Add feeds by URL, and bring your subscriptions with you

Getting your feeds into a new reader used to be one of those small frictions that made switching harder than it needed to be. Copy the exact feed URL, paste it, wait to see if it worked, repeat. And if you were moving from another reader, you'd need to export your list first and hope the formats were compatible.

Spoonfed tries to make both of those things less annoying.

Auto-discovery

When you paste a URL into the feed input, Spoonfed checks whether it's a feed URL directly. If it's a plain website URL, it fetches the page and looks for <link rel="alternate"> tags, the standard way websites declare their feed addresses. Most blogs and publications include these. If one is found, Spoonfed subscribes to it automatically.

In practice this means you can paste https://example.com just as easily as https://example.com/feed.xml. Either works.

OPML import and export

If you're coming from another RSS reader, export your subscriptions as an OPML file and import it in Spoonfed's Settings. It will subscribe you to all the feeds in the file, skipping any duplicates, and start fetching content in the background.

Export works the same way in reverse, your full subscription list as a standard OPML file, compatible with any other reader. Your feeds are yours; you can take them anywhere.

Why this matters

Lock-in is one of the things that makes people wary of investing in a new tool. If your subscription list is trapped in one app, switching becomes a project. OPML support means it never is. Try Spoonfed, and if you decide it's not for you, export your feeds and leave. Nothing is lost.