Reading
Set like a book, not a browser.
Most feed readers pour articles into a little web view and hope for the best. Feedstand lays them out properly instead, and hands you the controls: type size, line height, column width, justification, and paper, sepia or dark themes that were tuned for reading at night rather than simply inverted.
If a feed only gives you the first paragraph, Feedstand fetches the rest of the article itself, pictures included, and keeps it on the phone so it still opens on the train.
Privacy
No account. No cloud. No analytics.
There is no server behind Feedstand. Your subscriptions and articles live on your phone, and the only network requests the app makes are to the feeds and articles you chose. Here is the entire permission list, with the reasons:
| Internet | fetching your feeds and articles |
| Notifications | only for feeds you choose to watch |
| Network state | so background refresh waits for a connection |
| Boot | so your refresh schedule survives a restart |
| Wake lock | so a refresh isn't killed halfway through |
Flow
Built for the daily skim.
Swipe between articles without going back to the list. Swipe a headline one way to mark it read, the other to star it. If you like, anything you scroll past counts as read. And when your eyes are elsewhere, Feedstand will read an article aloud using your phone's own voice, offline, and keep going while you do something else.
Your feeds
Subscribe with nothing but a URL.
Paste a site's address and Feedstand finds the feed, whether it's RSS, Atom or JSON Feed. Sort feeds into groups, mute the topics you're sick of, and bring your existing subscriptions with you through OPML import.
Sync
Bring your own server, if you have one.
Feedstand connects to Miniflux and to anything that speaks the Fever API, including FreshRSS. Subscriptions, read state and stars follow you between devices, and changes you make offline are queued and sent when you're back on a connection.
None of that is required. Out of the box there is nothing to sign into, because there is nothing to sign into.
Appearance
Make it yours.
Six app icons and four colour schemes, from the azure default to monochrome ink. Pick in settings; the whole app follows.