About

A quieter place
for everything you follow.

Reader is a small, independent team building one calm page for the feeds you already care about — no ranking, no ads, no infinite scroll.

Keeping up had quietly become a second job — five apps, a dozen tabs, each one tuned to keep you scrolling rather than to let you finish.

Reader is our answer: one chronological stream for RSS, podcasts, YouTube and Bluesky, with no algorithm deciding what you missed and no metrics counting how long you stayed.

reader.app/dashboard
2024

A weekend hack

Built to merge our own RSS and podcast feeds into one list — mostly to stop opening the same six tabs every morning.

2025

Friends wanted in

YouTube and Bluesky landed, the timeline got search, and a handful of fellow knowledge-workers started living in it daily.

2026

Open to everyone

Reader is public, free for up to ten sources, and still run by the same tiny team — quietly, deliberately, on purpose.

What we believe

A few principles
we don't bend on.

They sound obvious written down. Most feeds are built on the exact opposite — which is rather the point.

01

Time, not engagement

Newest first, always. We will never reorder your feed to make you stay longer.

02

Your reading is yours

No tracking, no resale, no profile. Export everything, anytime, and walk away clean.

03

A feed that ends

Catching up should be a finite task. Reach the bottom, close the tab, get on with your day.

04

Open by default

Standards over lock-in. If it has a feed, Reader should read it — no walled gardens.

05

Calm is a feature

Every pixel earns its place. If it adds noise, it doesn't ship — restraint is the design.

06

Small on purpose

A tiny team, funded by people who pay for the product — not by selling the people using it.

Who's building it

Four people
and a lot of feeds.

We're readers first. Every one of us uses Reader to keep up with our own corners of the internet.

Mara Velez
Co-founder · product
Theo Ansel
Co-founder · engineering
Priya Raman
Design
Jonas Beck
Feeds & infrastructure
Read with us

Bring your feeds home.

Free forever for up to 10 sources. Questions first? We're easy to reach.

Every feed you follow — articles, podcasts, videos, posts — in one quiet, chronological place.

Sources

RSS & AtomPodcastsYouTubeBluesky
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