# An alternative to Inoreader: turn your rules into monitors > Five steps to move from feed folders and keyword rules to plain-English topics that alert you, with no export file needed. URL: https://claudegpt.si/news/alternative-to-inoreader-rules-into-monitors Published: 2026-10-25T18:43:54.707Z Updated: 2026-10-26T07:05:27.728Z Author: ClaudeGPT Si Newsroom Section: Guides Topics: Inoreader, RSS readers, Switching guide Publisher: ClaudeGPT Si ## Key takeaways - Moving from Inoreader to AyeWatch means rewriting what each folder or rule was for as a plain-English topic; nothing is exported. - Webpage monitors replace Inoreader's web feeds for sites without RSS, and social monitors cover X, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok. - AyeWatch paid plans start at $9 a month and add email, Slack, Discord and webhooks; Inoreader Pro is $7.50 a month billed annually. If you want an alternative to Inoreader because the rules and filters have become their own maintenance job, the switch to AyeWatch takes one sitting and no export file. You do not move feeds across. You write down what you were trying to catch with those feeds, and AyeWatch watches the web for it and sends an alert when something matches. This guide walks through that move step by step. ## Before you start: what changes Inoreader is a reader. You subscribe to sources, items land in folders, and rules or filters sort them. On the Pro plan you get 30 rules, 50 filters and 30 monitoring feeds that track people, brands or trends by condition. AyeWatch is a monitor. Each topic is a sentence in plain English, and AI reads new items from news sites, forums, blogs, social platforms and pages you add, then judges whether each one fits the meaning of that sentence. When it does, you get a short summary with links to the sources. There is no unread count, because you never see the items that did not match. That difference decides the whole migration: you are converting intentions, not subscriptions. ## Step 1: list what you actually open Inoreader for Open your folder list and your rules, and for each one write a single line answering "what am I hoping to see here?" Typical answers look like this: - "Any new guidance from the EU on the AI Act" - "Price changes on two competitor pricing pages" - "Reddit threads where people complain about our install process" - "Release notes from three open source projects we depend on" Folders that you read for pleasure, with no question behind them, can stay in a reader. AyeWatch will not show you every post from a blog, and it is not meant to. ## Step 2: turn each line into a monitor In AyeWatch, create a monitor for each line. There are three kinds: 1. **Internet topic.** Paste the sentence and add the conditions you care about, for example "official guidance, fines or deadlines only, skip opinion pieces." This replaces a monitoring feed plus the filters you stacked on top of it. 2. **Webpage.** Paste a URL and describe the change that matters, such as "the Team plan price changes." This covers sites with no RSS at all, which in Inoreader needed a web feed on the Pro plan. 3. **Social.** Pick X, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram or TikTok and add a plain-English filter. Only matching posts come through. Exclusions are written as sentences too. Instead of a filter with ten negative keywords, write "ignore job ads and sponsored posts." ## Step 3: choose how often each topic is checked Every monitor gets an interval. On paid plans, Auto checks a topic more often while it is busy and less often when it goes quiet, which suits most news topics. If you prefer to decide, set a custom interval per topic. A regulator's guidance page might only need a look once a week, while a competitor's launch rumours deserve closer attention. ## Step 4: pick where alerts go Every plan, including the free preview, puts alerts in your feed and sends push notifications to the iOS and Android apps. Paid plans add email alerts, a daily digest by email, Slack, Discord, signed webhooks and the REST API. You choose channels per topic, so a competitor price change can go to a team Slack channel while a hobby topic stays on your phone. The daily digest is the closest thing to opening your reader in the morning: one dated briefing that collects the day's matches. ## Step 5: run both for a week Keep Inoreader open for a week while the monitors run. Compare what each one surfaced. If AyeWatch catches the items you cared about and you stop opening the folders, cancel. If a folder still earns a daily visit, keep it in a reader. ## What it costs You can try [AyeWatch](https://ayewatch.ai) with a Free Preview of three runs, no card needed. Paid plans start at $9 a month, as listed on the [AyeWatch pricing page](https://ayewatch.ai/pricing) in October 2026, with weekly, monthly or annual billing and no cancellation fees. If you cancel, you return to the Free Preview and keep your topics and history. For comparison, Inoreader Pro is $7.50 a month billed annually or $9.99 monthly, so the move costs about the same while the filtering work shifts from you to the monitor. ## When to stay on Inoreader If you like reading a full inbox of articles from sources you chose, Inoreader does that better. It has room for thousands of feeds on Pro, offline reading and text-to-speech. AyeWatch is not an RSS client and cannot import your OPML file. ## Common questions **Do I need to export anything from Inoreader?** No. You rewrite each topic as a sentence; nothing is imported. **Can AyeWatch watch a site that has no feed?** Yes. Add the URL as a webpage monitor with a rule about the change you want. ## Frequently asked questions ### Can AyeWatch import my Inoreader OPML file? No. AyeWatch does not use feeds. You describe each topic in plain English and add important pages as webpage monitors. ### Which Inoreader features does AyeWatch replace? Monitoring feeds, rules, filters and web feeds. It does not replace reading every article from a feed list. ### Is there a free way to try it? Yes. The Free Preview gives three runs with no card, enough to test a few topics. ## Sources - [AyeWatch pricing](https://ayewatch.ai/pricing), AyeWatch - [AyeWatch features and FAQ](https://ayewatch.ai/), AyeWatch - [Inoreader pricing](https://www.inoreader.com/pricing), Inoreader - [6 Best Inoreader Alternatives in 2026](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/inoreader-alternative), AyeWatch