The quiet way to read the web.

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 the first time you open it, pictures included, and keeps it on the phone — so anything you’ve read once opens again on the train.

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:

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.

Subscribe with nothing but a URL.

Paste a site’s address and feedstand finds the feed. All three feed dialects are supported in full, natively parsed rather than run through some lowest common denominator:

RSS Atom JSON Feed

When a site offers more than one, feedstand recommends the site’s own preference. Sort feeds into groups and bring your existing subscriptions with you through OPML import.

And the same trick reaches well past the blogosphere: paste a Reddit community, a Mastodon or Pixelfed profile, a Bluesky account or a GitHub repository and feedstand finds the feed hiding behind it.

Starting from scratch? The add screen carries a small hand-picked catalogue — thirty-odd good feeds across eight topics — so a fresh install isn’t an empty room.

Follow YouTube without the algorithm.

Paste a link to a channel, a video or a playlist and feedstand turns it into a feed. New videos arrive in your article list like everything else, newest first, chosen by nobody. No recommendations, no autoplay — just the channels you asked for.

Follow the feed. Read only what matters.

Phrase filters work in both directions. Mute a phrase and matching articles disappear, from one feed or from all of them. Or turn it around: tell a busy feed to only show articles matching a phrase. Follow a deals site and see just the headphones. Follow a giant news feed and see just your town. Nothing is deleted — drop a rule and everything it was hiding comes back.

Rules can act as well as hide. Have matching articles starred the moment they arrive, or ask for a notification when a phrase turns up — a name you care about, a product you’re waiting on — on one feed or across all of them.

Keep any page, not just feeds.

Found something worth holding onto? Share it to feedstand and choose Save just this article. The full piece is fetched, pictures included, and kept in a Saved collection on your phone — readable offline, weeks later, even if the page itself disappears. Saved articles travel in your backups too.

Search everything you’ve ever read.

feedstand keeps a full-text index on the phone: titles and the whole article, including anything it fetched for you. Search reaches inside every piece you’ve cached — that half-remembered review from three weeks ago turns up from any word in its body, offline, with nothing sent anywhere.

And when a source quietly edits an article after you fetched it, feedstand notices on the next refresh, picks up the new text and marks the row with a small updated tag.

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.

Make it yours.

Six app icons and four colour schemes, from the azure default to monochrome ink. Pick in settings; the whole app follows.