FAQ

Feedler is the smart RSS reader because it quietly does the heavy lifting, so you just read. A few things that set it apart:

• A unique, powerful parser — our in-house article extractor pulls clean, complete content from almost any site, and you can fine-tune it per feed.
• AI summaries — grasp what an article is about at a glance, before deciding to read it in full.
• Listen to any article — built-in text-to-speech reads any piece aloud, so you can catch up hands-free, eyes off the screen.
• Smart feed discovery — just type a website name (e.g. engadget.com) and Feedler finds the right RSS feed for you.
• True offline mode — articles and images are cached on your device, so everything stays readable with no connection.
• Smart caching — Feedler pre-loads what you're most likely to read, keeps caching articles intelligently as you read on, and trims what you won't — to stay fast and light.
• Smart image downloads — on a slow or spotty connection, Feedler can skip images so your sync stays fast — they simply load as you read, and it always asks you first.
• Modern yet familiar design — a fresh, native interface built on the gestures and patterns that have become UI/UX standards, so it feels intuitive from the first tap.
• Deep customization — themes, reading view, per-feed and per-account settings… shape Feedler around exactly how you read.
• Reading comfort, built in — the reading experience is fully yours: fonts, size, spacing, column width… plus exclusive visual-assistance modes that gently guide your eyes through the text.
• One app, all your Apple devices — Feedler is multiplatform: iOS, iPadOS and macOS, so your reading follows you from iPhone to iPad to Mac.
• Backed up to iCloud — your accounts and all your settings are saved to your private iCloud, so a new iPhone or a reinstall restores your whole setup.
• Beautiful icons, automatically — pick an icon for each feed, and Feedler even works out fitting icons for your categories on its own.
• Fast and fluid — built natively for buttery 120 Hz scrolling and snappy navigation.

In short, smart means Feedler handles the busywork for you, so you can enjoy an unmatched reading experience and comfort.

Completely. Feedler has no backend that collects your data: no account, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. Your feeds and reading history stay on your device. See our Privacy Policy for details.

No. The default “Local RSS” account works with no sign-in at all — just add the feeds you want and start reading.

Feedler works with four kinds of account, and you can run as many of each as you like — except iCloud. Two need no service at all:

• Local RSS — on-device only. No account, no server; your subscriptions stay on this iPhone.
• iCloud RSS — the same on-device parsing, but your feeds and read state sync across your devices through your private iCloud, with no third party. One per Apple ID.

Or sign in to a sync service:

Web-hosted

• Feedbin
• Inoreader
• NewsBlur

Self-hosted

• FreshRSS
• Miniflux
• Tiny Tiny RSS

Connecting one is optional — credentials stay in the iOS Keychain on your device, and are used only to talk to that service.

Why isn't Feedly supported?

Unfortunately, Feedly no longer grants API access to new RSS apps, so Feedler can't connect to it. We're hopeful that Feedler's growth — backed by Feedly users who'd love to bring their feeds along — may help change that in the future. In the meantime, you can export your feeds from Feedly and bring them into any other service Feedler supports (see “How do I import or export my feeds into another account with an OPML file?” below).

Moving your feeds around is quick and painless. Every reader — Feedler included — can save your whole list as one small file, and Feedler reads it back in seconds, folders and all. Coming from another app or website, or just reorganising between two Feedler accounts? Your feeds come right along:

• Export your list — in Feedler, long-press the account and tap Manage Account › OPML › Export OPML. Most other apps and websites offer the very same one-tap export.
• Import it — two quick ways into the account you want the feeds in:
  • Tap the + in your Feeds list and choose Import OPML.
  • Or long-press the account and tap Manage Account › OPML › Import OPML.
  Then pick the file.
• Review & confirm — Feedler previews everything grouped by folder; uncheck any you'd rather skip, then confirm. Feeds and folders land in seconds.

No copy-pasting URLs, no feed left behind.

One box, four ways — type what you have and Feedler finds the rest.

• A website — type an address like engadget.com (you don't even need to finish it). Feedler's smart discovery tracks down the right RSS feed, so you never need to know the exact URL. That includes YouTube pages: paste a channel or playlist link — straight from the Share button — and Feedler turns it into the right feed.
• An RSS link — already have one? Paste it and it's added on the spot. And when a site offers several feeds, Feedler groups them neatly under one card so you can pick the exact topic you want.

• A @handle — follow a creator from YouTube, Vimeo, Bluesky, GitHub and more: just type their @handle and Feedler finds their feed and brings in their avatar.

• A subreddit — type it the way Reddit writes it: r/apple is enough. Feedler resolves the community's feed on the spot, no URL needed.

Whatever you type, Feedler shows you exactly what it found — with the source and account — so you tap the right one with confidence.

Yes — add any subreddit just like a website: type it the way Reddit writes it (r/apple is enough) or its full address (reddit.com/r/apple), and Feedler finds the feed.

One thing worth knowing: in mid-2026 Reddit tightened how outside apps may read its feeds. These limits come from Reddit itself — not Feedler — and apply to every RSS reader:

• About one refresh a minute — and it's counted per network (your internet, or “IP”, address), not per feed.
• Up to 100 of the newest posts each time it refreshes.

Because it's counted per network, a shared or public Wi-Fi — a café, an office, a campus — counts everyone on it together. There, your Reddit feeds may update slowly or skip a beat; on your own connection it's rarely noticeable.

Feedler is built for these limits, so they mostly stay invisible:

• All your subreddits, one refresh — Feedler bundles them into a single request, so they all update together instead of just the first one making it through.
• Adding always works — if Reddit happens to be busy the moment you add a subreddit, Feedler adds it anyway and the posts simply arrive on the next refresh.
• Polite by design — when Reddit says “not now”, Feedler waits exactly as long as asked and catches up on the next refresh, instead of hammering and making things worse.

A feed's default icon is often low-resolution — or missing altogether. Feedler is the only reader that lets you fix that: open Edit Feed and tap the icon.

• Pick from suggestions — Feedler intelligently hunts down the sharpest, highest-quality icons it can find for that site and lays them out in a grid. Tap the one you like.
• Use your own — none quite right? Paste a URL to any square image you find online, and Feedler previews it before you apply.

Your choice is saved for that feed and stays crisp everywhere it appears.

Yes — Feedler can keep your feeds up to date on its own, even when the app is closed. Turn it on and tune it in Settings › Synchronization:

• On, at your pace — turn on background sync and choose how often it runs.
• Kept in the loop — get a notification when new articles arrive, and if you close the app mid-sync a Live Activity shows the progress on your Lock Screen.

Two things worth knowing: a background run refreshes only your last selected account — iOS grants apps just a short window in the background, so Feedler spends it where you were reading. And article caching happens when you open the app, not in the background: Feedler pre-loads what you're likely to read next the moment you return, which keeps background runs quick and light on battery.

Yes — Feedler keeps a tidy journal of everything it does on your behalf, in Settings › Activity Log.

• Every sync in one timeline — pull-to-refresh, app-open syncs and background runs alike, each stamped with its account and time.
• Tap a sync for the full story — which feeds delivered new articles, how many were saved for offline reading, and the images that came with them, feed by feed.
• Your offline cache, accounted for — every sync sums up what it stored: articles, images, and their size on disk, with anything that couldn't be fetched clearly flagged.
• Nothing slips by — feeds added or removed, OPML imports, account hiccups and even syncs you cancel mid-way are logged too, so an oddity always has a trace.
• Tidy by design — entries clean themselves up after a week, two weeks or a month: your pick.

Feedler treats every article as something worth getting right. First, its smart in-house parser — multi-layered, and tunable when a site needs it — lifts the real article out of the page, even the most tangled ones, and rebuilds it clean and whole. Then comes the part you feel: each article is laid out with real care to make reading a pleasure.

• AI summaries — grasp a piece at a glance before you dive in.
• Themes — dress the app to suit your eyes.
• YouTube — videos play inline, right where they belong.
• X — posts render right in place, not just bare links.
• Instagram — photos and reels embedded natively.
• Bluesky — posts render in place, lightweight and native.
• Magazine-quality layout — a polished design that lets the writing breathe.
• Image galleries, tamed — walls of screenshots become tidy thumbnail grids, or even a single elegant stack of cards; tap to flip through every photo fullscreen.
• Read it your way — tune the font, size, spacing and alignment to your taste.
• Visual assistance — four exclusive modes give your eyes a subtle landmark in every word: a colored anchor letter, tinted first letters, gently bolded beginnings or softened endings — with a highlight color tuned for each theme. A quiet comfort on long reads.
• Reading time — an optional estimate, set to your own reading pace.
• Listen, don't just read — built-in text-to-speech reads any article aloud, so you can rest your eyes.

The result feels less like an RSS feed and more like every article was crafted for your phone.

Very much so — reading comfort is a first-class feature, and everything adjusts to how you read:

• Fonts made for reading — a curated set, including two designed for maximum legibility (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next and OpenDyslexic), with fine control over text size, letter spacing, line height and column width.
• Visual assistance — four exclusive modes give your eyes a subtle landmark in every word: a colored anchor letter, tinted first letters, gently bolded beginnings or softened endings. The effect is personal, so try the styles and keep the one that feels right.
• A one-switch comfort preset — applies the letter spacing, line height and column width that reading research recommends. Designed with dyslexic readers in mind, calmer for everyone.
• Listen instead — when your eyes need a break, built-in text-to-speech reads any article aloud.

Everything lives in the Aa panel right on the article, so you see the result as you adjust — and your setup follows you to your other devices through iCloud.

Some articles carry a true gallery — the run of screenshots in a phone review, the series of shots in a photo essay. When Feedler recognizes one, it gets a treatment you won't find in other readers — twice over. (Images simply scattered through an article stay exactly where the author placed them.)

Out of the box, a gallery becomes a tidy grid of thumbnails: neat tiles instead of an endless scroll of full-width pictures. Tap any of them and a fullscreen carousel opens — swipe from photo to photo, pinch to zoom, and you never lose your place in the article.

Even a simple pair of images gets its own treatment: instead of two full-width pictures stacked on top of each other, they sit side by side — half the scrolling, and a much nicer read.

Prefer even more calm? Turn on Settings › Article › Stack Galleries and a gallery folds into a single elegant stack of cards — the first photo on top, a counter in the corner, the rest tucked neatly behind. Tap the pile and the same carousel opens with every photo inside. You choose when it kicks in — from 3 images, from 6, or never — and switching is instant, on your existing articles too.

The parser is the heart of Feedler — the piece everything else is built on. Most feeds only carry a short preview of each article, so when you open one, Feedler visits the page itself, lifts the real article out of it — text, images, captions, videos, quotes, embedded posts — leaves behind everything that isn't the article (ads, promo blocks, “related articles” rails, newsletter prompts, cookie clutter), and rebuilds it as a clean, native reading page, cached on your device for offline. All of that happens quietly, before you even notice.

Plenty of apps have a “reader mode”. Here's why Feedler's is different:

• Built entirely in-house — most readers ship the same generic, open-source extraction engine, and it shows: they all fail on the same sites, the same way. Feedler's parser was written from scratch for Feedler, and battle-tested on the messiest pages out there — script-heavy sites, tangled newsletters, gallery-packed reviews — including many that generic engines simply give up on.
• It works in layers — broad rules that fit the web at large, refined by fine touches tuned for specific sites. The everyday blog and the most convoluted news CMS both come out reading the same: clean and whole.
• It keeps the good parts whole — photo galleries are rebuilt as real galleries, videos play natively right in the article, social posts stay readable, captions stay with their images. Where other readers show a broken box — or nothing — Feedler shows the article as it was meant to be.
• It removes noise without eating the article — the genuinely hard part. Sponsor blocks, subscription prompts and “most read” lists disappear; the conclusion, the code snippet and the pull-quote stay. That balance is what years of tuning buy.
• It keeps getting better — and your library comes along — the parser improves with nearly every release, and when it does, your already-saved articles are automatically re-parsed with the new engine. Articles you cached months ago read better today than the day you saved them.
• And you can tune it — per feed — something no other reader offers: hide a recurring block by selecting its text, cut articles after the small print, switch a paywalled subscriber feed to read from the feed itself, or go surgical with CSS selectors. See “How do I customize the article parser?” and “What if a feed already contains the full article?” below.

And for the rare site that still resists, there's a deeper Advanced Parser mode — and us: tell us about a stubborn feed and we'll tune the parser for it (see “What if a feed's articles don't display correctly?”).

Most feeds only carry a short preview, so Feedler visits each article's page and rebuilds the full piece — the right approach for almost every site. But some feeds deliver the entire article themselves, and Feedler has a per-feed setting made just for them: Source.

A few kinds of feeds work this way:

• Paid & member feeds — sites like 404 Media, and blogs on Ghost or Substack, give subscribers a personal feed with the full articles inside — while their public pages show only a teaser and a subscribe prompt. Reading from the feed gets you the whole piece you paid for.
• Newsletters — services that turn newsletters into feeds (such as Kill the Newsletter) place the whole email in every entry; there's often no article page to visit at all.
• Self-hosted services — a FreshRSS-style setup can be configured to deliver complete articles in the feed itself.

For those, open Feed Settings › Parser Customization › Source and choose Feed Content: Feedler reads everything straight from the feed and never touches the page — no teasers, no paywall detours, and it works even when no public page exists.

You don't even have to figure this out yourself. Feedler recognizes feeds that look like they carry the full article and quietly suggests the switch, right in the article — tap Change the Source and you land on the setting; dismiss it and it won't ask again for that feed. Well-known services are even preconfigured, so a newsletter feed simply arrives set up right.

Whichever source you choose, the article gets Feedler's full treatment. Feed content is written for inboxes and browsers — cramped layouts, leftover formatting, invisible clutter — so Feedler reshapes it into the same clean, comfortable Reader View as any other article: your fonts and theme, well-spaced text and images, offline reading and AI summaries included. Newsletters stop looking like emails and start reading like articles.

Most RSS readers simply show whatever a feed sends. Feedler is smarter: it quietly rebuilds a clean, complete article for you — and, unusually, lets you fine-tune how any feed reads.

The quickest way is right in the article: select some text and tap:

• Hide — makes any block containing that text disappear (a recurring newsletter prompt, a promo banner…).
• Cut here — trims everything from that point on (the small print at the end, a “related articles” footer…).

The article updates instantly, and Feedler remembers your choice for every future article from that feed.

Pictures work the same way: long-press any image in an article — the familiar menu appears, with two new choices at the bottom:

• Hide image by URL — that exact picture never shows up again in this feed's articles, whatever size a site serves it in.
• Hide image by CSS class — smarter still: ideal for promo spots that rotate the picture but keep the same styling. Feedler offers it only when the image carries a usable class.

Feedler always confirms exactly what will be hidden before saving the rule.

Prefer a panel? Long-press any article, open Feed Settings, and tap Parser Customization for the full set of controls:

• Advanced Parser — a more thorough reading mode for the occasional site that doesn't come through cleanly.
• Keep Absolute Images — brings back article images on sites that don't surface them on their own.
• Hide content — your list of phrases to hide, wherever they appear.
• Cut after — your list of phrases to trim the article after.
• CSS selectors — for power users who want to pinpoint exactly what to remove.
• Hidden images — every picture you've hidden, listed and easy to bring back.

Every rule stays listed and easy to change or undo — and the moment you add or edit one, Feedler quietly re-applies it to the articles you had already downloaded, so the change shows up everywhere without lifting a finger. It all travels to your next iPhone via iCloud, too.

Feedler's in-house parser is unusually thorough: it rebuilds the full article from almost any site, working in layers — from broad rules that fit the web at large down to fine touches tuned for specific sites. Even so, every site is built differently, and a few need a little extra care. If a feed doesn't read quite right:

• Fine-tune it yourself — in that feed's Parser Customization, turn on Advanced Parser (and Keep Absolute Images if photos are missing); your articles re-parse automatically the moment you confirm. See “How do I customize the article parser?” above — this clears up most sites.
• Still not right? Tell us — every site is unique, and some need a tweak on our end. Email us the feed and we'll do our best to tune Feedler's parser for it.

Yes — and not just a link. With any article open, tap ⋯ and choose Send Article: Feedler writes the email for you, carrying the whole article — title, pictures, formatting, even videos as tappable cards — laid out to read beautifully in any inbox, light or dark. The person you send it to simply opens the mail and reads: no app to install, no account, nothing to sign up for. The nicest way to say “you have to read this”.

Short on time, or you just want the gist? Feedler can summarize any article in a single tap — powered by Apple Intelligence, running entirely on your iPhone. The article and its summary never leave your device: no servers, no third parties.

Tap the AI button to generate a summary; press and hold it to switch the style on the fly, or set your favorite as the default in Settings › Article. Choose from:

• Bullet list — 3 to 5 bullet points covering the distinct facts.
• Paragraph — a single flowing paragraph of 2 to 3 sentences.
• TL;DR + bullets — a one-line takeaway, then 3 to 4 supporting bullets.
• Very brief — 2 sentences maximum, no lists.

Summaries can be written in the article's own language or your device's language — pick whichever you'd rather read in Settings › Article, right alongside the format.

Like any AI, Apple Intelligence can occasionally get something wrong — so check anything important against the original article.

Feedler summarizes only with Apple Intelligence — and that's a deliberate choice, not a limitation. It's the one AI that lives up to Feedler's promise: private, free, and always with you. Here's what that gives you:

• Truly private — every summary is generated right on your iPhone. Your articles are never uploaded, read or stored by anyone: no servers, no third parties, nothing tracked.
• Fast — the summary is built right on your iPhone, so there's no uploading the whole article to a server and waiting for it to come back. It just appears.
• Works offline — because it runs on your device, no internet connection is needed. Summarize on a plane, on the subway, or with no signal at all.
• Free, forever — Apple Intelligence is built into iOS: no subscription, no fees, no per-summary cost, no extra data used, and no usage limits to watch.
• Nothing to set up — no account to create, no API key to paste, no sign-in. Just tap and read.

Other AI models — ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and the like — can't tick those boxes. They run in the cloud, on a company's servers, so every article you wanted summarized would have to be sent off your iPhone and over the internet — the exact opposite of Feedler's private-by-design approach. They aren't free either: you'd have to pay for them, and sign Feedler into your own personal AI account, just to get a summary — with an internet connection required every time.

So Feedler keeps summaries simple and yours: private, on-device and free — in a single tap, with nothing to manage.

It can. With any article open, tap the ⋯ button and choose Listen to Article — Feedler starts reading it aloud and a floating mini-player appears, so you can keep browsing or pocket the phone entirely.

• Pause and resume — pick the reading back up right where it stopped.
• Playback speed — cycle from 0.8× to 2× in one tap; your pace is remembered across articles.
• Locked-screen friendly — built on Apple’s system player, playback keeps going with the screen off, with full controls on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.

One tip worth knowing: iOS ships much nicer voices than the default one. In Settings › Accessibility › Read & Speak › Voices (called Spoken Content before iOS 26), pick your language and download an Enhanced or Premium voice — Feedler picks it up automatically, and the difference is night and day.

Yes. Articles are parsed and cached on your device, so you can keep reading without a connection — for example on a plane or the subway.

Downloading every article from every feed burns data and storage you may never use. Feedler is smarter: Smart Caching learns from the way you read and fetches only what you're likely to want — saving your data and keeping the app light, with nothing for you to manage. You choose the approach, per account or even per feed:

• Smart caching — Feedler keeps more from the feeds you read often, and less from the ones you rarely open, adjusting on its own as your habits change — so it spends your data where it counts. As you read, it quietly readies the next articles in the background, so you glide from one to the next with no waiting. Your favorites are always kept, anything already saved stays, and older articles load the moment you open them.
• Cache everything — prefer your whole library within reach? Keep every article offline, perfect before a flight or a trip with no signal.
• Cache nothing — watching every megabyte? Store nothing at all; articles simply load when you open them.

Whichever you choose, it all lives on your device — no account, nothing in the cloud.

Images are the heavy part of any sync: on good Wi-Fi you never notice them, on a weak connection they're what makes it drag. Feedler adapts — something we haven't seen in any other reader. Set image downloads to Smart and it decides, sync by sync, whether images are worth downloading right now:

• It senses the connection as it syncs — no speed tests, no battery drain: Feedler simply pays attention to how the sync itself is going. If the network turns slow, spotty or overloaded, it knows.
• Text first, so sync stays fast — on a bad connection, Feedler skips the images for that sync and your articles arrive in seconds instead of minutes. Nothing is lost: images load as you read, like on any web page — and thumbnails are always there.
• You always have the last word — before skipping, Feedler asks, with an estimate of how long the images would take. Stuck in a dead zone you're about to leave? Tap Download and it powers through. Prefer it fully automatic? Turn the confirmation off.
• Tune it per feed — pick Never, Smart or Always: globally, per account, or per feed. Keep a favorite photography feed on Always while the rest adapts to your connection.

It also respects iOS Low Data Mode automatically. Slow network, fast sync — that's the smart way.

Your accounts and all your settings — general, per-account and per-feed — are saved to your own private iCloud. Reinstall Feedler, or set up a new iPhone, and your whole setup comes back on its own: accounts, credentials and preferences, just as you left them. Only the articles aren't backed up — they simply re-sync from each service (or re-download for local feeds), so you land on a clean, familiar setup.

Feedler is built for iPhone and iPad, on iOS and iPadOS 18 and later. It also runs on Macs with Apple silicon: the Mac version is currently based on the iPad app, and will be optimized for the Mac in a future update.

Feedler is in a private TestFlight beta. You're welcome to request access, though spots aren't guaranteed.