Why another RSS reader
Most readers ask for an account before they show you anything, mirror your reading history to a company server, and monetize the attention you brought with you. This one does none of that. It is Android-first, free forever, and it keeps everything on the device in your pocket. Comparison rows checked against each vendor’s own pages in October 2026.
The short version
| Curated Feeds | Feedly | Inoreader | NetNewsWire | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free forever | Free plan plus paid Pro | Free to 150 feeds, then paid | Free, open source |
| Account required | No account | Account required | Account required | No account |
| Data stored on | Your device only | Their servers | Their servers | Device, optional sync |
| Free-plan limits | None beyond Android 8.0+ | Limited by design | 150 feeds | None |
| Platform | Android 8.0+ | Android, iOS, Web | Android, iOS, Web | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Offline reading | Full article caching | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Source model | Unlimited RSS 2.0, Atom, RDF | Feeds and boards | Rules and filters | Standard RSS |
Feedly and Inoreader are mature products with capabilities this app does not attempt to match, and NetNewsWire is a strong open-source choice if Apple platforms are where you read. The rows above are the whole trade: an account, a server, and a subscription are the price of server-side features, and this app declines all three.
Sources for the competitor columns: Feedly plans and pricing. Feedly plan documentation. Inoreader pricing. NetNewsWire. Checked October 2026; prices and limits change without notice.
What you give up by choosing this
No desktop app
Android is the whole delivery surface today. There is no Windows, Linux, or Mac client, and no web reader you open in a browser tab on a laptop.
No full-text search across feeds
Nothing indexes every article from every feed you follow. If your habit is to search back months through a complete archive, this is the gap that shows up first.
No multi-device sync
Every feed, saved article, and read state lives on the one device you installed it on. A new phone means adding your feeds again by hand.
This list is deliberate, not an omission. There is no server to sync through, no account to attach history to, and no revenue to protect, so anything that needs those things is simply not here. The eight-reader comparison covers the same trade-offs on a wider field, and the reader profiles say which habits fit an account-free reader.
Who it is not for
If your reading happens with other people, look elsewhere. Shared collections, team folders, and sending an article to a colleague are not features of this app, and nothing on its roadmap adds a collaborator to your feed list.
If automation is what you need, look elsewhere as well. Server-side rules that sort, tag, or filter incoming articles as they arrive require a server, and this app fetches straight from your device.
And if you read on a Mac or an iPhone today, that is a real constraint, not a ditch-this-app warning. Android 8.0 and up is the platform it ships on, and it ships there properly rather than thinly on every platform at once.
Questions this raises
How is this free?
There is no server bill to cover. Your feeds, saved articles, and reading history stay on your device, so there is no storage, sync, or delivery infrastructure to fund, and no premium tier to gate those things behind. There is one free build, version 1.2.0, distributed directly from this site and from Uptodown.
Is my reading history really private?
Reading history is written to your device and nowhere else. There is no account to attach it to and no server-side copy that could leak or be handed over. The website and the app do collect anonymous aggregate counts through Firebase Analytics, and nothing that identifies you.
Why Android only?
The reading experience is a card deck driven by swipe gestures, which is a phone interaction first. Android 8.0 and up is where that interaction could be built and tested properly before it spread thin across three platforms.
Can I import feeds from Feedly or Inoreader?
There is no account-to-account import. You add feeds by pasting a feed URL, and you can copy that URL out of any reader, from a share sheet or by opening the feed and copying its address. It takes a few minutes of manual work rather than a migration tool.
Will there be an iPhone version?
Not at launch. The app is Android-first, built in Flutter, and focused on the Android swipe-gesture experience. There is no iOS release date to announce, and no iOS build to download.
Read on your own terms
Version 1.2.0, about 67 MB, Android 8.0 and up. No account, no ads, no server.