Compare
Taper and Feedbin
Feedbin is the reader people recommend when somebody asks for one that just works, and they are right to. This page is about the one thing it was never trying to do.
Without paying
Free30 days
Taper · Feedbin
A year, paid
$48$70
Taper · Feedbin
A day's reading
EndsDoesn't
Taper · Feedbin
The short answer
Feedbin has been a paid product since 2013 and has never pretended to be anything else. One plan, one price, and the source on GitHub under an MIT licence. It reads feeds, newsletters, podcasts and YouTube channels, and it is the service most of the well-liked native apps sync with.
Feedbin's answer
Be the purest place to read feeds. Keep what arrives, sync it everywhere, and leave the pace to you.
Taper's answer
Fill the number of items you set. End there, with nothing underneath the last one.
Move to Taper if
You want to read before you subscribe to anything
Feedbin is a thirty-day trial and then $7 a month. Taper's free tier is the whole app, with no number on the source list and no end date.
The list is well made and still never finishes
Feedbin is a calm place to read, and it is a list that keeps going. An edition here holds the number of items you set, and the last one has nothing underneath it.
You would rather not keep a list of what you have not read
Feedbin holds around four hundred waiting items per feed, for as long as they wait. Taper holds none, and shows no count, badge or dot anywhere.
A prolific source keeps crowding out a quiet one
Three tiers you assign per edition, then fair turns for the slots that are left. A site posting forty times a day and one posting weekly compete evenly.
Stay with Feedbin if
You read in Reeder, NetNewsWire or Unread
Feedbin is what those apps sync with, and it has an iOS app of its own. Taper is a web app that installs to the home screen, and no native app syncs with it.
Your newsletters arrive by email
Feedbin gives you an address to send them to. Taper reads a newsletter that publishes a feed, and one that only arrives by email has nowhere to land yet.
You listen to podcasts in your reader
Feedbin plays them, and Airshow is its companion app for that. Taper does not play audio.
You rely on actions and saved searches
Feedbin can star an item, mark it read or send a push notification when a rule matches, and its search has a real syntax. Taper filters an edition and acts on nothing.
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 | Feedbin |
|---|---|---|
| Without paying | The whole app, free | 30-day trial |
| Sources | Unlimited | No number stated |
| Paid tier, billed monthly | $5 | $7 |
| Paid tier, billed yearly | $48 | $70 |
| What is kept | Only what you save | The 400 most recent items per feed |
| Where a day's reading ends | At the size you set | It does not |
| Newsletters by email | Not yet | Yes |
| Podcasts, played | No | Yes |
| Native apps | None. Installs from the browser | Its own on iOS, and syncs with Reeder, NetNewsWire, Unread |
| Run it yourself | No | MIT licence, unsupported |
What Feedbin does better
Written down first, and not out of politeness. You are probably reading this while paying for Feedbin, which makes you the worst possible audience for a page that cannot be checked.
The apps you already like
Reeder, NetNewsWire, Unread and ReadKit all sync with Feedbin, and it has an iOS app of its own. If the app is where you read, Feedbin is the reason it works. Taper runs in a browser and installs to the home screen, which is not the same thing.
More than feeds, through one account
Newsletters by email, podcasts with a player, YouTube channels and Mastodon. Taper reads anything that publishes a feed, which covers channels and many newsletters, and it stops there.
Search and actions
An expressive search syntax, searches you can save, and actions that star, mark or notify as items arrive. Taper searches saved items only and automates nothing.
Open source, and paid from the first day
The code is public under an MIT licence, and the business has been subscriptions since 2013 with nothing else to sell. Running it yourself is possible and, in the project's own words, not recommended. 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.
A place to read, or an amount to read
The whole disagreement. Feedbin sets out to be the best possible place to read feeds and leaves how much to you. Taper asks how much first, fills exactly that, and ends. Neither puts a model in charge, which is why this is a closer comparison than the prices suggest.
What is kept
Feedbin stores the four hundred most recent items per feed, and what you have not read waits with no age on it. 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.
What the money is for
Feedbin has one plan and no free tier, which is an honest model: you are the customer and there is nothing else for sale. Taper's free tier is the whole app, and $5 a month adds filter expressiveness and more editions. Nothing behind it may count a source or remove an article from your view.
Where it runs
Feedbin is a web app and the service behind a shelf of native ones, with an API they are built on. Taper is a web app only. On Pro an edition can be served at its own address, so another reader receives it already blended, but that is one feed out and not sync.
Moving from Feedbin
What comes across, what does not, and what it costs.
Will my Feedbin tags survive the move?
Yes. Feedbin's tags come out of its OPML export as folders, and each top-level folder becomes an edition here with its sources already in it. A feed you filed under two tags lands in both editions, which is fine: a source can sit in as many editions as you like, with a different tier in each. 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. Stars, actions and saved searches are Feedbin's own and do not travel in OPML, so keep a copy of anything starred that you want before you go. Newsletters sent to your Feedbin address stay there. Your Feedbin account is untouched by any of this.
Can I keep reading in NetNewsWire or Reeder?
Not by syncing, because Taper has no sync API. What there is, on Pro, is an edition served at its own address: subscribe to that address in the app you already use and it receives the edition blended and filtered, ending where the edition ends. It is a feed like any other, so read state stays in your app.
Is Taper cheaper than Feedbin?
Pro is $5 a month or $48 a year, against $7 a month or $70 a year for Feedbin. The larger difference is before that: Feedbin is a thirty-day trial and then paid, and Taper's free tier is the whole app with no number on the source list. Figures checked 21 September 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.