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ReadYou

Kotlin ★ 7.2k updated 17d ago

An Android RSS reader presented in Material You style.

A free open-source RSS reader app for Android with Material You design that collects articles from blogs and news sites into one place, with full-text view, read-aloud, and sync service support.

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Read You is a free, open-source RSS reader for Android. RSS is a format that websites and blogs use to publish updates, so a reader app like this lets you subscribe to many sites and read all their new articles in one place, without visiting each site individually.

The app follows Android's Material You design system, which means it picks up your phone's color scheme and applies it to the app's interface. The feature list in the README shows what is currently working: subscribing to RSS feeds, importing and exporting your subscriptions in the standard OPML format, receiving notifications when new articles arrive, an article readability mode that strips away clutter, a feature that fetches and displays the full original article text rather than a short excerpt, multiple account support, and a read-aloud function. An Android home screen widget is listed as a planned but not yet completed feature.

For people who already use a self-hosted or third-party RSS sync service, the app connects to Fever, Google Reader protocol-compatible services, and FreshRSS. Support for more services such as Miniflux and Tiny Tiny RSS is noted as planned.

You can download the app from GitHub releases, a Telegram channel, or F-Droid, an alternative Android app store that only carries open-source software. Nightly builds are available via GitHub Actions for those who want to test the latest changes. The app is built using Jetpack Compose, Android's modern interface toolkit, and the README includes steps for cloning and building it in Android Studio. Translation contributions are accepted through Weblate. The project is licensed under GPL v3.

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