# Alternatives to Google Reader

Google's beloved RSS reader. Google Reader has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.

None of its 10 checklist rows are verified yet.

Source: https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/google-reader/
Category: RSS readers

## Overview

- **Who it's for**: People who regularly followed many blogs, news sites, and other frequently updated web content and wanted a single place to read it all without visiting each site individually.
- **What you get**: Google Reader aggregated posts from subscribed RSS and Atom feeds into one continuously updated stream. It tracked read/unread status, let users star and share items, organize feeds into folders, and search across subscriptions. Social features let users follow other people's shared items and see friends' activity. It was free and ran entirely in the browser.
- **How it works**: Users subscribed to a site's RSS/Atom feed URL (or searched for feeds within Reader), and new posts from all subscriptions appeared automatically in a unified, sortable list. Google shut the service down on July 1, 2013.

## Profile

- **Status**: discontinued (verified 2026-07-11)

## Ranked alternatives

| # | App | Alt Score | Licence | Platforms |
|---|-----|-----------|---------|-----------|
| 1 | [Feedbin](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/feedbin.md) | building | MIT | Web, iOS |
| 2 | [Feedly](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/feedly.md) | building | Proprietary | Web, iOS, Android |
| 3 | [Folo](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/folo.md) | building | AGPL-3.0 | Web, iOS, Android, Windows |
| 4 | [FreshRSS](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/freshrss.md) | building | AGPL-3.0 | Web |
| 5 | [Inoreader](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/inoreader.md) | building | Proprietary | Web, iOS, Android |
| 6 | [Miniflux](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/miniflux.md) | building | Apache-2.0 | Web, iOS, Android |
| 7 | [NetNewsWire](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/netnewswire.md) | building | MIT | iOS, macOS |
| 8 | [NewsBlur](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/newsblur.md) | building | MIT | Web, iOS, Android, macOS |
| 9 | [Reeder](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/reeder.md) | building | Proprietary | iOS, macOS |
| 10 | [The Old Reader](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/the-old-reader.md) | building | ? | ? |
| 11 | [Tiny Tiny RSS](https://altcatalog.com/alternatives/tiny-tiny-rss.md) | building | GPL-3.0 | Web |

Alt Score = Verified coverage (90%) + Visibility (10%). See https://altcatalog.com/how-alt-score-works/

## Sources

Sources for Google Reader. Each alternative is sourced on its own page.

- **Status**: discontinued — <https://blog.google/company-news/inside-google/company-announcements/a-second-spring-of-cleaning/> (verified 2026-07-11)
  - Quote: “So, on July 1, 2013, we will retire Google Reader.”

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