# PrivyFeed: News Butler — Local-first AI RSS reader > Local-first AI RSS reader (iPhone/iPad app by GUOYU WANG.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/privyfeed-news-butler/id6758854675 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [GUOYU WANG](https://appshunter.io/developer/1873302677) - Category: Productivity, Utilities - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 5 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-02-12 - Data updated: 2026-07-25 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/privyfeed-news-butler/id6758854675/reviews.md ## What is PrivyFeed? PrivyFeed is a private, local-first RSS reader that brings AI to your feeds—without sending your data to the cloud. Read and organize • Subscribe to any RSS/Atom feed • Inbox, Unread, and feed groups • OPML import and export • Clean reading view with article detail AI that stays on your side • Connect to Ollama on your iPhone, Mac, or home server (e.g. Raspberry Pi) • Summarize articles in your preferred language • Ask questions about your feed—semantic search finds relevant chunks and your local model answers • Embeddings and index stored on device (SQLite); no third‑party AI APIs required Privacy first • No account required to use the app • Feeds and AI run against your own Ollama instance • Optional HTTP feeds; settings for timeout, models, and refresh Best for RSS users who want summaries and Q&A over their subscriptions using a self-hosted or local LLM (e.g. Llama, Qwen, Mistral via Ollama). ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Professional | $4.99 | one-time | ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 0.10.1 — 2026-07-24 PrivyFeed 0.10.0 adds an optional Pro upgrade while keeping the full reading experience free. - Unlock every Pro feature with one non-consumable in-app purchase, restorable across your devices. - Use Ask for free up to a daily limit; go unlimited with Pro. - Ask across multiple feeds or a whole group at once (Pro). - Save any Q&A answer as a Note for later (Pro). - Generate daily / weekly Digests that summarize what changed across your feeds (Pro). - Generate Topic Insights with rising, falling, and new keyword trends (Pro). - Export Digests, Insights, and Notes to Markdown files (Pro). - Tune chat temperature and max tokens with advanced model config (Pro). - Choose your embedding model and control index capacity, strategy, and Ask source limits (Pro). - Upgrade and restore right from Settings, with a clear paywall listing every included feature. ### 0.10.0 — 2026-06-22 PrivyFeed 0.10.0 adds an optional Pro upgrade while keeping the full reading experience free. - Unlock every Pro feature with one non-consumable in-app purchase, restorable across your devices. - Use Ask for free up to a daily limit; go unlimited with Pro. - Ask across multiple feeds or a whole group at once (Pro). - Save any Q&A answer as a Note for later (Pro). - Generate daily / weekly Digests that summarize what changed across your feeds (Pro). - Generate Topic Insights with rising, falling, and new keyword trends (Pro). - Export Digests, Insights, and Notes to Markdown files (Pro). - Tune chat temperature and max tokens with advanced model config (Pro). - Choose your embedding model and control index capacity, strategy, and Ask source limits (Pro). - Upgrade and restore right from Settings, with a clear paywall listing every included feature. ### 0.9.1 — 2026-06-20 PrivyFeed 0.9.0 focuses on a polished, persistent AI experience and a faster, smoother reading flow. - Give every channel (Inbox, Unread, or a feed) its own AI chat, and switch the conversation automatically when you switch channels. - Create, switch between, clear, and delete chat sessions per channel, with the full history saved on device so it survives app restarts. - Render AI answers with full Markdown formatting (headings, lists, code blocks, tables, quotes, and links) using a compact theme tuned for the chat panel. - Lay out the conversation like a real chat, with your own messages aligned to the right in their own bubble, the assistant labeled "privyfeed", and the Send button on the right. - Collapse model reasoning by default behind a "Show reasoning" toggle, so the answer reads first and thinking output no longer clutters the conversation. - Support image-capable (vision) models in chat, so multimodal prompts work with compatible Ollama or OpenAI-compatible models. - Render per-article AI Summaries with full Markdown formatting instead of raw text. - Keep each article's AI Summary on device, so it reloads instantly without re-running the model, with Regenerate and Delete controls. - Collapse the AI Summary to read the full article, then expand it again whenever you want. - Refresh all feeds in parallel with bounded concurrency, so one slow source no longer holds up the rest, and only feeds that actually changed get re-indexed. - Scroll long article lists smoothly with paged loading that fetches more entries as you reach the end. - Cache extracted article content with age and size limits to make reopening articles faster and reduce repeat network fetches. ### 0.9.0 — 2026-06-19 PrivyFeed 0.9.0 focuses on a polished, persistent AI experience and a faster, smoother reading flow. - Give every channel (Inbox, Unread, or a feed) its own AI chat, and switch the conversation automatically when you switch channels. - Create, switch between, clear, and delete chat sessions per channel, with the full history saved on device so it survives app restarts. - Render AI answers with full Markdown formatting (headings, lists, code blocks, tables, quotes, and links) using a compact theme tuned for the chat panel. - Lay out the conversation like a real chat, with your own messages aligned to the right in their own bubble, the assistant labeled "privyfeed", and the Send button on the right. - Collapse model reasoning by default behind a "Show reasoning" toggle, so the answer reads first and thinking output no longer clutters the conversation. - Support image-capable (vision) models in chat, so multimodal prompts work with compatible Ollama or OpenAI-compatible models. - Render per-article AI Summaries with full Markdown formatting instead of raw text. - Keep each article's AI Summary on device, so it reloads instantly without re-running the model, with Regenerate and Delete controls. - Collapse the AI Summary to read the full article, then expand it again whenever you want. - Refresh all feeds in parallel with bounded concurrency, so one slow source no longer holds up the rest, and only feeds that actually changed get re-indexed. - Scroll long article lists smoothly with paged loading that fetches more entries as you reach the end. - Cache extracted article content with age and size limits to make reopening articles faster and reduce repeat network fetches. ### 0.4.0 — 2026-06-07 PrivyFeed 0.4.0 focuses on making article reading more reliable and feed refresh easier to reach. - Improve Reading mode with ReadabilityKit-powered article extraction for cleaner article text, titles, metadata, images, links, code blocks, quotes, and tables. - Try multiple browser user agents when fetching articles, improving compatibility with more publishers and websites. - Detect access-denied, CAPTCHA, and blocked extraction pages, then fall back to Web view when Reading mode cannot load an article. - Extract article text from structured JSON-LD content when available, helping Reading mode work on pages without clean article markup. - Add pull-to-refresh to the article list for faster feed updates. - Add Refresh to the More menu, keeping manual refresh available from the main feed screen. - Keep Mark All as Read in the More menu while disabling it only where it does not apply. - Improve third-party license metadata for the new article readability engine. ## More apps by GUOYU WANG - [PrivyMermaid: AI Diagram](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/privymermaid-ai-diagram/id6758518978) - [FlightLedger](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/flightledger/id6758533176) - [PrivyPDF: PDF Agent](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/privypdf-pdf-agent/id6758668283) - [PrivyMermaid Pro: AI Diagram](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/privymermaid-pro-ai-diagram/id6759026916) - [GeftLedger](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/geftledger/id6759418549) All apps by GUOYU WANG: https://appshunter.io/developer/1873302677 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-25.*