— An RSS reader —

The important
thing first

Lede organizes your RSS feeds like a newspaper: the more sources covering a story, the larger it appears. The blogs you follow get their own space — no matter the volume.

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— How it works —

Your feeds, weighted.

Lede reads every feed you subscribe to, groups articles about the same story together, and ranks them by how many sources are covering each one.

Weighted by coverage

When ten publications cover a story, you see it.

Instead of ten separate articles buried in chronological order, Lede clusters them into a single card. The more sources covering the story, the larger the card. Breaking news rises. Noise falls away.

Rare posts from the blogs you follow aren't drowned by volume publishers. They get their own Priority section, surfaced whenever something new arrives.

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Lede
Breaking
Breaking
6
Science
Fusion reactor hits net energy
6 sources · Nature
4 min
Priority
Followed
1
DC Rainmaker · 6h
Oura acquires Galen AI
The fitness ring maker...
1 source
4 min
— What's inside —

A reader, not a timeline.

Every feature in Lede exists because an editor would demand it. Every feature missing is a conscious choice.

1

Story clustering

Multiple sources covering the same story merge into one card — with every contributing publication listed.

2

Priority feeds

Mark favorite sources as Priority. They get their own section, regardless of how loud everything else is.

3

Freshness window

Decide how far back you look — 6 hours, 24, a week, or no limit. Older articles stay in clustering; they just leave the front page.

4

Read state that fades

Articles you've finished dim but don't vanish. Your eye learns to skip them; your memory keeps them within reach.

5

OPML import and export

Move in from any other reader in seconds. Export your list as a backup, or share it with a friend.

6

Automatic feed discovery

Paste any website URL — Lede finds the RSS, Atom, or JSON feeds published there. No hunting for the right path.

— Philosophy —

A newspaper's front page is a good metaphor for the day's news. Editors decide what matters, and the most important stories get the most space. No algorithms competing for your attention through clicks.

— How Lede thinks
— Who it's for —

Built for people who actually read.

The overwhelmed RSS subscriber

If you're tired of seeing the same story ten different ways from a hundred different outlets, Lede collapses the duplication into a single signal.

The quiet-blog follower

If you subscribe to rare publishers whose posts get buried by volume outlets, Lede surfaces them with their own priority section.

The RSS purist

If you want feed reading without the weight of algorithms, social signals, or subscriptions — Lede is the app that leaves you alone.

— The promise —

Pay once. Own the app.

No ads, no trackers, no upsells, no subscription. When you close Lede, nothing follows you out.

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— Policy —

Privacy, plainly stated.

Last updated · 21 April 2026

Lede is built so that your reading stays yours. This policy describes exactly what happens on your device, what leaves it, and what we do not collect.

What stays on your device

All your reading data lives locally on your iPhone. Nothing is transmitted to a Lede server at any point during normal use.

  • Your feed list — the URLs you subscribe to
  • Articles — fetched directly from each feed's publisher
  • Read history — which articles you've read, and when
  • Reading patterns — used only locally to prioritize what you see
  • Preferences — your freshness window, display settings, and priority feed selections

If you enable iCloud sync, this data is mirrored to your private iCloud container — encrypted, accessible only to your Apple ID, and never visible to Lede or anyone else.

What we don't collect

Lede contains no analytics. No trackers. No third-party SDKs. No advertising identifiers. No crash reporting services.

We do not know how many feeds you have, which articles you read, how long you spend in the app, or whether you opened it today. We do not have accounts, so there's nothing to associate with you even if we wanted to.

This is verifiable. Lede's App Privacy label on the App Store shows "Data Not Collected" across every category. Apple enforces this — if Lede contained any tracker, it would be listed there.

What leaves your device

For Lede to work, your iPhone must connect to the internet to fetch feeds. Specifically:

  • Direct requests to feed publishers. When you add the BBC's feed, your phone asks bbc.co.uk for it. The BBC sees your IP address and receives an HTTP request, just like when you visit their site in a browser. Lede is not a middleman.
  • Image loads. Article images load from their original hosts, same as a web browser.
  • Favicon fetches. When you add a feed, Lede requests the site's favicon from the source domain.

Nothing goes through a Lede server. There is no Lede server that mediates your reading.

When you send feedback

If you tap "Write to me" from the app's About section, Lede opens your device's Mail app with a pre-filled email addressed to hello@gpio.fi. The email contains:

  • Your typed message
  • App version, iOS version, and device model
  • If you explicitly opt in: a debug log attachment (lede-debug.txt, structural events only — no article content) and/or your feed list (lede-feeds.opml)

Diagnostics are off by default. The email is sent through your own email account, which means Lede never sees or handles the message body. A copy stays in your Sent folder. Your email provider — not Lede — delivers the message.

Children's privacy

Lede does not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children. The app has a 4+ age rating on the App Store and contains no user accounts, no social features, and no content directed at children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes materially, the updated version will be posted here with a new "last updated" date. Because Lede does not have your email address or any way to contact you, we cannot notify you directly — you're welcome to bookmark this page and check periodically.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about anything else? hello@gpio.fi

Lede is a personal hobby project by Antti, a private individual based in Finland. Full legal identity and mailing address available upon written request to the same email address — required for formal GDPR data subject requests.