To save you hours of trial and error, here is the cheat sheet:

Don't try to find a direct clone of RSS Player—it will only lead to frustration. Instead, split the use case: use a podcast app for audio-first listening, and a modern RSS aggregator with TTS for everything else. Your ears (and your feed folder) will thank you.

can be set up to treat RSS feeds as “podcasts” and uses TTS to generate audio files from articles. More technical but very powerful.

: Useful if you need to create your own feeds from websites that don't natively support RSS.