NewsFlash

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Similar to NetNewsWire on macOS, NewsFlash is a clean, stable, fast, free, no-clutter and no-nonsense RSS/Atom newsfeed reader for Linux. You can read articles in the application or open them in the web browser of your choice. It syncs new posts quickly and I havenā€™t had any issues with it getting stuck the way I had with Communique (before the latter stopped working entirely!)

Itā€™s an app, not a service, so itā€™s not tracking you or inserting ads. That also means thereā€™s no web version. But it can sync over several web-based newsreaders like FreshRSS, Nextcloud News (which is what I use it with), Inoreader and more. So you can keep track of your subscriptions and read/unread articles across devices. But you can only connect it to one service at a time. Note: With Nextcloud, syncing may be faster with an app-specific password.

You can set up multiple external actions including sharing to Pocket/Instapaper, Mastodon/Twitter, Reddit and Telegram, plus one custom URL-based share. Iā€™m using it to connect to my Postmarks instance for public bookmarking.

NewsFlash is an entirely rewritten application by the author of the now-discontinued FeedReader, who describes it as the ā€œspiritual successorā€ to the older application.

Built in GTK for GNOME, but Iā€™ve got the Flatpak working just fine on KDE Plasma and LxQt too.

More info at NewsFlash.

Available from Flathub.