Topic-based RSS digests
Combine trusted publications and blogs into a scheduled briefing about one subject.
Independent tool overview
Tidyread at a glance
Tidyread is an AI-assisted RSS reader that groups feeds into customizable recipes, filters and summarizes articles, translates titles, and delivers digests on a schedule.
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- Best for
- Custom scheduled digests from existing RSS subscriptions
- Primary interface
- Chrome extension with supporting web account pages
- Organization model
- Topic Recipes containing feeds, prompts, filters, and delivery timing
- AI functions
- Summaries, title translation, filtering, and prompt debugging
- Local storage
- Feeds and generated digests are described as stored in browser IndexedDB
- Magic Feed
- No longer maintained
- Price checked
- September 1, 2026
Overview
What Tidyread is
Tidyread is built around deliberate subscription reading rather than an endless algorithmic feed. Users import or add RSS sources, group them into topic-specific Recipes, choose summary and filter prompts, and select when each digest should arrive.
The core reader, feeds, recipes, filters, and full-text extraction are available on the free tier. AI summaries, translation, AI filtering, custom prompts, and email delivery consume a separate token allowance. Most feed and digest data is described as living locally in the browser.
The product is active, but one adjacent feature—Magic Feed, which generated new RSS feeds—is explicitly no longer maintained. Tidyread is therefore best understood as a reader and summarizer for sources that already expose usable feeds, not a universal feed-creation service.
Use cases
Who Tidyread is best for
The strongest fit depends on the job you need the product to complete, not the size of its feature list.
Multilingual reading
Translate titles and create summaries that help triage sources written in other languages.
Low-interruption reading
Receive material at chosen times instead of repeatedly checking an infinite feed.
Custom information filters
Use keywords and AI prompts to reduce irrelevant items inside a known set of subscriptions.
Capabilities
Core Tidyread features
RSS subscriptions
Add feeds directly, use the built-in source search, or import an existing OPML file.
Recipes
Group sources by topic and give each group its own description, prompts, filters, schedule, and pause state.
AI summaries
Summarize feed entries or optionally fetched full article text with a default or custom prompt.
Translation
Uses AI tokens to translate titles and support multilingual triage.
AI and keyword filters
Remove items that do not meet a stated topic or relevance rule before they reach a digest.
Scheduled delivery
Build digests at chosen times and, on the paid token package, push them through email.
Token controls
Set input, output, daily, monthly, global, and Recipe-level limits and pause AI work.
Efficient reading mode
Presents collected items in a cleaner interface while preserving access to the source.
Process
How the Tidyread workflow works
Step 1
Choose primary sources
Subscribe to publications and authors you would still trust without an AI summary; use OPML for an existing collection.
Step 2
Build narrow Recipes
Keep each digest focused enough that one prompt and filter policy make sense across its sources.
Step 3
Start without full text
Use feed content first, enabling full-text scraping only where the publisher permits it and summary quality justifies the extra tokens.
Step 4
Audit summaries
Open representative originals and compare names, numbers, qualifications, uncertainty, dates, and conclusions.
Step 5
Tune limits and cadence
Set token caps, pause low-value feeds, and adjust delivery frequency based on what you actually read.
Step 6
Read originals for decisions
Use the digest for triage, then consult the full primary source before citing, sharing, investing, treating, or acting on important information.
Cost
Tidyread pricing and free plan
Tidyread's current page is framed as buying more tokens, not a conventional monthly subscription. It shows Free with 2 million tokens, a Silver package at $9.99 for 15 million tokens, and custom service. The page does not clearly label whether Silver is a one-time purchase or recurring charge, so verify checkout and token expiration before paying.
Free
$0
Core RSS reading plus an initial token allowance.
- Two million tokens displayed
- Unlimited RSS subscriptions, Recipes, digests, and filters
- Efficient reading mode and OPML import
- Full-text scraping shown at 20 times per minute
- AI features depend on the available token balance
Silver token package
$9.99
Adds 15 million tokens and unlocks the paid AI and email features shown.
- Advertised as roughly 3,000 article summaries at 5,000 tokens each
- AI summary, translation, and filtering
- Custom summary prompts
- Digest email push
- Higher full-text scraping rate and usage monitoring
- Billing recurrence and token expiration are not clearly stated on the public page
Custom
Contact Tidyread
One-to-one service for needs beyond the published packages.
- No public limit
- Scope, support, data handling, and price require written confirmation
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Assessment
Tidyread strengths and limitations
Where it stands out
- Centers user-selected RSS sources rather than algorithmic discovery
- Recipes provide useful separation of topics, prompts, schedules, and pause controls
- Granular token limits make AI consumption easier to control
- OPML import lowers the switching cost for existing RSS users
- Local browser storage reduces reliance on a central cloud database for feed and digest history
- Free tier includes the non-AI reading and organization fundamentals
What to consider
- AI summaries can omit qualifications, invert meaning, merge sources, or overstate certainty; they are not substitutes for important originals.
- Full-text fetching may fail on paywalls, scripts, blocked sites, malformed feeds, or publisher restrictions and increases token use.
- Pausing only a Builder can still allow background fetching and AI summarization, according to the documentation; pause the feed, Recipe, or global AI controls when cost must stop.
- The public pricing page does not clearly state whether the $9.99 Silver package is one-time or recurring, whether tokens expire, or whether taxes apply.
- Magic Feed is explicitly no longer maintained, so Tidyread cannot be assumed to create feeds for sites without RSS.
- Most functionality remains centered on a browser extension; the documentation says web and mobile expansion is future work.
- The 2024 privacy policy says Tidyread does not share personal data with third parties, yet it also describes Supabase and PostHog and the product necessarily sends content through AI processing for summaries. A current provider, subprocessor, model-training, retention, and data-flow explanation is needed.
- The terms grant a broad license to use, copy, adapt, publish, transmit, display, and distribute uploaded or transmitted content, which deserves review before adding confidential or licensed private feeds.
- Local IndexedDB data can be lost when browser storage, a profile, or an extension is removed unless the user maintains an export or backup.
- AI filtering can hide minority viewpoints or unexpected but important stories, reinforcing an information bubble even when the product's goal is to reduce overload.
Compare
Tidyread alternatives
The right alternative depends on the specific output, workflow, controls and budget your project requires.
Students
Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM)
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Perplexity
Consider Perplexity for on-demand web research with citations when live discovery matters more than a fixed subscription feed.
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Link Reader
Consider Link Reader for a lighter workflow centered on reading or summarizing individual links instead of managing scheduled Recipes.
Explore Link Reader →Questions
Tidyread FAQs
What is Tidyread?
Tidyread is an AI-assisted RSS reader that organizes subscriptions into topic Recipes, filters and summarizes entries, and generates digests on a chosen schedule.
Is Tidyread still active?
Yes. The core site, pricing, account, and documentation remain active. Its separate Magic Feed generator is explicitly no longer maintained.
How much does Tidyread cost?
The public page shows Free with 2 million tokens, Silver at $9.99 for 15 million tokens, and custom service. It does not clearly state whether Silver recurs or whether tokens expire, so confirm checkout terms.
What uses Tidyread tokens?
AI summaries, title translation, and prompt debugging consume tokens. Long source text, longer outputs, full-text scraping, and complex prompts use more.
Can I import my RSS feeds?
Yes. Tidyread supports OPML import as well as direct feed entry and a small built-in source search.
Does Tidyread send email digests?
The Silver package advertises digest email push. The free product can build and display digests in the extension.
Where does Tidyread store my feeds?
Its privacy page says subscribed feeds and generated digests are mostly stored locally in browser IndexedDB, while identity, billing, and usage data are stored in Supabase. AI processing still requires a clearer current data-flow explanation.
Can Tidyread summarize full articles?
It can fetch full text when enabled, subject to site access and permissions. This consumes more tokens and should not be used to bypass paywalls or publisher restrictions.
Can I trust a Tidyread summary without opening the article?
Use summaries for triage only. Open the original for important facts, quotations, risk, health, finance, law, or any decision where missing context matters.
What are the best Tidyread alternatives?
Gemini Notebook is stronger for a curated source notebook, Perplexity is better for live on-demand research, and Link Reader is a lighter single-link workflow.
Bottom line
Our Tidyread verdict
Tidyread offers a thoughtful antidote to feed overload: user-chosen sources, topic Recipes, scheduled delivery, and strong usage controls. Its core workflow is useful and inexpensive, but buyers should clarify the Silver billing model and the current AI data flow. The safest habit is to let summaries decide what to read—not what to believe.
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