Twine: Smart RSS & News Reader

Sasikanth Miriyampalli

In-app purchases

About this app

Take back control of your news. No algorithms. No ads. Just your feeds.

Tired of social media and news apps deciding what you see? Meet Twine, a modern, open-source RSS reader designed to put you back in the driver’s seat. Twine combines a beautiful, distraction-free interface with powerful tools to help you stay informed on your own terms.

Why Twine?

✨ Beautifully Adaptive UI:

Experience a reader that feels alive. Twine’s dynamic theming engine adjusts the app's ambient colors based on the content you’re reading, creating a truly immersive experience. Fully supports Light, Dark, and AMOLED modes.

🚀 Smart & Simple Feed Discovery:

Don’t hunt for RSS links. Simply enter a website homepage URL, and Twine’s smart fetching engine will find the feed for you.

📖 Distraction-Free Reading:

Read articles the way they were meant to be read. Use the "Article Shortcut" to fetch the full text of any post directly in the reader view, bypassing cluttered websites and paywalls.

🔒 Privacy First, Always:

Your reading habits are your business. Twine has zero ads, no tracking, and collects no personal data. It’s just you and your news.

Power Features for Feed Pros:

* Universal Support: Works with RSS, Atom, RDF, and JSON feeds.
* Stay Organised: Group, pin, and manage your feeds with ease. Use the customizable bottom bar for quick access to your favorite categories.
* Filter the Noise: Use the "Blocked Words" feature to automatically hide posts containing specific keywords you want to avoid.
* Seamless Syncing: Keep your feeds in sync with support for FreshRSS (GReader), Miniflux, and Dropbox (Alpha).
* Import & Export: Moving from another reader? Import your existing feeds via OPML in seconds.
* Search & Bookmark: Find specific posts across all your feeds or save them to your bookmarks to read later.
* Home Screen Widgets: Stay updated at a glance with beautiful widgets that show your latest unread posts (Available via Twine Premium).

Open Source & Community Driven:

Twine is built with love using Kotlin and Compose Multiplatform. It is an open-source project, meaning the community helps keep it transparent, secure, and constantly improving.

Stop scrolling and start reading. Download Twine today.

Ratings and reviews

Does not load full article. Importing requires sub, which I did, and regret. cannot change view. the bar at the bottom is entirely too big and does not change. I thought it would change after import, nope. there are free options out there that do way more than this. instant cancel.

I've been wanting to get back to RSS for my news for a long time, but couldn't stomach what some RSS reader developers are charging for the privilege of using their platform. Enter: Twine. Twine is easy to navigate and use, has a built-in browser for articles, and looks great! If you're looking for a new RSS reader, Twine is definitely worth a look.

Update: The app has improved so much since I last checked it out! It's running great, is really pretty, and loads pretty much all of the feeds I was following on Feedly! Really happy with it. All it would take for this to be a five-star RSS feed for me personally would be a better in-app reader mode, text to speech, and notifications for new articles in a feed. That being said, it's a tight app and you can feel the care being put into it. I really do love it, even despite my personal wants.

What's new

v2.11.0

Features:
- Added support for dropbox sync
- Notifications for unread posts.
- New customisation options. Alternate app icons (premium), disable dynamic theming
- Setting to download full content during sync
- Add feed specific settings to hide from home, show feed icon and always fetch full article

Changes:
- Reduce bottom bar height to show more content
- Add navigation drawer to access different pagess
- Redesigned add feed screen

Fixes:
- Bug fixes and improvements