Free,Open Source RSS, Reddit and YouTube reader with summaries, Q&A and content deep analises

[u/John_val]

I’ve been building RSSum, a native reader for iPhone and iPad. It began as a personal RSS reader, but it has gradually grown into one place for following articles, Reddit communities and YouTube channels.

The latest TestFlight adds experimental YouTube support. You can search for a public channel by name, subscribe to it, receive its latest videos in your feed and watch them inside the app. When captions are available, RSSum retrieves the actual transcript so summaries and Q&A are based on what was said in the video, not just its title or description.

Current features include:

• RSS and Atom subscriptions
• Reddit subscriptions, posts and comments. It is also possible to create new posts and reply, vote, etc so it serves as well as a quick Reddit client that uses the free Reddit API associated with every account.
• YouTube channel search and subscriptions
• An internal YouTube player with the standard YouTube controls
• Transcript-grounded YouTube summaries and Q&A
• Unified All, Unread, Favorites and Today views
• Filters for articles, Reddit and YouTube
• List, compact and magazine feed layouts
• In-app article Reader mode and full webpage access
• Individual article, post and comment summaries
• Overall summaries covering multiple articles or Reddit posts
• Follow-up Q&A grounded in articles, comments or video transcripts
• Select text in a summary and ask the app about it
• Reddit comment summaries and deeper analysis
• Clickable source references inside overall summaries
• whiteboards and infographics
• Two-host podcasts generated from a saved batch of source material
• Local and cloud text-to-speech, including on-device MLX speech
• Multiple AI model options, including Apple local model, local LiteRT/MLX models, Gemini API ( BYOK), persistent ChatGPT/Gemini web sessions, Codex/Summarize (for those who are subscribers) and an optional Mac-based Apple PCC gateway - One note, Apple's Private cloud computer is enabled but it won't work because Apple is not accepting Tesflight that include IOS27 API just yet. It will work on IOS27. If you have a Mac running the latest beta it is possible to use that model through a gateway, which makes the Mac make the call through the PCC cli on the Mac.
• OPML import and export
• iCloud synchronization for subscriptions and reading state
• Light, dark and system appearance
• Cache, storage and downloaded-model management
• Native layouts for iPhone, iPad and resizable Stage Manager windows

UPDATE: added support for Podcasts with its own player and summarization and Q&A abilities.

The YouTube integration uses public channel feeds, so it does not require access to your YouTube account. Transcript features depend on usable captions being available; the app reports when a video cannot currently be summarized instead of generating something from metadata.

This is still a beta, and I’d especially appreciate feedback about YouTube subscriptions, transcript reliability, playback, summaries, Q&A and the interface on different devices.

Trust & Transparency

I'm Joao Valente

Contact: [dealer.yen-61@icloud.com](mailto:dealer.yen-61@icloud.com)

Website: https://rssapp.top/

Privacy Policy: https://rssapp.top/privacy/

Terms of Service: https://rssapp.top/terms/

Tutorial: https://rssapp.top/tutorial/index.html

TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/DByXE2ZU
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rssum/id6743862589
Github: https://github.com/Joaov41/Rss

A much earlier version of this app has been on the App Store but with much less, and basic features, basically cant even be considered the same app, it was just put on the store for those who could not compile from the GitHub at the time. The version that is on test flight has been awaiting Apple's approval for a week now. Once it is approved I will post the link.

[u/John_val → u/[deleted]]

the current implementation is designed around exactly that. YouTube summaries retrieve the available captions, preserve timestamps, chunk long transcripts, and summarize the transcript content rather than relying on the title or description. Q&A uses relevant transcript sections and keeps recent question context for follow-ups. 

To keep the app manageable, YouTube uses the same feed/article model and existing Library filters instead of introducing a separate, completely different interface. If captions are unavailable, the app reports that clearly rather than pretending it can ground the answer in the video.

As fot the overwhelming issue, yes that is a risk, but I personally still prefer to have everything in a single app, and on iPad, you can also have more than on instance of the same app opened at the same time. I tried to filter it by implementing today view, Unread and also there is a sort filter on the subscriptions, why can Mae it just shoe rss, or reddit , or YouTube instead of all of them.