Flux News Reader vs Cosy Reader

Flux News is a native IOS/MacOS client for your self-hosted Miniflux server. Built from the ground up for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, it brings the focus and polish of a great reading app to the open RSS ecosystem you already control. Connect once with a Miniflux API key and your feeds, folders, stars, and read state stay in sync across every device — no third-party cloud, no account to create, no telemetry. *** This app is not affiliated with the MiniFlux developer READING, REIMAGINED • Clean, distraction-free article view with optional full-content fetch • Newspaper layout for browsing, swipe layout for focused reading • Choose from a curated set of system and serif fonts — including New York, Georgia, Charter, Iowan, Palatino, and Baskerville • Light, dark, and warm Solarized themes that respect your typography • Inline YouTube embeds tap straight into the in-app browser ON-DEVICE AI SUMMARIES • On supported hardware, generate a quick bullet-point summary of any article using Apple Intelligence. Long reads are handled with a chunked map reduce pass, so even feature-length pieces summarize cleanly. • Nothing leaves your device. LISTEN, DON'T JUST READ • Read any article aloud with the system's high-quality voices. Pick your preferred voice in Settings and pause, resume, or stop from the article toolbar. BUILT FOR EACH PLATFORM • iPhone: swipe between articles, pull to refresh, tap to share • iPad: side-by-side split view, full keyboard support • Mac: native menu bar, full keyboard shortcuts (←/→ to navigate, M to toggle read, B to bookmark, F to fetch full content, O to open in browser), resizable windows YOUR FEEDS, YOUR SERVER • Flux News is a client for Miniflux, a self-hosted RSS reader you run yourself or pay a small monthly fee for at miniflux.app. Bring your own server URL and API token, and you're done. PRIVACY BY DESIGN • No analytics, no tracking, no ads • No accounts beyond your own Miniflux server • Article summaries run on-device — text never leaves your phone, tablet, or Mac • Open-source feed protocols — no lock-in REQUIREMENTS • A Miniflux server (self-hosted or miniflux.app subscription) • iOS 17 / iPadOS 17 / macOS 14 or later • On-device AI summaries require iOS 26 / macOS 26 on an Apple Intelligence-capable device

Cosy Reader is the calm home for everything you mean to read. Your RSS feeds, the articles you bookmark, and the newsletters you subscribe to — finally in one quiet place, in the order they were published. No algorithm. No "for you" tab. No infinite scroll nudging you to read more than you want. Just your reading, the way you chose it. THREE THINGS, ONE HOME • RSS feeds — Follow blogs, news sites, and podcasts. One chronological timeline, no algorithm deciding for you. Bring your existing subscriptions with a one-click OPML import. • Bookmarks — Save any article from the web in one click with the Chrome or Firefox extension. Your reading list is one tap away — come back when you actually have time to read. • Newsletters — Get a dedicated inbox address. Newsletters land in the app, not in your email. Read them when you sit down to read, not between meetings. CALM DOESN'T MEAN BARE-BONES • Search — Find anything by title, URL, or a line you remember reading. • Filters — Filter by tag, source, or reading status, and combine them to find exactly what you need. • Reading progress — A bar tracks where you are, so you pick up right where you left off. • Collections — Group your sources into topics. Read tech on Monday, cooking on Sunday. HOSTED IN EUROPE. YOUR DATA STAYS YOURS. EU-hosted servers. No trackers selling your data. No dark patterns. Delete your account and everything goes with it. COMING FROM ANOTHER APP? Import your subscriptions from any RSS reader via OPML, and your saved articles as a CSV file. Everything comes with you. SIMPLE PRICING Start free: 200 bookmarks, 20 RSS feeds, and import from your current tools — no credit card required. Upgrade to Pro for unlimited bookmarks, unlimited feeds, and the newsletter inbox. One calm place for everything you mean to read.