Feedly vs Flipboard
Price, platforms and features side by side. The table says where each price was read and when.
Feedly
News reader for RSS feeds, with AI filtering on paid plans
Where they differ
- Feedly starts at $6.99 per month, billed annually (Pro). Flipboard is free.
- Only Feedly lists a browser extension.
- Feedly also covers rSS reader and highlights.
- Flipboard also covers bookmarks.
At a glance
| Feedly | ||
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free plan | Free |
| Starts at | $6.99 per month, billed annually (Pro) | Free |
| Free plan | Free plan on the web and mobile apps: follow up to 100 feeds and organize them into 3 folders. | The whole app is free: the US App Store lists Flipboard as Free with no in-app purchases, and the Google Play listing notes that it contains ads. |
| Free trial | None listed | None listed |
| Web | ||
| iOS | ||
| Android | ||
| Browser extension | ||
| Made by | Feedly Inc. | Flipboard Inc. |
| Price read from | feedly.com | apps.apple.com |
| Checked | Oct 5, 2026 | Oct 5, 2026 |
Who each one suits
Feedly
- Following many news sites, blogs and publications in one reader
- Professionals who track topics or companies and want AI filtering
- Teams that need shared feeds, boards and intelligence tools
- Browsing news and magazine-style stories by topic rather than by feed
- Curating articles into Magazines to share with a group or the public
- Following Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky accounts next to news sources
Worth knowing
Feedly
- The free plan stops at 100 feeds and 3 folders.
- Search, notes and highlights need Pro; newsletters, RSS Builder and Feedly AI need Pro+.
- Pro+ is listed with yearly billing only, while Pro can also be paid monthly at $8.99.
- There is no desktop app: Feedly runs in a browser and on iOS and Android, with Chrome and Firefox extensions.
- Flipboard is supported by advertising; the Google Play listing notes that the app contains ads.
- No paid tier is listed, so there is no option to pay for an ad-free version.
- No desktop app is listed: the App Store shows iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, with the website for computers.
Key features
Feedly
- Feeds and folders
- Follow news sites, blogs, publications, YouTube channels, podcasts and Reddit feeds in one reader. The free plan allows 100 feeds in 3 folders.
- Boards, notes and highlights
- Save articles to personal boards to come back to later. Adding notes and highlighting sentences is part of the Pro plan.
- Search
- Search across the sources you follow to find an article again. Search is listed as a Pro feature on the pricing page.
- Feedly AI
- On Pro+, Feedly AI Feeds track topics across the web, mute filters hide unwanted subjects and deduplication removes repeated stories.
- Newsletters and RSS Builder
- Pro+ can receive email newsletters and Google News feeds inside Feedly, and RSS Builder creates feeds for websites that do not offer RSS.
- Sharing and team tools
- Pro saves to Evernote and OneNote and shares to LinkedIn, Buffer, IFTTT and Zapier. Enterprise adds team boards, newsletters, Slack and Microsoft Teams.
- Personalized For You feed
- Follow topics, Magazines and people to build a feed that updates in real time, then tune it by asking for more or less of a kind of story or muting sources.
- Magazines
- Save stories into your own Magazines for a project, a hobby or later reading. A Magazine can be made public, and Group Magazines let others contribute.
- Fediverse following
- Follow people who post on Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky so their stories appear alongside what you follow on Flipboard.
- Daily Edition and Explore
- The Daily Edition shows the day's news, the Explore tab browses by category and Magazine, and a Community tab features curators to follow.
- Topic newsletters
- Flipboard sends email newsletters on its most popular topics, such as the Tech Briefing, the Climate Briefing and Wanderlust.
- Site and curator tools
- The tools page offers an embeddable Magazine and storyboard widget, follow and share buttons for websites, and a Flip it browser button for saving links.
Plans
Feedly
Free$0
Follow up to 100 feeds and organize them into 3 folders, on the web and in the mobile apps.
Pro$6.99
per month, billed annually ($83.88), or $8.99 billed monthly
1,000 feeds, notes and highlights, search, saving to Evernote and OneNote, sharing to LinkedIn, Buffer, IFTTT and Zapier, and no sponsored ads.
Pro+$12.37
per month, billed annually ($148.45); no monthly option listed
Everything in Pro, plus up to 2,500 feeds, Feedly AI Feeds, mute filters, deduplication, newsletter and Google News feeds, and RSS Builder.
EnterpriseCustom
Up to 7,500 feeds, team feeds and boards, newsletters, Slack and Microsoft Teams, API access, SSO/SAML, and market and threat intelligence.
Free$0
The personalized feed, following, and Magazine curation on the web, iOS and Android. Supported by advertising.
Ways to pay less
Feedly
- Annual discount
About 22% off Pro with annual billing
Pro costs $83.88 a year on annual billing, shown as $6.99 a month, against $8.99 billed monthly. That works out to about 22% less.
- Other savings
Pro+ discounted for the first year
The pricing page shows Pro+ at $8.93 a month billed annually ($107.17) instead of $12.37 ($148.45), labels it a 30% saving and puts the first-year saving at $41.
- Nonprofit
Nonprofit and academic discounts on Enterprise
Feedly's help center says discounts for nonprofit and academic organizations are available on the Enterprise plan only, on request by email.
No public discounts listed.
