BazQux Reader vs Feeder

BazQux Reader brings website feeds and selected social pages into one place for reading without ads and tracking. Alongside websites, users can follow Facebook, Telegram and VK pages. The reader can show full content from truncated articles and social links, and lets users read and follow article comments. Search covers feeds and tagged articles; filters and smart streams help organize them, with list, mosaic, magazine, expanded and mixed views. Articles can be starred or tagged, shared by email, Twitter or Facebook, or saved to Pocket, Instapaper or Pinboard. Offline reading is supported, as are Google Reader and Fever APIs and third-party clients for listed mobile and desktop systems. The service supports up to 3,000 feeds and 500 combined filters or smart streams. Unread articles are kept indefinitely, subject to a 500-article total per feed. Refresh intervals vary from 15–45 minutes to over three hours depending on the latest article; WebSub feeds update in real time. Pricing starts at $30/yr with a 30-day trial; listed plans are $50 a year and $249, paid once.

Feeder tracks online sources selected by the user and brings them together in a reading experience. Sources include blogs, news, weather, government databases, job boards, Mastodon and newsletters. Users can filter posts by keywords or topics, exclude terms, arrange feeds into folders, save favorites, make collections and share content. AI options include summaries, text-to-speech, feeds generated for pages without RSS, and a setup assistant. Listed connections include MCP, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Zapier and webhooks, although availability depends on plan. The Free plan allows up to 200 feeds, with checks as often as every 30 minutes; the default interval is every two hours. It includes 50 posts of history per feed and two AI summaries per day. Plus costs $9.99 a month, and Professional costs $19.99 a month. Enterprise pricing is available by contacting sales. Feeder is available on Android, iOS, web and as a browser extension. It does not provide self-serve API keys; REST API access is available by request for app builders and is part of Enterprise.