Just a list.

• Android: Google Play and F-Droid
• iPhone and iPad: App Store, iOS and iPadOS 17 or later
• macOS: App Store, Macs with Apple silicon
• Windows: Microsoft Store or the installer from GitHub releases
• Linux: Flathub, plus .deb, .rpm and AppImage packages from GitHub releases

A few things aren’t available:

• Web version: browsers can’t download most feeds directly, and FeedFlow has no server to do it for them.
• Intel Macs: the frameworks FeedFlow is built with are dropping support for Intel Macs, so only Apple silicon is supported.
• Android APK on GitHub: install from Google Play or F-Droid. Obtainium can track the F-Droid release.

The .deb package targets Debian 13 and distributions based on it. On older distributions, use the Flatpak or the AppImage.

Version numbers can differ between platforms: each platform gets its fixes as soon as they’re ready, without waiting for the others.

Go to Settings → Feeds & accounts → Accounts and connect the same account on every device. FeedFlow supports two kinds of accounts:

• Backup services: iCloud, Dropbox and Google Drive. Your subscriptions, categories, read articles and bookmarks are saved to a file in your own storage and picked up by your other devices.
• Reader services: FreshRSS, Miniflux, BazQux and Feedbin. Your subscriptions and read status live on the server, and FeedFlow syncs with it.

You can connect one account at a time. Sync runs when feeds are refreshed and when you close the app; on iPhone and iPad, changes are also uploaded every couple of minutes while FeedFlow is open. Upload changes sends your latest changes right away. Your other devices pick up the changes the next time they refresh, so on iPhone and iPad, where background refresh is up to iOS, open the app to see them.

Not every account is available in every version:

F-Droid doesn’t allow the non-free Dropbox and Google libraries, and Flathub builds the app from public sources, so the private keys these services require can’t be included. To sync these versions with your other devices, use a reader service, or install the Google Play version on Android or the .deb, .rpm or AppImage package on Linux.

Mark as read when scrolling is on by default: an article counts as read once it has completely scrolled out of the list. By default, read articles don’t appear in the Timeline, so they’re gone the next time the list reloads.

To change this, go to Settings → Reading behavior:

• Turn off Mark as read when scrolling to mark articles as read only when you open them.
• Turn on Show read articles in lists to keep read articles in the list.
• Auto-hide articles when marked as read removes articles as soon as they’re read. It only works when mark as read when scrolling is off.

To keep one feed unread while you scroll, open its settings and turn on Keep unread when scrolling.

The last few articles can’t scroll out of the list, so use Mark all as read at the end of the list or in the menu.

FeedFlow has no server: every check for new articles runs on your device. It checks:

• When you refresh: pull down the list or use Refresh feeds. Only the feeds in the current view are checked, so refreshing a category or a single feed is faster.
• When the app starts, if Refresh feeds on app start is on (Settings → Sync & storage). This only happens when the app is launched from scratch, not when you switch back to it while it’s still running.
• In the background, depending on the platform (see below).

Automatic checks skip a feed that was checked recently, to avoid flooding websites with requests. The wait is at least an hour, and it can grow up to a day for feeds that rarely change. A manual refresh always checks again. If one feed fails, the others are still updated.

Android: choose how often in Background sync (Settings → Sync & storage), from every 15 minutes to once a day, and optionally only on Wi-Fi or only while charging. Android can still delay the check when the battery is low or battery optimisation is on for FeedFlow.

iPhone and iPad: iOS doesn’t let apps run on a schedule, so there is no Background sync setting. When you leave FeedFlow, it asks iOS to wake it up again in about two hours. iOS decides if and when that happens: usually while the device is charging and connected to Wi-Fi, and more often for apps you open regularly. It can take many hours, or not happen at all if you haven’t opened FeedFlow for a while, if Low Power Mode is on, or if Background App Refresh is turned off for FeedFlow in the iOS Settings. Open FeedFlow to get the latest articles immediately.

Desktop: turn on Refresh while open to check for new articles while FeedFlow is running.