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What feed reader do you recommend trying?
Is it even necessary to have a feed service if you have a native app instead?
* Edit: Feedly is no longer down, so I modified the title/question.
I've been happy with NewsBlur.com for the last year. I have a premium subscription ($24/year) that gives me unlimited feeds. I think you can get a free account with up to 64 feeds. They support web, iOS and Android (although I've only ever used the web version).
Disclaimer: I run https://minimalreader.com
My eccentric self-hosting no-server-needed homebrew open-source solution since google reader died: http://github.com/akkartik/spew . Since I suck at UI, it has none. Instead it just leverages firefox UI for everything.
You should give all of the free services a try to see what you like. Do you subscribe to a lot of feeds? Disclaimer: I run https://minimalreader.com
There's a small fee, but it's been absolutely worth every penny. The guy's been able to upgrade servers with demand and spend time on improving the interface (particularly for mobile). There are also third-party apps compatible with it, but I haven't found any of them to be as good as the mobile web interface.
It hasn't been perfect (there've been occasional glitches, mostly involving UI slowness), but problems get corrected quickly and the app has continually improved since I signed up, shortly after Reader died. I've been overwhelmingly delighted with it.
As for app vs. service, I've found services useful for keeping everything painlessly synched across devices and computers. It would depend on your feed-reading habits.
Here's a demo: http://river-demo.ericdavis.org/
The README is a bit out of date now, but it all works. I've been using it as my sole RSS reader for the past few months now.
I've been using it since Google Reader shut down and happily signed up for the premium account (allows for over 100 feeds, among other benefits) when they started imposing a limit on the number of feeds.