Skim Reader vs Eddy

Skim Reader: Read Smarter, Not Longer In a world of infinite scroll and endless content, your time is the ultimate currency. Skim Reader is the RSS reader that respects it. The Problem With Modern Reading You subscribe to 30 feeds. You have 200 unread articles. You have 10 minutes. What do you do? Skip everything? Skim headlines and miss the insights buried in paragraph seven? Feel guilty about the growing unread count? There's a better way. One Slider. Infinite Control. Skim Reader introduces something no RSS reader has done before: a compression slider that transforms any article to match exactly how much time you have. Drag left for a two-sentence summary. Drag right for the full article. Stop anywhere in between. It's that simple. - Glance: The headline in 10 seconds - Brief: Key points in 30 seconds - Summary: Main ideas in 2 minutes - Digest: Detailed overview in 5 minutes - Full: The complete article Every position is generated by on-device AI. No cloud. No subscriptions. No data leaving your phone. AI That Lives on Your Device Skim Reader runs a state-of-the-art language model entirely on your iPhone or iPad. Your articles stay private. The first time you open the app, you'll download a ~1GB AI model. After that, everything runs locally. Your reading habits are yours alone. It Learns How You Read Notice how you always want the full article from The New York Times but just the brief from tech blogs? Skim Reader notices too. The app quietly learns your preferences - by feed, by time of day, by habit. Open an article at 7am during your commute? It remembers you prefer Brief. Saturday morning deep-dive? It knows you want Full. You can disable this entirely in settings. But once you experience an app that just knows, you won't want to. Beautiful Typography, Zero Compromise Reading apps should be beautiful. Skim Reader uses carefully chosen typefaces optimised for extended reading: - New York for headlines - editorial elegance - Charter for body text - designed for screens - Your choice of fonts and sizes - Bionic Reading mode for faster scanning - Light and dark themes that don't strain your eyes Features That Matter - Add any RSS or Atom feed - paste a URL and it finds the feed - Full article extraction - even when feeds only provide snippets - Swipe gestures - mark read, bookmark, delete - All Articles view - see everything in one stream - Bookmarks - save articles for later - Pull to refresh - stay current - Open in browser - when you need the original - Haptic feedback - feel the slider snap into position No Subscriptions. No Ads. No Tracking. Skim Reader is free. No monthly fees. No "premium tiers." No advertisements. No analytics watching what you read. Who Is This For? - Professionals who need to stay informed but don't have time to read everything - Researchers managing dozens of sources - News enthusiasts who want depth without the time commitment - Anyone tired of the "mark all as read" guilt spiral - People who believe reading should be a choice, not an obligation The TL;DR for a Doomscrolling World I built Skim Reader because I was drowning in content. Every day, more articles. Every day, less time. I wanted a reader that adapted to me, not the other way around. Now I read more than ever - because I can finally read at the right depth for every article. Some get 10 seconds. Some get 10 minutes. Every one gets exactly what it deserves. Your time is valuable. Read accordingly.

Eddy is a calm place to keep what you meant to read - and a good voice to read it back to you. Save a link from any app, drop in a EPUB, PDF, or capture a whole thread. Eddy strips away the pop-ups, cookie banners and newsletter overlays, and keeps the words. Then read them properly, or press play and listen while you walk. SAVE ANYTHING • Share a link from Safari or any app • Paste a URL straight into Eddy • Import EPUBs, PDFs - papers, reports, manuals • Capture X threads as one readable piece • File things into folders, or leave them be READ IT PROPERLY • Six themes, from paper white to true black • Four typefaces, with size, spacing and margin controls • Your place is kept, down to the paragraph • Distraction-free - no ads, no related-content rails • PDFs open in the same reader, themed to match, remembering the page LISTEN WHEN YOU CAN'T READ • Any article, ebooks, PDF can be read aloud • Build a queue, then play it like a podcast • A Daily Brief that gathers what you haven't read and introduces each piece • Sleep timer for late nights • Lock screen and headphone controls • Choose your voice and set the pace KEEP WHAT MATTERS • Highlight in four colours, in articles, ebooks and PDFs alike • Every highlight gathered in one place, searchable • Copy or share any of them • Summarise a long read on device BUILD THE HABIT • Set a daily reading goal • Keep a streak worth protecting • See a year of reading at a glance • Pick up exactly where you left off ON ALL YOUR DEVICES Eddy runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac.