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Ferry — RSS Reader
Ferry is an RSS reader that ranks stories by how widely they are being covered, rather than only by how recently they were published. Questions, bugs and requests all go to one place: [email protected]
Getting started
At first launch, choose one of two things:
- Read on this device — no account. Add feeds by address
(a feed URL, or just a site like
theverge.com— Ferry will look for the feed itself), or import an OPML file exported from another reader. - Connect a service — sign in to FreshRSS, Inoreader, BazQux or anything else speaking the Google Reader API, and your existing subscriptions and read state come with you.
You can switch between the two later from Settings → Account.
Finding things to read
Discover shows stories clustered across every source Ferry tracks, so a story ten outlets ran appears once, with the count. You can follow any source you see there, or browse by topic from Sources.
Syncing between your devices
On a local account, your subscriptions, read state and Later queue sync between your own devices through your private iCloud account, with no Ferry account involved. It is on whenever the device is signed into iCloud, and can be switched off under Settings → [your name] → iCloud.
Service accounts sync through that service instead, as they already do.
Common questions
A feed will not add. Ferry accepts a feed address or a site's homepage, and looks for an advertised feed on the page. Some sites publish no feed at all; some put it somewhere unadvertised, in which case pasting the feed address directly will work.
An article shows only a summary. Many feeds publish only an excerpt. Ferry fetches and formats the full text when it can, and falls back to what the feed gave it.
Discover looks empty or stale. It is built from a digest refreshed every few hours. Pull to refresh; if it stays empty, the digest service may be briefly unavailable — reading your own feeds is unaffected.
Privacy
Ferry has no accounts of its own and creates no identifier for you. See the privacy policy for exactly what is and is not sent.
Contact
[email protected] — please include your device and iOS or macOS version for anything that looks like a bug.