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PetalFeed: The RSS reader built for VoiceOver. Blogs, Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky and YouTube, read aloud.

PetalFeed gathers the sites and people you follow into one calm, private reading app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It pulls in the full article, strips out the clutter, and reads it to you in any voice on your device, even in the car with CarPlay.

Price
Free (with a one-time $9.99 Lifetime unlock)
Platforms
iPhone, iPad and Mac
Download on the App StoreDownload on the Mac App Store
PetalFeed’s Flowers screen: smart views for All Articles, All Unread, Today, Similar Unread, Hawk Eye and The Hive, then feeds grouped under Design and News with unread counts for BBC News, NPR and Reuters.

Who it’s for

PetalFeed is for people who read a lot on the web and want it in one place, on their own terms.

  • VoiceOver users who want articles as clean text with real headings, not a web page’s navigation and ads.
  • Anyone who would rather listen: Read Aloud turns an article, or a whole queue, into audio.
  • People leaving algorithmic feeds who want to follow blogs, subreddits, Mastodon, Bluesky and YouTube channels themselves.
  • People moving from Feedbin, Inoreader, FreshRSS or Miniflux, who can bring everything with them.

Features

  • Every source in one app

    Add any blog or news site by its RSS or Atom feed, follow a subreddit by name, connect your Mastodon or Bluesky account to read your timeline, and follow YouTube channels. Follow up to ten sources in total for free, or as many as you like with Lifetime.

    OPML import and export means you are never locked in. With Lifetime you can also connect Feedbin, Inoreader, FreshRSS or Miniflux and your feeds, folders and read state sync both ways.

    The Add Petal screen: a Source Type picker set to RSS, a field for the feed URL, and a button to connect a Feedbin, Inoreader or FreshRSS account and import every feed at once.

  • Full articles, read aloud, even in the car

    PetalFeed extracts the complete article without navigation, ads or sidebars, and formats it for VoiceOver with real headings and clean lists.

    Press play and Read Aloud reads it in any voice installed on your device, including enhanced and premium voices, with a mini-player and lock-screen controls.

    In the car, PetalFeed works with CarPlay. Choose All Unread, Today or any of your Flowers, then pick an article, or Play All to hear your newest ten one after another. Skip forward or back as you go, and anything you skip stays unread. Listening in CarPlay is free, like Read Aloud.

    A sample article titled "Why Swift Concurrency finally feels effortless" open in the reader, with a play button for Read Aloud, an AI Summary section with a Generate Summary button, and the article text below.

  • Summaries that stay on your device

    With Lifetime, on devices with Apple Intelligence, get a short summary of any article, a Hawk Eye digest that sums up each topic in a source, or The Hive, a podcast-style conversation made from your articles. It all happens on your device, and nothing is sent to a server.

    A generated AI Summary above the text of a sample article about new visionOS features, condensing it into one paragraph.

  • Organized your way

    Group your sources into Flowers by topic, let Smart Flowers such as All Unread, Today and Similar Unread fill themselves, and filter any list to all, unread or read.

    Similar Unread gathers coverage of the same story into one topic. With Lifetime, Bees (keyword filters) hide spoilers and subjects you would rather skip, and you can save Smart Flowers of your own.

    A list of unread sample articles from Hacker News, Daring Fireball, The Verge, Ars Technica, BBC News and Reuters, each with author and age, under All, Unread and Read filters.

  • Rapid Review

    Clear a backlog one headline at a time: read it, keep it, or mark it read and move on.

    Rapid Review showing a single sample headline on a card, with a checkmark button to mark it read and a count of 11 articles left.

Accessibility

Accessibility is the foundation of PetalFeed, not an afterthought.

  • Designed and tested VoiceOver-first, with a meaningful label on every control.
  • Custom rotor actions to mark read, edit, collapse and delete.
  • Spoken status announcements and logical grouping, so you hear the article rather than clutter.
  • The article extractor formats text for VoiceOver, with real headings, natural pauses and clean lists.
  • Full Dynamic Type, and keyboard navigation with menu-bar commands on Mac.
The Reading settings: a Mark as Read When Opened switch, and a Read Aloud section with a voice picker set to Automatic and a playback speed slider at 50 percent, explained as the same scale VoiceOver uses

Privacy

PetalFeed collects no personal data. There are no ads, trackers or analytics, and your reading stays on your device.

  • Articles and reading history are stored on your device.
  • Account details for Mastodon, Bluesky and sync services are kept in the device Keychain.
  • PetalFeed connects directly to the sites and services you add. Those services see those requests.
  • Connecting Bluesky uses a small Doxie Media service at petalfeed.io, which receives only the address of your Bluesky sign-in server, never your account or posts.
  • Discover sends the web address you type to feedsearch.dev to find that site’s feed.
  • AI summaries run on your device, so your reading is never sent to a server to be summarized.
  • The app keeps a few simple counters on your device, such as how many articles you have marked read. They never leave it.

Read the full PetalFeed privacy details

Common questions

Can I bring my feeds from another reader, and keep it in sync?

Yes. Import an OPML file for free, and export one at any time; overlapping subscriptions are de-duplicated automatically. With Lifetime, connect Feedbin, Inoreader, FreshRSS (including self-hosted) or Miniflux, and your feeds, folders and read state sync both ways.

Is there a Mac version?

Yes. PetalFeed runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with a three-column layout and menu-bar commands on Mac.

Does PetalFeed work with CarPlay?

Yes, since version 2026.4.3. In CarPlay, choose All Unread, Today or one of your Flowers, then pick an article or Play All to hear your newest ten. It is free, with no Lifetime needed.

Which voices can read articles aloud?

Any voice installed on your device, including enhanced and premium voices.

Where do AI summaries come from?

Apple’s on-device intelligence, on devices that support it. The article is summarized on your device and is never uploaded.

How much does PetalFeed cost?

PetalFeed is free, and reading, Read Aloud, listening in CarPlay, up to ten sources and every accessibility feature stay free for good. PetalFeed Lifetime, a one-time $9.99 purchase, adds unlimited sources, sync with Feedbin, Inoreader, FreshRSS and Miniflux, on-device summaries, Hawk Eye and The Hive, Bees and your own Smart Flowers, widgets and Shortcuts, and refresh every five minutes. It is not a subscription, and there are no ads. You can try all of it free for 14 days first, and anyone who bought PetalFeed when it was a paid download keeps everything.

More help: PetalFeed support

Get PetalFeed

Free on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

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