After Elon Musk took over Twitter, the corporate blocked third-party shoppers in 2023, together with ones like Twitterrific, Tweetbot, and Fenix. Iconfactory, the corporate behind Twitterrifc, on Tuesday is lastly launching its multi-feed app referred to as Tapestry on Tuesday, which lets you add sources like RSS, YouTube, Bluesky, Podcasts, Mastodon, Reddit, Tumblr, Micro.weblog, GO Comics, and extra to unified feeds.
Iconfactory initially launched Tapestry as a Kickstarter mission in January 2025 and managed to boost over $177,000 by way of its crowdfunding efforts. The corporate hasn’t taken any funding from institutional buyers to develop this mission.
The thought behind the app is to collate completely different sources of knowledge from throughout the online in a single place.
Over time, many platforms have emerged as hubs for various sorts of content material. However an app that’s simply an RSS reader or helps one platform won’t be sufficient to cowl all these sources.
That’s why Tapestry at launch helps a number of protocols. The corporate mentioned it’s utilizing connectors to load content material from completely different sources, and customers may also add extra connectors developed by others.
Customers can add sources to the app and begin by trying on the default feed. There are a number of customization choices starting from the look of the feed to font and from theme and icon fashion to how your hyperlink opens.
You may also create customized guidelines to mute or keep away from sure content material, together with spoilers.
The app has a brand new function referred to as Muffle, borrowed from Twitterific, which doesn’t disguise the content material out of your timeline on rule matching however exhibits up as a collapsed merchandise. It’s a great way to quickly disguise content material that you simply don’t wish to totally flip off entry to, as you’d with muting.
Iconfactory mentioned all consumer knowledge is personal and saved regionally on the machine. The corporate added that it doesn’t promote or share consumer knowledge with third events.
The app is free to make use of, however further options like creating a number of feeds, eradicating adverts, and customized icons are locked behind a subscription.
You may pay $1.99 a month, $19.99 a 12 months, or a $79.99 one-time price to get premium entry to extra options.
Indie builders have taken a liking to the thought of getting and storing data from a number of sources. The Browser Firm’s engineer Nate Parrott constructed Feeeed, and Silvio Rizzi revamped the favored RSS app Reeder to turn out to be a multi-feed container. Former Twitter engineer Joe Fabisevich additionally created Plinky to make storing and consumption of content material from completely different codecs simpler.
