Panda Reader

A desktop RSS reader you can make your own.

Local · Miniflux · FreshRSS · and more

Built with gpui-kit.

No minimalism.No performance promises.No AI hype.

Just a reader I wanted to use.

I wanted to go back to RSS. For news, sure, but mostly for independent blogs: ordinary lives, written honestly, without a big hook.

Choosing a reader started taking as much time as making one. So I made Panda Reader. I can change it whenever I like. That’s the whole advantage.

It won’t suit everyone. Use it, change it, fork it. That’s why it’s open source.

Available for Windows, macOS, and Linux

Panda Reader showing a bilingual Hacker News article with the feed list and reader pane
01 · Read

Stay with the story.

Less time managing the feed. More room for what you came to read.

02 · Sync

Your library, your setup.

Keep a library on this device, or use Panda Reader as a desktop client for Miniflux or FreshRSS. Choose the setup that fits how you already read.

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03 · Plugins

Make broken feeds readable.

Plugins can turn a short RSS summary into a clean full article, tailored to the publisher.

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