follow.it
follow.it
Who runs follow.it, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest RSS feed reader alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Inoreader
Measured from follow.it’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit follow.it01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs follow.it
follow.it
Never miss important news again, without information overload. As publisher, turn your news into revenue and increase traffic.
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What follow.it tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
7 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 8 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to follow.it
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to follow.it, thumbs down if it isn’t.
16 of the 60 sites closest to follow.it match.
- 01
Inoreader - RSS reader and news aggregator
With Inoreader, content comes to you the minute it's available. Follow websites, social media feeds, podcasts, blogs, and newsletters. Enjoy what's important to you, all in one place.
Very close - 02
Feedly Threat Intelligence: Collect, analyze, and share actionable intelligence
Feedly Threat Intelligence is the leading solution to collect, analyze, and share actionable cyber threat intel like vulnerabilities, cyberattacks, threat actors, and IoCs.
Close - 03
FeedPress – RSS Analytics and Podcast Hosting, Done Right
The most trusted solution for bloggers and podcasters to manage, track, and grow their RSS feeds with powerful analytics and seamless hosting.
Very close - 04
Substack
Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.
Very close - 05
Jeeng | Monetization and Personalization Solutions for Publishers
With Jeeng, publishers can accurately curate content and ads and deliver them directly to subscribers at the right time, on the right channel.
Very close - 06
Ghost: The best open source blog & newsletter platform
Beautiful, modern publishing with email newsletters and paid subscriptions built-in. Used by Platformer, 404Media, Lever News, Tangle, The Browser, and thousands more.
Very close - 07
Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager
For your inspiration, read later, media and stuff
Very close - 08
Buttondown — Newsletter software for people like you
Buttondown is the last email platform you'll migrate to. We're focused on your success, not on bleeding you dry.
Very close - 09
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Strikingly is the best free website builder for anyone to create a gorgeous, mobile-friendly website easily. Quick, simple and stylish. Make your own free website today.
Very close - 10
Pusher | Leader In Realtime Technologies
Simple, scalable and reliable. Hosted realtime APIs loved by developers and trusted by giants. Build live dashboards, notifications, geotracking, chat and more.
Very close - 11
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Very close - 12
Brevo: Email & SMS Marketing, CRM & Automation Platform
Brevo is the most intuitive all-in-one customer engagement platform: email and SMS marketing, automation, CRM, live chat, and transactional email. Try it free.
Very close - 13
Client Challenge
digital library
Very close - 14
NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet
NextDNS protects you from all kinds of security threats, blocks ads and trackers on websites and in apps and provides a safe and supervised Internet for kids — on all devices and on all networks.
Very close - 15
Build, manage, & optimize real-time apps at scale | PubNub
Power your real-time app with PubNub - the world's largest pub/sub network. Scale to 3 trillion API calls/month, with <30ms global delivery. Start building now!
Very close - 16
Privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative | Real-time Web Analytics | Clicky
Clicky's privacy-friendly web analytics is simply the best Google Analytics alternative. Monitor, analyze, & react to your website's traffic in real-time.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles follow.it’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones follow.it uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what follow.it adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 7 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,216
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 209 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to follow.it’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CSS & UI
- Tailwind CSS page source: --tw-translate-y:
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a577cae94c696134-HAM
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS aron.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=TBBPGYZ94TpWSFr5Ix7NT9dABTXr3H_CFgxO4AFvZ2c
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 16/20
- Google Workspace · not on follow.it 15/20
- Cloudflare 10/20
- Cloudflare DNS 10/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on follow.it 8/20
- PHP · not on follow.it 8/20
- WordPress · not on follow.it 7/20
- Apple Business · not on follow.it 7/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on follow.it 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on follow.it 6/20
- React · not on follow.it 6/20
- Amazon CloudFront · not on follow.it 6/20
- Google Tag Manager 6/20
- jQuery · not on follow.it 6/20
- Atlassian · not on follow.it 5/20
- SendGrid · not on follow.it 5/20