Your internet, organized by you.

Anything with a feed: blogs, news sites, journals, newsletters with a feed, YouTube channels, podcasts, and the public posts of Mastodon and Bluesky accounts. Paste a link or a handle and PURSS finds the feed and shows you a preview before you follow.

Yes. Sources in any language or script work, and right-to-left text such as Arabic reads the right way round, even in a list next to English titles. Nothing is translated or changed. PURSS's own menus and buttons are in English for now.

Yes. It's the same app with no limits unless you set them. The hosted plans exist for people who'd rather not run a server.

Plus and Pro are billed yearly or monthly, as you choose, and you can cancel any time. Your plan runs to the end of the year or month you paid for, then your account moves to the Free limits. Nothing is deleted automatically to fit the free plan. You keep reading and exporting everything; new items pause until you're back under the free limits or renew.

An optional filter for a source or collection that floods your lists. You describe which posts you want ("keep posts about food, travel and gardening", "drop job ads"), try it on the latest 20 posts, then turn it on. Jev, an AI model by TypeSafe AI that answers yes or no, judges each new post, and the ones it drops are marked Ignored: nothing is deleted, and a post you move back stays where you put it. Only a post's title, summary, author and source name are sent to be judged, never your reading, notes or account. Smart filters are included in the Pro plan. They are off until you set one up.

FreshRSS does the fetching here too, and it's excellent at it. PURSS adds the parts people actually live in: guided Add source with YouTube, podcast, Mastodon and Bluesky discovery, collections, baskets with kept copies, five views, workflow with undo, highlights and notes, a podcast player, search, fingerprint and face sign-in, backups and invitations, plus a browser extension and phone apps. You never touch FreshRSS settings.

Discovery is coming soon to the hosted service. It suggests sources you don't follow yet, from what other readers who follow your sources also follow, and says which of your sources led to each one, with a few chance picks for variety. It's an exchange: your followed sources count, without your name, and only readers who share get suggestions. A source counts only once at least 10 readers follow it, nobody sees who follows what or how many do, private sources never count, and suggestions never appear in your lists. Switch it off in Settings any time. A PURSS you host yourself has no Discovery.

Your PURSS is private to your account; other users never see it. The admin tools we use to run the service show health, jobs and storage use, not your items or reading history; the only content they show is a shared page you published that someone reported. We don't sell your data or show ads, and you can export everything at any time. The hosted service is run by Program Sam on a server it manages.

Program Sam, the company behind the open-source code, runs it on a server it manages; how to reach Program Sam is on the legal notice. You aren't locked in: every plan exports everything, and the same software runs on your own server. If the hosted service ever closed, the terms promise notice well in advance and time to export.

A basket keeps the item's details and summary, and can keep a readable text copy; with the browser extension, also the text as your browser shows it. Videos and episodes stay with their publisher; the phone app can download an episode to your device. None of that keeps the original page, video or episode online.

Yes, when the basket keeps a readable text copy: it then keeps the item's main picture and the pictures inside the text with it, so a recipe or a comic keeps its images. Items you only follow, without keeping them, still load their pictures from the publisher. Videos and episodes stay with their publisher.

Yes. Choose Remind me on a kept item, pick a date and add a note if you like. On that day the bell tells you, and so does an email where the PURSS sends email, and Home shows what's coming up in the next 7 days. It's meant for things like an exhibition or a deadline.

Yes. Copy link on an item copies the original page's address, so you can send it to anyone and they need no account. A separate Copy link to this item in your PURSS opens it for you after you sign in. You can also share a whole basket or collection with Share on its page: it becomes a public page and feed that anyone can read without an account and follow from their own PURSS or any feed reader, and it keeps showing what you add. You can add a public note to any item on it. Before anything is shared you see the page and what of yours becomes public; it never shows your reading, private notes, highlights or saved text. Sharing is part of Plus and Pro, and included when you host PURSS yourself.

Yes. In Settings → Connected apps, paste your blog's feed address to get a Follow button for your pages. Readers who press it can follow you in their PURSS, or copy the feed into any other reader. The button is a plain link: no script, no tracking.

In the installed app, your reading list is saved on the device: your To read and In progress items, recent new ones, and kept items with saved text. You can read them, mark them and write highlights and notes; changes are sent when you're back online. Adding sources, search, settings and anything not saved need a connection, and so can pictures. The phone app can also download an episode to your device for listening offline.

Both are on the way to the stores. The Android app can already be downloaded from this page; the extension for Chrome, Edge and Firefox isn't in the browser stores yet. On an iPhone or iPad, add PURSS to your home screen from your browser: it opens like an app and keeps your reading list for offline. Bookmarklets work in any browser with nothing to install. If you're technical, you can already build both from the source code.

Yes. Fingerprint, face or screen lock is the quickest way in on your own devices, but you can also sign in with a username and password on any computer. On a library, work or borrowed computer, choose This is a shared computer on the sign-in page: the session ends when the browser closes, and after eight hours at the latest, and offline copies stay off in an ordinary browser tab. Two people on one laptop each use their own account.

We build the website and the app for keyboard use and screen readers: named controls, visible focus, keyboard shortcuts in the app, a skip link on the website, and text that still fits when enlarged. We have checked them with the keyboard alone, with the browser's accessibility tree and with enlarged text, and we fix what that finds. We have not had an independent audit or tested with a panel of people who use assistive technology, so there will be gaps. If something doesn't work for you, open an issue or reach Program Sam through the legal notice, and say what you were doing and what you use. We treat it as a bug.

Not unless you ask it to. There's no built-in AI. If you want, you can connect your own assistant, such as Claude or ChatGPT, to search and read your PURSS, and organise it if you allow. It's off until you turn it on, and you can disconnect it at any time.

Yes. Export your PURSS from one and import it into the other. Coming from Feedly, Inoreader or another reader? Import its OPML file (the export file most readers offer) and your sources come with you.