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            "tagline": "Paid RSS reader with web, iOS, Mac and Android apps",
            "summary": "Feedbin is a paid RSS reader from Feedbin, Inc. that follows websites, newsletters, podcasts and YouTube channels. It syncs with iOS, Mac and Android apps and costs $7 a month or $70 a year after a 30-day trial.",
            "developer": "Feedbin, Inc.",
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                "No free plan after the 30-day trial",
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            "page": "https://listme.name/software/freshrss",
            "tagline": "Free self-hosted RSS and Atom aggregator with web scraping",
            "summary": "FreshRSS is a free, self-hosted RSS and Atom feed aggregator released under AGPL-3.0. It includes a web reader, saved searches, OPML import and export, web scraping for sites without feeds, and support for third-party mobile apps.",
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        "Only Feedbin runs on iOS.",
        "Only Feedbin runs on Android.",
        "FreshRSS is open source; Feedbin is not.",
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