Drift is a fast, distraction-free RSS reader. Subscribe to the sites, blogs, and channels you care about, and read them in one quiet place — in the order they were published, with nothing in between.
No infinite scroll, no algorithmic timeline, no notifications competing for your attention. Just the feeds you chose, waiting for you.
What it does
- Subscribe to any RSS or Atom feed — paste a feed URL or just a site address and Drift finds it.
- Organize subscriptions and track what you’ve read and starred, per account.
- Full-text search across everything you follow.
- An activity view that shows your reading over time.
- Light and dark themes, and a Progressive Web App you can install to your home screen.
What it doesn’t do
- No advertising and no third-party tracking.
- No AI summaries — you read the source, not a paraphrase of it.
- No social feed, no engagement metrics, no algorithm deciding what you see.
Open source
Drift is free, open-source software released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0. You can read the code, file issues, contribute, or self-host your own instance — the source lives at github.com/iuhoay/drift. It’s built with Ruby on Rails and Hotwire: server-rendered, no single-page-app machinery, deliberately simple.
Contact
Questions, feedback, or a feed that won’t parse? Email [email protected].