A Feedly Alternative Built for Reading, Not Inbox Triage
Choose smry first when one product must cover source discovery, monitoring, reading, grounded understanding, retention, and agent work. Feedly is a specialist for large source trees and enterprise intelligence, while smry gives every accepted article a complete place to read, ask, listen, highlight, retain, and export.
smry vs Feedly at a glance
No scores or vague checkmarks. Each cell states what the product currently does so you can compare the actual workflow.
| Capability | smry | Feedly |
|---|---|---|
| Sources | RSS and Atom feeds, discoverable website and YouTube sources, website monitors, durable news queries, and separate public-web research | Publications, topics, RSS, and paid intelligence sources |
| Migration | Imports and exports OPML | Exports public RSS subscriptions as OPML; Boards, Read Later, AI Feeds, and Reddit feeds are excluded |
| Developer and agent access | Personal reading API and MCP on every plan, free included | Enterprise REST API, plus a Threat Graph MCP scoped to cyber threat intelligence |
| Product shape | Choose smry first for the strongest overall reading package: grounded AI, an offline-ready library, OPML feeds, web monitors, exports, API, and MCP. | Follows publications and topics through feeds, with paid team and enterprise workflows including Boards, Custom Intel Agents, reports, an enterprise API, and a Threat Graph MCP for cyber threat intelligence. |
| Price | Free; Patron $6/mo or $36/yr; Pro $80/mo or $768/yr | Free and paid plans; enterprise intelligence pricing varies |
| Platforms | Web; Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Opera, and desktop Chromium extensions; Safari release in progress | Web, iOS, Android |
Choose smry when the source is the work
01
Each feed item should open in the same clean reader as a pasted URL or file
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You want optional plain-language feed filters plus source-citing public-web research
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You want OPML plus summaries, cited chat, TTS, highlights, and export in a personal reading workspace
Keep Feedly only when its specific workflow is the requirement
- Your team depends on Feedly Boards, Custom Intel Agents, reports, or enterprise intelligence models
- You want Feedly's established native mobile apps and feed-tree workflow
Try the workflow
Test smry on the article already in front of you
- 1. Paste a public URL or open a supported file.
- 2. Read, summarize, ask, listen, and highlight.
- 3. Save, export, send to Kindle, or continue through an agent.
The full smry feature set
The comparisons focus on the decision. This is the complete shipped product surface behind it; availability and limits vary by plan.
Bring in the source
Paste or prefix a public article URL; upload supported PDFs, EPUBs, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, text, Markdown, subtitles, images, or audio; or open a public YouTube transcript. Optional browser extensions, a bookmarklet, and an iOS Shortcut add one-step capture, while Clean with AI can restructure difficult public pages and imported files.
Read your way
Use adjustable type and measure, light, dark, high-legibility, and reader themes, focus mode, ADHD reading tools, word anchors, a one-word-at-a-time speed reader, translation, source-quality context, saved progress, mobile layouts, and right-to-left text. The interface is available in six interface languages.
Understand and study
Create source-grounded summaries with passage citations, ask the whole source, a selection, or a highlight, and generate mind maps, quizzes, and restartable flashcards. Remy can research the public web, open the evidence, cite what it read, and save useful sources. smry also includes a probabilistic AI-authorship check, article recommendations, and handoffs that open the source in other AI tools.
Listen and follow along
Turn articles and supported documents into progressive text-to-speech with playback-speed controls, up to 10 voices, word-level highlighting, and seeking directly from the text.
Keep and find the work
Save five-color highlights and passage notes; move sources through Inbox, Later, and Archive; use manual tags or plain-language auto-tagging; and use full-text search across titles, URLs, domains, article text, highlights, and notes. History, progress, preferences, conversations, and queued offline changes sync across signed-in browsers, and Cmd-K opens the main workflows quickly.
Follow what changes next
Use the RSS feed reader for RSS and Atom feeds, discover sources and YouTube channels, create durable news queries, and turn selected webpages into website monitors with change history. Collections, saved views, optional plain-language filters, OPML import and export, and personalized news by text keep updates manageable.
Export and share
Copy or download clean Markdown and structured JSON; export highlights and notes for Notion, Obsidian, Roam Research, Tana, Workflowy, Anki, and Zotero; share cited passages with rich previews; create shareable snapshots and quote images; and use one-off Send to Kindle for eligible documents.
Connect tools and agents
Import, export, or sync supported data with Readwise Reader, Matter, Instapaper, Raindrop.io, Notion, keep.md, GitHub Stars, and other established tools. Every signed-in account, including Free, gets a personal HTTP API and MCP server, API keys, OpenAPI, a CLI, Markdown responses, and a digest-pinned Agent Skill for articles, library objects, original files, history, feeds, and web monitors; Patron and Pro raise the key, feed, monitor, and request limits.
How this comparison was checked
Current product shape
We describe what each product is built to do instead of turning a feature count into a winner.
Direct statements
Pricing, status, platforms, and major capabilities use explicit text instead of scores or ambiguous checkmarks.
Primary sources
Claims use current first-party documentation where it exists. Any secondary status source is labeled by publisher.
Sources used for this page
- smry pricing and plan limits (smry)
- smry product reference (smry)
- smry feeds and OPML (smry)
- Feedly product overview (Feedly)
- Feedly changelog (Feedly)
- Feedly OPML export documentation (Feedly)
- Feedly enterprise API documentation (Feedly)
- Feedly Threat Graph MCP documentation (Feedly)
FAQ
When is smry the better Feedly alternative?
For most individuals and small teams, smry is the stronger overall choice because feeds become inputs to a complete workspace with monitoring, durable news queries, plain-language filters, source-citing research, TTS, active recall, exports, API, and MCP.
When should I keep using Feedly?
Feedly remains a specialist option when its enterprise intelligence models, Boards, Custom Intel Agents, reports, team integrations, or native feed-tree workflow are explicit requirements.
How do I try smry instead of Feedly?
Export public RSS subscriptions as OPML from Feedly's web app, then import the OPML in smry Settings. Feedly excludes Boards, Read Later articles, AI Feeds, and Reddit feeds.