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Lenta Reader

Unofficial reader for the Lenta.ru news RSS feeds
New in version 1.8.1
If the news fail to load, for example when you start the app offline, the screen now says "Нет соединения" (no connection), with a "Повторить" (retry) button and a link to your saved articles, which open without a network. The tabs are hidden meanwhile. Before, the screen stayed blank and there was no telling whether it was loading or broken.
A news reader for the public RSS feeds of Lenta.ru, a Russian news site. This is an unofficial app: it is not affiliated with or endorsed by Lenta.ru.

It only reads the news — no accounts, no comments, no recommendations. The interface and the news themselves are in Russian only; there is no English translation.

Features

* Three feeds: top stories, latest, and everything
* A drawer with all 15 sections, from sport to economics
* Full article view: paragraphs, subheadings, photos, pull quotes, info boxes and author bylines
* Read articles are dimmed in the list automatically
* Bookmarks save an article's text and photos for offline reading
* Photos open full screen, with pinch-zoom, and can be sent on through the system share sheet
* Pull past the end of an article to open the next one

Privacy

The app collects nothing about you. There is no analytics SDK, no crash reporter, no ads and no trackers — it uses the network only to fetch the feed, the article text and its images.

Free software under the GPLv3; the source is open.

Versions

Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.

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  • Version 1.8.1 (10801) suggested Added on Oct 25, 2026

    arm64-v8a armeabi-v7a x86 x86_64

    This version requires Android 8.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • com.newsrssreader.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION

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