Migration
Leaving Inoreader
Get your list out first. It takes about a minute and it works whether or not you ever come back here. The rest of this page is what the file contains, and where you can take it.
Export your subscriptions
In the web app, open Preferences → Import, Export, Backup and download the OPML file. OPML is a plain list of the sites you follow, and every feed reader can read it.
Do this even if you are not going anywhere. A subscription list you cannot produce on demand is a list you do not own.
The automatic backups are the paid part — the export is not
Inoreader can also keep OPML backups for you, writing a new one every time your subscriptions or folders change, and it can push them to Dropbox or Google Drive. That is a Professional feature: their own announcement puts it as “as soon as you have a Professional account”.
Downloading the file yourself from the same screen is the manual path, and it is the one this page is about. If you are cancelling a Professional plan, take a copy before the plan ends rather than after.
What that file carries, and what it does not
OPML is a list of feeds and folders. It is not a backup of your reading, and every reader is vague about this in the same way, which causes the same disappointment every time.
Comes with you
- Your subscriptions — every feed you follow.
- Your folders, and which feed sits in which.
Stays behind
- Read and unread state. Everything arrives unread, wherever you go.
- Starred, tagged and saved articles.
- Rules, filters and active searches — these are Inoreader features, not feed data, and no OPML file has a place to put them.
Where you can take it
An OPML file opens the whole category. Any of these will import it:
- Feedbin — $70/year. A sync service with a good web reader, and the one most third-party apps support first.
- NetNewsWire — Free, open source, Mac and iOS only. If you live entirely in Apple's world and want to spend nothing, start here.
- Feedly — $60–84/year. The closest thing to a like-for-like move if you want the same kind of product.
- Miniflux — Self-hosted, minimal, open source. If you already run a server, this is the least fuss.
And where we are
Lantery is a sync service with its own reader, built for people who use more than one kind of computer — a Mac at home and Windows or Linux at work, or a phone that is not the same brand as the laptop. It keeps one reading queue across all of them, and works inside the reader apps you already use over the Google Reader API, so NetNewsWire, Reeder Classic and Unread can point at it.
It is not open to sign-ups yet. Accounts are invited by hand while the sync API is being proved against real exports. If you need a reader today, take the file to one of the options above — that is a straight answer, not modesty.
Export is free on every plan, forever, including after a subscription ends. That sentence is in the terms, not only here.
Coming from something else?
Where these instructions come from
- Inoreader, “Automatic OPML backups” — read 2026-09-08. Someone else’s interface can move without telling us; if it has, this page is wrong and wants re-reading rather than guessing.
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