Why is this news so teensy?
Teensy News is a simple little news reader application. It lets you easily follow websites which provide updates through an RSS (or similar) "feed".
Popular website platforms like Wordpress and Squarespace have RSS built in. Newsletter platforms like Substack and Beehiiv have RSS feeds (though they may only include public or unpaid posts). Some social platforms like Bluesky publish RSS feeds for individual users.
Some sites may not publish RSS feeds, and that's just sad.
What is RSS?
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a way to follow websites without visiting them. When a site publishes something new — a blog post, a news article, a podcast episode — it updates a feed file that RSS readers like Teensy News can check automatically.
If you've ever used an app like Reeder, NetNewsWire, or Feedly, you already know how it works.
Free?
The app is free to use. We may add a tip jar or paid features in the future, but the basic app will remain free.
Privacy
We don't want your data. See our Privacy Policy
Features
Teensy News is intended to be minimal and simple, with a focus on reading. Managing your feeds is the most complex part.
Adding a feed
To follow a site, paste its URL into the Add Feed box. You can paste the address of a site's homepage and teensy.news will try to discover the feed automatically, or paste a direct feed URL if you have one. Either way, new items will start appearing as they're published.
Feeds are refreshed in the background every hour.
Importing from another reader
Most RSS apps let you export your subscriptions as an OPML file — a simple list of all the feeds you follow. If you're migrating from another reader, export your OPML there and upload it here. teensy.news will import your feeds and do its best to preserve any folder structure you had set up.
Organizing your feeds
Mark any feed as a favorite and it will appear on the Favorites page for quick access.
Add feeds to folders to group your sources however makes sense to you — by topic, by publication type, whatever works. Folders can be reordered by clicking the arrows on the feed list. Folders are optional. If you only have a few feeds, you can ignore folders altogether.
Reading
Each feed displays a list of new, read, favorites, or archived items.
- New items are recently fetched and haven't been marked as read.
- Read items are marked off the list once you've been through them. Read items are automatically deleted after 90 days. You can mark a read item as unread if you want to keep it a little longer.
- Favorite items are noted with a little ⭐️
- Archived items are yours are kept indefinitely. Use archives for important articles you want to return to.