Whisper: RSS Reader

Curate. Read. Breathe.

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

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