After Elon Musk took over Twitter, the corporate blocked third-party purchasers in 2023, together with ones like Twitterrific, Tweetbot, and Fenix. Iconfactory, the corporate behind Twitterrifc, lastly launched 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 initally launched Tapestry as a Kickstarter mission in January 2025 and managed to raise over $177,000. 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 data from throughout the net.
Through the years, many platforms have emerged as hubs for various sorts of content material. For an app, simply being an RSS reader or supporting one platform won’t be sufficient to cowl all these sources.
That’s why Tapestry is supporting a number of protocols. The corporate mentioned it’s utilizing connectors to load content material from completely different sources, and customers may add extra connectors developed by others.
Customers can add sources to the app and begin by trying on the default feed. There are a ton of customization choices starting from the look of the feed to font and from theme and icon fashion to how your hyperlink opens. (Extra on that in our assessment of the app).
You too can 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, which doesn’t cover the content material out of your timeline on rule matching however exhibits up as a collapsed merchandise.
Iconfactory mentioned all person knowledge is personal and saved domestically on the gadget. The corporate added that it doesn’t promote or share person knowledge with third events.
The app is free to make use of, however options like creating a number of feeds, eradicating advertisements, and customized icons are locked behind a subscription. You possibly can pay $1.99 a month, $19.99 a 12 months, or a $79.99 one-time charge 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 develop into 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.