Frequently Asked Questions

Yes. Feedmesh is free on the web and in the apps, and there are no ads. If you'd like to help with what it costs to run, you can donate.

Go to Add Feeds and type the site's name or its address: Feedmesh finds the site's feed for you, so you don't need to know the feed's own address. In the apps you can also start from a topic and pick from its most-read sites.

Export your feeds from that reader as an OPML file (most readers have this in their settings, often called "Export OPML"). Then choose the file on Feedmesh's Import Feeds page. Each feed is checked before it's added, so a long list can take a little while.

Yes. Export Feeds (in the Manage menu) downloads an OPML file with your categories and feeds, which any other feed reader can import.

Yes. Sign in with the same account (the same email address, or the same Google account) and your feeds, categories, saved articles and what you've read are the same on the website, Android and iPhone.

It's on its way. The Apps page will link to it in the App Store as soon as it's out. Until then, Feedmesh works in Safari on your iPhone.

When you add a feed it takes up to 15 minutes for our crawler to read it for the first time. Its articles show up as soon as it has.

Feedmesh hasn't been able to read that feed for a week or more (or, for a new feed, since it was added). Usually the site has moved its feed to a new address or stopped publishing it, or the site is down for a while. Click the warning sign on the feed (or "What can I do?" on an empty one) to find similar feeds that are working: following one puts it in the old feed's place, with its name, color and settings. You can also unfollow it.

We do our best to attribute a main image to the article you are reading, but some articles are not published with images or the images on the page are not suitable to be used with the article. In this situation, you will not see an image.

We do our best to display the full text, readable article. Sometimes our full text crawler is unable to accurately capture the article presented on the site. In this situation, the text will not look properly formatted. If a large number of your feeds exhibit this issue, we recommend turning off this feature in your account settings.

If you would like your account deleted and removed from our system, you may log into the Feedmesh Android App, navigate to settings, and select the "Delete Account" option, or go to feedmesh.com/delete-account. Alternatively, you may email us at [email protected] and provide the email address you used when registering. Deleting accounts is permanent, non-reversible and removes all personal and activity data from Feedmesh systems.

A feed's mute words hide its articles whose headline, author or summary mentions any of them. They match whole words, and upper and lower case are the same, so "AI" doesn't hide "said". End a word with * to match longer words too: crypto* also hides cryptocurrency. Set them in the app (a feed's ⋮ menu, Mute Words) or on the website's Manage Feeds page; they apply everywhere.

Both are in your Settings: "Always Fetch Readable Full Text Version If Available" opens the full text whenever there is one, and "Hide Read Articles" leaves out the ones you've read.

Use "Forgot your password?" on the Log in page and we'll email you a link to choose a new one. If you signed up with Google, you don't have a Feedmesh password: use "Sign in with Google".