Feedly vs Folo
Feedly and Folo are both RSS reader software. Feedly is a commercial product from Feedly. Folo is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 39k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Feedly when
- You follow many sources and want a polished reader, or a team needs topic monitoring with AI filtering.
- Pick Folo when
- You want a modern feed reader that also pulls in sites without native RSS and offers AI summaries.
Side by side
An RSS and news reader that gathers sites, blogs and newsletters into feeds, with AI filtering sold to market and threat intelligence teams.
An RSS reader for web, desktop and mobile that follows feeds, RSSHub routes and social sources, with AI summaries and translation.
The company now focuses on paid threat and market intelligence, and the free tier is limited.
Tied to the Folo cloud service for sync and AI features, and AGPL licensed.
Production-ready
Usable
Cloud service and mobile app
Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
Not published
TypeScript, React, Swift and Vite
Closed source, sold by Feedly
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
478 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
39k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 2 years ago, latest release desktop/v1.17.0.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.