Lector

Read your news with a no-frills experience, and a blazing-fast reader. Unlimited There are no restrictions on how many feeds you can subscribe to. The only limit is how much information you can handle.

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read your news with a nofrills experience, and a blazingfast reader.

unlimited

there are no restrictions on how many feeds you can subscribe to. the only limit is how much information you can handle.

readability

clean, simple, straight to the point interface. our main goal is to provide you with a nofrills reading experience.

keyboard shortcuts

for those who don't like to keep the hands away from the keyboard, there are plenty of them.

privacy

your data is kept safe and is not shared with anybody. your subscriptions and articles are yours and yours only.

import your subscriptions

import your existing subscriptions easily just by providing us an opml file.

and more is coming...

we have many more ideas yet to be implemented, but we're a small team. this is only the beginning.

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