Basic Reader — RSS With No Subscription
A feature-full, subscription-free RSS reader for iOS & Mac
Details
- External ID
- 1248965
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Basic Reader — RSS With No Subscription
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 18, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 2
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7405388069275176
- Tags
- iOS, News
- Fetched at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 20, 2026, 1:56 a.m.
Description
Basic Reader is a clean, fast RSS reader for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No subscription. No account. Powerful regex and semantic filters and search, automatic refresh, OPML support — all free.
Enrichment
- Theme
- iOS and iPhone utility apps
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- rss reader for ios and mac
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a local RSS client that fetches feeds, parses XML, stores items in CoreData or SQLite, and applies basic text/regex filters without a backend.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 136 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #26 of 137 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 303 days after the earliest competitor.
- gather: RSS News Reader · ph · 2026-09-23 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- Inkpress · ph · 2026-09-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- PageHarbor · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Duesday 2.0 for Mac, iPhone & iPad · ph · 2026-09-16 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- nook · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Common Reader · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Tidings · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Tim's Markdown Reader · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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