The content is sometimes described as being pulled to the subscriber, as opposed to pushed with email or IM. Once subscribed to a feed, an aggregator is able to check for new content at user-determined intervals and retrieve the update. Aggregators reduce the time and effort needed to regularly check websites for updates, creating a unique information space or personal newspaper. Aggregation technology helps to consolidate many websites into one page that can show only the new or updated information from many sites. I've only tried a few readers on iOS and compared to the experience of FeedMe on Android, they're all equally dreadful so no strong recommendation there.Visiting many separate websites frequently to find out if the content on the site has been updated can take a long time. I'd add that I love their subscription management system and they provide you with an email address that lets you subscribe to newsletters that show up just like another feed - an awesome feature.įor a reader to access any of the services (on Android), my 100% recommendation is FeedMe, there's nothing even close. I chose FeedBin to subscribe to and have been nothing but happy. Easy to contact and instant and detailed responses. The smallest development team (one person) but by a wide margin, the best. Like Feedly, not an easy team to contact or communicate with.įeedBin - was able to read 200 of 200 feeds (and since my testing, I've yet to find a feed it can't immediately read). Innoreader - was able to read 198 of 200 feeds. My least favourite development team not responsive or easy to communicate with. Tied for the worst UI, but still not bad. I'd rate the developers as #2 on the list responsive and nice to deal with.įeedly - was able to read 194 of 200 feeds. The worst of the bunch which is a shame because the UI is actually the runaway winner. The Old Reader - was able to read 192 of 200 feeds.
The most important thing to me was being able to add any feed I wanted. I never looked deeply into why certain services couldn't read certain feeds, it was just a struggle that I knew existed. I then loaded the feeds (in two different phases) into each service and examined how many of the feeds could actually be read. When I had to pick which to go pro with, I created 2 opml files with 100 random feeds from all-different sources. I have accounts on the 4 big aggregators (I'd argue that "reader" refers to something different).
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