Readers leave Inoreader when the free tier's 150-subscription ceiling pinches, when a monthly bill for rules and monitoring feeds feels heavy for plain reading, or when they would rather keep their subscriptions on a server they control. Moves go towards a simpler paid reader, a self-hosted one, or a local app that can still sync.
Short answer: Feeder, Feedbin and NewsBlur head the list of Inoreader alternatives drawn from our RSS readers ranking. Places 1 to 3 go to challengers, vendors outside the best-known brands in a category, wherever the category has them; the established names follow from place 4 in their ranked order. Feeder is the one to try if you track work sources and want a Swedish company behind the reader. The 11 entries that follow are all ranked in Best RSS Readers in 2026; each one explains what sets it apart from Inoreader.
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Pricing: Free plan with feed cap; Pro published monthly or yearly; Enterprise quoted; 15-day trial
Established in: Not stated by the vendor
Built for: Readers who automate sorting with rules and filters and will pay monthly
Not for: People who dislike limits on rules, filters and boosted feeds
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Why buyers look past Inoreader
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The free tier stops at 150 subscriptions
Inoreader's pricing page caps the free plan at 150 RSS subscriptions. Rules, filters, monitoring feeds, newsletter feeds and social feeds sit in the paid plans, so anyone who follows more sources or wants automation has to subscribe.
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Pro prices are tied to feature counts
Pro costs EUR 6.67 a month billed annually or EUR 8.99 billed monthly, and the page lists separate limits: 30 rules, 50 filters, 20 web feeds, 20 newsletter feeds and 100 boosted feeds. Needing more of one item means asking for a limit increase or requesting a Custom quote, which carries no public price.
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Company details are thin
The footer names Innologica Ltd and no country, and the homepage links a developer portal without describing its terms. People who weigh jurisdiction, or who want a reader whose code they can inspect, therefore look at open source and self-hosted options.
you want the lightest possible self-hosted reader with a permissive licence
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What each one does differently
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Feeder
Sweden · Published
Feeder is operated by Really Simple i Stockholm AB, so you can name the company behind it. The free tier covers up to 200 feeds, which is more than Inoreader's free 150. Keyword alerts, AI summaries and folders that a team can share are listed, with web, iPhone and Android apps. Paid prices were not on the page we read.
Switch from Inoreader if you track work sources and want a Swedish company behind the reader.
Feedbin sells one plan with every feature included, at 7 dollars a month or 70 dollars a year, after a 30-day trial that asks for no card. That removes the tier arithmetic Inoreader's Pro limits create. The about page says feeds have been delivered since 2013. We saw no self-hosted edition and no stated caps.
Switch from Inoreader if you would rather pay one flat price than track plan limits.
NewsBlur counts sites rather than rules: the free plan follows 64, Premium at 36 dollars a year raises it to 1,024, and Premium Archive at 99 dollars a year to 4,096 with Ask AI. Premium Pro at 29 dollars a month reaches 10,000 sites on fast fetch intervals. A Docker self-hosting route and a 30-day premium trial are also listed.
Switch from Inoreader if you follow many sites and want a yearly price with a self-hosting escape route.
Miniflux comes from a single named developer, Frederic Guillot, and its code is open source under Apache 2.0. You can install a static binary, a Linux package or a Docker image, or take the paid hosted instance with a 15-day trial. It strips tracking pixels and can fetch full article text. No sharing features are listed.
Switch from Inoreader if you want a minimal, auditable reader and are happy without team features.
FreshRSS is code you download from GitHub and run yourself under the AGPL 3 licence. Its page cites OPML import, WebSub push updates, feeds generated by scraping pages, saved searches and a collection of extensions, with claims of over a million articles and 50,000 feeds. Phones are served through third-party apps, which takes some setup.
Switch from Inoreader if you want to own the server and replace paid filters with extensions.
Fluent Reader is a desktop app that keeps its data on your machine and says it collects no personal information. It can sync with Inoreader, Feedbin or any Fever or Google Reader API service, so it works as a gentler first step. Rules accept regular expressions, and summary-only feeds open in full through Mercury Parser.
Switch from Inoreader if you want a local desktop client that can still talk to your current account.
NetNewsWire costs nothing to download and has its source code on GitHub, though the page names no licence. It runs on Mac, iPhone and iPad only, and the current versions ask for macOS 15 or iOS 26 and newer, which excludes older devices. Copyright runs 2002 to 2026 under Brent Simmons. It has no hosted team features.
Switch from Inoreader if you live on Apple devices and want a free app without a subscription.
Unread, from Golden Hill Software, is an Apple-only reader where type and colour themes come first, each with light and dark variants. The app is free, with Unread Premium as a subscription whose price we could not see. Unread Cloud syncs at no charge, and it can fetch complete articles for summary-only feeds and sign in to paywalled sites.
Switch from Inoreader if you read on iPhone or iPad and care about typography.
CommaFeed is modelled on Google Reader and written with Quarkus and React under Apache-2.0. A free public instance exists, and you can self-host from Docker, a native or JVM package or source. It supports OPML, a REST API, and the Fever and Google Reader APIs, which lets mobile apps connect. Its homepage showed only a title when we checked.
Switch from Inoreader if you want a Google Reader style layout that mobile clients can reach.
Folo markets itself as an AI RSS reader built around summaries and filtering. A free Basic tier sits under Plus at 49 dollars a year, with 1K subscriptions and 30 AI summaries a day, and Pro at 999 dollars a year with 5K subscriptions and unlimited summaries. The step from Plus to Pro is large, and the footer names no company.
Switch from Inoreader if AI summaries matter to you and Plus limits cover your list.
Yarr is a feed aggregator shipped as a single binary with no dependencies, usable as a desktop app or on a server, on Windows, macOS and Linux. Data lives in SQLite or Postgres, and the licence is MIT. The repository belongs to the GitHub user nkanaev, and no hosted plan is listed, so you manage it yourself.
Switch from Inoreader if you want the lightest possible self-hosted reader with a permissive licence.
Feeder: Really Simple i Stockholm AB operates it, and the free tier allows up to 200 feeds.
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You would rather pay one flat price
Feedbin: One plan costs 7 dollars a month or 70 a year after a 30-day trial without a card.
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You want to run the reader on your own server
Miniflux: It is Apache 2.0 code installed from a binary, package or Docker image, with a paid hosted instance if you change your mind.
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You want to change the app before the account
Fluent Reader: It syncs with Inoreader, Feedbin or Fever services and keeps its data locally.
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You read on Apple devices and want no subscription
NetNewsWire: It is free to download for Mac, iPhone and iPad, needing macOS 15 or iOS 26 and newer.
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When Inoreader is still the right choice
Inoreader stays sensible if rules, filters, newsletter subscriptions and monitoring feeds are the reason you picked it. Pro bundles those with an hourly guaranteed refresh, API access, email digests and automatic OPML backups, and the page offers a full refund within 7 days. If your list is under 150 sources and you want no automation, the free plan may already be enough.
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What moving off Inoreader involves
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Export your subscriptions as OPML first
Every reader on this page imports OPML, which carries folders and feed addresses but not your read state or starred items. Download the file before cancelling, since Inoreader's own page lists automatic OPML backups only under Pro.
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Rules and filters have to be rebuilt
Inoreader's 30 rules and 50 filters do not transfer. Print them out and recreate what you still need as extensions, regular-expression rules or keyword alerts in the new reader, and expect some of them to have no equivalent.
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Questions about replacing Inoreader
6 answers
How many feeds does Inoreader's free plan allow?
The pricing page we read states 150 RSS subscriptions on the free plan and 2,500 on Pro. Rules, filters and monitoring feeds are listed under the paid plans.
What does Inoreader Pro cost?
The page shows EUR 6.67 a month billed annually, or EUR 8.99 billed monthly. European buyers pay VAT by country, and businesses with a valid VAT number can buy without it outside Bulgaria.
Which readers can I host myself?
Miniflux, FreshRSS, CommaFeed, Yarr and Tiny Tiny RSS are all open source and run on your own server. NewsBlur also lists Docker self-hosting. Expect to handle updates and backups yourself.
Is there a one-price hosted alternative?
Feedbin sells a single plan at 7 dollars a month or 70 dollars a year, with a 30-day trial and no tiers on the page.
Can I keep my Inoreader account and change the app?
Fluent Reader syncs with Inoreader, Feedbin or Fever and Google Reader API services, so you can switch the client first and the account later.
Which choices suit Apple devices?
NetNewsWire and Unread are Apple-only apps and Vienna is Mac-only. NetNewsWire is free to download, and Unread Cloud syncs for free.
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Checked 7 November 2026
Inoreader pricing: Free 150 subscriptions, Pro 2,500, EUR 6.67 annual and EUR 8.99 monthly, rule and filter limits, Custom quote, 7-day refund, VAT.
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Checked and edited by Sebastiaan Smits, last on 7 November 2026. The editorial process explains the method.
