Curated Feeds vs Feedly
Feedly is the default answer when someone asks for an RSS reader: boards, sync, and a web app. Curated Feeds is the answer when you do not want an account attached to your reading. Here is the honest trade between the two, checked in October 2026.
The comparison at a glance
| Curated Feeds | Feedly | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free forever, no premium tier | Free plan for basic reading; Pro and Pro+ are paid |
| Account required | No | Yes |
| Data stored on | Your device only | Feedly servers |
| Free-plan limits | None beyond Android 8.0+ | Limited by design; paid plans lift the limits |
| Offline reading | Full article cache | Yes |
| Platforms | Android 8.0+ | Android, iOS, web |
| Multi-device sync | No | Yes |
| Boards and AI summaries | No | AI feeds and RSS Builder on Pro+ |
| Adding feeds | Paste any RSS 2.0 / Atom / RDF URL directly | Feed directory and search, plus pasted URLs |
Sources, checked October 2026: Feedly’s plans and pricing page and their documentation on Free, Pro, Pro+ and Enterprise. Free-tier limits and prices change, so check Feedly’s own pages before deciding. The structural difference does not change: Feedly’s features run on its servers, so an account is the price of admission, while Curated Feeds runs entirely on your device.
When Feedly is the better choice
If you read on more than one device, Feedly wins outright. Your feed list, read state, and boards follow your account to Android, iOS, and the web, and that transfer is the part Curated Feeds cannot offer.
Server-side organization with boards and collections also belongs to the hosted product, as do the AI feeds, AI summaries and newsletters on the paid tiers, and team or shared collections. Curated Feeds deliberately does not compete there, because every one of those features requires a server and an account.
How to switch from Feedly
- In Feedly, open Settings and export your subscriptions as an OPML file.
- Open the OPML file in any text editor and copy each
xmlUrlvalue, or use Feedly’s share sheet per feed. - In Curated Feeds, paste each URL into the add-feed field. Any RSS 2.0, Atom, or RDF URL is accepted directly, with no directory approval step.
- Keep Feedly installed for a week as a fallback, then uninstall it once the new queue feels right.
Your read state does not transfer, because it lives in Feedly’s account. The feeds themselves are just URLs, and those move over in minutes.
Questions
Can I import my Feedly subscriptions into Curated Feeds?
Yes, manually. In Feedly open Settings, then export your feeds as an OPML file. Open that file in a text editor, copy each xmlUrl value, and paste the URLs into Curated Feeds one by one. There is no account-to-account import because Curated Feeds has no account.
Is Curated Feeds really free, or is there a catch?
There is no server bill to cover, so there is no premium tier and no ads. One free build, distributed as a direct APK from this site and from Uptodown, version 1.2.0, about 67 MB.
What do I lose by leaving Feedly?
Sync across phone, tablet, and laptop; the web reader; boards and collections; and the Pro AI summaries and newsletters. All of those need a server and an account, which is exactly what Curated Feeds does not have.
Which one should I pick if I read on both phone and laptop?
Feedly, if cross-device sync is the point. Curated Feeds is the better fit when the phone is your only reader and you would rather have no account, no ads, and nothing synced to a server.
Try Curated Feeds
Free forever, no account, no ads: version 1.2.0, about 67 MB, Android 8.0 and up, as a direct APK from this site or from Uptodown. Add a few feeds from the starter list and see whether reading without a server behind it suits you.