Disclosure: Hushread is my app. I’ve tried to be fair, and I say where the others are the better choice.
The best Feedbin alternatives are Inoreader if you want a free plan (150 feeds), NewsBlur at $36 a year or BazQux at $30 if you want to pay less, Miniflux ($15 a year hosted) or FreshRSS if you’d rather run it yourself, and NetNewsWire if what you really want is a free app. Before you switch, check two things: Feedbin costs $59.99 a year through its iPhone app, $10 less than on its website, and you can keep your Feedbin account and only change the app you read it in.
What Feedbin costs, and what you’d be replacing
Feedbin has “One plan. Everything included.” with “no tiers and no add-ons”: $70 a year or $7 a month, after a free 30-day trial with no credit card (Feedbin pricing). There is no free plan.
Feedbin’s pricing page, 17 October 2026, prices in US dollars. Source: feedbin.com
The US App Store lists the same subscription as in-app purchases at $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year (App Store). If price is your only reason to leave and you have an iPhone, subscribe in the app.
Feedbin’s in-app prices on the US App Store, 17 October 2026. Source: apps.apple.com
The plan includes more than feeds, and that list is what an alternative has to match. The pricing page names websites, newsletters, podcasts (inside Feedbin, or through its Airshow app), YouTube channels and playlists “without the algorithm”, full-text extraction for partial feeds, search, and Actions that “Automatically star, mark as read, or get a push notification for the articles you care about.” The homepage adds Mastodon and Updated Articles: when an original changes, Feedbin shows you the differences (Feedbin).
One limit few people notice: Feedbin keeps the 400 most recent articles per feed and is “not an archival tool” (Feedbin help).
Feedbin alternatives at a glance
Prices checked on 17 October 2026, in US dollars. “Not listed” means the product’s own page doesn’t mention it.
| Reader | Free plan | Paid | Newsletters | Podcasts, YouTube | Self-host |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feedbin | 30-day trial | $70/yr ($59.99 in iOS app) | Yes | Both | Unsupported |
| Inoreader | 150 feeds | Pro $7.50/mo billed yearly | 20 newsletter feeds on Pro | Both | No |
| NewsBlur | 64 sites | Premium $36/yr, Archive $99/yr, Pro $29/mo | Yes | Not listed | Yes, Docker |
| BazQux | 30-day trial | $30/yr | Not listed | Not listed | No |
| Miniflux | Free to self-host | Hosted $15/yr | Not listed | Not listed | Yes |
| FreshRSS | Free to self-host | None | Not listed | Podcasts, video channels | Yes |
| NetNewsWire | Free app | None | Not listed | Not listed | Not needed |
| Hushread | 5 sources | Pro $1.25/mo billed yearly | No | YouTube only | No |
The best Feedbin alternative for what you need
For a free plan: Inoreader
Inoreader Free is “Free forever” with no card and follows 150 feeds; Pro raises that to 2,500 and costs $7.50 a month billed annually or $9.99 monthly (Inoreader pricing). Pro is where Feedbin’s extras live: 20 newsletter feeds, 20 web feeds for sites without RSS, rules and filters. Pro, at $89.99 a year on the web and in its iPhone app, costs more than Feedbin’s $70, but buys more automation. My Inoreader pricing post breaks the plans down.
If you want AI to sort it: Feedly
Feedly is the best-known name here and the opposite of Feedbin’s approach: its US App Store listing pitches Pro for tracking “keywords, brands, & companies” and searching your feeds, at $7.99 a month (App Store). Its prices change by country and billing period, so I keep them in Feedly pricing. If you chose Feedbin to get away from that kind of product, Feedly will feel like a step back.
For a cheaper paid plan: NewsBlur or BazQux
NewsBlur Premium is $36 a year for up to 1,024 sites, and every plan starts with a free 30-day premium trial (NewsBlur pricing). Its features list includes email newsletters, notifications and a text view that extracts the story. The difference from Feedbin is philosophy: NewsBlur lets you train it to hide and highlight stories by author, tag and title, where Feedbin just shows you everything in order.
BazQux Reader sells itself as “Your friend for reading feeds, $30 a year”, with a 30-day trial (BazQux). It’s “Not free, not freemium”: it only updates the feeds of paying and trial users. It has full-text articles, filters and smart streams, and it reads comments under posts. It also follows Facebook, Telegram and VK, which Feedbin doesn’t.
For self-hosting: Miniflux or FreshRSS
Feedbin’s code is MIT-licensed on GitHub, but the README is clear that “No support is provided for installing the open-source project” and recommends against running it in production unless you have plenty of time to configure it (GitHub). It needs Ruby, Postgres, Redis and Elasticsearch. Unless you already run that stack, I’d pick one of the two below instead.
Miniflux is open source under Apache 2.0 and ships as a single binary (Miniflux). If you’d rather not host it, its creator runs a hosted version for $15 a year with a 15-day trial (Miniflux hosting). Know the trade-offs before moving: feeds refresh every 1 to 2 hours, and unread articles are removed 60 days after they arrive and read ones after 30. Starred items are kept.
FreshRSS is free software (AGPL 3) that follows “websites, podcasts and video channels in a single place”, can generate feeds by scraping sites without one, and works with third-party apps (FreshRSS). It’s the closest self-hosted match to Feedbin’s mix of sources.
To keep Feedbin and change the app
If your complaint is the interface, you may not need a new service. Feedbin’s apps page lists third-party apps that sync with it, including Reeder, NetNewsWire, ReadKit, lire and Fiery Feeds on iPhone, iPad and Mac, Unread on iPhone and iPad, and Capy Reader, SmartRSS, FeedMe and FocusReader on Android (Feedbin apps). It lists no Feedbin-made Android app and nothing for Windows.
Android apps that sync with Feedbin, 17 October 2026. Source: feedbin.com
NetNewsWire, for one, is free and syncs with Feedbin as well as iCloud, Inoreader and NewsBlur (NetNewsWire). My best RSS reader for iPhone guide compares the iOS front ends.
For news from many outlets: Hushread
Hushread fits one kind of Feedbin user: the one who follows a lot of news sites. Feedbin lists every article in order, so one announcement covered by eight of your sources is eight items. Hushread links them into one story with a timeline. It also follows YouTube channels, and you can paste a website’s address to follow it even when it has no feed. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web. It’s free for 5 sources, then $1.25 a month billed yearly ($14.99 a year in the US) (plans).
It replaces less of Feedbin than the others. There’s no newsletter inbox, no podcasts, no Mastodon, no public API and no self-hosting, and it imports OPML but doesn’t export it yet (Import OPML). If newsletters and podcasts are why you pay for Feedbin, look elsewhere.
Feedbin vs Inoreader
Inoreader wins on a free plan (150 feeds against none) and on automation: Pro adds rules, filters and web feeds. Feedbin is cheaper than Inoreader Pro and simpler: one $70 plan with newsletters, podcasts, YouTube and full text included, against $89.99 a year for Inoreader Pro. Inoreader’s app privacy label lists contact info linked to you (App Store); Feedbin’s says “Data Not Collected”.
Feedbin vs NewsBlur
NewsBlur is about half the price ($36 against $70 a year), has a free plan for 64 sites and can be self-hosted with Docker. Feedbin is quieter: no training, no tiers, and podcasts and YouTube built in. If you want to sort your feed, pick NewsBlur; if you want to read it in order, stay with Feedbin. My NewsBlur alternatives post covers what it costs in more detail.
How to move your feeds out of Feedbin
Feedbin’s import and export page is under Settings › Import/Export (Feedbin help). Save your subscriptions as an OPML file, import it into the new reader and compare the feed count. An OPML file carries only your subscriptions, so starred articles, Actions and saved searches stay behind, and newsletters need a new address in the new service.
FAQ
What is the best free Feedbin alternative?
Inoreader Free, for most people: it follows 150 feeds with no card. NewsBlur Free follows 64 sites, and Miniflux and FreshRSS are free if you host them yourself. NetNewsWire is a free app for Mac, iPhone and iPad that syncs through iCloud or services such as Inoreader, NewsBlur and FreshRSS.
Is Feedbin cheaper on the App Store?
On the US App Store, yes: Feedbin’s in-app subscription is $5.99 a month or $59.99 a year, against $7 a month or $70 a year on its website.
Can I self-host Feedbin?
The code is open source under the MIT license, but Feedbin provides no support for installing it and doesn’t recommend running it in production without plenty of time to configure it. Miniflux and FreshRSS are easier to self-host.
Does Feedbin have an Android app?
Feedbin doesn’t list one of its own. Its apps page names four Android apps from other developers that sync with Feedbin: Capy Reader, SmartRSS, FeedMe and FocusReader.
Feedbin is still a good service, so don’t cancel first. Export your OPML, try the alternative that matches your reason for leaving for the length of its trial, and keep Feedbin if nothing else covers your newsletters and podcasts. If your feed is mostly news sites, Hushread’s 5 free sources are enough to test story grouping.