News and podcasts for iPhone, iPad and Mac
Follow your news and podcasts. No algorithm.
A quiet place for the stories and voices you choose, in one chronological feed. Newest first, nothing ranked, nothing recommended.
Coming to the App Store.
Follow the newsConfluve is a news and podcast reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Free for up to 5 sources; no account, no tracking, no ads.
Reading
One calm feed, newest first.
Confluve brings the sites, newspapers, blogs and podcasts you choose together in one place. The only order is the time each story was published.
- Articles
- Podcasts
- Unread
- Pinned
- Front Page. The newest story from each of your sources, one per source, set like the front page of a paper. A source that publishes forty times a day gets one place, like the one that publishes once a week.
- Latest. Every story from every source, newest first, grouped by day. Look back over the last day, three days, a week or a month.
- Filters that stay out of the way. Narrow either view to articles or podcasts, to what you haven’t read, to your pinned sources or to one category.
- Made for reading. Serif headlines, a comfortable line length, and the headings, quotes and pictures the publisher wrote.
- Read Later and Starred keep what matters within reach. Pin the sources you never want to miss.
Privacy
Your sources. Your privacy.
No account. No tracking. Your reading stays on your devices — and in your own iCloud if you turn on sync.
There is no Confluve server.
Your device fetches each feed straight from its publisher.
Search stays on your device.
Finding a podcast by name asks Apple’s public podcast directory, and nothing else.
No analytics, no ads, no third-party code.
The App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected.
Sync is yours.
It is off until you turn it on, and it goes through your own iCloud. Story text is never stored in iCloud: each device fetches stories from the publishers itself.
Listening
Listen to podcasts, and to articles.
News and podcasts live in the same feed, and anything you read can be heard.
- A podcast player that streams or downloads episodes for offline listening, at 0.75× to 2×, with 15-second and 30-second skips.
- Read Aloud reads any article with your device’s own voice, sentence by sentence, and highlights the sentence it is reading.
- Continue Listening keeps everything you started and didn’t finish, episodes and articles together.
- Up Next lines up episodes and articles. When one ends, the next one starts.
- Downloads start only when you ask, and unless you change it, Confluve asks before using cellular data.
Getting started
Start in a minute.
A directory of thousands of feeds in 64 languages
Newspapers, magazines, blogs and podcasts, by category, built into the app. Searching it happens on your device.
Type a site’s address
Confluve finds its feed.
Search Apple’s podcast directory
Find a show by its name.
Coming from another reader?
Bring your subscriptions with OPML, and export them whenever you like.
Platforms
On iPhone, iPad and Mac.
- A Mac app made for the Mac. A sidebar, the list beside the reader, keyboard shortcuts for what you do every day (⌘1 to ⌘5 to move around, ⌘N to add a feed, ⌥⌘K to mark a source as read), and text from 100% to 200%.
- iCloud sync is free. Turn it on, and your sources, what you’ve read, Read Later, Starred, playlists and where you stopped listening follow you from one device to the next.
- One purchase unlocks Premium on all three.
Plans
Free for 5 sources. Premium, bought once.
Free
Up to 5 sources
The whole app, for up to 5 sources. iCloud sync, Read Aloud, podcasts and downloads, search, OPML import and export, Continue Listening and Up Next included.
Premium
One-time purchase · price on the App Store
- Unlimited sources
- Smart folders
- The full article, when a feed sends only a summary
- Playlists
One purchase, no subscription. It unlocks Premium on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. No ads, for anyone, ever.
Confluve at a glance
- What it is
- Confluve is a news and podcast reader — an RSS reader — for iPhone, iPad and Mac.
- How stories are ordered
- Newest first. Nothing is ranked or recommended; there is no algorithm.
- Privacy
- No account, no analytics, no ads and no tracking. The App Store privacy label is Data Not Collected. Feeds come straight from their publishers to your device.
- Price
- Free for up to 5 sources. Confluve Premium is a one-time purchase, not a subscription, for iPhone, iPad and Mac together.
- Premium adds
- Unlimited sources, smart folders, the full article for feeds that send only a summary, and playlists.
- Sync
- Optional and free, through your own iCloud.
- Listening
- A podcast player with downloads, Read Aloud for articles, and Up Next for both.
- Formats
- RSS, Atom, JSON Feed and podcast feeds; OPML import and export.
- Languages
- English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese and Chinese (Traditional).
- Requires
- iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 or macOS 26, or later.
- Made by
- Confluve, France.
Choose your sources.
Coming to the App Store.
Follow the newsRequires iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 or macOS 26, or later.
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