Getting RSS feeds by email: three ways
Not ready for a feed reader? You can receive new posts from any feed in your inbox. Three ways to set it up.
Reading the web by feed since 2005
RSS is still the best way to follow the sites you care about.
FeedShow publishes plain-spoken guides to RSS readers, feeds and OPML files, plus a few free tools that run in your browser. No algorithm, no account needed.
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Why feeds are useful again in the age of AI assistants
AI tools and agents need clean, dated, structured lists of what a site published. That is exactly what a feed is.
Every podcast is an RSS feed (and why that matters)
Behind every podcast app there is an RSS feed pointing at audio files. That simple fact keeps podcasting open.
Everything about the RSS feeds WordPress makes for you
WordPress creates dozens of feeds automatically: for the site, each category, tag, author and even searches. Where they are and how to tune them.
RSS readers for iPhone and Mac: NetNewsWire, Reeder and the rest
The Apple platforms have some of the best feed readers anywhere. Which to choose, and how to sync them.
Can you still make money from an RSS feed?
FeedShow once shared ad revenue with publishers. That model is gone, but feeds can still bring readers who pay. What works in 2026.
Feedly vs Inoreader: which one for you
The two biggest hosted readers do the same job very differently. A month with each, with the same feeds.
RSS, Atom and JSON Feed: does the format matter?
Three formats, one job. For readers the choice is invisible; for publishers there are a few reasons to prefer one.
Thirteen years after Google Reader: what its shutdown taught us
Google Reader closed on 1 July 2013. The reader world it left behind is smaller, more varied and, in some ways, healthier.
Free tools
OPML Builder
Turn a list of feed URLs into an OPML file you can import into any reader, or read one back into a list.
Subscribe to a feed
Paste a feed address and get one-click subscribe links for Feedly, Inoreader, NewsBlur and The Old Reader.
The old FeedShow reader
What FeedShow was, why the reader closed, and where its old links lead now.