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FreeView

Rouf Syed

Read Medium articles for free through your choice of reader service

Download

Opens the official F-Droid page

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About FreeView

FreeView is a lightweight, ad-free reader for Medium articles. Share a Medium link to FreeView (or paste it into the app) and it opens the full article through the free reader service of your choice - no browser clutter and no login.

Features

Multiple reader services: Read-Medium, Freedium, Archive.today, Archive.is, and a Medium parser vercel app

Open a link by sharing it from any app, pasting it into the in-app address bar, or tapping a medium.com link and choosing FreeView

Optional reading history - keep your last 20, 50, or 100 articles and reopen them with a tap

Multi-select in the history list (long-press) to delete entries

Settings for the reader service, theme (light / dark / system), and article text size

Clean Material 3 interface with a collapsing top bar and full light and dark support

How it works

Pick a reader service in Settings. Share or paste a Medium link - or tap a link and choose FreeView - and it rewrites the link for that service and loads the article. You can switch services any time and revisit past reads from History or your saved Bookmarks. Tapping works for Medium articles on any domain (medium.com and custom publication domains alike); FreeView is offered for web links in the system "Open with" chooser.

Note

FreeView is not affiliated with Medium or any of the reader services it opens. It hosts, scrapes, and modifies nothing - it only opens publicly available pages in a WebView. Those services are third-party and outside FreeView's control.

What's new in 1.2

Bookmarks: save articles, browse them in a dedicated list, delete with long-press multi-select, and bookmark straight from your History. Open links directly: tap a Medium link anywhere - on medium.com or a custom publication domain - and choose FreeView (Settings has an "Open Medium links in FreeView" shortcut). FreeView is offered for web links in the system "Open with" chooser. Reading view: the link field is always available, a loading bar shows progress, and the toolbar adapts while you re

How to install FreeView

  1. Tap Download — the app's official page on F-Droid opens.
  2. Install it with the F-Droid app (recommended, for automatic updates), or use the download button on that page.
  3. If Android asks, allow the F-Droid app or your browser to install apps, then tap Install.
  4. Open FreeView from your app drawer.

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