The short version

Feeder is a free, personal-scale RSS reader. By creating an account, you agree to use it for personal reading — not for industrial-scale scraping, abuse, or anything that breaks the underlying publishers' terms. We can suspend an account that's doing that. You own your data; we just host it. The service is provided as-is, without warranty.

What you can do

• Read, organise, and personalise public RSS / Atom feeds for your own use.
• Subscribe to any feed whose URL you can access publicly.
• Save articles, tag them, follow sports teams or players, take notes, export your reading state via the in-app account page.
• Stop using the service at any time. Delete your account at /account — it cascades through every per-user table.

What you agree not to do

• No industrial-scale subscribing. Adding more than a few hundred feeds per account, or scripting the catalog-add endpoint, defeats the personal-use model and hammers the publishers we pull from.
• No re-publishing of imported article content outside the bounds of fair use. The articles you read here belong to their publishers — they granted us a public-feed license, not a redistribution one.
• No automated account creation, credential brute-forcing, or attempts to bypass the auth wall. Passkey-only sign-in is the whole security model; don't try to get around it.
• No abuse of the AI features — the Claude triage and summarise calls cost real money. Daily / hourly token budgets are enforced; bypassing them isn't acceptable use.
• No use of the service to harm others — including but not limited to sending illegal content through the chat widget or attempting to deanonymise other accounts.

Your data

You own the content you produce inside Feeder (tags, notes, bookmarks, follow lists). We claim no ownership of it. We will not transfer it to a third party without your direction or a legitimate legal request that compels us. When you delete your account, the per-user rows are cascade-deleted; see Privacy for the data model.

The articles you imported belong to their publishers; we display them under the same public-RSS terms every other reader does. If a publisher asks us to stop syncing their feed, we will.

Availability + warranty

Feeder is a one-developer, single-server project. We aim to keep it running but we don't promise specific uptime, error-free operation, or that any particular feature will exist next month. The service is provided as-is, without warranty of any kind — express or implied, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the service. If we are held liable despite that limit, the total amount is capped at the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the last 12 months (typically zero, since the service is free) or (b) one US dollar.

Termination

You can close your account at any time from /account. We can suspend or close an account that violates these terms (the prohibited-use list above), with notice when practical. Sections that by their nature survive termination (your ownership of your data, our warranty disclaimer, liability caps) survive.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. Material changes will be called out in the app's release notes; the "Last updated" date at the top of this page tracks every change. Continuing to use the service after a change means you accept the new terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, USA. Any dispute will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Philadelphia County.

Contact

For questions about these terms, reach us via the contact form. Include a reply-to address if you'd like a response.