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Liferea VS The Old Reader

Compare Liferea VS The Old Reader and see what are their differences

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Liferea (Linux Feed Reader) is an aggregator for online news feeds and weblogs.

The Old Reader logo The Old Reader

Read all your favorite online content in one place. Import your subscriptions in one click, find your friends, and start sharing.
  • Liferea Landing page
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    2022-08-01
  • The Old Reader Landing page
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    2021-07-28

Liferea videos

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How To Use The Liferea RSS Reader On Linux

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  • Review - Reviewing RSS feed readers (Liferea, Blam and Feedly) - RSS Reader Rumble
  • Review - Liferea : Best RSS Feed Reader ( Aggregator) For Linux Mint / Ubuntu

The Old Reader videos

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How to use The Old Reader

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Liferea and The Old Reader)

Liferea

The Old Reader

RSS Reader
27 27%
RSS Reader
73% 73
RSS
26 26%
RSS
74% 74
Insight Management
26 26%
Insight Management
74% 74
News & Books
42 42%
News & Books
58% 58

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Reviews

These are some of the external sources and on-site user reviews we've used to compare Liferea and The Old Reader

Liferea Reviews

19 Best Feedly Alternatives To Track Insights Across The Web
Liferea makes it easy to organize and browse feeds on the go without any hassle. Also, it lets you read articles even offline, so it will be a better option if you want to enjoy reading without the Internet.
Source: technicalustad.com

The Old Reader Reviews

19 Best Feedly Alternatives To Track Insights Across The Web
The Old Reader The Old Reader is an RSS reader that is designed to be simple and easy to use. It offers a minimalist interface, and allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds and import your subscriptions from other readers. Web
Source: technicalustad.com
17 Best RSS Feed Reader And News Aggregation Apps
If you’re tired of using RSS apps in isolation and want to share content with your friends, then The Old Reader is the app for you.
Source: blog.contentstudio.io
Best Feedly Alternatives to always Keep in Handy!
If you and your friends all like reading the same types of content, The Old Reader is an easy way to share your recommendations with each other. Following people on The Old Reader is again a great medium to find new blogs, news sites, and content channels to follow.
Source: blog.elink.io
Top 6 Free Online RSS Readers
The Old Reader is another great reader that has a slick and minimal look. It's free to use for up to 100 RSS feeds, and if you decide to connect your Facebook or Google account, you can see if any of your friends are using it too so you can follow them.
Source: www.lifewire.com
The 10 Best Free RSS Reader Apps
This is a great way to discover new blogs, sites, and channels to follow—as well as share your favorites with your friends. And even if you don't have any friends using The Old Reader to connect with, you can check out the content in its "Trending" tab to see a list of the pieces that have received the most recent likes from other people who use The Old Reader.
Source: zapier.com

Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, The Old Reader seems to be a lot more popular than Liferea. While we know about 34 links to The Old Reader, we've tracked only 2 mentions of Liferea. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Liferea mentions (2)

  • How I fixed the feed on my website
    This is what the feed overview looks like now in Liferea reader:. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago
  • Switching Diary MacOS -> Linux (day5) The first big problem (fixed), RSS and TVs
    One of my favorite programs on mac was the RSS client (reeder), after some searching I found a better one on Mint . Liferea, not only is free and supports opml imports/exports (so you can import the reeder's config right away) but it also has a basic support for podcasts. Source: over 2 years ago

The Old Reader mentions (34)

  • Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds
    I haven't used it in a while but https://theoldreader.com/ seemed like a fairly drop-in replacement for Google Reader. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago
  • RSS is still pretty great
    Https://theoldreader.com/ Just toss in a site you like, it'll (try to) find the RSS feed, and you're done. I have about 50 sites added in the old reader, and it makes following them easy. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
  • The future of /r/videos.
    Perhaps. I fired up my ancient Old Reader account last night and started adding some feeds I'm interested in. Pretty hilarious looking back at the ones I had like 10 years ago (99% of were dead). Source: 11 months ago
  • NPR quits Twitter after being labeled as 'state-affiliated media'
    Https://theoldreader.com is an exact clone. Source: about 1 year ago
  • Canberra events RSS feed?
    Blurgh. Sorry, I didn't try it out, just saw that it looked something like RSS. The other problem with RSS is people don't make sure it is still working on their sites :) Maybe there is a reader that can filter to only show the what's on entries from the main feed? You could definitely do it with a bash script or similar. I just use https://theoldreader.com in a very simple way. There might be a more powerful... Source: about 1 year ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Liferea and The Old Reader, you can also consider the following products

Tiny Tiny RSS - Web-based news feed aggregator, designed to allow you to read news from any location, while feeling...

Feedly - The content you need to accelerate your research, marketing, and sales.

Inoreader - Dive into your favorite content. The content reader for power users who want to save time.

NewsBlur - NewsBlur is a personal news reader that brings people together to talk about the world.

QuiteRSS - Cross-platform RSS/Atom news feed reader written using Qt.

Reeder - Reeder is an RSS reader and client for multiple services.

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