RSS Reader

Overview

RSS Reader — a fast, private feed reader for Chrome Stay on top of the sites you care about without algorithms, ads, accounts, or tracking. RSS Reader turns your browser toolbar into a clean, modern reader for RSS, Atom, and RDF feeds. Add a feed, and new articles come to you — no newsletter clutter, no social timeline, no data harvesting. Version 4.0.0 is a ground-up rewrite. We removed jQuery, Materialize, and every remote CDN dependency in favor of a self-contained, vanilla Manifest V3 architecture. The result is faster, safer, styles its own interface fully offline, and leaks nothing to third parties. READ ANYTHING IN YOUR FEEDS - Universal feed support. RSS 2.0, Atom, and RDF/RSS 1.0 are all parsed natively, so feeds that older readers choke on simply work. - Feed auto-discovery. Paste a website's address and RSS Reader finds its feed for you — no hunting for the feed URL. Titles are filled in automatically, and duplicate feeds are rejected. - In-popup reader. Open any article in a distraction-free reading view with sanitized content, images, and audio and video playback — without leaving the popup. Need more room? Open the full-page reader for a comfortable, responsive layout. - OPML import and export. Bring your subscriptions in from any other reader, or take them with you. Your feeds are never locked in. NEVER MISS AN UPDATE — EVEN WHEN THE POPUP IS CLOSED - Background auto-refresh on an interval you choose, powered by alarms and an offscreen parser, so your feeds stay current on their own. - Unread badge on the toolbar icon shows how many new articles are waiting. - Opt-in desktop notifications, with per-feed control, so only the sources you choose can reach you. ORGANIZE YOUR READING - Folders and categories built on your browser bookmarks — which means your feed list syncs across your devices for free, with no account required. - Search and filter across all your articles, plus an unread-only view. - Star and save for later, with a dedicated Saved view. Saved articles persist even after they scroll off the original feed. - Keyword mute and highlight rules to hide the noise and surface what matters. - Feed favicons, per-feed error and last-updated indicators, flexible sort options, and one-tap undo when you remove a feed. - Light and dark themes, full keyboard access, and screen-reader labels throughout. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no tracking. Your feeds live in your own browser bookmarks, and your reading state stays in local storage, with optional cross-device sync that you control. See our published privacy policy for the full details. WHAT'S NEW AND FIXED IN 4.0.0 This release closes a long list of correctness and security issues and adds the features that turn a functional demo into a daily driver. - Fixed a feed-driven cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. All feed content is now rendered as text through a safe DOM builder, and the reader view strips scripts, event handlers, and unsafe tags and attributes at parse time. A strict Content-Security-Policy is enforced. - Fixed unread tracking. Read and unread state is now keyed to a stable article id and preserved across refreshes, so counts are always accurate and never drift or double-count. - Added Atom and RDF/RSS 1.0 support alongside RSS 2.0, using the browser's own parser instead of a brittle legacy code path. - Fixed date handling, with clear relative timestamps such as "2 hours ago". - Fixed broken article sorting with a proper, locale-aware comparator. - Bundled every asset locally — no more CDN stylesheets, fonts, or icons — so the interface is fully styled offline and nothing leaks to third parties. Icons are inline SVG. - Cleaned the manifest, removed dead template code and stale signing metadata, and localized every error message. - Migrated article and read state to chrome.storage, with a one-time automatic import of your existing cache. This is the change that makes background refresh, the unread badge, and notifications possible. - Added loading states, title validation on add, and duplicate detection. Under the hood, the extension now runs as a modern MV3 background service worker with alarms, an unread badge, notifications, and an offscreen document for safe feed parsing, plus a dedicated options page for every setting. A READER THAT RESPECTS YOU RSS Reader is available in 42 languages, works on Chrome 109 and later, and asks only for the permissions it actually uses. There is no upsell, no premium tier, and no data collection — just a fast, private, no-nonsense way to follow the web on your own terms. Install RSS Reader today and take back control of how you keep up with the sites, blogs, and podcasts you love.