Basic Reader

Basic Reader is a fast, focused RSS reader for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. No account. No nonsense. Most RSS apps have turned into subscription businesses, charging $8–10 a month for features that should come standard. Basic Reader is free to download and free to use for reading your feeds. When you’re ready for more, a single one-time purchase unlocks the full feature set, and it’s yours for good. No subscription. Ever. --- FREE --- Feeds & Folders Subscribe to any RSS or Atom feed, with a preview before you subscribe. Group feeds into collapsible folders with drag-and-drop reordering. Unread counts appear on every feed, every folder and your app icon. Search Search across all your articles, with your recent searches a tap away. Comfortable Reading [changed] Adjust text size and reading width, see how long each article takes to read, copy links or text, and mark everything older or newer as read in one step. Read in the app or in the built-in browser, in light or dark mode. iCloud Sync [changed] Feeds, folders, articles, stars, filter rules and preferences stay in sync across your devices through iCloud, with duplicate articles from your other devices cleaned up automatically. No account needed beyond your Apple ID. Background Refresh Your feeds update automatically on a schedule you choose. Pull to refresh any time. Tidy Library [new] Keep read articles forever, or for a month to keep things fast. Unread and starred articles are always kept. OPML Import & Export Bring your subscriptions in from any other reader, and take them out just as easily. Your data is never held hostage. Swipe Gestures & Shortcuts [changed] Swipe to mark articles read or unread without opening them, or swipe a feed to mark it all read. Marked everything read by accident? Shake to undo. Haptic feedback on iPhone and iPad, keyboard shortcuts on iPad and Mac. Star Favorites Star any article to keep it, across all your feeds. Privacy Controls Control image loading and JavaScript to block tracking pixels and reduce data usage. No analytics SDKs. No backend. We never see what you read. iPhone, iPad & Mac Built natively in SwiftUI: a clean adaptive layout on iPhone and a full three-column view on iPad and Mac. Accessibility VoiceOver, Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion support, built in from day one. --- UNLOCK THE FULL VERSION --- One-time purchase. No subscription, no recurring fee, no tiers to upgrade later. Unlocks: Full Articles [new] Many feeds only include a summary. Read the whole story right in the app, cleaned up for reading, without the page’s ads, scripts or trackers. Mark as Read on Scroll [new] Articles you scroll past are marked read for you. Enhanced Search Search results are re-ranked by meaning using an on-device AI model, so you find what you mean, not just what you typed. Nothing leaves your device. Content Filter Rules Hide the noise with wildcard, regex or topic-based filters that match by meaning, not just exact words. Timeline Every unread article from every feed, in one combined view. Article View Styles Browse your feeds as compact rows with thumbnails, or as full image cards. Article Retention [new] Choose exactly how long read articles are kept, from a week to a year. Feed Health See which feeds are broken and why, right from the sidebar. Share Extension Add a feed from Safari or any app’s share sheet, even from an ordinary article page. iPhone and iPad. Faster Read Sync Articles you read on one device are marked read on your others almost immediately. --- NO SUBSCRIPTION. EVER. --- The unlock is a one-time purchase. Whatever it includes today stays yours: nothing you’ve already unlocked will ever be paywalled again or moved behind a new tier.