Launching today
Ferry
RSS reader that puts the most-covered story on top
2 followers
RSS reader that puts the most-covered story on top
2 followers
Ferry ranks your feeds by how widely each story is covered across the web, so the story ten of your sources ran sits above whatever just came in. No account, no identifiers. OPML and FreshRSS, offline reading, smart folders. iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Hi Product Hunt, I'm Apoorv, and I built Ferry on my own.
I follow a few hundred feeds. Every reader I tried listed them by arrival time, so the newest post always came first, even when the story that mattered had been running since morning across a dozen of my sources. Ferry fixes that. Under each headline it shows how many feeds carried the same story, and that number sets the order.
What's in it:
Tap the coverage count to see every outlet's version of a story. On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, Ferry can also summarise where the coverage agrees and which outlet differs. That runs on the device and uses only the headlines.
Discover shows what the whole web is covering, by topic.
There's no account. The server never learns which feeds you follow, what you open or how long you read, and everyone gets the same ranking.
Read on the device with OPML import, or sign in to FreshRSS.
Smart folders sync through iCloud.
Offline full text, Spotlight, widgets, and send-to for GoodLinks, Instapaper, Readwise, Raindrop and more.
iPhone, iPad and Mac share one library.
The free version is a complete reader: unlimited feeds, folders, offline reading, search, the widget, iCloud sync and three smart folders. Plus adds the Trending order in your own feeds, the full coverage page, unlimited smart folders and reading stats. It's $19.99 a year after a 14-day trial.
Launch offer: comment or message me and I'll send a code for a free year of Plus. The code renews into the yearly plan unless you cancel.
I'd love to hear what's missing for you, especially if you're coming from Feedly, Inoreader or Reeder.