💡 [Idea]: Develop an RSS app similar to Boxlore

[Humorist2601]

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Describe your idea

Hello, you have developed the most beautiful podcast app for Android. I hope that you will be willing to develope and similar app for us RSS users out there as currently the Android platform is very limited on that

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[ashwkun]

Hi, would love to make something, it sounds pretty straightforward, however since none of us have ever used a rss reader, we dont know what features one would need. If you can share some features (above the core one's ofcourse) which would make it a good replacement for the good ones already out there, this sounds like something we could get into, also it would be great if you can share a few good benchmark apps which are popular, that'd also be helpful.

[Humorist2601]

Hello

Sorry for taking such a long time to respond. I was very busy with work.

So basically I have never found an RSS Reader that combines two things

1. A fluid material you designed reader with beautiful gestures that displays all your articles in sections and switches between the sections using those fluid gestures
2. A local AI (Gemma 4B, Kokoro) generated brief of news which you can listen in the morning

There are two apps which I have found that do good in each of their respective places

1. Read You

• The Good: Good gestures for moving between articles, between sections/ group and marking the complete article list as read. Has somewhat good customization
• The Bad: Doesn't have fluid animations, material expressive design, predictive back gesture. Notification come for the articles one by one which is very irritating

2. Morning Voice Brief

• The Good: A relatively recent app that does a lot of good using local summarization and voices and looks good aswell.
• The Bad: It is relatively new so I think time should be given to get more features like changing and removing sections of feeds etc

Currently all RSS readers just display your feeds, which you will forget throughout the day. Also it is quite overwhelming to read through all the articles. If there would be a score summarized digest every morning, it would not cause this issue. There is an iPhone reader with the name of Current but In my opinion, it also doesn't solve the issue.

What I propose is the combination of the above two app so that you can be uptodate with all news but a brief in the morning which summarizes the main news you read throughout the day.

You can also take inspiration from Kagi News for how they deduplicate and priorities their news categories. The Morning Brief App is doing a good job which the 1-2 briefs I have tested. If you guys are able to make such an app, you will blow every other app out of the water 😀

Hope I was able to give you the jist of what was going in my mind. If you need more detail, let me know.

[Humorist2601]

Hello,

I wanted to add that how about something akin to Boxlore Brief but made completely locally. Like it uses topics you select with your location data (weather, routes etc) and give you a very nice brief. But this brief would be developed locally on the mobile phone as it does on "Morning Voice Brief" app.

This with a normal intuitive RSS feed would be wonderful

[Humorist2601]

I created a mock app using AI Studio, while it doesn't work exactly like I want, it does show the concept nicely.

PulseCast.zip

Rename .zip to .apk to get the apk file

[Humorist2601]

Well, the developer of daily voice brief has gone a different route now, my recommendation of it was based on v0.1.25

I have also found some design inspirations on the following links
https://dribbble.com/shots/26828486-AI-Tech-Digest-News-App-UI
https://dribbble.com/shots/27025916-AI-News-Digest-Material-3-Android

Following reddit post shows how local AI can be used to deduplicate and summarize a feed and make it tiktok style
https://www.reddit.com/r/automation/comments/1rmp4zc/i_turned_my_old_android_phone_into_a_local_ai/

[primeblazeuser]

Hi, Pulsecast already looks functional and covers the basics really well!
Local brief generation is something we haven't really explored yet, since we took the easier route of generating briefs through Google NotebookLM via CLI. That's also why we're currently limited to just four countries.
Generating briefs locally could definitely help us provide everyone with their own personalized brief. However, I'm not sure how well it would perform in terms of content quality, bundle size, and the overall quality of the final output.
Let's explore this further and see how feasible it is. We can then incorporate it into the briefing revamp, which we're currently planning to kick off in November.

[Humorist2601]

Well, Pulsecast was created using AI Studio so not really an app that can be developed any further :)