# Alume: RSS & Podcasts Reader — RSS feeds, podcasts, AI digest

> RSS feeds, podcasts, AI digest (iPhone/iPad app by Florian Simon.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alume-rss-and-podcasts-reader/id6758996518 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Florian Simon](https://appshunter.io/developer/1826481046)
- Category: News, Productivity
- Price: Free (on sale, was $2.99)
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 35 MB
- Languages: American English, French (France)
- Released: 2026-02-26
- Data updated: 2026-09-07
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/alume-rss-and-podcasts-reader/id6758996518/reviews.md

## What is Alume?

Alume reinvents the RSS reader: aggregate all your favorite sites, blogs and newsletters, and let the AI of your choice summarize, tag and organize your reading.

PERSONALIZED SMART FEEDS
Build custom feeds with combined rules: keywords, sources, tags, reading time or publish date.

DAILY AI DIGEST
Get a smart daily summary of your feeds, generated from your own subscriptions.

HIGHLIGHTS & ANNOTATIONS
Highlight a passage, add a personal note, or ask the AI for a suggestion. Find every annotation organized by article.

YOUR CHOICE OF AI
Connect Claude (Anthropic), ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), Mistral, or a custom API. Alume never locks you into one model — you stay in control of your data and your costs.

SMART TAGS
Organize articles with custom tags, auto-suggested by AI.

FULL APPLE INTEGRATION
Home Screen widget, Spotlight search, Siri Shortcuts, iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac.

BACKUP & CONTROL
Export and restore all your data anytime.

No ads, no forced subscription, no data collection. You choose your AI, you keep control.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.3.1 — 2026-09-06

Alume 2.3 brings a new navigation and several quality-of-life improvements.

• New drawer navigation — a setting in Appearance lets you switch back to the previous layout if you prefer
• Visual confirmations for your actions (read, favorites, saved for later...)
• Fixed a bug affecting podcast playback on iPad
• Various technical and stability improvements

### 2.2 — 2026-09-02

Alume is being fine-tuned to enhance your experience!
Here’s what’s included in this update:

- NEW INTERFACE
Overall improvements to the interface for greater clarity

- COMPACT MODE
A new mode has been introduced: Compact Mode. You can now collapse the list of articles.

- PERFORMANCE AND OPTIMISATIONS

### 2.1 — 2026-06-07

Alume is getting an upgrade!
A major update that transforms Alume into a truly smart reading space.

· ANNOTATIONS & HIGHLIGHTING
Highlight text as you read, add personal notes, and find all your annotations in a dedicated space. The AI can automatically suggest a note for each selected passage.

· ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Connect your own AI provider: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Mistral, Perplexity, Grok or a custom API. Enjoy article summaries, tag suggestions and annotation notes generated by the AI of your choice.

· AI SUMMARY
Receive a daily intelligent summary of your feeds, generated by AI.

· CUSTOMISED SMART FEEDS
Create your own feeds with bespoke rules: keywords, sources, tags, reading time or publication date. Combine the rules according to your logic.

· TAGS
Organise your articles with custom tags. The AI can automatically suggest relevant tags.

· WIDGET & SHORTCUTS
Access your latest articles directly from the home screen, and go straight to interesting pages using the Alume icon shortcuts.
  
· SPOTLIGHT & SIRI
Find your articles via Spotlight search and Siri shortcuts.

· BACKUP & RESTORE
Export and restore all your data securely.

And numerous performance improvements and bug fixes.

### 2.0 — 2026-06-02

Alume has been upgraded!
A major update that transforms Alume into a truly smart reading space.

· ANNOTATIONS & HIGHLIGHTING
Highlight text as you read, add personal notes, and find all your annotations in a dedicated space. The AI can automatically suggest a note for each selected passage.

· ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Connect your own AI provider: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Mistral or a custom API. Enjoy article summaries, tag suggestions and annotation notes generated by the AI of your choice.

· AI SUMMARY
Receive a daily smart summary of your feeds, generated by AI.

· CUSTOMISED SMART FEEDS
Create your own feeds with custom rules: keywords, sources, tags, reading time or publication date. Combine rules according to your logic.

· TAGS
Organise your articles with custom tags. The AI can automatically suggest relevant tags.

· WIDGET
Access your latest articles directly from the home screen.
  
· SPOTLIGHT & SIRI
Find your articles via Spotlight search and Siri shortcuts.

· BACKUP & RESTORE
Export and restore all your data securely.

And numerous performance improvements and bug fixes.

### 1.6 — 2026-04-20

Features :
- A custom tag system can be found in the app settings. You can now tag posts with one or more tags and filter them on the posts page.
- Silence filters. You can add terms and words in the app settings: any articles containing these terms will no longer appear.
- Two new smart feeds: long reads (articles taking over five minutes to read) and trends.
- Filter by language in Discover: view suggestions in other languages.

Improvements :
- Optimisations diverses.

Design :
- A visual redesign of the macOS sidebar to make it easier to use with a mouse.
- Visual redesign of the settings window on macOS.

Bug fixes :
- Podcasts assigned to a folder appeared in the Articles view.
- Empty folders were appearing in the Articles sidebar.

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