Read on your terms
A quiet, native reading experience for the Mac and iPhone. Your feeds, your pace, your library.
A personal RSS reader
Less noise.
More signal.
Sludge is a native newsreader for Mac and iPhone, made for people who still want to choose their own sources.
Explore SludgeS
native / personal / yours The idea
News should feel like a library, not a slot machine.
Sludge puts the sources you trust in one calm, tactile place. No recommendation engine. No separate account. Just your feeds, your saved stories, and a reader that gets out of the way.
Inside the reader
Made for everyday reading.
Keep the good stuff
Save stories locally, mark them read when you are ready, and keep cached article text close at hand.
Bring your feeds
Add RSS and Atom feeds directly, organize them into folders, or import and export your library with OPML.
THE SLUDGE YOUR
NEWS.
YOUR
WAY.
NEWS.
YOUR
WAY.
Two ways to browse
Keep your feeds close. Or step into The Sludge.
Use My Feeds for your own subscriptions, then switch to The Sludge for a curated starting collection of conservative reporting and opinion from Fox News Politics, National Review, and The American Conservative.
Sources are delivered as published. Sludge does not generate or rewrite the news.
The fine print
Small app.
Strong opinions.
- Built with
- SwiftUI
- Platforms
- macOS 14+ · iOS 17+
- Sync
- Private iCloud library sync
- Format
- RSS · Atom · OPML