Compare
Taper and Feedly
Feedly is the reader most people mean when they say they use one. Taper is not a better version of it. It is the other answer to the same question.
Sources, free tier
Unlimited100
Taper · Feedly
A year, paid
$48$72+
Taper · Feedly
A day's reading
EndsDoesn't
Taper · Feedly
The short answer
For thirteen years Feedly has been good at the thing it set out to do: hold everything you follow, and hand you the tools to sort it afterwards. Roughly fourteen million accounts are the evidence that it works.
Feedly's answer
Capture everything. Rank it, file it, and show you how much is left.
Taper's answer
Fill the number of items you set. End there, with nothing underneath the last one.
Move to Taper if
You follow more than a hundred sources
Feedly Free counts them and stops at a hundred. Taper never counts them, on either tier, and that is written into the pricing model rather than into a plan that could be revised.
The first thing you meet is how far behind you are
There is no count here. Not in the rail, not beside a source, not on the app icon.
You would rather write the rules than trust a model
Three tiers you assign by hand decide what rises, and the whole system fits in a sentence.
You are paying mostly to raise a number
Pro and Pro+ run $72 and $99 a year, and more month to month. Taper is $5 a month or $48 a year, and what it adds is filter expressiveness rather than a bigger figure.
Stay with Feedly if
You use it for work
Market Intelligence and Threat Intelligence start around $1,600 a month and do a job Taper has no ambition anywhere near.
You need a reader in an app store today
Taper is a web app that installs to the home screen. Native apps are planned and not shipped, and saying otherwise would be a promise on somebody else's schedule.
You want Leo
If a model reading ahead of you is the help you are looking for, Taper will never offer it.
Side by side
Values rather than ticks, because a tick is an opinion and a figure is something you can go and check.
| Feature | Taper | Feedly |
|---|---|---|
| Sources, free tier | Unlimited | 100 |
| Sources, paid tier | Unlimited | 1,000 on Pro · 2,500 on Pro+ |
| Paid tier, billed monthly | $5 | $6.99 on Pro · $12.99 on Pro+ |
| Paid tier, billed yearly | $48 | $72 on Pro · $99 on Pro+ |
| What sets the order | Source tiers you set | Recency, or Leo on Pro+ |
| A figure for what you did not read | None, anywhere | Beside every source |
| Where a day's reading ends | At the size you set | It does not |
| Search across old items | Saved items only | Paid tiers only |
| Everything back out as OPML | Free | Free |
What Feedly does better
Written down first, and not out of politeness. You are probably reading this while paying for Feedly, which makes you the worst possible audience for a page that cannot be checked.
Work that is not reading
Market Intelligence and Threat Intelligence are built for teams monitoring a competitor set or a threat surface. A different product with a different job, and nothing here replaces it.
An app in the store
Native iOS and Android, shipped, with the offline behaviour that comes with them. Taper holds down to 320px in a browser and installs to the home screen, which is not the same thing.
A model that reads ahead of you
Leo learns what you skip and pushes it down. Whether that is help or a second algorithm to manage is a real disagreement. But it works, and Taper has deliberately never built one.
Thirteen years of not going anywhere
Feedly took in most of Google Reader's readers in 2013 and is still here. Taper is new, and new is a risk you are entitled to price in.
Where they actually differ
Not a feature list. Four places the two products disagree about what a reader is for, and every smaller difference falls out of one of them.
The number on your source list
Feedly counts sources: a hundred free, a thousand on Pro, two and a half thousand on Pro+. Taper counts none, on either tier. The edition size is what meters attention, so a second ceiling underneath it would be an admission that the first one does not work.
One ends and one does not
The actual disagreement, and everything else follows from it. Feedly is built so that nothing escapes you. An edition here is a fixed number of items with nothing beneath the last one: no infinite scroll, no button that loads more, no figure for what is still waiting.
Who decides what rises
Feedly's answer is recency, and on Pro+ it is Leo. Taper's is three tiers you assign yourself, so a source posting forty times a day and one posting weekly compete on equal footing for the same slots.
What happens to the rest of it
Feedly keeps it and shows you how much there is. Taper keeps no copy of an article you did not save. Anything still current arrives on your next refresh, and anything older is with the publisher, who never stopped hosting it.
Moving from Feedly
What comes across, what does not, and what it costs.
Will my Feedly folders survive the move?
Yes, and they become the structure rather than being flattened into one pile. Export OPML from Feedly, import it here, and each top-level folder becomes an edition with its sources already in it. There is a flat mode if you would rather start with everything in one and split it later.
What does not come across?
Read state, because there is nothing here to receive it. Taper stores none. Leo's training goes, since there is no model to hand it to. Boards and Read Later do not travel in OPML, so save anything from them you want to keep before you go. Your Feedly account is untouched by any of this.
I have more than fifteen folders. Is that a problem?
The free tier holds fifteen editions, so an OPML file with more top-level folders than that will not import one-to-one. Import it flat and split it up, or bring the folders you actually read. Sources are the thing that is never counted, and a hundred and fifty of them can sit in one edition on the free tier.
Is Taper cheaper than Feedly?
Pro is $5 a month or $48 a year, against $72 a year for Feedly Pro and $99 for Pro+. Both of those are the discounted annual rate, so month to month they are $6.99 and $12.99. The more useful comparison is the free tiers, though: Feedly Free stops at a hundred sources with no search, and Taper's is the whole app with no number on the source list. Figures checked 15 August 2026.
Decide how much news is enough.
Bring the sources you already read. Set a size. Reach the end of it, and find nothing underneath.
Free. No card, and bring every source you follow.