferea alternatives

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • BSD
     
  5. Miniflux icon
     64 likes

    Miniflux is a minimalist and opinionated feed reader.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
    • Cloudron
     
  6. FeedDeck icon
     15 likes

    FeedDeck is an open source RSS and social media feed reader, inspired by TweetDeck. FeedDeck allows you to follow your favorite feeds in one place on all platforms.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad
    • Flathub
    • Flatpak
     
  7. 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.

    58 NewsFlash alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Snapcraft
    • Flathub
    • GNOME
     
  8. Nextcloud News icon
     16 likes

    The News app is an extension to Nextcloud. Essentially it is an RSS/Atom feed aggregator and offers a RESTful API for app developers. There are several clients, also for mobile devices.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android
    • Self-Hosted
    • F-Droid
    • Nextcloud
    • Android Tablet
     
  9. Readrop icon
     4 likes

    Readrops is a multi-services RSS client for Android.

    Cost / License

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    Platforms

    • Android
    • F-Droid
     
  10. selfoss icon
     47 likes

    selfoss is a multipurpose RSS reader and feed aggregation web application. It allows you to easily follow updates from different websites, social networks and other platforms, all in a single place. It is written in PHP, allowing you to run it basically anywhere.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android
    • Android Tablet
    • Self-Hosted
     
  11. Feeds icon
     3 likes

    Feeds is a desktop RSS reader for Linux. It doesn’t integrate or sync with a cloud-based service, but you can import a list of feeds via an .opml file.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
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