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Follow publications, channels, subreddits, podcasts and creators, then read them in one queue you control.

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Add something to follow

Everything starts in one box on Feeds → Discover. Paste what you have and smry works out what it is. You can also point a web monitor at a page that publishes no feed at all and read its changes in the same queue. Coming from another reader? Import your OPML file from the sidebar, and export it again whenever you want to leave. Your subscription list is never stuck here.

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Put them in folders

Folders are how a hundred sources stay readable. Make one, drag sources into it, read a folder at a time instead of one undifferentiated river. Anything you have not filed sits in Unsorted, which is always there. Folder names go up to 60 characters. Folders are also the unit filters work on, which is the next part.

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Choose how it looks

Four view modes:
  • Magazine
  • Cards
  • Article
  • Title
The choice is remembered on the device you made it on, so a phone and a laptop can be set differently.

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Tell a folder what you actually want

A folder can carry a filter written in plain English — up to 700 characters of it. Not keywords, not boolean operators. A description.
Two things make this usable rather than a black box. You say what happens when it is unsure. A story the filter cannot confidently place can be let through or held back — you pick which, because “miss nothing” and “waste none of my time” are different jobs. You test it before it touches anything. Run the filter against recent stories in that folder and see what it would have kept and what it would have dropped, with a reason on each one. Adjust the wording, run it again, then apply it. Every classified story keeps its verdict — relevant, irrelevant, or uncertain — and the reason behind it. When something you wanted gets dropped, you can see why rather than guess. On any individual story you can also say more like this or less like this, which is the cheaper way to nudge a folder that is nearly right.

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A story that will not open

Some pages refuse to be read: a hard paywall, a publisher that blocks extraction, a page that falls apart on parse. When that happens in the feed preview or the reader, smry offers something other than an error. It searches the public web for other coverage of the same thing and builds a short briefing: a handful of points, each one citing the sources it came from. This is not a summary of the article — smry could not read the article. It is what the rest of the web said about it, gathered and cited so you can follow any point back to its origin. It needs at least two usable sources that are not the page you started on. If it cannot find them, it says so and waits a while before trying again rather than inventing a briefing from one link. When it succeeds, you land in a chat seeded with the briefing, so the next question is already available to you.

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Keeping up

The scheduler checks your feeds every five minutes. Nothing to refresh, no polling interval to configure. smry keeps the most recent entries per feed rather than an infinite archive — about a hundred are held live, with a wider stored ceiling behind that. Anything you want permanently is one save away, and then it is a library item under your own control rather than a feed entry that ages out. Some feeds publish only a headline and a teaser. On a paid plan you can turn on full-text fetching for a specific feed, and smry pulls the whole article rather than the stub.

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Questions

Free follows 100 sources across 5 folders. Patron follows 1,000 across 100 folders. Pro follows 25,000 across 1,000.
Yes — OPML import, from the sidebar. And OPML export, any time, to take them away again.
No. It sorts. Every story keeps its verdict and the reason for it, so a filter you dislike can be rewritten without anything having been lost.
It holds every source you have not filed yet. It is always there and cannot be removed.
No. Feeds is what you follow. Sources is a view of what you have already saved, grouped by where it came from.
Yes — feeds are the part of smry most fully exposed to agents. Following, querying, filtering and polling for new entries all work over the API.

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Next

Save what you keep

Pulling a story out of the queue and into your library.

Watch a page with no feed

Web monitors, for sites that publish nothing.

Feeds for agents

The same subscriptions, driven from Claude Code or Cursor.
Last modified on September 13, 2026