Sakura is a modern RSS reader designed to fit the way you consume content.
Whether you're catching up on news, browsing photo blogs, watching YouTube channels, or listening to podcasts, Sakura has a layout for that.
Multiple Ways to Read
Choose from many display styles designed for specific types of experience: inbox for the classic RSS reader experience, swipeable cards for bite sized consumption, a feed-like interface for the social media experience, and more.
Specific feeds will also be able to use a subscription view with widescreen thumbnails, and a dedicated podcast player with full playback controls including skip, seek, and background audio is also included.
Intelligence Features (Supported Devices Only)
Wake up to an AI-generated briefing of articles published overnight. In the evening, get a digest of the day's highlights.
Summaries are generated on-device using Apple Intelligence, so your reading habits never leave your phone.
Additionally turn on Content Insights to automatically groups articles together by topic to make content easier to find.
Add Feeds Easily
Use the Share Sheet to discover and add RSS feeds from any website, no need to hunt for a feed URL.
Sakura automatically detects feeds from web pages, probes common feed paths, and handles special formats like Reddit, YouTube, Fediverse, and Bluesky feeds.
Clean Reading
Articles are extracted from their original pages and presented without clutter.
Content is cached locally so you can read offline, and built-in translation lets you read feeds in other languages.
Stay in Control
Mark articles as read or unread, and mute keywords or authors you don't want to see.
Import and export your feeds with OPML so you can move between apps with ease.
Additionally, make use of advanced customization options to take control of how feeds are presented.
Built-in Podcast Player
Subscribe to podcasts alongside your other feeds.
Play episodes with full playback controls, background audio support, and Now Playing integration on your Lock Screen and Control Center.
Home Screen Widgets
Stay up to date at a glance.
Medium and large widgets show your latest unread articles, and tapping one opens it directly in Sakura.
Privacy by Design
AI summaries, content extraction, and article caching all happen on your device.
No accounts, no ads, and no tracking.
More features:
- Bookmarks to save articles for later
- Full-text search across all your feeds
- Unread tracking with badge counts
- Configurable background refresh intervals
- Localizations in multiple languages
- Integrations with reader services
A newer, completely free, RSS Reader w/lots of great promise. Easy to use & has lots of unique features that separates it from others, including the ability to display articles in multiple formats, Apple Intelligence Summaries, AI generated morning summary of new articles & evening digest of the day’s highlights. Only con I’ve found so far is the inability to sort feeds into folders.
Developer Response
Thank you for using Sakura!The ability to sort feeds is being considered, and will be released in a future release.
Still Missing a Mute Feature
Bashar Wael Sheikh
Can I suggest adding a mute feature for all websites rather than having to mute per website? Thank you.
Developer Response
Thank you for using Sakura Reader!Regarding muting keywords, you can currently long press on a feed and select ‘Rules’ to add keywords you want to mute from a feed.Regarding pure dark mode, an option to turn off the gradient background is in the works and will be released in the next version 😉
Version 1.6.1 contains fixes for the below bugs:
- Podcast feeds could take an unexpectedly long time to refresh
- Feeds with a lot of text could take an unexpectedly long time to refresh
- Stopping a feed refresh did not immediately surface fetched content
- Summaries may fail to generate in the afternoon and evening
- Unexpected ability to disable every Home tab
- Unexpected ability to start concurrent and overlapping feed refreshes
- Issues when parsing certain feeds
Version 1.6.1
The developer, Justin Xin, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
Supported Features
Larger Text
Dark Interface
Sufficient Contrast
Reduced Motion
Information
Seller
Justin Xin
Size
25.7 MB
Category
News
Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 26.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 26.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 26.1 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
