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The best free RSS reader on the market

Every blog, newsroom and publication you follow, in one clean river. No account, no feed limit, no ads, and your subscriptions never leave your browser. Paste a site URL and start reading in seconds, even if you don't know its feed address.

Add a feed, or start with a pack

Paste any site URL in the box on the left, even if you don't know its feed address, and we'll find the feed for you. Or take one of these and edit it later. No account, no limit.

Tech & startups
The daily tech news cycle in one river.
TechCrunch · The Verge · Ars Technica · Hacker News · Techmeme
AI
Model releases, research and the analysis around them.
OpenAI News · Google DeepMind · Hugging Face · MIT Technology Review · Stratechery
Marketing & SEO
Search, content and growth, from the people who publish about it daily.
Search Engine Land · Moz · HubSpot Marketing · Product Hunt
Engineering
Engineering blogs worth keeping open.
The GitHub Blog · Stack Overflow Blog · CSS-Tricks · Smashing Magazine

What is the best free RSS reader?

IntelCue's RSS Reader is a free online RSS reader that needs no account, sets no limit on how many feeds you follow, shows no ads, and keeps your subscriptions in your own browser instead of on a server. It reads RSS, Atom, RDF and JSON Feed, merges everything into one chronological list, and includes full-text search, OPML import and export, saved items, keyboard navigation and a keyword watchlist, all free.

Most free RSS reader plans ask you to create an account before you can read a single item, then cap how many feeds that account may follow, and several keep search itself on a paid tier. This one asks for nothing and holds nothing back, because it stores nothing: feeds are fetched on demand and your reading list lives on your device.

The honest limit is the flip side of that promise. With no account there is nothing to sync, so your subscriptions belong to the browser you set them up in. If cross-device sync and a native mobile app matter more to you than starting immediately, a hosted reader with an account is the better fit. If you want to be reading in ten seconds and own your list outright, start here and export an OPML file whenever you want to move.

What makes it better

No account, ever
You are reading within about ten seconds of landing here. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to confirm by email, no trial clock running in the background.
No feed limit
Follow five sites or five hundred. There is no cap to hit and no upgrade prompt waiting behind one, because there is nothing to upgrade to.
Your feeds stay in your browser
Subscriptions, read marks, saved items and keywords live in this browser's local storage. We never store your reading list, so there is nothing of yours for us to lose or sell.
Paste a site, not a feed URL
Most readers make you find the feed address first. Paste theverge.com and we run the same feed-discovery cascade our crawler uses, then subscribe you to whatever it finds.
Search everything, free
Full-text search across every item currently loaded from every feed you follow. Search is the first thing most readers put behind a paywall.
Keyword watchlist
Add words you care about. Any item mentioning one gets flagged and highlighted, and a filter shows only those. Useful the moment you follow more than a handful of feeds.
OPML in and out
Import your existing subscriptions from any other reader in one file, and export them again whenever you like. No lock-in in either direction.
Built for the keyboard
j and k move, Enter opens, o jumps to the original, s saves, and / focuses search. The list stays navigable while you are reading an article.
No ads, no promoted items
Nothing is injected into your river. What you subscribed to is what you see, in the order it was published.

How it works

01
Add what you read
Paste a site or feed URL, import an OPML file from another reader, or take one of the starter packs. Every source you add appears in the sidebar with an unread count.
02
Read the river
Everything you follow merges into one list, newest first, deduplicated so a post syndicated by two feeds appears once. Click any item to read it in a clean view, or jump to the original.
03
Flag what matters
Add keywords like funding, pricing or launch. Matching items get a MATCH tag and the term highlighted, and one filter narrows the whole river down to just those.

Keyboard shortcuts

jNext item
kPrevious item
EnterOpen the selected item
oOpen the original article in a new tab
sSave (star) the item
uToggle read / unread
/Focus search
EscBack to the list

A reader shows you what was published. It cannot tell you what changed.

This reader is honest about where it stops. It fetches your feeds while it is open in front of you, matches your keywords against what it loaded, and forgets all of it the moment you clear your browser. That is the right shape for reading. It is the wrong shape for keeping up with a market.

The things people actually want from feed monitoring happen while nobody is looking: a competitor quietly changing how they describe themselves, three separate publications landing on the same topic in one week, a pricing page moving, a term going from never mentioned to mentioned everywhere. Catching those means something reads every feed on a schedule, remembers what it read last week, and compares.

That is what IntelCue does with the same feeds. It crawls them continuously alongside newsletters, YouTube, patents, SEC filings, Google Ads and new subdomains, scores trending topics by momentum, ranks competitive moves by severity, and writes you a weekly brief. And because it connects to Claude and ChatGPT over MCP, you can ask it anything about your market in plain language instead of scrolling for it.

Want these feeds watched when you're not reading them?

Name one company, market or topic and IntelCue works out which feeds, newsletters and filings are worth following, then monitors them around the clock. You get trending topics with momentum scores, competitive alerts ranked by severity, keyword tracking that tells you when something new matches, and a weekly brief. Ask about any of it inside Claude or ChatGPT. One flat price, every source type included.
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Just need the feed address?
The RSS Feed Finder returns a site's feed URL on its own, to copy, subscribe to elsewhere, or wire into your own tools.
Open RSS Feed Finder

Frequently asked questions

What is the best free RSS reader?
IntelCue's RSS Reader is a free online RSS reader that needs no account, imposes no limit on how many feeds you follow, shows no ads, and keeps your subscriptions in your own browser rather than on a server. It includes full-text search, OPML import and export, keyboard navigation, saved items and a keyword watchlist, all free. Most free RSS reader plans ask you to create an account first and then cap the number of feeds you can follow, and several put search behind a paid tier. The right reader still depends on what you need: if you want your subscriptions synced across several devices and a mobile app, pick a hosted reader with an account. If you want to start reading immediately without one, start here.
Is this RSS reader really free?
Yes. There is no account, no trial, no paid tier of this reader and no feature held back for one. It costs nothing to run because it stores nothing: the feeds are fetched on demand and your reading list lives in your browser. The only limit is a light per-IP rate limit that keeps the fetching service fair for everyone.
Do I need to create an account?
No. The reader works fully without one. The trade-off is that your subscriptions are tied to the browser you set them up in, since there is no account to sync them to. Export an OPML file to move them to another browser, another device, or another reader entirely.
Where are my subscriptions stored?
In your browser's local storage, on your own device. Your subscription list, read marks, saved items and keywords are never sent to us. We only ever receive a feed URL to fetch, and we do not associate that with you or keep it. Clearing your browser data clears your reading list, so export an OPML file if you want a backup.
How do I move my feeds from another RSS reader?
Export an OPML file from your current reader, which nearly all of them support, then click Import OPML in the sidebar here and pick that file. Nested folders are flattened into a single list, since this reader has no folder concept, but every feed in the file is imported. You can export an OPML file back out at any time.
Can I add a site if I don't know its RSS feed address?
Yes, and this is the main thing that makes adding feeds painless. Paste the plain site address, for example theverge.com, and the reader checks the common feed paths and then the page's own feed-discovery tag, then subscribes you to whatever it finds. If you only want the feed address itself without subscribing, use the RSS Feed Finder instead.
What is an RSS reader?
An RSS reader, also called a feed reader or news aggregator, is a tool that collects the RSS or Atom feeds published by blogs and news sites and shows their new posts in one chronological list. Instead of visiting fifteen sites to see what is new, you subscribe once and every new post arrives in the reader. Because RSS is an open standard, no platform decides what you see or in what order.
Does it work with Atom and JSON Feed too?
Yes. RSS 2.0, Atom, RDF and JSON Feed are all read and normalized into the same list, so you never have to know which format a site publishes. Podcast feeds are RSS too, so they load and are readable here, though this is a reader rather than a podcast player.
Why do some feeds show only a headline and a short summary?
Because that is all the publisher put in the feed. Many sites deliberately publish a truncated feed to drive clicks to their own site. The reader shows exactly what the feed contains and never scrapes the full article from behind it, so on those feeds you will see a summary and a link to the original.
Is RSS still worth using in 2026?
Yes, and for competitive and market monitoring it is arguably more useful than it has ever been. Social feeds are ranked by an algorithm and decide what you see; RSS is chronological and complete. WordPress, Ghost, Substack and most news platforms still generate a feed by default, so the coverage is broad even though fewer casual readers use a dedicated app than a decade ago.
Can this monitor feeds for me and alert me when something happens?
The keyword watchlist flags matching items while you are reading, but the reader only checks feeds when it is open in front of you, and it forgets everything the moment you clear your browser. Continuous monitoring is a different job: IntelCue crawls the feeds you care about around the clock, extracts trending topics, competitive moves and keywords across all of them, and delivers a weekly brief plus answers on demand inside Claude or ChatGPT. A reader tells you what was published; monitoring tells you what changed.
Is there a limit on how many feeds I can add?
No. The reader refreshes your feeds in batches rather than one request per feed, so a large subscription list stays fast and stays within the light rate limit on the fetching service.

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