Feeder vs Folo

Feeder

• People who need to see new posts within minutes, such as job or auction listings
• Teams monitoring news, competitors or regulations from shared feeds
• Readers who want their feeds inside a browser extension

Folo

• Readers who want AI summaries and translation inside their feed reader
• People following sites that have no feed through RSSHub routes
• Anyone who needs one reader across web, desktop and mobile, Linux included
• People who prefer open-source software

Feeder

• The Free plan is limited to 200 feeds, 30-minute updates and 2 AI summaries a day.
• Rules, filters, the dashboard and email notifications require Plus or higher.
• Team features and the Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord and Zapier integrations start at Professional, which is priced per user.
• API access and SSO/SAML login are listed for Enterprise only, and there is no desktop app outside the browser.

Folo

• The Free plan allows 150 feed subscriptions and 3 AI summaries a day, with no AI translation.
• Integrations, private subscriptions and the secure image proxy start on Basic; AI model selection, bring your own key and AI tasks start on Plus.
• Paid plans offer a free trial, but the pricing page does not say how long it lasts.
• The download page offers Linux only as a direct AppImage download.

Feeder

Sources beyond RSS

Every plan follows RSS feeds, YouTube, Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky, Google Alerts, Google News and email newsletters. Telegram, Google Calendar and RSS built from HTML pages start on Plus.

Tiered update speed

Feeds are checked as often as every 30 minutes on Free, every 5 minutes on Plus and every minute on Professional and Enterprise.

Filters, rules and notifications

Keyword and time-of-day filters decide which posts appear and which trigger an alert. Rules, filters and email notifications start on Plus; mobile push notifications are on every plan.

AI summaries and AI Feeds

Feeder summarizes an article with its sources cited and builds a feed for a site that publishes none. Free allows 2 summaries a day and 3 AI feeds, and each higher plan raises both limits.

Browser extension

Extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Yandex put feeds behind a toolbar icon that shows the unread count and opens new posts directly.

Team sharing and integrations

Professional adds team members with permissions, shared feeds and folders, public dashboards, and posting to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord and Telegram, along with webhooks and Zapier.

Folo

Feeds, RSSHub routes and inboxes

Subscribe to any RSS, Atom or JSON feed, or follow sites without a feed through RSSHub routes. OPML import and export are supported, and an inbox with its own email address receives newsletters.

AI summaries and translation

Summarizes an article on demand or automatically and shows a translation in English, Chinese, Japanese or French beside the original. Daily caps apply on the Free and Basic plans.

Folo AI

Ask questions about one article, a feed, a folder or everything you follow, and connect MCP services. Choosing the AI model and bringing your own API key start on the Plus plan.

Timeline summary and AI tasks

A timeline summary condenses new entries into one digest. Scheduled AI tasks write daily or weekly briefings and deliver them to chat or email; they are included from Plus.

Layouts for each format

Articles, social posts, pictures, videos and podcasts each get their own layout, a reader view fetches full article text, and text-to-speech reads articles aloud.

Actions and integrations

Rule-based Actions filter, star, rewrite, notify or summarize new entries. Articles can be sent to Obsidian, Readwise, Instapaper, Zotero and other tools on paid plans.

Feeder

• Free$0

  200 feeds, 30-minute updates, 2 AI summaries a day and 3 AI feeds, with the web reader, browser extension and mobile apps.

• Plus$7.99

  per month, paid yearly; $9.99 paid monthly

  2,500 feeds, 5-minute updates, premium sources, dashboard, rules and filters, email summaries and 10 AI summaries a day.

• Professional$14.99

  per user / month, paid yearly; $19.99 paid monthly

  10,000 feeds, 1-minute updates, team sharing, public dashboards, feed creation, and Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Zapier and webhook integrations.

• EnterpriseCustom

  Customized limits, SSO/SAML login, custom permissions, API access, invoice billing and premium support.

Folo

• Free$0

  150 feed subscriptions, 30 RSSHub subscriptions, 1 list, 1 inbox, 1 action, 3 AI summaries and 1 text-to-speech a day.

• Basic$4.17

  per month, billed yearly ($49.99); $4.99 billed monthly

  1,000 feed subscriptions, 5 lists, 10 inboxes, 5 actions, 30 AI summaries and 300 AI translations a day, private subscriptions and integrations.

• Plus$8.33

  per month, billed yearly ($99.99); $9.99 billed monthly

  2,500 feed subscriptions, unlimited AI summaries, translations and text-to-speech, curated AI models, bring your own key, AI tasks and 5M AI credits.

• Pro$83.33

  per month, billed yearly ($999.99); $99.99 billed monthly

  25,000 feed subscriptions, 100 lists, 200 inboxes, 100 actions, all high-end AI models and 50M AI credits.

Feeder

• Annual discount

  20% to 25% off when paying yearly

  The pricing page shows Plus at $7.99 a month paid yearly against $9.99 paid monthly (20% less), and Professional at $14.99 against $19.99 per user (25% less).

Folo

• Annual discount

  Save 17% with yearly billing

  Folo's pricing page labels yearly billing as saving 17%: Basic is $49.99 a year against $4.99 a month, and Plus is $99.99 a year against $9.99 a month.