I jumped over to Feedbin when Reeder announced support for it (I am another Reeder die-hard). My experience has been somewhat mixed. I am excited about the server change but I am a bit annoyed that there wasn't a notification about it (I had to go to the blog/twitter to find out why I couldn't get feeds to refresh).
The update to load starred articles from Google Reader excited me quite a bit. It sounds like the business is sustainable and I'm hopeful for its future.
After going over reederapps post and twitters etc. I have a feeling, the next update Silvios is talking about might have it's own backend, but he did say it wouldn't be ready for a few weeks, so I am sort of telling myself, that theres a good chance that whatever I pick might only be for temporary purposes anyway and Export OPML is supert important.
Feed Wrangler also has that single developer problem. And while the paid aspect is supposed to be make it self-sustaining, the number of users is critical to whether it is a side-project or something that is a full time job.
I really wish we could see a year into the future, to see which of these services really lasted and were well maintained with new feature updates.
FEEDBIN (2/month or 20/year)
+ best of the bunch
+ api on github
+ moved to new servers, better speed ahead
+ export available
+ aesthetic & functional
+ some app support on most platforms
+ feels like designed for heavy RSS user consumption
+ excellent reviews around the web
- 3 day only trial
- single developer and seemingly developed as a side project (not sure if + or -)
- unsubstantiated rumors about speed sync w reeder.app. (worried - where there's smoke theres fire)
FEEDLY (free)
+ integration w/ ifttt (can be amazing, for non-hosted experiments)
+ bigger team behind, slightly reassuring
+ aggresive about recruiting google reader users, made changes to accommodate.
- web client - more magazine-ish than reader-ish, even after their new update
- NO EXPORT, even after the new update. Looks like this may be strategic.
- mostly feedly's own apps only
FEED WRANGLER (paid 20/year)
+ smart streams
+ some decent app support
+ api on github, twitter
+ native phone apps
- AWFUL looking web ui thats hard to get past
- single developer (EDIT: tx for the reply)
4. FEED_A_FEVER (30/forever)
+ innovative
+ well designed
+ long time, so pretty cleaned up regards to bugs etc.
+ excellent reviews
+ trustworthy dev behind this
+ native app
+ good third party apps
+ api
+ self-hosted
- dev claims he is overwhelmed w/ life and other game related projects atm and will not be able to focus on this.
- have to worry about hosting etc.