PrivyFeed: News Butler
Local-first AI RSS reader
Free · In‑App Purchases
PrivyFeed 0.12.0 opens articles much faster in Reading mode and prefetches your newest unread stories on Wi-Fi, so they are ready the moment you tap.
PrivyFeed is a private, local-first RSS reader that brings AI to your feeds—without sending your data to the cloud.
Read and organize • Subscribe to any RSS/Atom feed • Inbox, Unread, and feed groups • OPML import and export • Clean reading view with article detail
AI that stays on your side • Connect to Ollama on your iPhone, Mac, or home server (e.g. Raspberry Pi) • Summarize articles in your preferred language • Ask questions about your feed—semantic search finds relevant chunks and your local model answers • Embeddings and index stored on device (SQLite); no third‑party AI APIs required
Privacy first • No account required to use the app • Feeds and AI run against your own Ollama instance • Optional HTTP feeds; settings for timeout, models, and refresh
Best for RSS users who want summaries and Q&A over their subscriptions using a self-hosted or local LLM (e.g. Llama, Qwen, Mistral via Ollama).
more - Open articles in Reading mode noticeably faster, especially the first one after launch.
- Prefetch your newest unread articles in the background on Wi-Fi, so they open instantly, even offline later. Prefetching pauses on cellular, Personal Hotspot, and Low Data Mode.
- Get a quicker answer on slow or unreachable sites: Reading mode no longer waits through repeated retries after a timeout.
- Read more articles in Reading mode: pages that only embed a CAPTCHA, such as in a comment form, are no longer mistaken for blocked pages and pushed to Web view.
- Keep scrolling and tapping smoothly while an article is being prepared.
- Add feeds, rename feeds, documents, and groups, and edit groups in cleaner form-style sheets that fit both iPhone and iPad and submit straight from the keyboard.
- Close Settings with a dedicated button in its toolbar.
0.12.0 5d ago
PrivyFeed adds an optional Pro upgrade while keeping the full reading experience free.
- Unlock every Pro feature with one non-consumable in-app purchase, restorable across your devices.
- Use Ask for free up to a daily limit; go unlimited with Pro.
- Ask across multiple feeds or a whole group at once (Pro).
- Save any Q&A answer as a Note for later (Pro).
- Generate daily / weekly Digests that summarize what changed across your feeds (Pro).
- Generate Topic Insights with rising, falling, and new keyword trends (Pro).
- Export Digests, Insights, and Notes to Markdown files (Pro).
- Tune chat temperature and max tokens with advanced model config (Pro).
- Choose your embedding model and control index capacity, strategy, and Ask source limits (Pro).
- Upgrade and restore right from Settings, with a clear paywall listing every included feature.
0.11.1 Oct 24
PrivyFeed adds an optional Pro upgrade while keeping the full reading experience free.
- Unlock every Pro feature with one non-consumable in-app purchase, restorable across your devices.
- Use Ask for free up to a daily limit; go unlimited with Pro.
- Ask across multiple feeds or a whole group at once (Pro).
- Save any Q&A answer as a Note for later (Pro).
- Generate daily / weekly Digests that summarize what changed across your feeds (Pro).
- Generate Topic Insights with rising, falling, and new keyword trends (Pro).
- Export Digests, Insights, and Notes to Markdown files (Pro).
- Tune chat temperature and max tokens with advanced model config (Pro).
- Choose your embedding model and control index capacity, strategy, and Ask source limits (Pro).
- Upgrade and restore right from Settings, with a clear paywall listing every included feature.
0.11.0 Sep 7
PrivyFeed 0.10.0 adds an optional Pro upgrade while keeping the full reading experience free.
- Unlock every Pro feature with one non-consumable in-app purchase, restorable across your devices.
- Use Ask for free up to a daily limit; go unlimited with Pro.
- Ask across multiple feeds or a whole group at once (Pro).
- Save any Q&A answer as a Note for later (Pro).
- Generate daily / weekly Digests that summarize what changed across your feeds (Pro).
- Generate Topic Insights with rising, falling, and new keyword trends (Pro).
- Export Digests, Insights, and Notes to Markdown files (Pro).
- Tune chat temperature and max tokens with advanced model config (Pro).
- Choose your embedding model and control index capacity, strategy, and Ask source limits (Pro).
- Upgrade and restore right from Settings, with a clear paywall listing every included feature.
0.10.1 Jul 24
PrivyFeed 0.10.0 adds an optional Pro upgrade while keeping the full reading experience free.
- Unlock every Pro feature with one non-consumable in-app purchase, restorable across your devices.
- Use Ask for free up to a daily limit; go unlimited with Pro.
- Ask across multiple feeds or a whole group at once (Pro).
- Save any Q&A answer as a Note for later (Pro).
- Generate daily / weekly Digests that summarize what changed across your feeds (Pro).
- Generate Topic Insights with rising, falling, and new keyword trends (Pro).
- Export Digests, Insights, and Notes to Markdown files (Pro).
- Tune chat temperature and max tokens with advanced model config (Pro).
- Choose your embedding model and control index capacity, strategy, and Ask source limits (Pro).
- Upgrade and restore right from Settings, with a clear paywall listing every included feature.
0.10.0 Jun 22
PrivyFeed 0.9.0 focuses on a polished, persistent AI experience and a faster, smoother reading flow.
- Give every channel (Inbox, Unread, or a feed) its own AI chat, and switch the conversation automatically when you switch channels.
- Create, switch between, clear, and delete chat sessions per channel, with the full history saved on device so it survives app restarts.
- Render AI answers with full Markdown formatting (headings, lists, code blocks, tables, quotes, and links) using a compact theme tuned for the chat panel.
- Lay out the conversation like a real chat, with your own messages aligned to the right in their own bubble, the assistant labeled "privyfeed", and the Send button on the right.
- Collapse model reasoning by default behind a "Show reasoning" toggle, so the answer reads first and thinking output no longer clutters the conversation.
- Support image-capable (vision) models in chat, so multimodal prompts work with compatible Ollama or OpenAI-compatible models.
- Render per-article AI Summaries with full Markdown formatting instead of raw text.
- Keep each article's AI Summary on device, so it reloads instantly without re-running the model, with Regenerate and Delete controls.
- Collapse the AI Summary to read the full article, then expand it again whenever you want.
- Refresh all feeds in parallel with bounded concurrency, so one slow source no longer holds up the rest, and only feeds that actually changed get re-indexed.
- Scroll long article lists smoothly with paged loading that fetches more entries as you reach the end.
- Cache extracted article content with age and size limits to make reopening articles faster and reduce repeat network fetches.
0.9.1 Jun 20
PrivyFeed 0.9.0 focuses on a polished, persistent AI experience and a faster, smoother reading flow.
- Give every channel (Inbox, Unread, or a feed) its own AI chat, and switch the conversation automatically when you switch channels.
- Create, switch between, clear, and delete chat sessions per channel, with the full history saved on device so it survives app restarts.
- Render AI answers with full Markdown formatting (headings, lists, code blocks, tables, quotes, and links) using a compact theme tuned for the chat panel.
- Lay out the conversation like a real chat, with your own messages aligned to the right in their own bubble, the assistant labeled "privyfeed", and the Send button on the right.
- Collapse model reasoning by default behind a "Show reasoning" toggle, so the answer reads first and thinking output no longer clutters the conversation.
- Support image-capable (vision) models in chat, so multimodal prompts work with compatible Ollama or OpenAI-compatible models.
- Render per-article AI Summaries with full Markdown formatting instead of raw text.
- Keep each article's AI Summary on device, so it reloads instantly without re-running the model, with Regenerate and Delete controls.
- Collapse the AI Summary to read the full article, then expand it again whenever you want.
- Refresh all feeds in parallel with bounded concurrency, so one slow source no longer holds up the rest, and only feeds that actually changed get re-indexed.
- Scroll long article lists smoothly with paged loading that fetches more entries as you reach the end.
- Cache extracted article content with age and size limits to make reopening articles faster and reduce repeat network fetches.
0.9.0 Jun 19
PrivyFeed 0.4.0 focuses on making article reading more reliable and feed refresh easier to reach.
- Improve Reading mode with ReadabilityKit-powered article extraction for cleaner article text, titles, metadata, images, links, code blocks, quotes, and tables.
- Try multiple browser user agents when fetching articles, improving compatibility with more publishers and websites.
- Detect access-denied, CAPTCHA, and blocked extraction pages, then fall back to Web view when Reading mode cannot load an article.
- Extract article text from structured JSON-LD content when available, helping Reading mode work on pages without clean article markup.
- Add pull-to-refresh to the article list for faster feed updates.
- Add Refresh to the More menu, keeping manual refresh available from the main feed screen.
- Keep Mark All as Read in the More menu while disabling it only where it does not apply.
- Improve third-party license metadata for the new article readability engine.
0.4.0 Jun 7
PrivyFeed 0.3.1 focuses on reading comfort and small-screen layout polish.
- Make the feed list more compact so more articles fit on screen at once.
- Give the article reading view more usable space by reducing fixed headers, margins, and reading content padding.
- Move the Article/Chat switcher to a bottom translucent control, keeping the main content area clear.
- Improve the Add Feed sheet so it adapts to narrow iPhone widths and keeps action buttons inside the screen.
- Improve URL entry in Add Feed with URL keyboard behavior and no automatic capitalization or autocorrection.
0.3.1 Jun 3
PrivyFeed 0.3.0 improves subscription organization and feed refresh reliability.
Add new RSS/Atom feeds directly into an existing group from the Add Feed dialog.
Access Add Feed and Add Group as separate toolbar actions for a faster subscription workflow.
Refresh feeds more reliably: one failing feed no longer stops the entire refresh run.
Reduce duplicate refresh work when switching feeds, with a short refresh cooldown for recently fetched feeds.
Move feed fetching and parsing work off the main UI path to keep the app more responsive during refresh.
0.3.0 May 11
- Open articles in Reading mode noticeably faster, especially the first one after launch.
- Prefetch your newest unread articles in the background on Wi-Fi, so they open instantly, even offline later. Prefetching pauses on cellular, Personal Hotspot, and Low Data Mode.
- Get a quicker answer on slow or unreachable sites: Reading mode no longer waits through repeated retries after a timeout.
- Read more articles in Reading mode: pages that only embed a CAPTCHA, such as in a comment form, are no longer mistaken for blocked pages and pushed to Web view.
- Keep scrolling and tapping smoothly while an article is being prepared.
- Add feeds, rename feeds, documents, and groups, and edit groups in cleaner form-style sheets that fit both iPhone and iPad and submit straight from the keyboard.
- Close Settings with a dedicated button in its toolbar.
more Version 0.12.0 5d ago
Data Not Collected The developer does not collect any data from this app.