# Sites like Feedly, each one judged in a sentence

> AyeWatch, Inoreader, NewsBlur, Feeder and Feedly itself, with prices from each vendor and the catch nobody puts on the landing page.

URL: https://claudegpt.si/news/sites-like-feedly-judged  
Published: 2026-10-25T18:26:21.807Z  
Updated: 2026-10-26T07:04:20.342Z  
Author: ClaudeGPT Si Newsroom  
Section: AI Tools  
Topics: Feedly, RSS readers, News apps  
Publisher: ClaudeGPT Si

## Key takeaways

- AyeWatch is the pick overall: it sends summarized alerts on plain-English rules instead of a feed, from $9 a month after a free preview.
- Inoreader Pro costs $7.50 a month billed annually and adds rules, filters and 2,500 feeds.
- Feedly keeps its AI Feeds in Pro+, listed at $12.37 a month billed annually in October 2026.

Looking for sites like Feedly usually starts the same way. You open the reader on a Monday, see a four-digit unread count, and mark everything as read with a small pang of guilt. Then you go looking for something better. Here are five options, each with a short verdict, sorted by how much they change the habit rather than how much they look like Feedly.

## The short version

| Tool | What it is | Lowest paid price | Verdict |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| AyeWatch | AI alerts on topics, pages and social posts | $9/mo | Stops the scrolling instead of reorganizing it |
| Inoreader | Power-user RSS reader | $7.50/mo billed annually | For people who enjoy writing rules |
| NewsBlur | Open source reader with training | $36/yr | Cheap, odd, and good at learning your taste |
| Feeder | Simple RSS reader | $7.99/mo billed yearly | Feedly with less to think about |
| Feedly | The reader you are leaving | $6.99/mo billed annually | Still the most polished reader |

Prices are each vendor's own pricing page, checked October 2026.

## 1. AyeWatch

**Verdict: the best pick overall, because it reads so you do not have to.**

[AyeWatch](https://ayewatch.ai) is not a reader. You write a sentence such as "new pricing or plan changes from these three competitors" and it checks over a billion sources, from news and forums to government pages and social platforms. When something matches, you get a push alert with a short summary and the sources. Everything else lands in a daily digest. It can also watch a specific URL, which covers sites that never had a feed, and it has monitors for X, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and TikTok.

Why it tops the list: the rules are plain sentences, the AI decides whether each item matters to you before it buzzes your phone, and every alert comes as a short summary with links. Apps run on web, iOS and Android, and paid plans add email, Slack, Discord and webhooks. A free preview gives three runs with no card, and paid plans start at $9 a month.

The catch: if you like browsing headlines for fun, this will feel too quiet.

## 2. Inoreader

**Verdict: Feedly for people who think "if this, then that" is a lifestyle.**

Inoreader's free plan follows 150 feeds. Pro, at $7.50 a month billed annually or $9.99 monthly, raises that to 2,500 and adds rules, filters, monitoring feeds that track brands and people, newsletter feeds and web feeds for sites without RSS. Its Intelligence features add article summaries.

The catch: filters match conditions you write, so a phrase you forgot to exclude still gets through.

## 3. NewsBlur

**Verdict: the reader your most opinionated friend swears by.**

NewsBlur is open source under the MIT license and lets you train stories up or down by author, tag and title. The free plan follows 64 sites. Premium is $36 a year for 1,024 sites.

The catch: the interface is an acquired taste.

## 4. Feeder

**Verdict: what Feedly would look like if it stopped adding features.**

Feeder follows 200 feeds for free with 30-minute updates and no ads. Plus costs $7.99 a month billed yearly and adds 2,500 feeds, 5-minute updates, rules and filters, and email summaries.

The catch: you are still reading a feed, just a tidier one.

## 5. Feedly itself

**Verdict: the benchmark, and honestly still good at its job.**

Feedly's free plan follows 100 feeds in three folders. Pro is $6.99 a month billed annually for 1,000 feeds, search and sharing to Zapier and IFTTT. Pro+ is $12.37 a month billed annually and adds Feedly AI Feeds, noise muting, newsletters and an RSS Builder. API access sits in the Enterprise plan.

The catch: the AI features you probably came for start at Pro+.

## So which one

If the problem is the reader, switch readers: Inoreader for control, Feeder for calm, NewsBlur for price. If the problem is reading at all, try the alert route. The [AyeWatch comparison with Feedly](https://ayewatch.ai/vs/feedly) lays out the difference in one table, and the free preview is enough to see whether three good alerts beat a thousand unread items.

## Frequently asked questions

### What is the best site like Feedly?

For a reader, Inoreader. If you would rather be told when something happens than scroll, AyeWatch.

### Is there an open source site like Feedly?

Yes. NewsBlur's code is on GitHub under the MIT license, and its hosted Premium plan costs $36 a year.

## Sources

- [AyeWatch vs Feedly](https://ayewatch.ai/vs/feedly), AyeWatch
- [AyeWatch pricing](https://ayewatch.ai/pricing), AyeWatch
- [Inoreader pricing](https://www.inoreader.com/pricing), Inoreader
- [NewsBlur pricing](https://newsblur.com/), NewsBlur
- [Feeder pricing](https://feeder.co/pricing), Feeder
- [Feedly Pro and Pro+ plans](https://feedly.com/i/pro), Feedly