Built for reading, nothing else.

Focus mode

Press f and everything else goes away. No sidebar, no toolbar, no header. Just your article on a dark canvas with a thin scroll indicator along the right edge.

This is the feature we built the whole app around. Most readers treat the article as one panel among many. We wanted it to be the only thing on screen.

• Background dims to pure black so the text has your full attention
• Subtle corner elements show feed name, article info, and keyboard hints
• Scroll progress bar along the right edge tracks your position
• Enter with f or Escape, exit the same way

Keyboard-first navigation

Every action has a keyboard shortcut. Not as an afterthought bolted onto a mouse-driven UI, but as the primary way to move through your feeds. Hands on the keyboard, eyes on the content.

Feeds & folders

Add feeds by pasting a URL. Organize them into folders. Drag to reorder. Collapse what you don't need right now. The sidebar is 220px of quiet structure that stays out of your way until you need it.

• Nest feeds inside folders for clean grouping
• Drag and drop to reorder feeds and folders
• Collapse folders to hide feeds you're not actively reading
• Unread counts are small and muted, not bright red badges competing for your attention

OPML import & export

Switching from another reader? Drop your OPML file and your feeds land in the right folders. Leaving SereneReader? Export everything and take it with you. Your subscriptions are yours — no lock-in, no proprietary formats.

OPML is an open standard that's been around for decades. We use it because it works and because every other decent reader supports it too.

Multiple themes

The default theme is Jade Night — dark background, jade green accents, easy on the eyes for long reading sessions. But if that's not your thing, there are six others to pick from.

All themes available on Pro and Team plans. Free accounts use Jade Night.

Full-text search

Hit / and start typing. It searches through titles and body text across all your feeds. Results show up fast with your search terms highlighted so you can skim through them quickly.

Available on Pro and Team plans.

Chronological, always

Your feeds show up in the order they were published. Newest at the top, oldest at the bottom. No algorithm decides what you should see first. No "relevance" score. No "For You" tab.

We think you're perfectly capable of deciding what's worth reading. The algorithm's job is to keep you scrolling. Our job is to get out of the way.

API access

Read your feeds from anywhere. The REST API gives you programmatic access to your articles and subscriptions with simple Bearer token authentication. Build scripts that check for new posts, pipe articles into other tools, or integrate your feed data into your own workflows.

• Bearer token auth with API keys you manage from settings
• Fetch articles with filtering by feed, folder, or date
• List subscriptions with unread counts
• Monitor your usage with the built-in usage endpoint
• 30 requests per minute rate limit

See Building automations with the SereneReader API for use cases like daily digests, feed health monitors, and export pipelines.

Feed your AI agent

Connect SereneReader to AI tools like OpenClaw and let your agent read your feeds for you. It gets clean JSON with titles, URLs, snippets, and metadata. Point your agent at the API, hand it a key, and let it summarize, filter, or act on new articles as they arrive.

We wrote a guide on this: How to connect your RSS feeds to AI agents.

Full documentation and API keys are available in your account settings after signing up.

Available on Pro and Team plans.