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Raven reader

📖 All your articles in one place. Beautiful.

From hello-efficiency-inc·Updated June 8, 2026·View on GitHub·
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Working on the new version completely re-written. This version of Raven Reader would no longer be maintained. Stay tuned for more announcements and new repo. The project is written primarily in Vue, distributed under the MIT License license, first published in 2016. It has gained significant community traction with 2,811 stars and 223 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: desktop-app, desktop-application, electron, electron-app, electron-application.

Latest release: v1.0.80
June 4, 2023View Changelog →
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NOTE

Working on the new version completely re-written. This version of Raven Reader would no longer be maintained. Stay tuned for more announcements and new repo.

Download

To download, please visit https://ravenreader.app.

Get it from the Snap Store

Install via Homebrew (macOS)

To use Homebrew-Cask you just need to have Homebrew installed.

bash
brew install --cask raven-reader

Install via Chocolatey (Windows) (Thanks to @A-d-r-i)

choco install raven

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Features

  • Full Article Read
  • Subscribing to news feed
  • Marking as read/unread
  • Marking as favourite
  • Dark mode
  • Configurable cron job for refresh interval of feeds
  • Minimize app to tray and run in background
  • Open article link in external browser
  • Responsive
  • Exporting feed in OPML format
  • Importing feeds
  • Windows support
  • Linux support
  • Offline reading
  • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • Sidebar count
  • Text size configuration
  • Text font style configuration (Currently has Playfair Display, Muli, Open Sans and Roboto Slab)
  • Supports categorizing of the feeds.
  • macOS touchbar shortcuts
  • Integration with read it later apps: Pocket, Instapaper
  • Podcast support. Subscribe to podcast rss feed and listen within app.
  • Accessibility Friendly
  • Feedbin integration (Folders are WIP)
  • Inoreader integration
  • Google Reader API support. Supports self hosted RSS Services like FreshRSS.org etc. (Folders are WIP)
  • Support for subscribing Youtube channels and viewing within app.
  • Flexible resizing of columns/panes

Please feel free to suggest more ideas to improve this app.

Supported Platforms

  • Feedbin
  • Inoreader
  • Self hosted RSS Services compatible with Google Reader API (OldReader, Bazqux, FreshRSS)
  • Fever

Supported Locale

LanguageContributor
English
French
Catalanalexhoma
Turkishahmetcadirci25
Chinese@LinWhite2333
Dutch@Vistause
Russian@vanja-san
Polish@konhi
Brazilian Portuguese@gabrielgomeso
Italian@luverolla
German@nebulon42

Contributions

We're excited that you're wanting to help us make Raven Reader even better! Contributions of all sizes are welcome, if you'd like to work on something take a look through the current GitHub issues. If it's a new feature or potential bugs, please make a new issue ticket for it and populate it accordingly.

Contributors Wall

<a href="https://github.com/hello-efficiency-inc/raven-reader/graphs/contributors"> <img src="https://contrib.rocks/image?repo=hello-efficiency-inc/raven-reader" /> </a>

Note: It may take up to 24h for the contrib.rocks plugin to update because it's refreshed once a day.

Developer Notes

For setup instructions and configuration follow https://github.com/nklayman/vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder

Build Setup

bash
# install dependencies yarn install # serve with hot reload at localhost:9080 yarn electron:serve # build electron application for production yarn electron:build # lint all JS/Vue component files in `src/` yarn run lint

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License

MIT

Contributors

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