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50 Reading apps to use instead, best rated first.

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  1. Substack

    Launch

    Discover & subscribe to independent writers, podcasters, and video creators.

    Free

  2. Are.na

    Launch

    A platform for connecting ideas and building knowledge. A thoughtful corner of the internet.

  3. A

    ArchiveBox

    Launch

    📸 Save the current page with the toolbar button, keyboard shortcut, or right-click menu. 🏛 Send URLs to your own ArchiveBox server to preserve websites for later. 🏷 Search, sort, tag, and manage your saved URLs in one place. ⚙ Automatically

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

  4. F

    Free Programming Books

    Launch

    Free Programming Books is a long-running list of free learning resources for programmers, kept by the Free Ebook Foundation on GitHub. It gathers freely available books, courses, interactive tutorials, podcasts, screencasts and problem sets

    FreeOpen source

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    RSSHub

    Launch

    Easy to use, and extensible RSS feed aggregator capable of generating RSS feeds from pretty much everything ranging from social media to university departments. (Demo, Source Code) MIT Nodejs/Docker

    FreeOpen sourceSelf-hosted

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    Linkwarden

    Launch

    Collect, read, annotate, and fully preserve what matters. Open-source, self-hostable bookmark manager with full-page archival.

    Open sourceSelf-hosted

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W

Wallabag

A self hostable application for saving web pages

Launch
8
K

Koodo Reader

A modern ebook manager and reader with sync and backup capacities for…

Launch
9
R

Readest

Readest is a modern, feature-rich ebook reader

Launch
10
F

Fluent Reader

Modern desktop RSS reader built with Electron, React, and Fluent UI

Launch
11
M

MediaMTX

Ready-to-use, zero-dependency real-time media server and proxy to publish, read

Launch
12
C

Calibre Web

Browse, read and download eBooks using an existing Calibre database

Launch
13
K

Kavita

Cross-platform e-book/manga/comic/pdf server and web reader

Launch
14
M

MdBook

Create books with Markdown using Rust

Launch
15
B

BookWyrm

Join a federated social reading platform where you can track books

Launch
16
B

Boring Report

News by AI - Information Without the Noise

Launch
17
G

GlassWire

Personal Firewall & Network Monitor

Launch
18
H

Hacker News Books

Top Hacker News Book Recommendations in All Categories (all time)

Launch
19
K

Komga

Media server for comics/mangas/BDs

Launch
20
K

Koreader

An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB

Launch
21
C

Calibre Web Automated

All-in-one solution, combining the modern lightweight web UI

Launch
22
7

7-min

Positively Impacting Your Health

Launch
23
A

arXiv Vanity

Read academic papers from Arxiv as responsive web pages

Launch
24
B

Beelinereader

BeeLine Reader's award-winning technology helps readers stay focused for longer

Launch
25
B

Blogosphere

The frontpage of the indie web

Launch
26
H

Hacker Book

Community, All the HN Belong to You! 2006

Launch
27
H

Hacker News Trends

Search & Chart Any Topic Over Time

Launch
28
H

HTML for People

HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field

Launch
29
S

ScrollGuard

Block Reels, Shorts, TikTok & More

Launch
30
N

NetNewsWire

RSS reader for macOS and iOS

Launch
31
F

Feedbin

Feedbin is an RSS reader with a beautiful reading experience

Launch
32
Q

Quarkdown

Markdown with superpowers: from ideas to papers, presentations, websites, books

Launch
33
O

Omnivore

Omnivore is a complete, open source read-it-later solution

Launch
34
A

Armbrust American

Comprehensive Mask Testing

Launch
35
B

BookStack

An open source wiki platform and alternative to Confluence

Launch
36
B

book.sv

Great book recommendations

Launch
37
D

DevFreeBooks

A collection of free books for devs

Launch
38
F

Feed me up, Scotty!

RSS feeds for arbitrary websites, using CSS selectors

Launch
39
H

Haven

Haven is a new way of sharing things on the internet

Launch
40
H

HN Update

Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories

Launch
41
P

Paper HN

Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

Launch
42
T

TechYaks

The Best Software Tech Talks Ever, Ranked By Techyaks Score

Launch
43
T

Trails

Thematic links across books, automatically discovered by Claude

Launch
44
S

Stump

A fast, free and open source comics, manga and digital book server

Launch
45
S

Selfoss

New multipurpose rss reader, live stream, mashup, aggregation web application

Launch
46
L

Librum

The Librum client application

Launch
47
0

0x.tools

X-Ray vision for Linux systems

Launch
48
A

Anfractuosity

Still waiting on the daybreak, its shadows in my mind

Launch
49
B

Byte

A visual archive

Launch
50
C

Crafting Interpreters

A handbook for making programming languages

Launch

About Surfboard

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Surfboard

RSS Reader is not just an app; it's your personalized news concierge

Surfboard - RSS Reader is not just an app; it's your personalized news concierge. Designed for the savvy, on-the-go individual, Surfboard transforms how you interact with the online world of news, blogs, and stories. Effortless Organization: Easily add and manage URLs with our Feeds feature. No more jumping between sites - get all your favorite content in one streamlined feed.

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Price
Paid
Made by
Ian Leon
Category
Reading
Website
bamboorss.com