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In order to monitor articles or take ownership for them it's important to get notified onces those articles change.
A fast and reliable RSS provider is necessary to spot changes to owned articles fast and react to it.
Following an article can also be useful to stay on top and informed on changes of a topic.
Luckily, this is easily possible with RSS. [1]
Subscribe to article updates
Add a new article to a slack channel
- Get you RSS feed link by clicking on version history -> Atom -> Copy the link in the address bar. (See picture)
- Go to slack channel you would want to receive RSS updates in. That could be either a shared work group or one of your private watchlist channels.
- Type /feed subscribe + enter your RSS Feed link. [2]
- Click enter.
- Slackbot should confirm your subscription.
Follow individual Users or special pages
You can also subscribe to changes made by individual users e.g. Special:Contributions/Aron or New Pages being created Special:NewPages.
Subscribe to your watchlist
If you want to actively follow updates to your articles without much hassle one workflow could be adding those topics to your Watchlist and subscribing to your Watchlist in one step. (If this does not work on your first attempt reset your watchlist token in your preferences under Special pages:Preferences.)
Alternative RSS Clients
We've tested over 80 RSS News Readers with the purpose of finding the best one.
Our criteria for RSS Clients
- Free to use
- Safe to use in terms of security
- Fast automatic RSS sync
- Push notifications/options for both Desktop (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and Mobile ( Android, iOS)
- Fast and easy to use
- Preferably just one app that is available on all platforms
What we recommend and what we don't
Best App
- Slack's RSS app - best and most universal solution. Add your RSS feed to Slack and recieve RSS updates via messages on Slack. 2 minutes average delay.
Other recommendations
- IFTTT Slack integration - similar to Slack's integration, but with a maximum of 1 hour delay time, making it worse. I have a guide on how to enable Watchlist notifications.
- NewsBlur. Displays content well both on Web and Mobile. IOS and Android app are working well and have notifications. Web notification aren't working for some reason.
- Feedly - Only RSS Feed that offers working Web push notifications ( with an browser extension ). Comes with slower refresh times of up to 4 hours.
- NetNewsWire. Free and open source. Available on IOS and Mac. RSS Feeds can be automatically refreshed every 10 Minutes. Displays content well and has notifications.
Not Recommended
| Tested | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Inoreader | RSS Feed refreshes within in hour but overall slow. No notification unless you pay for it. No visually pleasing display of content. |
| 2 | FeedReader | Can only download on Windows and Linux. Comes with a 2 hour update speed on the free version. |
| 3 | GoodNews | unable to add feeds because of an error. |
| 4 | News reader that comes with the option for RSS Feed, but is more suited for blog posts. | |
| 5 | Newsify | News reader for IOS, MacOS and Web where you can add your own feed. |
| 6 | The Old Reader | only available as a web RSS Reader with no push notifications |
| 7 | Reeder 5 | not free on the App Store ( $5) |
| 8 | zzllrr RSS Reader | no longer supported for newer version of Chrome |
| 9 | Royal RSS Reader | needs to be downloaded, making it harder than most to set up |
| 10 | Winds | used for Podcasts and needs installation |
| 11 | Readon | not available in English |
| 12 | FeedMe | only available for Android |
| 13 | Rolly RSS Reader | only available for Android and hasn't recieved updates since 2019 |
| 14 | News+ | only available for Android |
| 15 | An Otter RSS Reader | notifications only work well after you use the app for some time, making it harder to use out of the box |
| 16 | SwipeNews | only available for Android |
| 17 | Palabre Feedly RSS Reader News | only available for Android |
| 18 | NewsFold | discontinued |
| 19 | Feedbin | only free for the first month, $5 per month after that |
| 20 | irrreader | not available in English |
| 21 | Angelia | not available in English |
| 22 | lire | discountinued |
| 23 | FeedDemon | discontinued in 2013 |
| 24 | AnotherRSS | not available on Google Play Store, making it hard to install |
| 25 | FieryFeeds | can only add feeds by importing an OMPL file or connecting to other services such as Feedly, making it too complicated compared to others |
| 26 | FeedReader | probably discontinued as their website is not longer available |
| 27 | Feedbro | way too technical for a browser extension |
| 28 | RSS Bandit | hasn't been updated in years |
| 29 | Gnome Feeds | only available on Linux |
| 30 | Gnome Feeds | only available on Linux |
| 31 | QuiteRSS | not updated since 2020 |
| 32 | Liferea | only available on Linux |
| 33 | Unread | only available on iOS |
| 34 | Bloglovin' | not available on Google Play and App Store anymore |
| 35 | Fraidycat | doesn't have notifications, only available on Web |
| 36 | News Explorer | 14 days free trial, paid version after the free trial ends |
| 37 | Readkit | doesn't have notifications, only avaliable on MacOS and iOS |
| 38 | Capuccino | discontinued as I don't see it on the App Store anymore |
| 39 | RSS Reader Prime | not available in English |
| 40 | Raven Reader | only available to download on a computer. Always have to keep the app in the sidebar, as closing it kills the app, instead of it running in the background. |
| 41 | Smart RSS Extension | notifications don't work and added feeds don't display any results |
| 42 | Plenary | only available on Android |
| 43 | FeedPop | only a Chrome extension, doesn't have notifications |
| 44 | DEVONthink | only available on MacOS |
| 45 | Sismics Reader | error while trying to download on Windows. Also available on Linux , MacOS and Android |
| 46 | RSSOwlnix | only available for Linux, not updated in 10 months |
| 47 | Vienna | only available for computers |
| 48 | Bluereader | not available in English |
| 49 | RSS Guard | Windows Defender blocked it from downloading |
| 50 | NewsWave | discontinued - unavailable on App Store, the only place where it was launched |
| 51 | Aggregator | only available on Android |
| 52 | NewsFlow | discontinued |
| 53 | Feeds by Felfele | only available on Android and on iOS, where it's in Beta |
| 54 | Ego Reader | error comes up when adding a feed, only available for Mobile |
| 55 | Brief | extension only for Firefox |
| 56 | Fluent Reader | only for MacOS and Windows, costs $5 |
| 57 | Livemarks | an extension only for Firefox |
| 58 | Cube RSS Reader | not available in English |
| 59 | Drop Feeds | only a Firefox extension |
| 60 | Reardrops | only for Android |
| 61 | Newsflash | available only for Android and Linux |
| 62 | Feedmill | not free as it costs $5 |
| 63 | Slick RSS | discontinued in 2014 |
| 64 | RSS Menu | not free as it costs $3 |
| 65 | FeedWrangler | discontinued |
| 66 | Web subscriber | unable to download |
| 67 | baRSS | only available for MacOS |
| 68 | Yarr | available on all except mobile, doesn't have web notifications |
| 69 | FeedIt | website not online anymore |
| 70 | NiceFeed | Android only, discontinued |
| 71 | Flym | discontinued |
| 72 | Homura | discontinued ( not updated in 2 years ) |
| 73 | Dinosaur RSS | Windows Defender blocked it |
| 74 | WebFeed | a Chrome extension that doesn't come with notifications |
| 75 | NewsBite | push notifications only for premium users, which costs $1 per month |
| 76 | Elytra | Only free for 14 days, $1 per month after free trial. Has push notifications. |
| 77 | Elytra | 2 hours refresh time, no push notifications for desktop |
Final Thoughts
- The only option if you want to have the ability to recieve notifications on any device/platform is to use Slack's RSS integration.
- NewsBlur is good for RSS reading and also okay for notifications,but their Web ones aren't working and their mobile app notifications don't give you any information unless you pay a subscription.
- For IOS and MacOS NetNewsWire is a great option, the only downside being that if you force close it ( by swiping up) it won't be able to send push notifications on IOS, making it a must to always have it running in the background.
- Another solution for Web notifications is Feedly's Chrome Extension. Notifications work well for Chrome, but are also available for other browsers.
Other
- Here is a great link where most ( if not all ) RSS apps are listed : https://github.com/AboutRSS/ALL-about-RSS.
- RSS on Discourse: https://meta.discourse.org/t/enabling-rss-feed-on-discourse-setup/55647
- There are Bots that let us integrate RSS Feeds directly into Discord.