Twine
An open-source RSS and Atom reader for Android and iOS with a card-based Material You design.
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About Twine
Twine is a feed reader that collects RSS and Atom feeds into a card-based layout following Material You design. It is built with Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose, so the Android and iOS apps share most of their code, and the repository also contains a desktop app target.
The project is actively developed on GitHub, with thousands of commits and a sizeable following. It suits people who want a visually oriented mobile reader for the sites they follow.
Strengths
- Card-based Material You interface
- Shared code across Android and iOS
- Actively developed
Limitations
- Desktop support is less established than the mobile apps
- Visual layout may feel less dense than list-based readers
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- Sasikanth Miriyampalli
- Platforms
- Android, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Reading RSS and Atom feeds on a phone in a visual card layout
- Categories
- RSS readers
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Twine
Compare allSoftware that can replace Twine for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
FeedFlow
A minimal RSS reader that shows your feeds in publication order on mobile and desktop.
FeedFlow is an open-source chronological reader that also runs on Windows, macOS and Linux, with sync through iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, FreshRSS or Miniflux.
Feedly
Cloud RSS reader with apps, newsletters and AI topic filtering.
Feedly is a closed-source cloud reader with mature Android, iOS and web apps and AI topic filtering, though its free tier caps feeds and folders.
Inoreader
Power-user cloud RSS reader with rules, filters and full-text search.
Inoreader adds rules, filters and full-text search with Android, iOS and web apps, but is closed source, hosted only, and gates features behind paid tiers.
Folo
An AI-assisted feed reader for RSS and other sources, with desktop, web and mobile apps.
Folo adds desktop and web apps plus AI features and sources beyond RSS, is free, but its license is not stated as open source.
ReadYou
Follow RSS feeds with a Material-style Android reader.
ReadYou is a GPL-3.0 Material-style reader for Android only, dropping iOS support compared with Twine's shared-code apps.
NewsBlur
Open-source cloud RSS reader that learns what you like.
NewsBlur is an MIT-licensed hosted reader with Android, iOS and web apps that learns your preferences, with a free tier limited to a small number of feeds.
NetNewsWire
Free, open-source feed reader for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
NetNewsWire is a free MIT-licensed reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac with iCloud sync and many back ends, but has no Android version.
Feeder
Read RSS, Atom and JSON feeds on Android.
Feeder is a GPL-3.0 Android reader keeping subscriptions locally without an account, with no iOS app and no sync with remote backends.
Twine as an alternative
Listings that name Twine as an alternative.
Handy News Reader
A light Android feed reader, forked from Flym, that loads full article text for offline reading.
Twine is an open-source reader with a card-based Material You design that also runs on iOS, though its layout is less dense than list-based readers.
Readrops
An Android RSS client that reads local feeds or syncs with FreshRSS, Nextcloud News and others.
Twine is an open-source card-based Material You reader that runs on both Android and iOS, with a less dense visual layout.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Tapestry
An iOS app that merges RSS feeds, social media, podcasts and YouTube into one chronological timeline.
feeeed
An iOS feed reader that follows websites, RSS, YouTube and Reddit in a chronological feed.
Capy Reader
A small open-source Android RSS reader for local feeds or Feedbin, Miniflux and FreshRSS accounts.
