BirdReader Alternatives

BirdReader

birdreader - Home-made, Open-source Google Reader replacement powered by Node.js and CouchDB (Cloudant). Allows importing of Google Reader feeds, tagging, searching, favouriting and social media links.

BirdReader is designed to be installed on your own webserver or laptop, running Node.js. e.g.

on an old PC
on a cloud server e.g. AWS Micro server (free!)
on a Raspberry Pi

Features

import your old Google Reader subscriptions
fetches RSS every 5 minutes
web-based aggregated newsfeed
- mark articles as read
- delete articles without reading
- 'star' articles
- add a new feed
- sorted in newest-first order
- bootstrap-based, responsive layout
- tagging/untagging of feeds
- Twitter/Facebook sharing
- basic HTTP authentication (optional)
- filter read/unread/starred streams by tag
- filter read/unread/starred streams by feed
- full-text search
- icons for feeds and articles
- expand all
- browse-mode - go through unread articles one-by-one, full screen
- API.