How do I boost a feed?

Right-click the feed in the sidebar, choose Feed properties, and click the rocket icon next to Update interval on the About tab. The feed is then checked every 10 minutes. Boosting is a Pro feature.

Boost a feed from Feed properties

1. Right-click the feed in the sidebar and choose Feed properties.
2. On the About tab, find Update interval.
3. Click the rocket icon next to it. The interval changes to 10m and a confirmation appears.

The rocket is a toggle: click the blue rocket again to remove your boost. A feed marked Real-time already receives its articles by push, so Inoreader asks whether you still want to boost it.

Boost a feed from the feeds list

Open Preferences > Content > Feeds, find the feed with the search box or the feed type filter, and click the rocket in its row. The Update column shows each feed's interval. A rocket you can't click means the feed is already checked every 10 minutes because another reader boosted it. Team plans have the same rocket for team feeds under Manage team.

Feeds without a rocket

In Feed properties the rocket appears only when the feed's interval is 30 minutes or more. The feeds list in Preferences shows it for any interval above 10 minutes. Newsletter feeds and monitoring feeds have no rocket at all, and feeds that Inoreader slows down for publishing too much, or feeds from some publishers, answer with "Boosting is disabled for this URL. The most common reason for this is a publisher restriction." A feed that reports errors rather than new articles is a different problem. See Why has a feed stopped updating?

Plans and limits

Boosted feeds are a Pro feature: Pro includes 100, a Team with a shared pool shares 500 or 1,000 across the team, and custom plans can add more. Your boosts are counted under Boosted feeds in Preferences > Billing and usage, where Increase limits adds more. What are boosted feeds? explains what the boost changes for every follower, and How often are feeds refreshed by default? the schedule without one. Unfollowing the feed removes your boost.