Unread: An RSS Reader
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Free · In-App Purchases
Rediscover the joy of reading your favorite writers and publications with Unread. Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography, great handling of summary-only feeds, and a variety of color themes. Unread is available for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Unread won the MacStories Selects 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Capabilities include:
SYNCING: Our free Unread Cloud service keeps your devices in sync. Unread also syncs with Feedbin, Feedly, Fever, Gobbler, Inkwell, Inoreader, and NewsBlur.
AUTOMATIC WEBPAGE TEXT: For feeds that contain only article summaries, Unread will display the full article text from the webpage. You can easily switch between feed text and webpage text for any article, or make webpage text the default for individual feeds.
WEBSITE ACCOUNTS: For news websites that require an account, sign in and get full webpage text.
SUBSCRIBE IN UNREAD: This share extension lets you subscribe to a website’s feeds while visiting that website from Safari or any other web browser.
SAVE TO UNREAD: This share extension creates an article in Unread with the contents of the webpage you are visiting from Safari or any other web browser. (Subscription required.)
COLOR THEMES: Unread provides a variety of color themes. Choose one theme for light mode and another for dark mode.
WIDGETS: Unread’s widgets display your most recent articles or unread article counts.
VOICEOVER: Unread has full VoiceOver coverage. Every feature is available to users with vision impairments
CACHING: Unread caches webpage text and images for instant loading and offline access. (Subscription required.)
READ-LATER SERVICES: Unread provides native support for saving articles to Anybox, Flyleaf, GoodLinks, Instapaper, Matter, Pinboard, Plinky, Raindrop.io, Readwise, Safari Reading List, and Wallabag. Assign a custom keyboard shortcut to each. (Subscription required.)
SHORTCUTS: Perform shortcuts on articles and links inside articles. Assign a custom keyboard shortcut to each. (Subscription required.)
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“Most importantly, I should stress again how refreshing it feels to have such a great native experience with Unread. The app is really fast, even when it’s loaded up with hundreds of feeds.”
— Niléane, MacStories
“It’s an RSS reader made with taste. It has great typography, themes, search, and compatibility with the usual suspects. I love having this app on my Mac.”
— David Sparks, MacSparky
“Unread is focused on eliminating chrome — it is a pure reading app. It’s like reader mode all the time, and the assortment of color themes is nicely curated.”
– John Gruber, Daring Fireball
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UNREAD SUBSCRIPTION
Unread is a free app. Additional functionality is available with a $29.99 (USD)/year auto-renewing subscription:
• Article actions for sending articles directly to supported bookmarking and read later services, and for sharing via email or iMessage.
• Ability to execute shortcuts on articles and links.
• Caching of webpage text and images.
• Save to Unread share extension.
• Widget customization options.
• Custom dock icons.
• Premium support.
A subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase.
Unread’s Terms of Use are available at:
https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/unread/terms-of-use/
more We recently added:
• Syncing with Gobbler
• Improvements to the Matter article action
• Improved display of Reddit posts
• More fine-grained controls for caching of webpage text and images
This update incorporates these improvements:
• This update adds forward-looking compatibility improvements.
• This update adds modest improvements to the in-app webpage text generator.
4.9.9 4 days ago
We recently added:
• Syncing with Gobbler
• Improvements to the Matter article action
• Improved display of Reddit posts
• More fine-grained controls for caching of webpage text and images
New in this update:
• This update adds improvements to the display of feed text for Metafilter articles. Unread also now treats most Metafilter articles as link articles. This lets you show Feed & Webpage Text to see both the Metafilter article and the article to which it links. These improvements apply to new Metafilter articles downloaded after installing this update.
• This update adds forward looking compatibility improvements around setting key commands for article actions and shortcuts.
4.9.8 8 Aug
We recently added:
• Syncing with Gobbler
• Improvements to the Matter article action
• Improved display of Reddit posts
• More fine-grained controls for caching of webpage text and images
This update adds improvements to the on-device webpage text generator.
4.9.7 1 Aug
We recently added:
• Syncing with Gobbler
• Improvements to the Matter article action
• Improved display of Reddit posts
• More fine-grained controls for caching of webpage text and images
This update addresses a bug that prevented YouTube videos from loading under some circumstances.
4.9.6 22 Jul
We recently added:
• Syncing with Gobbler
• Improvements to the Matter article action
• Improved display of Reddit posts
• More fine-grained controls for caching of webpage text and images
This update adds forward-looking compatibility improvements.
4.9.5 18 Jul
We recently added:
• Syncing with Gobbler
• Improvements to the Matter article action
• Improved display of Reddit posts
• More fine-grained controls for caching of webpage text and images
This update adds improvements to the in-app webpage text generator.
4.9.4 14 Jul
We recently added:
• Syncing with Gobbler
• Improvements to the Matter article action
• Improved display of Reddit posts
• More fine-grained controls for caching of webpage text and images
This update adds improvements to the in-app webpage text generator.
4.9.3 15 Jun
We recently added:
• Syncing with Gobbler
• Improvements to the Matter article action
• Improved display of Reddit posts
• More fine-grained controls for caching of webpage text and images
This update incorporates these improvements:
• This update adds improvements to the in-app webpage text generator.
• This update fixes a bug that would prevent articles from being deleted after unsubscribing from the associated feed under some circumstances.
• This update fixes a bug that would cause confusing text in the alert offering to change the display mode for feeds after adding a website account.
• This update fixes a bug around connecting a Feedly account to Reddit.
4.9.2 12 Jun
We recently added:
• Syncing with Gobbler
• Improvements to the Matter article action
• Improved display of Reddit posts
• More fine-grained controls for caching of webpage text and images
This update fixes a bug that caused formatting issues in code snippets in some articles. This fix will apply to new articles downloaded after installing this update.
4.9.1 2 Jun
Unread 4.9 adds these improvements:
• Syncing with Gobbler, a new RSS syncing service
• Improvements to the Matter article action
• Improved display of Reddit posts
• More fine-grained control over caching
Syncing With Gobbler:
Gobbler is a new web-based RSS reader and syncing service. This update adds the ability to sync with Gobbler. Add a Gobbler account to Unread just like you would any other feed service account.
Particularly nice attributes of Gobbler and Unread’s integration include:
• Gobbler can receive email newsletters. These newsletters are available in Unread.
• The Gobbler API reports which feeds it is unable to access. Unread makes the list of feed errors available for Gobbler accounts, just as it does for Unread Cloud and Local accounts.
• The Subscribe in Unread share extension supports Gobbler accounts.
Matter Article Action:
Matter recently released the Matter API. With this update, the Matter article action can use the Matter API.
Matter makes the Matter API available to Matter Pro subscribers. For the benefit of customers who do not subscribe to Matter Pro, Unread’s Matter article action can also operate as it did before: by invoking a shortcut that works with the Matter app.
If you subscribe to Matter Pro and use the Matter article action, you can configure the Matter article action to use the Matter API as follows:
1. Open the Settings window.
2. Select the Article Actions tab.
3. Select Matter in the list of article actions.
4. Set the Mechanism to Matter API.
5. You will be prompted to enter an API token. You can generate an API token from the Matter settings webpage.
Reddit Posts:
This update improves the layout of Reddit posts that contain images. Under some circumstances Unread will display images in Reddit posts that previous versions of Unread could not display.
Reddit posts that are links to articles are now treated as link articles in Unread. You can determine whether Unread views an article as a link article based on whether it has another website domain at the bottom of its entry in the article list.
As with link articles from other feeds, you can show the article to which a Reddit article links by setting the display mode to Feed and Webpage Text. The linked article will appear underneath the article from the feed to which you are subscribed. You can do this by opening the article and choosing Feed and Webpage Text from the View menu. Click the Apply button at the top of the article to apply that change to all link articles from that subreddit.
For all new subscriptions to subreddit feeds, Feed and Webpage Text will be the default display mode for link articles. This update does not change your existing feed subscription settings.
The improvements around Reddit posts will apply to new articles downloaded after installing this update.
Caching:
For Unread Premium subscribers, the webpage text caching setting can now be set to one of the following:
• Never
• Wi-Fi or better
• Hotspot or better
• Even in low data mode
The image caching setting can be set to one of the following:
• Never
• Wi-Fi or better
• Hotspot or better
Unread never caches images when in low data mode.
The caching setting value for webpage text must be at least as broad as that for images, because Unread needs webpage text for an article in order to determine the set of images to cache for that article.
A separate setting allows you to determine whether caching should happen when the Mac is in low power mode.
The Caching pane of the Settings window now displays the current network connection type and whether low power mode is enabled.
If you enjoy using Unread, please consider subscribing to Unread Premium.
4.9 28 May
Unread recently added:
• The ability to sync with an Inkwell account
• Significant webpage text reliability improvements
• Faster loading of link articles
This update adds these improvements:
• This update fixes a bug that prevented keyboard shortcuts without modifiers (such as the command key) from working under some circumstances.
• Documentation around shortcuts has been updated to reflect changes in the operating systems.
• This update adds bug fixes to the Save to Matter shortcut that the Matter article action uses. To get these fixes, remove and reinstall that shortcut.
• When invoking a shortcut on an article, Unread now includes a “tags” element in the dictionary. This is an array with the names of all tags, folders, categories, or groups associated with the relevant feed subscription. If there is no relevant feed subscription or if you are no longer subscribed, this will be an empty array.
• This update adds improvements to the on-device webpage text generator.
4.8.5 14 May
Unread recently added:
• The ability to sync with an Inkwell account
• Significant webpage text reliability improvements
• Faster loading of link articles
This update adds improvements to the on-device webpage text generator.
4.8.4 4 May
Unread recently added:
• The ability to sync with an Inkwell account
• Significant webpage text reliability improvements
• Faster loading of link articles
This update adds:
• Improvements to the on-device webpage text generator
• Updates to the Plinky article action settings screen
4.8.3 26 Apr
Recent updates to Unread added:
• Syncing with Inkwell
• Reliability improvements around webpage text
• Faster opening of link articles
This update incorporates these improvements:
• This update adds improvements to the on-device webpage text generator.
• This update fixes a bug that prevented article list thumbnails from appearing for YouTube videos under some circumstances.
4.8.2 5 Apr
Unread recently added:
• Syncing with Inkwell
• Reliability improvements around webpage text
• Faster opening of link articles
This update adds improvements to the on-device webpage text generator.
4.8.1 13 Mar
Unread 4.8 adds these improvements and more:
• Syncing with Inkwell, a new feed service
• Reliability improvements around webpage text
• Faster opening of link articles
Syncing With Inkwell:
Inkwell is a new web-based RSS reader and syncing service. This update adds the ability to sync with Inkwell. Add an Inkwell account just like you would any other feed service account.
I updated the privacy policy, adding a link to the Inkwell privacy policy.
Reliability Improvements Around Webpage Text:
Webpage text for an article can either be generated via Unread’s webpage text cloud service or on device. The webpage text cloud service is faster, requires less battery power, and uses less data. The cloud service also makes it possible for me to deploy an update to the webpage parsing logic without releasing an update to the app through the App Store.
I added an on-device webpage text generator to Unread when I added the website accounts feature for paywalled articles. When retrieving webpage text via a website account, Unread does not use the cloud service. This ensures that Unread’s servers never see credentials or authorization tokens pertaining to a website account.
When the webpage text cloud service is unable to generate webpage text for an article, Unread now falls back to using its on-device webpage text generator.
One trend I have seen is an increasing number of websites refusing requests from clients in data centers and cloud platforms. I believe the rise of artificial intelligence has motivated websites to block anything that looks like an automated agent from retrieving webpages. A request coming from a data center or from a cloud platform looks like such a request, but a request coming from your device does not. This change makes webpage text much more reliable.
The webpage text cloud service keeps track of websites for which it is unable to generate webpage text. Unread keeps a synced copy of that list of websites. When Unread needs webpage text for an article from such a website, it does not ask the webpage text cloud service. Instead it goes straight to the on-device webpage text generator. This ensures that loading webpage text is not slowed down by a request to the webpage text cloud service when that will likely fail.
Faster Opening of Link Articles:
When showing both feed and webpage text for an article and that article’s webpage text has not yet been retrieved, Unread now shows the feed text immediately when it is opened. It then retrieves the webpage text and appends it to the article. This makes it possible to start reading the feed text immediately. It makes the app feel much faster.
Additional Improvements:
• Unread now treats most kottke.org articles as link articles. If you set the link article display mode to Feed & Webpage Text for the kottke.org feed, you will see both the kottke.org article and the article to which it links. This change will apply to new articles downloaded after installing this update.
• This update adds a variety of improvements to the in-app webpage text generator.
4.8 9 Mar
This update incorporates these improvements:
• This update adds webpage text improvements for some websites when using website accounts.
• The Premium pane of the Settings window no longer contains the “UNREAD PREMIUM” header. It is now shorter and fits better on the screen of a 13-inch MacBook Air.
4.7.2 24 Feb
This update incorporates these improvements:
• This update adds webpage text improvements for some websites when using website accounts.
• This update addresses a bug that could cause the app to crash.
4.7.1 11 Feb
This is a modest update that incorporates these improvements:
• Unread’s premium feature offering is now called Unread Premium. The toolbar item for Unread Premium now has a new icon.
• This update fixes a rare crash.
4.7 19 Jan
This update adds some webpage text improvements for some websites when using website accounts.
4.6.9 19/12/2025
This update adds some webpage text improvements for some websites when using website accounts.
4.6.8 04/12/2025
This update adds some webpage text improvements for some websites when using website accounts.
4.6.7 26/11/2025
This update incorporates these improvements:
• This update fixes a bug around handling HTTP/HTTPS 303 responses when searching for a feed at a specific URL.
• This update adds some webpage text improvements for some websites when using website accounts.
4.6.6 12/11/2025
This update incorporates a bug fix that makes YouTube videos work more reliably.
4.6.5 31/10/2025
This update adds some webpage text improvements for some websites when using website accounts.
4.6.4 22/10/2025
We recently added:
• Syncing with Gobbler
• Improvements to the Matter article action
• Improved display of Reddit posts
• More fine-grained controls for caching of webpage text and images
This update incorporates these improvements:
• This update adds forward-looking compatibility improvements.
• This update adds modest improvements to the in-app webpage text generator.
more Version 4.9.9 4 days ago
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