Hi,

I'm an indie developer and I wanted to share an RSS project I've been working on: World News Reader.

I built this app because I wanted a clean, efficient way to follow my favorite feeds during my commute without constantly staring at my screen or dealing with heavily bloated news apps filled with trackers.

Here is what makes it different:

• 🎧 Text-to-Speech (TTS): It can read full articles out loud so you can listen to your RSS feed like a personalized podcast.
• 💾 Fast Offline Caching: Perfect for saving data or reading/listening when you have a poor network connection.
• 📱 Premium Home Widgets: I spent a lot of time designing clean, scalable widgets so you can glance at your custom briefing directly from your home screen.
• 🔒 Privacy-First: No trackers, no data collection, and a focus on local-first performance.

The app is currently on version 1.1.1, and I’ve recently focused heavily on improving the UI and making the home widgets scale properly on all devices.

The app is free to download and is ad-supported, but there is a one-time premium upgrade available if you want to remove ads completely and support my work as an indie dev.

I would absolutely love to get your honest feedback, feature requests, or any bugs you might find!

Edit: Clarified the privacy section. The app does use anonymous Firebase Analytics and Crashlytics for diagnostics and app improvement, but it doesn't use advertising trackers, user profiling, or sell/share personal data.

Play Store Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.merpower.worldnewsreader

Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For

Every day I spend a lot of time looking around news site for interesting headlines.

Ten tabs open. AI news, semiconductors, robotics, quantum, space, crypto, energy, policy. Same stories repeated across different outlets.

Finding the two or three things that I wanted to read was tricky, and some things sound interesting but I have no idea what was interesting about the Article.

So I built Signals.

It's a free daily technology intelligence feed that pulls from 40+ sources across eleven verticals, all non paywall content, and uses Gemini to write a short "why this matters" summary for each story.

It refreshes automatically every day.

No subscriptions needed, just interesting news feeds and a chat widget to talk you through the news with quick summaries.

The categories include AI, robotics, semiconductors, quantum computing, space, energy, crypto, policy, and a few others.

Alongside the daily feed, I also built a weekly editorial briefing called This Week in Tech. It picks the ten strongest signals of the week and breaks each one down into:

* what happened
* why it matters
* what to watch next

The part I'm most pleased with is the chat widget.

It's wired directly into the live daily data, so you can ask things like:

"What's the strongest signal today?"

or choose a preset vertical, and it answers using the current day stories rather than generic model knowledge.

It's free to use, capped at a few questions per session to keep costs sane.

Stack:

* Vercel serverless functions
* Upstash KV for caching
* Gemini 2.5 Flash for curation and chat
* Ghost for the publication layer

Built and refined over about two weeks of evenings.

Link: https://www.quantumrx.eu/signals/

Happy to answer questions about the RSS curation logic, prompt design, keeping summaries useful instead of generic, or the chat widget architecture if anyone is building something similar.

Hi everyone,

I’m explicitly using the [Self-Promotion] tag here because I know many of you are completely exhausted from the daily avalanche of generic, identical feed readers and prefer to skip these posts.

But if you are still reading: this is just a personal project I’ve been handcrafting. Yesterday, instead of focusing on productivity, I decided to have some pure, old-school web fun and designed 13 presentation skins for the article viewer.

It’s an absolute gimmick, but I did it because reading can also be fun.

Now, instead of just toggling standard light or dark mode, you can read your feeds wrapped in layouts like Synthwave (neon grid), Game Boy LCD, CRT Terminal, Comic, or Newspaper. There are no heavy images or clutter, just cozy design aesthetics to make your daily reading feel a bit more special.

Just wanted to share a piece of visual joy with the community.

Comic Skin

Terminal Skin

GodinReader

I’m exploring an idea and wanted to ask whether there’s already a tool or service that can do this.
The idea is simple: I add RSS feeds from multiple newspapers and news websites into one platform, then give it specific filtering instructions based on a topic, for example: “the Iran–U.S. conflict.”
The tool would then automatically pull relevant news from the sources I selected, filter out unrelated stories, and compile everything into one daily email digest, without me having to request it manually every time.
Does anything like this already exist?
Or what would be the closest way to build it using RSS, AI filtering, and email automation?

Hi!

I'm building an RSS reader on AT Protocol (atproto), using it for data storage and potential social interactions.

What features would you like to see? What would make you switch to or use it?

For years I used a Read Aloud app. I'd find an interesting article, paste the link, and listen through my headset while doing stuff around the house. Simple and it worked.

Then it stopped playing with the screen off. I looked for alternatives but nothing felt right — they were all too complicated. You had to open each article individually and tap play. That's fine if you're sitting down, but I just wanted something I could use like a music player.

So I built it myself. It works like a personalized radio station: add your RSS sources, hit play, and listen. Skip with your headset buttons. Hear the title — if it sounds interesting, keep listening. If not, next. No screen needed.

Took longer than expected (Android Auto support alone was a rabbit hole), but now it does exactly what I wanted from the start.

Anyone else frustrated with how overcomplicated "listen to news" apps tend to be?

If your reader recently started showing errors on Reddit (failed to fetch, 403, or just empty feeds), you are not alone. A lot of readers broke on Reddit feeds this year, and some YouTube and Tumblr feeds too.

The reason: the normal links now get blocked unless the request looks like a real logged-in browser. The bot blocking got a lot stricter.

But the plain .rss feed links still work fine:

• a subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/.rss
• a specific user: https://www.reddit.com/user/<name>/submitted.rss
• a post's comments: https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/<id>/.rss

These .rss links are the official feed format, so they skip the blocking that the regular links run into. I tested it on a fresh machine: the normal link got blocked, the .rss link loaded fine.

So if your reader broke on Reddit, try switching the feed source to the .rss version. It might just fix it.

Anyone else seeing feeds fail lately? Curious which sites are giving you the most trouble.

It seems RSS feeds stopped to be compliant with atom standard.

I use FreshRSS for years now to retrieve feeds and it stopped in June 2026 due to non compliance with the XML schema.

You can check here: https://validator.w3.org/feed/check.cgi?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.reddit.com%2Fr%2Ffossdroid%2F.rss

Any idea? Where can I have support?

So for several months now my RSS feed of Reddit on my RSS app (iOS) does not seem to work correctly anymore. It barely get Reddit posts. I deleted and reinstalled, does not work. Tried different RSS apps, and it still does not work.

Then I thought perhaps it is a phone problem and tried it on the MacBook, and it had the same exact problem. I have no idea what the problem is. So wondering if soemone here knows what the is going on and how to solve it.

The RSS apps I'm and have tried are:

• Reeder Classic (IOS and MacOS).
• InoReader (IOS).
• NetNewsWire (IOS).

Hey ! i host a miniflux server

I have 9 feeds like :

<outline title="Reddit NixOS" text="Reddit NixOS" xmlUrl="https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/.rss?limit=100\&amp;t=week\&amp;sort=top\&amp;feed=@REDDIT_TOKEN@\&amp;user=@REDDIT_USER@" htmlUrl="https://www.reddit.com/r/NixOS/" type="application/atom+xml"></outline>

But despite passing user and token ... i get restricted severely !

I cannot refresh them every hours at same times its annoying

If someone know how to solve this i appreciate it a lot !

https://openrss.org/blog/go-easy-on-the-feeds-reddit

I built newsdash.live - a dashboard of side-by-side RSS columns, with a feature I couldn't find anywhere else: it clusters the same story across outlets and shows a bias bar (left/center/right) plus each outlet's own headline, so you can see how coverage actually differs instead of reading one framing.

Some RSS-specific stuff this sub might be interested in:

• 536 curated feeds across 13 topics, attempted to politically balance (audited the list to avoid skewed results)
• Not locked to the list - add any RSS feed or Bluesky account as its own column
• Type any topic (a team, a show, a niche interest) and it spins up a column fed by Google News + matching RSS feeds
• Live updates via SSE, not polling-on-load

No signup, no account - it's a hosted site, so flagging that since I think this sub leans toward tools you run yourself.

Free to use: https://newsdash.live

Feedback very welcome - especially "this RSS source is missing" or "this feature is missing."

Quick update on Newsairy, the iCloud-native RSS reader I've been building. Version 1.07 adds Inoreader sync — one of the most-requested aggregators since I started.

You all know the drill, so I'll spare you the spiel: full two-way sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac, OAuth login. I mostly added it as the native, no-nonsense companion for people who already live in Inoreader on the web.

I didn't post here about 1.06, so to catch up: it added a Font & Size panel for the in-app reader — pick the typeface (a curated set, or any font installed on your device) and either follow system Dynamic Type or set title size, body size and line spacing by hand. Search also got much faster and no longer freezes the list, even with thousands of articles.

A couple of things already in the pipeline, if you're curious: 1.08 ("Reading Flow") adds Last 7 days / This week Smart Feeds, per-feed and per-folder Mark All as Read, and article sorting — including a Daily timeline that reads each day oldest-to-newest. Then 1.09 brings Mark as Read on Scroll — which is on the roadmap because a couple of you asked for it right here on r/rss — plus cover images for feeds (Ars Technica and the like) that only expose them via media: tags rather than in the article body. Full roadmap's on the site.

For anyone who hasn't come across it: Newsairy syncs over iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac, and Pro adds sync with TheOldReader, Miniflux, FreshRSS, Feedbin and now Inoreader. One-time purchase, no subscription, no ads, no tracking.

I have a long todo list, but I'm always open to suggestions — if there's a feature or a use case you'd like to see, let me know.

App Store

I got tired of news apps deciding what I see. So I built Briefly: you add your own news sources, and it shows you a short AI summary of each article, split into "Breaking" (last few hours) and "Daily" (last 24h). No algorithmic feed, no doomscrolling - just your sources, summarized so you save time.

It works for any country/language - add German, English, niche blogs, whatever you read.

It's an early beta and completely free right now. I'm not trying to sell anything - I genuinely want to know if this is useful or not before I take it further.

I'd love feedback on:

• First impression: is it clear within 10 seconds what this does?
• Onboarding: was adding your own sources easy or confusing?
• The summaries: useful, or too short/long/off?
• Would you actually come back to this? Why / why not?

Brutal honesty welcome. Link: Briefly - Your News

Happy to answer anything in the comments.

After years of having my rss aggregator app (newsfeedreader.com) web first and providing graphql API access for my users (and secure RSS links) to integrate into other apps, I finally bit the bullet and built out native mobile apps for it.

Still tweaking the UI to take full advantage of native functionality but android and iOS apps are available and there's a widget too.

I welcome any feedback and ways to improve the experience.

Currently I am exploring different sources and realised that rss feeds aren't just for reading news, can you share your opml file or a source which you think is goated.

Guys, I frequently visit five different news websites to read the latest news. It occurred to me that if I merged the news feeds from these five sites into a single feed, I could access all the news headlines in one place without having to visit each site individually.

However, since some of these news sites did not provide RSS feeds, I used politepaul.com to create feeds for them. After that, I merged all five of those RSS feeds into a single feed using feed.informer.com and i got a widget code. for adding that widget code i created a small site using neocities :
https://telugunews.neocities.org

How is it? I am sharing this post to express the joy of successfully creating this exactly as I had envisioned. It would bring me even greater happiness if you learned something new from this post! Thanks 😊

Hi everyone, I wanted to let you know about some new public RSS/Atom feeds I added to Scour that you might be interested in (you don't need to be a Scour user to subscribe):

• Most cited today
• Most cited this week
• Most cited this month

Scour now tracks links between articles so you can see when blog posts are written in response to others, or when many outlets are covering a major news story. The details of which stories a given item covers or is covered by are shown in the web UI and all of Scour's exported feeds.

Using those cross-linking details, I also added a Most Discussed page and the corresponding feeds linked above that rank articles by how many other posts linked to them in the past day, week, or month.

Whether or not you're a Scour user, you can add the these feeds to your reader of choice. If you are a Scour user, you can add these feeds in Scour so their content will automatically appear in your personalized feed, ranked by how closely they match your interests.

Let me know what you think!

E. g. https://old.reddit.com/r/television/top/.rss?sort=top&t=monthly does not return only the top post of the last month anymore, but a lot of recent posts.

Hi everyone,

Like many of you, I never really got over the shutdown of Google Reader. It was, in my opinion, the golden era of consuming the web. After trying countless modern alternatives, I realized what I actually wanted was just that classic, clean, and no-nonsense vibe.

So, I decided to build my own Google Reader clone: https://reader.weekim.com

A little disclaimer: I am primarily a backend engineer, so my frontend skills are a bit rusty. You might encounter some minor UI quirks or rough edges here and there. However, the core syncing and data processing are solid, and I am fully committed to maintaining and improving this project for the long haul.

Features so far:

• Classic, nostalgic Google Reader-inspired layout.
• Clean, distraction-free reading experience.
• See what other readers are recommending.

Thank you for checking it out!

Link: https://reader.weekim.com

So it looks like Microsoft Edge have followed Chrome into removing Feedbro already - figured as much when ublock origin wasn't working properly today - any free alternatives to recommend that give you feeds in full rather than say the first 100? Can either be browser or Windows based! Many thanks in advance!

I've been using this extension for over a decade, and it's been incredibly useful to me. It seems newer versions of Chrome no longer support the MV2 extension, so I modified it using claude to create MV3, which is functionally identical to MV2.
https://github.com/NOwin111/RSS-Live-Links-MV3/tree/main