WPwpollock·Oct 8, 2025
Happy user of Flym, a free Android reader:
https://github.com/FredJul/Flym
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Flym
Flym News Reader is a light Android feed reader (RSS/Atom)
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Flym News Reader is a light Android feed reader (RSS/Atom)
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Observed mentions: 2019-03-31 16:01:44 UTC to 2025-10-08 22:19:32 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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5 sourcesI use the Feedbro [1] extension in the browser and the Flym [2] app on Android. I'm quite satisfied with both.
[1] https://nodetics.com/feedbro/
[2] https://github.com/FredJul/Flym
In Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?I used Flym for a while and went to download the source one day, in fear of it suddenly disappearing, and apparently updates are blocked by Google, and the dev gave up? I'm very curious to know more about it: https://github.com/FredJul/Flym
Since then I've used Feeder, it's similar (also free, no ads, can scrape full articles) but is missing a few things that I liked about Flym. It was easy to export my list of feeds (OMPL file, I think) and import into Feeder: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nononsense...
In RSS is wonderfulUsing Newsblur on iOS and Flym on Android, a great open source and offline reader https://github.com/FredJul/Flym
In I Still Use RSSI was looking at this the other day[0] I actually think Brief[1] might even be better than the RSS support that was in Firefox. I haven't tried it yet but I intend to.
I use Thunderbird as well, and that has RSS support but to me that seems counter to my workflow. Typically I'll be on some site and want to subscribe, and then view in my browser. Doesn't really make sense to be in an email client.
On my phone I use Flym[2]
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/4757633...
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brief/
[2] https://github.com/FredJul/Flym
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