Unread: An RSS Reader
Rediscover the joy of reading your favorite writers and publications with Unread.
Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography and a variety of color themes. Unread is available for Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Winner of the MacStories Selects 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award
“Against all odds, Unread has successfully bucked that trend and evolved into a mature, powerful product that continues to stand alone in the sea of RSS clients as a beacon of hope for indie developers and our community as a whole. There is nothing else like it. For all these reasons, we couldn’t think of an app more worthy of the MacStories Selects Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025.”
— Federico Viticci
Capabilities
Syncing: Unread Cloud is our free service for syncing Unread across devices. Create or log in to an Unread Cloud account via Sign in with Apple. Unread can also sync with most external feed services and self-hosted feed syncing systems.
Automatic Webpage Text: Unread knows which feeds contain only article summaries. If a feed contains just article summaries, Unread will retrieve and display the full text from the webpage. Unread also caches webpage text and images ahead of time for fast offline access.
Paywalled Articles: Log into a website from inside Unread. Unread will generate webpage text for articles from that website securely on your device.
Subscribe in Unread: This share extension makes it easy to subscribe to feeds offered by a website when visiting with Safari, Chrome, Firefox, or any other web browser.
Save to Unread: This share extension creates an article in Unread from the webpage you are visiting with Safari, Chrome, Firefox, or any other web browser.
Home Screen Widgets: An Articles widget lets you view the most recent articles. You can limit the articles to a specific folder or feed. An Unread Counts widget shows counts of unread articles by feed or folder. A single Unread Count widget shows the number of unread articles in your account, in a specific folder, or in a specific feed.
Color Themes: Unread has multiple themes designed for easy reading at night and under different lighting conditions. Select one theme for light mode and another for dark mode.
Search: Unread has great search capabilities. Search for an article with specific terms from any article list.
Link Article Support: For Link Articles such as those from Daring Fireball, Unread shows the full text of both the link article and the quoted article.
Article Actions: Save articles and links to Anybox, Flyleaf, GoodLinks, Instapaper, Matter, Pinboard, Plinky, Raindrop.io, Readwise, Safari Reading List, and wallabag.
Shortcuts: Run shortcuts on articles and links.
Testimonials
Just a gorgeous app.
— John Gruber, Daring Fireball
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
It feels so fast. It feels so good to use. I'm really, really impressed with the Mac app.
— Matt Birchler, Comfort Zone
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 Dorffer, MacStories
Unread for iPhone has been one of my favourite apps for a decade now, and the Mac version lives up to it.
— Harshil Shah on Mastodon
I’ve been using the Mac app for a couple of weeks, and it’s really quite nice, and I love that Brayton went the AppKit route.
— Stephen Hackett, 512 Pixels
On the iPhone I use an app called Unread… I like that a lot on the phone. I have a lot of muscle memory there, and I enjoy the design of it quite a bit.
— Marco Arment, Accidental Tech Podcast
Unread is not only a pleasure to use from a visual perspective but also from a VoiceOver perspective.
— Ernest Rudak, Just Text
Free
Unread is free. Unread Premium is a subscription offering that adds:
Article Actions: Quickly send articles to supported bookmarking and read later services. Share articles via email or iMessage.
Shortcuts: Run your own shortcuts on any article or link.
Save to Unread: This share sheet extension creates an article from the webpage you are visiting and saves it to your Unread Cloud, Local, Feedbin, Feedly, or NewsBlur account.
Caching: Cache webpage text and images ahead of time.
Custom App Icons: Unread offers app icons in a variety of color schemes.
Widget Customization: Limit articles or unread article counts shown by widgets to specific feeds or folders.
Premium Support: Paying customers get priority customer support.
