Pricing
Free until you outgrow it
The free tier is the whole app, with as many sources as you want. Pro is $5 a month for filters that do more than match a word. That is the entire difference.
The two tiers
Nothing is listed as absent, because nothing is held back from the free one to make it look thin.
Free
Free
- Sources
- Unlimited
- Editions
- 15
Not a trial, and not a demo
The whole app. Bring every source you already read: the edition size does the metering, so the list never needs a ceiling of its own.
- The dimmer, at every stop from 5 to 50
- Source tiers: always, normal and background
- Keyword filters on every edition: keep a word out, or keep only what matches
- Saved items, kept as long as you want them
- OPML import, and feed autodiscovery from any URL
- Google Reader keys: j k o s
- Light and dark
- No ads, nothing tracked in the app, and nothing sold
Pro
$5 / month
- Sources
- Unlimited
- Editions
- Unlimited
Filters that do more than match a word
For readers whose filtering outgrew a keyword list, a hundred sources in, when blocking one word at a time stops being precise enough.
- Everything in the free tier, unchanged
- Logic in a filter:
(rust or zig) and not hiringkeeps posts about either language and drops the job ads. - Match on the headline, the summary, the author, the publisher, or a tag
- Match how a word begins, not only the whole of it
- Filter on what an item is, not only what it says: keep the videos out, or hold an edition to what was published today
- Filter sets you save once and reuse across editions
- Mute a word until a date you choose
- Read a filtered edition in the RSS app you already use
Where the line falls, and where it never will
Three rules decide what can sit behind the paid tier. They are constraints on us, not features, and they are published so that breaking one is visible.
- Nothing paid removes an article from your view
- This is the binding one. A paid tier changes how many ways your sources can be arranged, never which of them you may read. A ceiling on sources, on saved items, or on the edition size would break it, and none will ever be added.
- The source list never gets a number
- In any tier. The edition size is what meters attention; a second ceiling on the list underneath would be an admission that the first one does not work, and it would wall off the reader with a hundred and fifty feeds, who is exactly who this is for.
- Source tiers stay free, permanently
- Always, normal and background are what make a large source list produce a good edition. If they were paid, the paid tier would be a rescue from a broken free one rather than something you grow into. The whole pricing model rests on this one.
What is left to charge for is filter expressiveness, and the number of editions. 15 editions is set where it does not bind: a reader who runs two, or five, or nine never meets it.
What the paid filters actually do
The free tier filters by keyword: keep a word out of an edition, or keep only what matches. That is enough for most source lists and it is not going anywhere. Pro is for the point where matching one word at a time stops being precise:
- Logic
- and, or, not and brackets, so (rust or zig) and not hiring keeps the posts about either language and drops the job ads. A keyword list is the same engine underneath: it is just every word joined with or.
- Somewhere to match
- headline:, summary:, author:, source:, tag: and url:, so you can drop a columnist without dropping the paper, keep one publisher out of one edition without unsubscribing from it, or block a sponsored path by the address it lives at. An unscoped word still searches the headline and the summary and never the byline, the publisher, the tags or the address, so nothing you already wrote changes meaning.
- The start of a word
- End a word with * and it matches how the word begins: crypto* catches cryptography and cryptocurrency without you listing either. Keyword lists stay exact, so this never quietly widens a filter you already have.
- What an item is, not what it says
- has:image, is:video, newer:24h, older:2w. Keep the videos out of an edition you read on the train, or hold one to what was published today. A feed that carries no date matches neither newer: nor older:, because guessing one would be the filter answering on the publisher's behalf.
- How long it is
- words:>1200 for the long ones, mins:<5 for what fits in a coffee break. Length is counted from the article a source sends in full, so a source that sends only an opening paragraph has no length to compare and matches neither. Counting the paragraph instead would call a four thousand word essay short and drop it.
- Somewhere to read it
- An edition can be served at its own address, as Atom or JSON Feed, so the reader you already use gets the blended and filtered version. It holds exactly the edition size and then it stops. Anyone with the address can read it, there is no sign in on it, and you can replace or stop it whenever you want.
- Filter sets
- A set of rules saved once and attached to as many editions as you want. Change it in one place and every edition using it changes.
- Mutes that run out
- Mute a word until a date you pick. An election, a franchise, a tournament you are avoiding the result of. It comes back on its own, and until it does the app tells you when the mute ends.
Questions about paying
The ones that decide whether a free tier is worth trusting.
Is the free tier a trial?
No, and there is no clock on it. It is the whole app: as many sources as you like, source tiers, keyword filters on every edition, saved items, OPML import and export, the keyboard bindings, light and dark. Nothing is withheld from it to make the paid column look thicker, which is why the free list on the card above is the longer of the two.
Can I use the filters in the reader I already have?
That is what the last line on the Pro card is. An edition gets its own secret address, served as Atom and JSON Feed, so the blend and the filters reach whatever app you already read in. The ending does not travel with it: your client polls, keeps what it has seen, and counts, and nothing served from here can stop that. If the plan lapses the address stops answering, and you can still revoke it without paying.
What happens if I stop paying?
Your editions and sources stay exactly where they are. Filters only Pro can express stop being applied, and start again the moment the plan does. They are not deleted, because deleting them would punish you for pausing. Editions past the free tier's figure stay too, but their blends do not run and you cannot read them until you are back under the ceiling. You can delete a locked edition to open the next one.
Will the free tier get worse later?
The three rules on this page are the answer, and they are published so that breaking one is visible rather than quiet. Source tiers stay free, the source list never gets a number, and nothing behind the paid tier ever removes a saved article from your view. A free tier that gets hollowed out a feature at a time is the usual way this goes, so the constraints are written down before there is any pressure to bend them.
Can I get a refund?
Within 14 days of a first payment, write and we will refund it in full, used or not. After that, cancelling stops the next renewal and the tier keeps working until the period you paid for runs out. There is no cancellation fee and no email you have to send to a retention team.
Decide how much news is enough.
Bring the sources you already read. Set a size. Reach the end of it, and find nothing underneath.
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