Top Free RSS Readersįeedly doesn't need to import your Google Reader feeds with an OMPL or XML file it links directly to your Google account (so get there before July 1, 2013.). Thanks to Jill Duffy for help with this story. It will have to be pretty amazing to take on a service as thorough and ambitious as Feedly but only time, and testing, will tell. Unfortunately it still hasn't launched as of this writing. The one-time powerhouse in social news is under new management and has announced big plans to create a Google Reader clone/replacement/improvement. One major unknown remains that we couldn't cover in this story: Digg. (Most RSS readers can import or export an OPML file, but it's actually just XML, so you may see both extensions used.) Google's default is to send you to Google Takeout (Opens in a new window), a service that lets you download the complete feed in an XML file. If you are a current Google Reader user with a lot of feeds, make sure to back up now. There's also a category of mobile-only apps, especially for tabletsproducts like Flipboard and Zitethat incorporate RSS with their own article choices to get you reading. Many have mobile apps and the best synchronize with mobile so you're never reading the same feed posts twice. All the better to compete with (and now take over for) Google Reader. Turns out most reader options are the latter, providing access anywhere.
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Some are browser extensions like Brief (Opens in a new window) and Bamboo Feed Reader (Opens in a new window) for Firefox, or Slick RSS (Opens in a new window) for Chrome. RSS readers are bountiful even without sync. In fact many companies provide an API for programmers to take advantage of so you can sync apps with their services.
What's a faithful reader of RSS and Atom feeds to do? Find an alternative, of which there are plenty.
But now, citing a decline of usethere are more likely reasons (Opens in a new window)Google has announced that on July 1, 2013, it's shuttering Google Reader forever. Even if you haven't ever visited Google Reader, you've probably had it as the backend for your main RSS reading tool. The service, launched in 2005 by Google Labs, is the primary force in RSS reading almost every piece of desktop software or mobile apps out there syncs with it. When we talk about free RSS news readers, we're usually talking about Google Reader.
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