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If you are going looking for alternatives to Google News you are in the right place! To be able to find one alternative to Google News but we must first take a step back.
Google News is a news aggregator, in some countries such as France and Belgium, but also Italy, service it is not always well received by publishers (and, in our opinion, rightly so).
In this article, however, we don't want to talk to you about real ones alternatives to Google News because there are no truly reliable, ethical and safe ones. One of the most similar to Google News for example is Flipboard but theirs privacy policy but it is not at all exciting and time ago they also had a password and token leak.
In case you are looking for alternatives similar to the "News" you find on Google, and not to the Google News app real, you can try to take a look at alternatives to Google Search. Almost all of them have it “News” section beyond Web and Images.
What alternatives to Google News?
We don't trust it very much and for this reason we will not recommend it to you. So today we want to give you a suggestion.
We want to go to the rediscovery of feeds RSS. RSS it is the most famous format for distributing web content. Almost all sites have feeds RSS free to read and use (we too). With them RSS you can follow all the sites you want without them knowing. There are no followers, there is no clickbait there are no likes and comments. There aren't even algorithms that choose and decide for you what you should read. There's you and the news from the sites you choose.
So this is meant to be an article about comparing some aggregators RSS, where you can have it in just one application all the news from the sites you want. We will also talk about it later but using sites like FetchRSS you can even use aggregators RSS For read posts on Facebook pages you hate any other social network!
But how do I recover them RSS of some sites?
As said theRSS usually it should be exposed but sometimes it is present even if wisely hidden. For example some very famous sites like Reddit, YouTube, Medium, Pinterest and many others have a RSS but it is well hidden. On this site 1 find a way to recover theRSS on many famous sites.
If you are interested in this type of alternatives you can take a look at our section alternatives to Google to our section Beyond Google.
Telegram
Before starting the tour with the aggregators of RSS we give you the last useful tip: i Telegram channels. On Telegram in fact it is possible to find generalist information channels such as Breaking news. Or you could search for your favorite channels and follow them. Telegram It's not perfect but it's a good compromise nowadays.
Brave Today
It was recently announced Brave Today, a privacy-friendly news reader integrated into the Browsers Brave. It is a brand new project that offers the possibility of adding news sites to your personal feed. One of them is used Private CDN totally anonymous and nothing of ours is passed on to our partners. An interesting one alternative to Google News.
Alternatives with cloud synchronization
Newsblur
Open source
also available for Apple
synchronization between devices
Newsblur is an app Open source. It's free but you have to pay 36$ per year you can have some interesting features premium such as feed update speed, search and RSS unlimited. For 99$ However, the Premium Archive subscription is available which also allows you to archive all the stories collected forever, without limits. After trying many, this is the one that has us satisfied more even if aesthetically it is perhaps the least pleasant and captivating. On a technical side however, in our opinion, it is perfect.
A great alternative to Google News, not only news, but also Twitter and YouTube!
On Newsblur you can add, as well as a any site equipped with RSS, Also Twitter account (you could add ours!), you can add any Youtube channel so as to be notified when a new video arrives without being subscribed to the channel (and watch it directly from the app!). You can save the stories that interest you most. Plus if you create an account on FetchRSS you can also have feeds of yours Facebook pages favorite. In short, if you use the RSS you could really do without everything else! Here you can see one demo of how you might see the news of The Verge, for example.
You can create an account and synchronize it across all the devices you use. You can read it away desktop, on Android (also from F-Droid) come on iOS.
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Graphically it is not very attractive and requires a fee (although 36$ per year is very little for this type of app in our opinion).
Feedbin
Open source
also available for Apple
synchronization between devices
It's software Open source and very interesting free that can also be installed independently on your own server. If you use the paid version (5$ per month or 50$ per year) you can take advantage of their server. It is one of the most interesting alternatives because it is designed to be as privacy-friendly as possible 2.
There is none on their site tracer, also if used Feedbin Street Browsers you will enjoy some advantages such as the possibility of avoiding connection to third parties as the articles and images are bypassed from them. Even if you decide to read the entire article and not just the extract (there is a button specifically for this) you will not give any "click" to the site in question nor will the site know that you have visited it.
Feedbin it is meant to be used primarily away Browsers, even from smartphones. For iOS, however, there is their official application while on Android you can use third-party applications (which however will not give you the protection we talked about above).
Last thing: the servers, unfortunately, are in the United States.
• • • •FreshRSS
Open source
synchronization between devices
Another solution Open source and very simple to self-host even independently. It is one of the best feed readers RSS and has existed since more than 10 years.
It is also possible to use, even for free, pre-configured servers from other people including one managed by Devol.
• • •CommaFeed
Open source
synchronization between devices
Every time we repost this article we always get nice surprises. Here thanks to a your suggestion on Twitter we also recommend using CommaFeed, an aggregator RSS completely free and synchronized via the web and also via application Android. Very simple but works well. If you like it, remember to to donate something!
• • •Inoreader
also available for Apple
synchronization between devices
Another aggregator RSS it is very interesting Inoreader. Unfortunately it is not Open source like the previous ones, but it is graphically very nice and theirs privacy policy she's not evil. They also allow you to have the RSS Twitter And Facebook with an account Premium but it costs money €49.99 per year. In its Premium version it also has many other functions such asintegration with IFTTT, the translation of articles and so on. Self Newsblur has not convinced you, you could try this service even if Not And Open source. The RSS they will be synchronized with your account and you can read them online, at Android or up iOS.
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It is not Open source and it's a little more expensive than Newsblur.
NetNewsWire
available only for Apple
synchronization between devices
A good alternative Open source for Apple users. NetNewsWire it is completely free, has beautiful graphics and also offers synchronization between various devices.
• • •Feedly
also available for Apple
synchronization between devices
It is perhaps thealternative to Google News more professional and the most appreciated aggregator RSS (it has over 300 thousand downloads on the Play Store). Graphically it looks very good and its functions are really advanced. Unfortunately it is not Open source and to have many of its functions such as greater speed and being able to follow Twitter profiles or Youtube one is needed annual membership of around €100. In our opinion, this figure is a bit excessive. You can read them RSS is via the web, what about Android or iOS.
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It is not Open source and excessive price.
Readers RSS only locally, without cloud synchronization
Feeder
Open source
Let's go back to the applications Open source with Feeders, the developers of this app are very active and there are often updates. AND nice graphically And does not require any registration to be used. Precisely for this reason, however, you will not be able to synchronize it with anything. It is very useful if you plan to follow the RSS only on yours Android without any kind of Trackers And very few permissions. You can only find it on F-Droid.
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It cannot be read via the web and it cannot synchronize an account.
Flym News Reader
Open source
Attention because it seems like Flym could be no longer be updated. Try it too Handy News Reader, a Fork Of Flym.
Flym is undoubtedly a good application for aggregating RSS. AND Open source, has nice graphics and can be installed on Android via Play Store or via F-Droid. Self you don't need to synchronize them RSS (for example to read them both on the PC and on the smartphone) this is probably the best app you can find. No registrations are needed nor anything else. Simple, fast and free. However, we are not aware that you can follow Twitter and Youtube profiles like with Newsblur.
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There is no web player and you can't sync with an account.
Miniflux
Open source
You suggested us both on Twitter what up Telegram this reader of RSS minimalist. We are happy to include it also because it is possible to either self-host it, i.e. put it on your own server, or use a paid version (15$ per year). It is very nice and you can also test it before possibly buying it this address. The hosted version is totally privacy friendly, obviously.
• •Nunti
Open source
A good alternative available only on F-Droid that you advised us on Lemmy. He's a reader RSS local, you cannot therefore share it with computers or other smartphones. It is also interesting because it allows you to evaluate the articles and after having them reviewed 50 will change the order in which they are shown to you.
• •Thud
Open source
It's an alternative that existed reported on Telegram with truly fascinating graphics. Aesthetically it is in fact perhaps the most pleasant and modern of all. However, it is really a very simple application with few options: it doesn't even seem possible to import your own feeds, for example. It's also at version 1.0 so it has plenty of time to update and improve. AND Open source 3 and it is found on Play Store come on F-Droid through IzzyOnDroid.
• • • •Conclusions
We finished ours alternatives to Google News, although in reality as you can see it is more of a suggestion on how to succeed follow the news without being followed And without algorithms that decide for us. We hope you liked these alternatives, if you want you can leave your comment below.
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