Whisper: RSS Reader

Curate. Read. Breathe.

Whisper is a calm, private reader for the news and blogs you choose. No account, no tracking: everything stays on your phone, and it works fully offline.

Reading

Four layouts: Cards, Magazine, List and Mosaic, in light or dark

A clean reader view, with the full article fetched per feed or for all of them

Read later keeps the whole article, pictures included, for reading offline

Several sources covering one story become one lead card

Mark read as you scroll, with read articles dimmed or hidden

Chronological by default; or let Whisper give more room to what you read most, and see why for any article

On a tablet the feed spreads into columns, and an article opens beside it

Sources you control

Add a feed by address, or paste a website and Whisper finds the feed

Import OPML, or your browser's bookmarks, and it works out which sites publish feeds

A feed library built into the app: 39 topics and 50 countries, browsed without telling anyone what you're looking for

Broken feeds are flagged, with their last five fetches and the error from each

Private by design

No trackers, no ads, no analytics

Weather in the glance row is off by default and needs no location permission: you type a place name, and the forecast comes from Open-Meteo (open-meteo.com)

Settings → Export diagnostics writes a report you can read before you share it. It holds counts and settings, never what you searched for or the addresses you typed

Optional extras

Two-way sync with your own FreshRSS server: subscriptions, read state and saved articles

Scheduled backups of your feeds and settings to a folder you choose

If you use Lawnchair, Whisper can live on its left-most home-screen page