Instapaper
instapaper.com
Saves an article for later and strips it down to just the text
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feedly.com
Collects the sites you follow into one reverse-chronological list you control.
An RSS reader that took over when Google Reader closed: subscribe to blogs, news sites, YouTube channels and journals, sort them into folders, and read the lot without an algorithm choosing the order. Import and export are via OPML, so your subscription list is portable if you leave. It is the most polished of the hosted readers and also the most aggressive about upselling its AI research features.
Questions
A genuinely usable free tier with paid plans for volume or team features. The free plan stops at 100 sources and three folders, with no search across your own feed and no integrations.
Yes. Feedly sends your input to its own servers to process it. That is fine for public material; for anything containing personal data, use one of the on-device tools instead.
The free plan stops at 100 sources and three folders, with no search across your own feed and no integrations.
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