This is a genuinely good set of points — let me take them honestly rather than pretend I've got a slick answer to all of them. "Tons of RSS readers already" / lite.cnn.com / gnus.el — completely fair. I'm not claiming to reinvent RSS. What I was actually after was a specific combination: curated NZ outlets working out of the box, a political-lean indicator on each source, and — the main thing — an article view that strips the ads and trackers rather than dumping you into a bloaty page. If you already have a reading setup you like, I'm honestly not going to pull you off it, and that's fine. Why a built-in reader instead of a webview — this is the crux, and it's the opposite of "yet another special text UI for its own sake." A webview loads the page with its scripts, ads and tracking pixels — which is exactly the thing I was trying to avoid. The custom reader exists specifically so none of that executes: fetch the page, extract the article, discard the rest, render clean. The text UI isn't the goal; killing the trackers is, and a clean reading view is the byproduct. Could it be a static page with local storage / a local httpd — you're close, and you've basically described what it is under the hood: it's an HTML/JS app. The reason it's wrapped natively rather than being a pure browser page is CORS — a plain static page can't fetch arbitrary third-party RSS feeds from the browser; the outlets don't send the headers that would allow it. The native shell is really there to make the cross-origin fetch possible, plus give durable local storage. A local httpd would work for you personally but isn't something I can ship to non-technical phone users. Headline-only feeds + bot detection — this is the sharpest point and you're right. Some feeds are headline+summary only, and some article pages sit behind bot-detection that a straightforward fetch won't beat. I don't try to defeat that — when extraction fails or a feed is summary-only, the app is honest about it: it shows the summary and offers to open the full page externally, rather than pretending it scraped something it couldn't. Full "orchestrate a real browser to get past bot walls" scraping is a road I've deliberately not gone down — it's an arms race and it's exactly the kind of heavy machinery I was trying to get away from. The name — ha, fair. "Compass" is not what you'd call unclaimed. Noted. F-Droid / no Play account — totally understood, and same as I said to another commenter: an APK and eventually F-Droid are the direction I want to go once it's stable. No worries if you'd rather wait for that. Appreciate you engaging with it properly. 🧭