Feedly vs Folo

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.