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Feedly is not dead. On 6 October 2026 its status page showed all services online, the free plan still covers 100 feeds, and the iPhone and Android apps were both updated on 15 September 2026. What happened is that the company changed customers: Feedly now sells AI threat intelligence to corporate security teams, and the news reader most people know is a side door on that site. In August 2026 it showed, when a slowdown lasting more than a week left paying readers calling the web app unusable.
Is Feedly dead? What is running in October 2026
No. As of 6 October 2026:
- The service is up. The status page read “All services are online”, with no incidents in the previous seven days (Feedly status).
- The apps are maintained. iOS version 90.0.53 came out on 15 September 2026, the fifth update this year (App Store), and Google Play shows the Android app updated the same day (Google Play). Every 2026 iOS release note says only “Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements”: maintenance, not new features.
- The company is shipping. The product blog last posted on 29 September 2026 (blog), and the newest changelog entry is from 19 August (changelog).
Is Feedly still free?
Yes. Feedly’s pricing page says the free plan works “on the web and on mobile” and lets you “follow up to 100 feeds and organize them into 3 folders” (Feedly). What you give up on Free:
- Ads. “Hide sponsored ads” is a Pro feature, and the Play listing is marked “Contains ads”.
- Search. Searching your own feeds starts at Pro.
- Speed. Feedly’s help page says free (“Basic”) accounts have feeds checked every 30 minutes to 1 day, depending on the site, against 15 minutes to an hour on Pro and as little as 7 minutes on Pro+ (Feedly docs). If Feedly seems behind on a small blog, this is the likely reason.
Prices as of 6 October 2026, as quoted to a US address (archived copy of Feedly’s price feed). Feed counts and features are from Feedly’s pricing page.
| Plan | Price | Feeds | What it adds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 100, in 3 folders | Web and mobile reading, with ads |
| Pro | $8 a month, or $72 a year ($6 a month) | 1,000 | Search, notes, highlights, integrations, no ads, faster updates |
| Pro+ | $99 for the first year ($8.25 a month), then $144 a year ($12 a month) | 2,500 | Feedly AI, AI Feeds, newsletters, RSS Builder, deduplication, mute filters |
| Enterprise | On request | 7,500 | Team feeds, API, SSO, threat and market intelligence |
Feedly’s prices vary by country. The screenshot below shows what the page quoted an address in India: Pro at US$6.99 a month and Pro+ at US$8.93 a month for the first year, down from US$12.37, both billed annually. That is more than the US rates, so read your own screen before you pay. Our Feedly pricing post has the full comparison.
Feedly’s pricing page as it loaded from India on 6 October 2026. A US address is quoted less. Source: feedly.com
What changed for free users over the years
The free plan narrowed in steps over a decade.
- 2013. By 1 April, Feedly said 3 million new users had signed up since Google announced it was closing Google Reader (TechCrunch). That August it launched Feedly Pro with search as a paid feature (Feedly blog), at $5 a month or $45 a year (TechCrunch).
- February 2017, by outside accounts. We found no Feedly announcement of the 100-feed cap, so we cannot date it exactly. A blog post dated 21 February 2017 says that on the free level “you can now only subscribe to a max of 100 feeds” (Eduk8me), and another says Feedly told its author the limit applied to new users and not to existing ones (Classwork).
- December 2019. Pro+ launched with the AI features Feedly then called Leo. Pro cost $72 a year at the time (Liliputing), the same price a US address is quoted today (archived price feed).
- July 2020. Feedly’s blog described its ad program: promoted content “inline in the feeds users are reading”, one ad per page (Feedly blog).
- April 2023. The Twitter integration, a Pro+ feature, was retired after Twitter discontinued the API Feedly used (Feedly blog).
- February 2025. One change went the other way: Bluesky accounts, lists and feeds became followable on every account type, free included (Feedly blog).
Where Feedly’s attention went: AI and threat intelligence
Open feedly.com today and you will not see an RSS reader. The page title starts with “Feedly Threat Intelligence”, the headline is “The fastest way to track emerging threats with AI”, and it says Feedly is “Trusted by 380 CTI teams, including half of the Fortune 10” (Feedly). CTI is cyber threat intelligence. The reader sits behind a “Go to News Reader” button in the corner.
Feedly’s homepage on 6 October 2026. Source: feedly.com
Of the 23 posts on Feedly’s product blog in 2026 so far, 21 are filed under Threat Intelligence (Feedly blog). The newest post under its News Reader filter is from 3 August 2023, and it covers a search feature limited to the intelligence products (Feedly blog).
Responding to TechCrunch in August 2026, CEO Edwin Khodabakchian said: “Despite the pivot to cyber threat intelligence, fixing the basic RSS functionality is still a priority because our CTI community uses the news-reading capability” (TechCrunch). Read that closely: the reader is kept working because the security customers use it too.
The controversies, with dates
March 2023: protest tracking. On 29 March 2023 Feedly announced two AI models, Protests and Violent Protests, to “help security analysts track riots, strikes, and rallies that pose a risk to a company’s assets and employees” (archived post). Some users read that as a tool for watching strikes. Feedly deleted the post, and Khodabakchian told PCMag “We did a really poor job of explaining the use case”, saying the idea came from a news organization that wanted to keep its journalists safe (PCMag). The writer Molly White canceled her paid subscription and explained why (Citation Needed). Both models are still in Feedly’s AI library, including on Pro+ (Protests, Violent Protests).
August 2026: the slowdown. For more than a week the web app was slow enough that users on Reddit called it “unusable”, and several said support had not answered them (TechCrunch). Feedly first pointed to “Mark as Read” on accounts with many folders, then said the root cause was a change to its re-sorting logic made about 12 days earlier. TechCrunch reported that the problem reached Feedly’s status page only after its article ran.
Summer 2026: Feedly Classic retired. The same article confirmed that Feedly Classic, an older mobile app a small group of users preferred, had been retired two weeks earlier because it “no longer met some iOS and Android requirements”. Its few hundred active users were not told beforehand.
Feedly not working, or is the app down? What to check
- Look at the status page. Feedly’s incident history lists two incidents since August 2026, on 17 August and 11 September, both titled “Some users are experiencing slowness” and both resolved. The August problem ran for days before it was listed, so a green status page is not proof that all is well.
- Try Feedly’s own fixes. Its help page says to log out, clear your cache and log back in, then try a private window with extensions disabled. Failing that, it gives [email protected] as the contact (Feedly docs).
- On a phone, update the app and try the web. Two App Store reviews from August 2026 describe the app stuck on a green screen and a login page that goes nowhere. One asks, “Is this app/company being supported still?” (App Store reviews). An iOS update followed on 15 September. We could not confirm that it fixed those reports, so if the app fails, use feedly.com in a browser.
Feedly’s incident history on 6 October 2026. Source: status.feedly.com
Is Feedly good in 2026? When staying is the right call
For reading feeds, Feedly still does the job. It holds 4.6 stars from about 26,000 ratings on the App Store and 4.4 on Google Play. Stay if:
- 100 feeds at no cost is enough for you. That is a real free plan, not a trial.
- You pay for Pro+ and use what it adds: newsletters in your reader, AI Feeds, RSS Builder and mute filters.
- You work in security or market research. That is who Feedly is building for now.
Think about leaving if you pay mainly for a fast, plain reader and August shook your trust, or if you want a tool whose maker treats reading as its main business.
How to leave Feedly: export your OPML first
- Sign in to Feedly in a web browser. The export does not work from the mobile app.
- Go to
feedly.com/i/opmland download the file (Feedly docs). - Open the file in our free OPML viewer to check that your feeds and folders are all there.
- Import it into your next reader, and use both for a week before you cancel anything.
The export covers your public RSS feeds only. Feedly says it leaves out Boards, Read Later articles, Feedly AI Feeds and Reddit feeds. Hold off on deleting your Feedly account too: a deleted account cannot be restored (Feedly docs).
Our Feedly alternatives roundup and Inoreader vs Feedly cover the classic readers, and the best RSS reader guide looks at the wider field. Our own app, Hushread, imports OPML and keeps your folders, with limits: the free plan holds 5 sources, so a 100-feed import fills those 5 slots and skips the rest unless you pay for Pro, which is $1.25 a month billed yearly in the US, and it cannot export OPML yet. The side-by-side with Feedly has the detail.
FAQ
Is Feedly dead?
No. As of 6 October 2026 Feedly’s status page shows all services online, and its apps were updated on 15 September 2026. Its main product is now threat intelligence, but the news reader is still running and still sold.
Is Feedly still free?
Yes. The free plan covers up to 100 feeds in 3 folders on the web and mobile, with ads and without search. Paid plans start at $72 a year for a US address, and prices vary by country.
Is Feedly good?
It is a capable reader with a large free plan, rated 4.6 on the App Store and 4.4 on Google Play. The caveat is priority: Feedly’s focus is its threat intelligence product, and the August 2026 slowdown frustrated paying users.
Why is Feedly not working?
Check status.feedly.com, then log out, clear your cache and try a private window with extensions off, as Feedly’s help page recommends. Stale feeds on the free plan can be normal: free accounts have feeds checked every 30 minutes to 1 day.
Is the Feedly app down?
Feedly’s status page lists two slowdowns since August 2026, on 17 August and 11 September, both resolved, and none in October so far. If the mobile app will not load, update it and use feedly.com in a browser meanwhile.
What to do next
If Feedly works for you on the free plan, there is no reason to move: export your OPML once as a backup and carry on. If you pay and the summer’s problems bothered you, run the export, try one alternative next to Feedly for a week, and decide with both open.