Openvibe Combines News And Social Media In One App

Openvibe, an app that allows you to travel unfastened societal networks for illustration Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr successful 1 place, is now expanding its functionality truthful you tin travel your favourite news sites and blogs, too. To do so, nan startup is adding support for RSS (aka Really Simple Syndication aliases news feeds), an unfastened modular that allows you to subscribe to automatic updates from websites, for illustration caller articles aliases blog posts.

The summation makes Openvibe much useful for keeping up pinch your interests and different important accusation without having to move betwixt aggregate newsreaders, websites, aliases societal networking apps.

The caller characteristic besides puts Openvibe successful much nonstop title pinch different societal media and contented aggregators that way updates from crossed nan unfastened web. These competitors see Tapestry, nan caller app from nan institution that erstwhile built a celebrated Twitter customer known arsenic Twitterific; Feeeed, an RSS scholar that supports search societal profiles connected Mastodon, YouTube and different platforms; and Surf, a caller unfastened societal app and browser from nan makers of Flipboard.

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Openvibe CEO Matej Svancer says RSS support was ever portion of nan app’s longer-term roadmap since its motorboat past year. However, nan characteristic was heavy requested by nan personification base, truthful nan squad prioritized its development, he says.

To usage nan feature, you tin take to adhd RSS sources 1 by one, cheque nan app’s suggested sites and pat “follow” connected those you want to track, aliases import your full OPML record from different news reader. After much group adopt RSS, Openvibe will present a leaderboard that shows nan astir added feeds to thief nonstop users to celebrated sources.

Once added, you tin way nan RSS updates successful nan app’s mixed location feed, successful nan dedicated “RSS” feed, aliases you tin adhd nan RSS feeds to your ain civilization feed.

While RSS tin besides beryllium utilized to way podcasts and YouTube channels, Openvibe isn’t yet focused connected those formats, Svancer tells TechCrunch. It whitethorn beryllium technically imaginable to adhd them successful nan app today, but it won’t connection a bully personification experience, he explains — unless you don’t mind having to unfastened each point successful a browser.

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With news and blogs, however, Openvibe opens contented straight wrong nan app utilizing a clean, distraction-free reference mode. If you for illustration to sojourn nan websites successful a browser, you tin alteration this setting.

Plus, nan app offers a “Performance Mode” toggle that will move disconnected image loading successful nan timeline previews to make nan characteristic moreover little resource-intensive.

The institution has been testing nan RSS characteristic up of motorboat pinch conscionable complete 100 group who have, combined, added complete 4,000 feeds.

RSS support is now disposable successful Openvibe’s iOS and Android apps. The app itself remains free to download without in-app purchases for now, but nan institution plans to present a subscription offering successful nan future.

The startup is currently backed by a mini magnitude of funding from Czech Founders VC, Tensor Ventures, and Automattic — nan genitor institution to WordPress.com, Tumblr, Beeper, and others.