Blogtrottr
Get any RSS or Atom feed delivered to your inbox as email, free with unlimited subscriptions.
About
Blogtrottr is the inverse of a reader: instead of pulling you into an app, it pushes feeds to your inbox. Enter a feed URL and an email address, and it monitors the feed and emails you new items — as instant single emails, daily digests, or weekly digests, in HTML or plain text, with the full article in the email rather than just a headline. It has run since around 2010, making it one of the longest-lived RSS-to-email services.
The free tier is Blogtrottr's calling card: unlimited subscriptions, keyword filters to include or exclude items, import/export of your feed list, customizable email subjects, thumbnails, and even PDF or text attachments for offline reading — funded by ads inside the emails. A paid No Ads tier (roughly $19/year per third-party 2026 comparisons) removes the advertising while keeping the unlimited count. Independent reviewers praise it as simple, cost-effective, and generous, while noting the ad-supported emails are the price of free. Honest tradeoffs: the ads can feel intrusive if you're paying attention, the interface is utilitarian rather than modern, and it's a small proprietary service — your subscriptions live on someone else's server with no public API.
What it can do
- Turns any RSS or Atom feed into email: instant, daily, or weekly delivery
- Free tier with unlimited subscriptions
- Full articles in the email, not just headlines
- Keyword filters to include or exclude items by content
- HTML or plain text emails; PDF or text attachments for offline reading
- Import/export of subscription lists
- Customizable subjects, sender names, thumbnails, and digest schedules
- Paid No Ads tier removes email advertising
Setup
Go to blogtrottr.com, enter a feed URL and your email address, and confirm the subscription email. Choose instant, daily, or weekly delivery; HTML or plain text; full articles or summaries. Add keyword filters to include or exclude items. Import or export your whole subscription list as needed. Upgrade to the No Ads tier from your account to remove email advertising.
Prerequisites
An email address; a feed URL for each subscription.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: operating since ~2010 with independent reviews (NetworkWorld, MakeUseOf) confirming the unlimited free tier, digest schedules, keyword filters, and ad-supported model; 2026 comparisons confirm the No Ads paid tier. Strengths: unmatched free-tier generosity (unlimited subscriptions), simple to use, decade-plus longevity. Docked for: (1) ads inside free emails; (2) utilitarian interface; (3) small proprietary service with no public API. License: proprietary, freemium.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 6.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 3.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · No GitHub repo (proprietary); operating since ~2010; free tier has unlimited subscriptions with keyword filters, HTML/plain-text, digests, import/export
- · Full articles in email; PDF/text attachments for offline reading; independent reviews (NetworkWorld, MakeUseOf) confirm the model
- · Ads inside free emails; utilitarian interface; no public API; subscriptions live on the provider's servers
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.