Confluve

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Confluve is a news and podcast reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac that shows the sources you choose in one calm feed, newest first, with no account, no tracking and no ads.

In one paragraph

Confluve is a news and podcast reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac. You choose the sites, newspapers, blogs and podcasts you want to follow, and Confluve shows what they publish in one calm feed, newest first. Nothing is ranked, nothing is recommended, and there are no ads. There is no account to create and nothing is tracked: feeds come straight from their publishers to your device. Sync between your devices is optional, free, and goes through your own iCloud. It is free for up to 5 sources; Premium is bought once and unlocks unlimited sources, smart folders, the full article on request and playlists on all three platforms.

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.

Downloads

Full-size captures, English, light appearance. One file per set; nothing on these links is tracked.

iPhone

Confluve’s Front Page on iPhone: a photograph of the Seagull Nebula above a story from NOIRLab, then a story from The Public Domain Review, with a paused podcast above the tab bar.
Front Page: the newest story from each source.
ESO’s Picture of the Week, “A swirling galaxy”, in the reader: a serif headline in ochre, a photograph of a spiral galaxy, and the start of the text.
Stories set for reading.
Latest on iPhone: stories from NOIRLab, The Public Domain Review and ESO listed by day, each with its source, headline, summary and age.
Latest: every story, newest first.
The podcast player showing an episode of the Software Freedom Podcast, with a progress bar, 15- and 30-second skips, and Up Next below.
Podcasts, with Up Next.
The Library on iPhone, with stories from ESA/Webb, The Public Domain Review and NOIRLab in Read Later.
Read Later, Continue Listening and more.
A smart folder named Space, gathering stories that mention galaxy, nebula, telescope and other words, with the matching words highlighted.
Smart folders gather stories by the words you choose.
Search results for “nebula”, filtered to articles, with the word highlighted in each headline.
Search every story, on your device.
ESA/Webb’s source page, with its latest stories and photographs of space.
Every source has its own page.

Mac

Confluve on the Mac: a sidebar with the library, pinned sources, a smart folder, a playlist and sources with unread counts; Front Page in two columns of photographs and headlines; the podcast player along the bottom.
Front Page on the Mac.
Latest on the Mac, with the list of stories beside NOIRLab’s Seagull Nebula story open in the reader.
The list beside the reader.
The Library overview on the Mac, with Read Later, Continue Listening, Starred and Pinned Sources side by side.
The Library at a glance.
The Space smart folder on the Mac, with ESO’s Picture of the Week, “A swirling galaxy”, open in the reader.
A smart folder on the Mac.
ESA/Webb’s page on the Mac, with its stories listed beside the reader.
A source and its stories.

iPad

Confluve’s Front Page on iPad: the newest story from each source, with photographs and headlines.
Front Page: the newest story from each source.
ESO’s Picture of the Week, “A swirling galaxy”, in the reader: a serif headline in ochre, a photograph of a spiral galaxy, and the start of the text.
Stories set for reading.
Latest on iPad: stories from NOIRLab, The Public Domain Review and ESO listed by day, each with its source, headline, summary and age.
Latest: every story, newest first.
The podcast player showing an episode of the Software Freedom Podcast, with a progress bar, 15- and 30-second skips, and Up Next below.
Podcasts, with Up Next.
The Library on iPad, with stories from ESA/Webb, The Public Domain Review and NOIRLab in Read Later.
Read Later, Continue Listening and more.
A smart folder named Space, gathering stories that mention galaxy, nebula, telescope and other words, with the matching words highlighted.
Smart folders gather stories by the words you choose.
Search results for “nebula”, filtered to articles, with the word highlighted in each headline.
Search every story, on your device.
ESA/Webb’s source page, with its latest stories and photographs of space.
Every source has its own page.

Icon

The Confluve app icon: a paper page with an ochre margin and a dark letter C.

Contact

developer at sebz dot fr

Screenshots show stories and pictures from ESO, NOIRLab/NSF/AURA, ESA/Webb, ESA/Hubble, NASA, CSA, The Public Domain Review, Our World in Data, Creative Commons, the FSFE and Free as in Freedom, used under their Creative Commons licences (CC BY 4.0, CC BY-SA 4.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 US). Their names and logos belong to them; showing them implies no endorsement. Credits and licences