Whisper: RSS Reader
- Keep a source out of All, so it has a tab of its own under its category.
- Show summaries and Article times (2h, 14:32 or both) in Settings.
- With read articles hidden, the last ones scroll away too, and saved ones move to Bookmarks once read.
- Fixes: a stuck "Syncing" notice, picture credits left in the text, email addresses in bylines.
Whisper is a calm, private reader for the news and blogs you choose. No account, no tracking: everything stays on your phone, and it works fully offline.
Reading
- Four layouts: Cards, Magazine, List and Mosaic, in light or dark
- A clean reader view, with the full article fetched per feed or for all of them
- Read later keeps the whole article, pictures included, for reading offline
- Several sources covering one story become one lead card
- Mark read as you scroll, with read articles dimmed or hidden
- Chronological by default; or let Whisper give more room to what you read most, and see why for any article
- On a tablet the feed spreads into columns, and an article opens beside it
Sources you control
- Add a feed by address, or paste a website and Whisper finds the feed
- Import OPML, or your browser's bookmarks, and it works out which sites publish feeds
- A feed library built into the app: 39 topics and 50 countries, browsed without telling anyone what you're looking for
- Broken feeds are flagged, with their last five fetches and the error from each
Private by design
- No trackers, no ads, no analytics
- Weather in the glance row is off by default and needs no location permission: you type a place name, and the forecast comes from Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com)
- Settings → Export diagnostics writes a report you can read before you share it. It holds counts and settings, never what you searched for or the addresses you typed
Optional extras
- Two-way sync with your own FreshRSS server: subscriptions, read state and saved articles
- Scheduled backups of your feeds and settings to a folder you choose
- If you use Lawnchair, Whisper can live on its left-most home-screen page
- Author: Nyancat Labs
- License: GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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- Every link in About can be seen; none run off the side of the screen.
- From 1.0.3: much faster FreshRSS matching, source cards that lead with the name, buttons that say what they do, undo for deleting a category, and a comfortable line length in the reader on wide screens.