# Fraidycat review (2026): is it any good? > Follow people across blogs and social sites without a news feed Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Fraidycat is a browser extension and desktop app that tracks the people you follow on blogs, YouTube, Mastodon, Twitter, Twitch and other sites. Instead of one long feed it shows a list of recently active individuals, each summarized in two lines. It is free and its source code is published on GitHub. - **Category:** Read Later & Bookmarks - **Made by:** Kicks Condor - **Website:** https://fraidyc.at - **Runs on:** Browser extension, macOS, Windows, Linux - **Who should skip it:** Skip it if you want a phone app: mobile apps are only on the wish list. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Fraidycat is free to use. - **Pricing model:** Free - **Free plan:** Everything: the site lists no paid plan. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Free | $0 | The Firefox and Chrome extensions and the desktop apps, with no paid tier listed. | Read from https://fraidyc.at on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Fraidycat before buying. ## Key features - **People, not posts:** The main page lists each follow as a two-line summary of their recent activity, rather than a feed of individual posts. - **Many source types:** Reads RSS, Atom and JSON Feed, plus Twitter, Instagram and SoundCloud by picking details out of their pages. It also finds the feeds for Pinboard, YouTube and Reddit. - **Importance levels:** Each follow is set to real-time, daily, weekly, monthly or yearly, which controls how often it is checked and whether it stays on the main page. - **Tags:** Follows are grouped by tag, and a tab bar on the main page filters the list by tag. - **Sync through your browser:** Follows sync between computers by way of the browser's own sync, with no central Fraidycat server. ## Good for - People who follow hundreds of individuals and want an activity list, not an inbox - Readers who follow the same person on a blog, YouTube and social accounts ## Worth knowing - The extensions were last released in May 2021 and the desktop apps in September 2020, according to the site. - The Mac, Windows and Linux apps are marked as having no online sync. - The site lists mobile apps and keyword filters only as things it would like to add. - Pages for Twitter, Instagram and SoundCloud are read by scraping, so they may break when those sites change. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 3.0 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Fraidycat is a free browser extension and desktop app that follows people across blogs and social sites, sorted by how much you care about them. It costs nothing. But the extensions were last released in May 2021 and the desktop apps in September 2020, the desktop apps have no sync, and there is no phone app. - **Value for money: A.** Free to download and run, with no paid plan listed anywhere on the site. The reading category's middle price is $4 a month. - **Free plan and trial: A.** Everything is free, with no paid tier on the site. - **Features: C.** It follows people, not posts, across many source types, with importance levels and tags. That is a smaller job than a full reader, and the site lists mobile apps and keyword filters only as things it would like to add. - **Ease of use: B.** No store rating on record. You install an extension and start adding people, with little to set up. - **Platforms and integrations: C.** Browser extensions and desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux only, with no phone app, and the desktop apps have no online sync. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Fraidycat's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among read-later and bookmark apps - Fraidycat's GPA of 3.0 is higher than 46 of the 66 other read-later and bookmark apps we grade, and level with 14. - It stands best on free plan and trial (A, above 47 of 66) and worst on features (C, above 0). - Fraidycat has no paid plan. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.3 out of 4. Nothing scores higher for less, though at least one tool matches that score at a lower price. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/reading ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Fraidycat is free, so making your own would save you nothing. It is one of the better ones too: its GPA of 3.0 is higher than 46 of the 66 other read-later and bookmark apps we grade. - You could make: RSS reader and bookmarks: an app builder makes these well. - You could not: Apps for macOS, Windows and Linux that stay in step with each other. - You could not: It plugs into other products, YouTube, Mastodon and Reddit among them. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with YouTube, Mastodon, Reddit, Pinboard, Twitch, SoundCloud, Tumblr, Medium **Tags:** RSS reader, Open source, Bookmarks ## Alternatives - [Feedbin](https://toolgpa.com/tools/feedbin): Paid RSS reader for feeds, newsletters, podcasts and YouTube. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/feedbin-vs-fraidycat) - [NetNewsWire](https://toolgpa.com/tools/netnewswire): Free, open-source RSS reader for Mac, iPhone and iPad. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fraidycat-vs-netnewswire) - [Miniflux](https://toolgpa.com/tools/miniflux): Minimalist open-source feed reader, self-hosted or hosted. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fraidycat-vs-miniflux) - [FreshRSS](https://toolgpa.com/tools/freshrss): Free, self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/fraidycat-vs-freshrss) - [Feedbro](https://toolgpa.com/tools/feedbro): RSS feed reader as a browser extension with a rule engine. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/feedbro-vs-fraidycat) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://fraidyc.at Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/fraidycat Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).