A simple RSS reader built for your Kindle. Load any feed, read articles, and download or email them as MOBI or EPUB.
Free & open source. Open the Reader
frontend/ — Zero-dependency ES3 JavaScript SPA (open index.html directly, no build step)
backend/ — Go REST API (feed parsing, article extraction, EPUB/MOBI generation, email delivery)
- Clean reader view — Extracts the full article body using Mozilla Readability, stripping ads and site chrome. Adjustable font, spacing, and line height.
- Download & send to Kindle — Export articles as MOBI, EPUB, or plain text. Download or email individual articles or a selection from the feed to your Kindle.
- Save your feeds — Save feed URLs and sync them across devices. Sign up to keep your feeds and preferences in sync wherever you read.
- Feed archive — Enable archiving on a saved feed and the server scrapes it hourly, storing articles so you can read back issues even when the original page is gone.
- Feed groups — Organise saved feeds into named groups. Load all articles from a group in one tap.
- Favorites — Star any article to save it for later, synced to your account.
- RSS 2.0 & Atom — Parses both formats natively. Special handling for Reddit JSON feeds and Google News redirect URLs.
- Comments — View threaded comments for Hacker News, Reddit, and Lobste.rs articles directly in the reader.
- Wikipedia search — Search Wikipedia and open any article inline.
- Built for e-ink — No JavaScript frameworks, no heavy assets. Written in ES3 so it runs in the Kindle's experimental browser.
- Open reader.inkfeed.xyz in any browser — desktop, phone, or Kindle.
- Paste any RSS or Atom feed URL and hit Load, or pick from the suggested feeds list.
- Click an article to read it. Use Full Article to extract the complete body from the source.
- Download or Email individual articles, or select multiple from the feed at once.
| Format | Notes |
|---|---|
| MOBI | Kindle-native. Includes comments if available. |
| EPUB | Supports image embedding (backend mode). |
| TXT | Plain text. |
Server-side (default): Articles are fetched and converted on a server, then delivered to your device or sent straight to your Kindle email address. Add export@sender.inkfeed.xyz to your Kindle's approved senders list.
Fully local (optional): Everything runs in the browser via a CORS proxy. Files are assembled and downloaded directly on your device. Switch to this mode any time in Settings.
No install required. Open frontend/index.html directly in a browser. External dependencies (Mozilla Readability, JSZip) load from CDN.
cd backend
cp .env.example .env # configure environment variables
go run . # starts on port 8080See backend/.env.example for all available environment variables.
- Pure HTML/CSS/JavaScript — no build step, no npm, no transpilation.
- All JavaScript uses ES3 syntax for Kindle browser compatibility (no
let/const, no arrow functions, nofetch— usesXMLHttpRequest). - Custom MOBI writer ported from MobiWriter (C++) to pure JavaScript.
- CORS proxy is configurable in Settings. You can self-host this proxy.
Many thanks to MobiWriter for implementing an HTML-to-MOBI conversion program in C++, which Claude Code was able to port to pure JavaScript. Several AI models failed to implement this from scratch — pointing Claude Code at the MobiWriter source and asking it to port it to JavaScript is what made it possible.
AGPL-3.0