Overview

FeedWind turns RSS, social and calendar content into embeddable website widgets, aimed at site owners who want to bring outside updates onto their pages without building a feed display. Its main appeal is the combination of feed aggregation and practical display controls; the trade-off is that widget capacity, refresh speed and branding are tied closely to the plan.

Key features

Sources and display

FeedWind offers widgets for RSS, Facebook, Google Calendar, X, Instagram and YouTube, and its homepage announces a TikTok widget. A widget can aggregate up to 20 RSS feed URLs or calendars, which is useful for a site combining several sources in one place. The plan determines how many feeds and how many posts or events appear, so the maximum aggregation figure does not mean every tier can use it.

Widgets are installed by copying and pasting a short code snippet. FeedWind names WordPress, Weebly, Wix and Squarespace as supported platforms, along with many others. Responsive layouts, text and thumbnail options, card or HTML styles, scrolling, time zones, and date and time formats offer meaningful control over how a feed sits within a site. Pro and Plus add keyword filtering, custom CSS and custom URL parameters; those are the more suitable tiers when a publisher needs to narrow content or tune styling beyond the built-in options.

Refresh limits and X

Refresh intervals range from every 12 hours on Free to every five minutes on Plus. That makes Free and Basic better suited to low-stakes or slower-moving content than to pages where readers expect frequent updates. X has additional constraints: one account and up to 15 tweets per widget, updates every 24 hours, and only posts from within the past seven days because of an API limitation. Those limits make FeedWind a poor fit for a fast-moving X display.

A support center offers setup guides, FAQs, tutorials and a contact option. The privacy policy says personal data is protected using commercially acceptable means but absolute security cannot be guaranteed; card details are handled by payment processors, including Stripe and PayPal.

Pricing

FeedWind has a free tier and paid plans from $1 per month. The Plus trial runs for 14 days, needs no credit card, and ends with widgets disabled unless a paid plan is purchased. That makes the trial low-friction, but it is not a way to keep a live widget running after the test period without choosing a subscription.

Plan	Price	What it includes
Free	0.00 USD per free	1 widget, 1 feed per widget, 5 posts or events per widget, updates every 12 hours, FeedWind branding
Basic	1.00 USD per month	1 widget, 2 feeds per widget, 10 posts or events per widget, updates every 5 hours, FeedWind branding
Pro	9.00 USD per month	15 widgets, 20 feeds per widget, 25 posts or events per widget, updates every 15 minutes, no FeedWind branding, keyword filtering, custom CSS, custom URL parameter, X widget
Plus	18.00 USD per month	50 widgets, 20 feeds per widget, 200 posts or events per widget, updates every 5 minutes, no FeedWind branding, keyword filtering, custom CSS, custom URL parameter, X widget

Free is a useful way to try a single branded widget, but one feed, five displayed items and a 12-hour refresh window limit its usefulness for busy sites. Basic is inexpensive, yet it still permits only one widget and keeps the branding; it is a modest step up for a single page rather than a multi-page rollout. Pro is the first tier with multiple widgets, no branding, custom styling tools and a 15-minute refresh cycle, making it the practical choice for a small site network. Plus costs twice as much as Pro, but raises the cap to 50 widgets and 200 displayed posts or events while shortening refreshes to five minutes; that headroom is valuable for larger or more frequently updated displays.

Platforms

FeedWind is a web service, and widgets are embedded in websites with a code snippet. Its named website platforms are WordPress, Weebly, Wix and Squarespace, with support also stated for many others.

Who it's for

FeedWind suits publishers, organizations and site owners who need a feed or calendar widget and want control over its layout without developing one themselves. Free or Basic can serve a simple, low-volume display; Pro is a stronger fit when several widgets, faster updates or unbranded output matter. Sites that depend on frequent X updates should look elsewhere because of the 24-hour refresh and recent-post limits.

Pros and cons

Pros: Up to 20 feeds or calendars per widget supports aggregation rather than forcing each source into a separate display.
Pros: Responsive layouts, multiple display styles, time-zone controls and custom CSS on Pro and Plus provide useful presentation flexibility.
Pros: The $1-per-month Basic plan offers a low-cost paid step for a single widget that needs two feeds and more frequent updates than Free.
Cons: Free and Basic allow only one widget, retain FeedWind branding and display at most 5 or 10 posts or events, respectively.
Cons: X widgets refresh only every 24 hours and show up to 15 recent tweets, which is restrictive for timely social coverage.
Cons: Widgets stop working after the Plus trial unless a paid plan is purchased, so a trial deployment cannot simply remain live.

Alternatives

Readers comparing social-feed tools can browse Social Media Feed Software. Choose Onstipe if its API and web platforms or its Nano plan’s two stipes and two sources better match a small multi-source setup. EmbedSocial is another freemium API and web option, with a free plan that allows unlimited widgets but limits views to 500 per month. Flow-Flow Social Streams may suit a WordPress or Shopify installation; its free WordPress version allows four sources and unlimited streams subject to server capacity. SociableKIT Social Feed Widget is worth considering for a free single-widget setup with one domain and up to 2,000 monthly views. Taggbox offers a free feed across 10+ platforms, with 500 monthly views and updates every four days. Curator.io is an alternative with a free allowance of three sources and 2,000 monthly views. Tagembed offers a free feed for unlimited websites, with 500 monthly views and refreshes every four days. Wallrus is another web-based option.

Verdict

FeedWind is a sound choice for site owners who want a configurable RSS, calendar or social widget and can match its plan limits to the pace and scale of their content. Pro is the clearest fit for multi-widget sites that need unbranded displays and styling controls; the main reasons to look elsewhere are its restrictive X refresh terms and the small free and Basic capacities.

	FeedWind	Smash Balloon Instagram Feed
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Free trial	Yes	No
Paid from	$0.75/mo	$4.08/mo
Platforms	Web	self-hosted, Web
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Paid from	1 /mo
Included sources	2 sources
Feed types	rss
Content moderation	Yes	Yes
Custom styling	Yes	Yes
Digital signage		No

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