Brief

Brief makes reading RSS feeds as easy and intuitive as it gets. Designed to have exactly the right set of features, it is powerful and simple at the same time. Feeds are presented on a seamless, interactive page which let's you bookmark and tag items with a single click.

Total ratings

4.17 (Rating count: 188)

User review summary

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Pros
  • Flexible and great feed reader
  • User-friendly experience overall
  • Longtime favorite for many users
  • Great integration with Firefox
  • Dark mode available
Cons
  • Search function not working for years
  • Issues with feeds not loading or displaying properly
  • Problems with feed organization and bookmarks
  • Automatic message deletion upon reading
  • Subscribing mechanism seems broken
Most mentioned
  • Search box issues
  • Feed organization problems
  • Blank loading screen
  • Automatic message deletion
  • Need for video embedding in feeds
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Recent reviews

Recent rating average: 3.90
All time rating average: 4.17
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Date Author Rating Comment
2024-08-26 Firefox user 18569313 This was good once but since one of the FFs in the late 110s it just doesn't run. It's possible to tell it's there - options menus exist, some websites show the subscribe icon, but there's no obvious way to open the reader itself and it may have lost the feed list. Update: see the response below, this is due to FF UX jank. Click on the "puzzle piece" extensions button, sight the list of extensions, right click on Brief, pick "Pin to toolbar" from the dropdown.
2024-08-10 igorlogius
2024-05-13 Breno please add embed videos content to play on the feed i need this for youtube using iframe
2024-05-08 djarr
2024-05-03 cbars
2024-04-27 Firefox user 16357508
2023-12-07 the_nort
2023-05-29 Guido I have used brief for year, and think it's great. For the past 2 days it will not load any sites - it's just blank. Suggestions?
2023-01-21 Nick I don't understand addon's functionality from it's description
2022-07-28 Firefox user 12685044 Any updates on the search box? This feeds reader is the best and most flexible you could possibly find for browsers, in my opinion. It was fantastic, until the search box stopped working. The search box is the absolutely essential base part of this reader. It enabled searching through abstracts and reduce the posts only to matches. Otherwise, reading through 10000 entries per day is impossible. Almost 5 years past, but the search option still not working. I'd be willing to pay the developers to get the search box working.
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