15 Free Google Reader Alternatives

If you’re an avid Google Reader user, you’ll have to say goodbye to the service on July 1. But don’t worry: There are plenty of free alternatives, from basic readers to more comprehensive social readers. Here’s a look at some of your best options.

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Curata is a newer, basic RSS feed that offers a clean, streamlined design across multiple platforms. You can browse your feed by viewing all articles, flagged articles or uncategorized ones, but you can’t yet view by individual feed source. Curata also lets you vote up or down articles, tweet them, share on Facebook or send via email.

EldonReader, which describes itself as “an interactive digital magazine” transforms your RSS feed into Flipboard-esque viewing experience across mobile, Web or tablet.

EldonReader is available for download in the Google Play store or the Chrome Web store.

G2reader is a basic RSS feed with many of the standard features: sorting by unread, starred and all items; and a handful of settings including a highlighter feature that will surface particular keywords; and an importer to upload your Google Reader subscriptions via an OPML file.

If you’re looking for something as basic as Google Reader, RSS Owl may be a suitable replacement. This tool lets you display news feeds side by side in multiple tabs and features a number of views from “grouping mode” to “newspaper view” and keyword feeds.

Skimr is a reader designed to help you do just that: Skim the day’s headlines without the distraction of images (if that’s what you prefer). Skimr organizes all of your feeds into one column and stories are displayed chronologically.

You can choose to read the top headlines from a handful of preselected websites, or import your own from Google Reader.