RSS reader · iPhone, iPad & Mac

An RSS reader that knows which story matters.

Blogs, news sites, newsletters, whatever you follow — all in one place. But most readers just list them by arrival, so a story ten outlets ran looks exactly like one a single blog posted. Ferry scores by how widely a story is covered, and reads you the ones that matter first.

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Ferry's article list: your own subscriptions, ranked by how widely each story is covered
Scored, not just sorted

Your feeds, with the important one on top.

Every article you subscribe to gets a score for how widely its story is being covered. The piece four of your sources ran this morning sits above the one that merely arrived last — so a busy day of feeds still opens on something worth reading.

Prefer it the old way? Switch to newest-first whenever you like, and each folder remembers its own order. The score is simply a better default than the clock.

  • Works with any feed — tech, science, sport, niche blogs, anything
  • Top ranked or newest first, remembered per folder
  • Today, All and Later, so a backlog never buries the good one
Ferry's home screen, leading with the story worth reading and your folders beneath
Bring what you read

Every feed you already follow.

No account needed. Choose Read on this device, then add feeds by address — a feed URL, or just a site's name, and Ferry finds the feed itself.

Already using FreshRSS, Inoreader or BazQux? Sign in and your subscriptions and read state come with you. Or import an OPML file from whatever you are leaving.

  • Folders you name yourself, with per-folder ordering
  • Search across everything, including article text
  • A home-screen widget for what is worth reading now
Ferry's Sources screen, with your folders and sources to browse by topic
And when you want more

Discover, for the stories your feeds missed.

Beyond your own subscriptions, Ferry watches a much wider set of sources and groups them the same way — so you can see a story ten outlets ran even if you follow none of them, with a count of how many are carrying it.

It is where new sources come from, too: follow anything you find, with a tap.

  • The same story from many outlets, grouped into one entry
  • Browse by topic, or search across everything being covered
Discover, showing stories grouped across publishers with a count of how many feeds carry each
One story, every telling

See how many outlets ran it.

An article in Ferry with a line reading “14 feeds covered this” under the headline Ferry's Story screen listing every source that covered the same story
Smart folders

Folders that fill themselves.

Say what belongs — a word in the headline or the body, a source, a topic, how recent — and anything matching arrives on its own. Nothing to file by hand.

Up to ten rules, matched all together or any of them. They sit alongside your ordinary folders, and sync to your other devices through iCloud.

Ferry's smart folder editor: a folder named GPU matching all of two rules — title contains “gpu”, and source is Hacker News
Privacy by design

There is no account, so there is nobody to profile.

Ferry never asks you to register and never generates a user or advertising identifier. The privacy isn't a policy bolted on afterwards — it's the shape of the thing.

No identifiers

Usage is reported as bare counts — how many articles were opened, never which. There is no field in the message where a person could be named.

No trackers, no ads

No third-party analytics, no advertising networks, no cross-app or cross-site tracking of any kind.

Sync stays yours

Subscriptions and read state sync between your own devices through your private iCloud account. No Ferry server ever sees them.

One app, every screen

iPhone, iPad and Mac.

On a bigger screen Ferry spreads out — and on the Mac into columns: sources, stories and the article you're reading, all at once.

Ferry on iPad: the article list, with the tabs above it and search a tap away
Everything else

The rest of what's in there.

Full-text search

Search across everything you have — headlines, bylines and the article text itself, not just the titles.

Later queue

Save anything for when you have the time, in the order you added it, or by score.

Home-screen widget

What's worth reading now, on your home screen, tappable straight into the article.

OPML import & export

Bring your subscriptions from any reader, and take them with you again whenever you like.

Folders that stick

File sources however you think about them. Each folder remembers its own sorting.

iCloud sync

Subscriptions, read state and your Later queue, kept in step across your own devices.

Questions

Do I need an account?

No. Choose “Read on this device” and Ferry works entirely on your phone, fetching feeds itself. There's no sign-up, and nothing to cancel.

Can I use my existing RSS service?

Yes. Ferry speaks the Google Reader API, so FreshRSS, Inoreader, BazQux and others sign in and bring your subscriptions and read state with them.

What is the score based on?

How popular a story is out in the world: how widely it is being covered across the web, and how much attention it is drawing. It is not based on anything about you — Ferry has no profile of you to rank against.

What does Ferry know about me?

Almost nothing, by construction. There's no account and no device identifier. Usage is reported as bare counts — how many articles were opened, never which. The privacy policy spells out exactly what is and isn't sent.

Is it on Android?

Not today. Ferry is built for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Read what matters, not just what's newest.

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