Which news aggregator websites are most similar to All Sides?

1. Ground News — the nearest editorial cousin

Ground News markets itself explicitly as a site where users can “see every side of every news story” and compare how different publishers frame the same story, with tools to surface stories “disproportionately covered by one side,” which places it squarely alongside AllSides’ mission of surfacing partisan framing rather than simply aggregating headlines ^{[2] [7]}.

2. News as Facts and other “balanced news” projects — similar mission, varied trust claims

Platforms that advertise “unbiased” or “balanced” news, such as News as Facts highlighted by Slant’s aggregator roundup, aim at the same audience AllSides courts — readers looking for explicit claims of neutrality and curated multi-perspective presentation — but those projects differ widely in methodology and reputation, and user reviews on aggregator lists stress the importance of vetting how bias labels are assigned ^[3].

3. SmartNews and Google News — algorithmic breadth, not bias pedagogy

SmartNews and Google News both ingest massive volumes of stories and aim to show multiple perspectives by grouping similar articles, with SmartNews stressing discovery and a “both sides” perspective and Google News using AI to organize and present stories from many publishers; however, neither centers an accessible left/center/right bias meter as AllSides does, so they resemble AllSides functionally but not pedagogically ^{[5] [4] [8]}.

4. Flipboard, Feedly and Inoreader — powerful customization, weaker bias-labeling

Flipboard’s magazine-style curation and Feedly/Inoreader’s RSS-driven, user-customizable feeds make them excellent for constructing a balanced diet from diverse outlets, and reviewers list AllSides alongside these services as useful for broadening perspective, but these tools rely on user configuration rather than an explicit editorial bias-tagging system that AllSides supplies ^{[1] [9] [6] [10]}.

5. Practical differences that determine “similarity”

Similarity breaks down into two axes: (A) presentation and pedagogy — whether a site teaches users about bias through labels or side-by-side framing (AllSides, Ground News, News as Facts), and (B) technical aggregation — whether a service uses algorithmic clustering, personalization, or open RSS to collect stories (Google News, SmartNews, Feedly, Inoreader, Flipboard); many sites mix both, but the explicit bias-meter and classroom-facing tools are what make AllSides distinct ^{[2] [1] [5] [4] [10]}.

6. Caveats, alternative views and the reading public’s job

Industry roundups and reviews repeatedly warn that “best” depends on intent — discovery apps prioritize trending stories, RSS readers prioritize control, and political-leaning aggregators prioritize perspective comparison — and users who want AllSides’ clear left/center/right framing will find Ground News and some “balanced news” projects closest, while users who simply want to assemble many outlets should consider Google News, Feedly or Inoreader ^{[8] [9] [3]}.

Conclusion

The short answer: Ground News and platforms that explicitly foreground multiple political framings (e.g., News as Facts) are the most similar to AllSides in mission and presentation, while mainstream aggregators such as Google News, SmartNews, Flipboard, Feedly and Inoreader offer overlapping technical functions but not the same bias-label pedagogy; choosing between them depends on whether the priority is an editorially labeled “balanced media diet” or broad, algorithmic coverage that users must curate themselves ^{[2] [3] [4] [5] [1] [10]}.