![]() There is no way to move your feeds from Google Reader (for now), but its content discovery feature is quite brilliant and will be more useful in a long run. It brings the best of Flipboard and Zite, placing it in one easy-to-use web app. Based on content curation and content discovery platforms like Flipboard and Zite, Prismatic offers a desktop variant too and can be the best Google Reader alternative you’re looking for. Much lesser known but a very reliable Google Reader alternative is Prismatic. So if you are a Google Reader user and using feedly, you are covered: the transition will be seamless.” 2. “When Google Reader shuts down, feedly will seamlessly transition to the Normandy back end. ![]() What’s more? Feedly has just announced that they are working on a project called Normandy, which is a feedly clone of the Google Reader API – running on Google App Engine. It comes bundled with some useful features like ‘save for later’, social media integration, easy search and subscribe, and more. It’s available for Web, Android & iOS platforms. Now that is going to be rendered useless soon, it should instead market its ease of use and availability on web as well as mobile platforms. One of the most marketed features of Feedly has been ‘sync with Google Reader’. Feedlyīy far the most popular RSS feed reader (other than Google Reader), Feedly has been around for a long time, and one of the few services which has a decent way to import and move your feeds from Google Reader. Well, that’s simply not the best alternative for Google Reader. Ironically, Google is blaming the shutdown of Reader on low usage and focus on fewer products, and is suggesting that people should instead use Google Currents & Google Plus. Regarded by many as the Best RSS Feed reader, not just because it was free, but for the ease of use, Google Reader was a power tool for many power users. Definitely not amongst the most beautiful web services, Google Reader still has (or had) a decent user-base who relied on RSS feeds for their daily consumption of news. Those users who rely and trust Google a hell lot. Google has one-upped its users once again.
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