Feedbin vs Kill the Newsletter (2026): which should you pick?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Kill the Newsletter grades higher than Feedbin: 3.0 against 2.4 out of 4.0.
Checked Oct 5, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 · graded Oct 10, 2026 and Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA
Feedbin grades higher on features and platforms. Kill the Newsletter grades higher on value for money, the free plan and ease of use.
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Feedbin
Paid RSS reader for feeds, newsletters, podcasts and YouTube
Kill the Newsletter
Turns email newsletters into Atom feeds for your feed reader
Which one is for you
Pick Feedbin if
- Fits if you want RSS, newsletters, podcasts and YouTube in one reader on one plan
- Works for people using Reeder, NetNewsWire or Unread who need a service to sync through
Look elsewhere if
- Not for you if you want a free reader, as there's only a 30-day trial and then $7 a month
- Skip it if you want Feedbin's own app on Mac or Android, where you'll need a third-party one
- Too light for keeping an archive, since it stores the 400 most recent articles per feed
- Pricey if you set it against this category's $3.33 middle, as $70 a year works out at $5.83 a month
- Watch out: the code is open source, but Feedbin doesn't recommend running it yourself and gives no install help
Pick Kill the Newsletter if
- Fits if you already use a feed reader and want newsletters out of your inbox
- Works for someone who wants no tracking on the newsletters they follow
Look elsewhere if
- Skip it if you do not have a feed reader
- Not for you if you need old issues: entries older than one month are deleted, sooner if a feed is large
- Watch out: a few newsletters cannot be subscribed to this way, and some publishers block its addresses
- Watch out: the feed address identifies your subscription, so the site says not to share it
How we grade them
| 2.4GPAFeedbinFair | 3.0GPAKill the NewsletterVery good | |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | C$70 a year works out at $5.83 a month, towards the dear end of this category, where the middle is $3.33; pay by the month and it's $7. For that you get one plan with everything, with no tiers or add-ons. | AFree to use, with no paid plan; the site links to donations. Against the reading category's $4 a month middle, nothing is charged. |
| Free plan and trial | CNo free plan at all. You get 30 days with no credit card asked for, and then it's $7 a month or you stop. | ACreating as many feeds as you want costs nothing. |
| Features | BIt covers the whole job: feeds, newsletters at your own Feedbin address, podcasts and YouTube channels in one list, full text pulled in for partial feeds, rules that star, mark read or notify, saved searches, and a diff view when an article is edited. Inoreader and Feedly do much the same. | CIt does one job fully: an email address plus a feed, with confirmation emails arriving as entries and no tracking. It is a smaller job than a reader, and it can't reply to a publisher's confirmation request. |
| Ease of use | CNo store rating on record, and a reader is only as useful as the feed list you build, which is your job: subscriptions to gather, actions to write, searches to save. Newsletters arrive at a Feedbin address instead of your inbox. | BNo store rating on record. You fill in a form on the home page and paste the feed address into a reader, with nothing to install. |
| Platforms and integrations | BFeedbin's own apps cover the web, iPhone and iPad, and its API brings in Reeder, NetNewsWire, Unread, ReadKit and others for Mac and Android. Plenty of choice, none of it Feedbin's own. | CWeb only, with no apps, and it relies on you having a feed reader. No integrations are listed. |
| Best for | feeds, newsletters and YouTube in one paid reader | newsletters in a feed reader instead of your inbox |
The GPA is the average of the five grades: an A is 4 points, an F is none. The full reasons are on each tool's page: Feedbin and Kill the Newsletter. How we grade
Price against what you get
Feedbin starts at $5.83 a month when paid by the year and scores 2.7 out of 4 on features, ease of use and platforms. Kill the Newsletter has no paid plan and scores 2.3.
Feedbin scores higher, and starts $5.83 a month higher: the question is whether the extra is worth that to you. Of the other read-later and bookmark apps on the chart, 10 score higher than Feedbin for less, and none scores higher than Kill the Newsletter for less.
Features, ease of use and platforms, averaged
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
- The best score at each price
- Has a free plan
- No free plan
Where they differ
At a glance
| Feedbin | Kill the Newsletter | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free trial | Free |
| Starts at | $7 per month, or $70 per year | Free |
| Free plan | None | Everything: creating a feed costs nothing. The site links Patreon, PayPal and GitHub Sponsors for donations. |
| Free trial | 30-day free trial, no credit card required | None listed |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Feedbin, Inc. | Leandro Facchinetti |
| Price read from | feedbin.com | kill-the-newsletter.com |
| Checked | Oct 5, 2026 | Nov 13, 2026 |
Worth knowing
Feedbin
- There is no free plan: after the 30-day trial it costs $7 a month or $70 a year.
- Feedbin's own apps cover the web, iPhone and iPad; Mac and Android use relies on third-party apps.
- It stores the 400 most recent articles per feed and is not meant as an archive.
- The code is open source, but Feedbin does not recommend running it yourself and offers no install support.
Kill the Newsletter
- Entries older than one month are deleted, and older entries may be removed sooner to keep a feed under a size limit.
- It cannot reply to a publisher's confirmation request, so a few newsletters cannot be subscribed to this way.
- Some publishers block its addresses.
- The feed address identifies your subscription, so the site says not to share it.
Key features
Feedbin
- Feeds, newsletters, podcasts and YouTube
- Follow any website with RSS, receive newsletters at a personal Feedbin email address, listen to podcasts, and follow YouTube channels and playlists in order.
- Full-text extraction
- When a feed offers only partial content, Feedbin can pull in the full article so reading continues without leaving the reader.
- Actions
- Rules that automatically star an incoming article, mark it as read or send a push notification, based on what you want to catch.
- Search and saved searches
- A search syntax for finding articles across feeds, with frequent searches saved so their results stay one click away.
- Updated articles
- Articles are refreshed when the original changes, and a difference view shows what was altered.
- Sync with third-party apps
- An API lets apps such as Reeder, NetNewsWire, Unread and ReadKit sync with a Feedbin account on iOS, Mac and Android.
Kill the Newsletter
- Email address plus feed
- Each feed comes with its own email address; mail sent there becomes an entry in the Atom feed.
- Confirmation emails arrive as entries
- Subscription confirmation messages are converted too, so you follow the confirmation link from your reader.
- No tracking
- The site says it does not track users.
- Feed settings in each entry
- Every entry ends with a link to manage the feed, including deleting it.
Plans
Feedbin
Feedbin$7
per month, or $70 per year
One plan with everything: websites, newsletters, podcasts, YouTube, full-text extraction, search, actions and app sync. No tiers or add-ons.
Kill the Newsletter
Free$0
Create as many feed addresses as you need with the form on the home page.
Ways to pay less
Feedbin
- Annual discount
Save $14 with yearly billing
The pricing page marks the yearly plan as saving $14: $70 a year instead of twelve monthly payments of $7.
Kill the Newsletter
No public discounts listed.
Common questions
Which is cheaper, Feedbin or Kill the Newsletter?
As of Nov 13, 2026, Kill the Newsletter is cheaper to start with: it is free, against $5.83 a month when paid by the year for Feedbin. Feedbin starts at $7 per month, or $70 per year, and Kill the Newsletter is free.
Which has a free plan, Feedbin or Kill the Newsletter?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Kill the Newsletter has a free plan. Feedbin does not, though it has a free trial.
Which platforms do Feedbin and Kill the Newsletter run on?
As of Nov 13, 2026, only Feedbin lists an iOS app and a browser extension. Both list a web app. A platform missing from a listing is one its maker's pages did not mention.
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How this page was made
- The verdict at the top follows a fixed rule. When both tools are in the same category and either is in our top three for it, the verdict follows that ranking: the higher-placed tool is our pick. The top three weigh who each tool suits as well as its grades, so a pick can go against the GPA. Otherwise the page does not pick one and says which grades higher: the higher GPA first; on a tie, the one with a free plan, then the one that starts cheaper in dollars a month, counted the same way for both; if they are still level, what the choice depends on.
- The grades are our own, from each tool’s review or report card. The GPA is their average.
- Prices, plans and platforms come from each tool’s listing. The table above says where each price was read and when.
- The differences and the answers to the questions are worked out from those listings.