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Why Downread?

Why should you use Downread?

Downread is not the first RSS reader, and far from the only one. It is a fair question to ask why you should choose a newcomer over the reader you already know.

The simple and honest answer: we believe that, for most people, it is the best reader on the market.

Start reading in seconds, no account needed
Prefer headlines? Posts open right in the list
The same stream on your phone
Full posts in one stream: just keep scrolling

The best user interface

Easy to use, easy to get started. No setup, no account, no tutorial: click on a feed and you are reading.

Easy to skim through hundreds of posts a day. All your feeds flow into one stream. Just keep scrolling: posts you move past are marked read, and the next ones are already there.

It never gets in the way, no matter how you read: five posts a day on your phone, or a thousand on a big screen with the keyboard.

Count unread posts, or just show a dot
Limit unread posts per feed, by number or age
Mass operations on your feeds
RSS Bankruptcy, for when it all gets too much

The best for managing many feeds

Not every feed deserves the same attention. For each feed, decide whether Downread should count its unread posts, or whether you just dip in when you feel like it.

Set limits per feed: how many posts you want to keep unread, or for how long. A busy news site never buries the blog that posts once a month.

The feed manager does mass operations on your feeds, like moving 20 feeds into a folder, or marking everything older than 24 hours in them as read.

And when you just can't keep up, the unique RSS Bankruptcy mode helps you start over, without losing the feeds you love.

GitHub Blog: charts and structure
DPReview: embedded content and buttons
MouseSavers: the newsletter’s own colors and layout
Frequent Miler: custom tables and styles

The best post renderer

Posts in Downread look the way their authors meant them to. Styles, tables, colors and simple layouts survive. Images zoom, videos and audio play, and social media posts show up as posts, not as broken links.

Popular sites even get their own custom CSS, so they look great without you leaving the reader.

Create a newsletter inbox in seconds
Indie Hackers
TLDR AI
MouseSavers

Newsletters, without the inbox clutter

Create email inboxes for your newsletters in seconds, and subscribe with their address instead of yours. New issues show up in Downread next to your feeds, and your real inbox stays clean.

Even in the free version: a free account gets you up to 100 inboxes.

Turn on offline reading, and Downread saves posts and images
No connection, no problem: images included

Read offline, images included

Downread is one of the few readers that supports real offline reading: both the full text and the images are saved on your device. On the plane, on the subway, or wherever the signal gives up.

Offline reading needs the Downread apps for Android and iOS, coming in late 2026. For technical reasons, it does not work in the browser.

On a phone
On a tablet
On a desktop
On a wide screen

All platforms, all screen sizes

Phone, tablet, laptop or a big monitor: Downread fits every screen, in the browser, and soon in the apps.

One account, everything syncs. Start reading on your phone, continue on your laptop, right where you left off.

It’s free

Downread is free, with quotas high enough that most people will never hit them.

  • Follow up to 1000 feeds
  • 100 newsletter inboxes and 100 private feeds
  • Sync across all your devices
  • No credit card needed

Try it. It takes seconds.

No account, no credit card, no setup. Just start reading.

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Importing OPML, newsletter inboxes and adding new sites require a free sign up.