Feedly News Reader
Content curation software
Media monitoring software
Public relations (PR) software
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What is Feedly News Reader
Feedly News Reader is an RSS-based news and content aggregation tool used to follow websites, newsletters, and other sources in a single reading interface. It is commonly used by individuals and teams for media monitoring, competitive tracking, and topic research, with optional AI-assisted filtering and prioritization in paid tiers. The product emphasizes source organization (feeds, folders, boards) and integrations for saving and sharing items into other work tools.
Broad source aggregation via RSS
Feedly consolidates updates from many publications and blogs through RSS, reducing the need to visit sites individually. Users can organize sources into folders and views to support ongoing monitoring by topic, brand, or industry. This approach works well for teams that want a repeatable, source-driven monitoring workflow rather than one-off searches.
Strong filtering and prioritization
Paid plans add capabilities to reduce noise, such as keyword-based monitoring and AI-assisted prioritization of relevant items. This helps PR and comms teams focus on high-signal coverage and emerging narratives. Compared with many curation tools that focus on publishing, Feedly’s strengths center on intake, triage, and review.
Integrations and sharing workflows
Feedly supports common export and sharing patterns, such as saving items to read-later tools and pushing content into collaboration or knowledge systems via integrations. Teams can use boards or shared spaces to collect and annotate items for internal distribution. These features support lightweight editorial and PR briefing workflows without requiring a full publishing platform.
Limited PR campaign management
Feedly does not function as a full PR suite for outreach, media lists, pitching, or relationship management. Users typically need separate tools for contact databases, email outreach, and campaign reporting. As a result, it fits best as an upstream monitoring and research layer rather than an end-to-end PR system.
Coverage depends on available feeds
Because Feedly relies heavily on RSS and accessible web sources, coverage can be incomplete for outlets that restrict feeds or content access. Monitoring paywalled publications and certain social platforms may require additional solutions. This can create gaps for organizations that need comprehensive media coverage across all channels.
Curation-to-publishing is basic
While Feedly can collect and share items, it is not primarily designed for multi-channel content publishing, scheduling, or social distribution. Teams focused on turning curated items into branded newsletters or social campaigns may find the publishing workflow limited. They may need additional tools to format, approve, and distribute curated content at scale.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | Basic Feedly news reader functionality; limited Boards (Basic accounts can create up to 3 Boards). Source: Feedly docs and News Reader page. |
| Pro | $7 per month (monthly) or $65 per year (annual) | Unlocks additional features and sharing options (Pro features available across devices). Pricing shown in Feedly documentation. |
| Pro+ | Not listed publicly / Contact Feedly (price unavailable on public site) | Includes Feedly AI Feeds and RSS Builder (RSS Builder limits: up to 50 RSS feeds on Pro+). Feature descriptions available in Feedly docs; public price not found. |
| Business / Enterprise | Custom pricing / Contact sales | Team-oriented plans with advanced/team features (Enterprise/Business pricing and seat-based billing handled via Feedly for Teams/Enterprise pages). |
Notes: Pricing and feature details compiled only from Feedly's official website (feedly.com and docs.feedly.com). Where a public price could not be found (Pro+, Business/Enterprise), the entry is marked as unavailable and users are directed to contact Feedly or request pricing via the vendor site.
Seller details
Feedly, Inc.
Palo Alto, CA, USA
2008
Private
https://feedly.com/
https://x.com/feedly
https://www.linkedin.com/company/feedly/
