Help, common questions and contact
Feedboard is a feed reader laid out like a newspaper: sections, headlines, full text on demand. It reads RSS and Atom — and public Telegram channels alongside them. Summaries and translation run on the device.
Something broken, or missing? Write to me. The quickest route is from inside the app — Settings › Send feedback; it attaches the app version and device model, which saves half the follow-up questions.
Or by email: djrebrow@gmail.com. I usually reply within a few days — Feedboard is a one-person project.
Type the website's address, for example heise.de — you don't need to know the
feed URL, Feedboard looks for it. If nothing turns up, try the page the articles actually live
on rather than the front page.
First check whether the feed is paused or reporting an error: the feed list shows this on the source itself. Feeds that fail many times in a row pause themselves instead of hammering a dead server — one tap wakes them again.
The other common cause is muted words: articles containing one never appear anywhere.
Type @channelname into the same field you'd type a web address into. Feedboard
reads the channel's public preview page — exactly what any browser shows without signing in.
Hence the limit: public channels only. Private groups, channels requiring
approval and direct chats are out of reach; those would need a Telegram account, and the app
doesn't have one.
That's the feed's publisher, not the app. Tap Load full text in the article and Feedboard fetches the page itself and extracts the text. For feeds that only ever send excerpts, you can turn this on permanently per feed.
On the iPhone itself, using Apple's own models. There's no key to enter and no service to pay for, and no article text leaves the device for it. The price is the requirement: iOS 26 and a device that supports Apple Intelligence.
That isn't a bug in the app, it's the system model's safety filter. It reliably triggers on reports of war, violence and crime — which is to say, on news. Feedboard cannot switch it off. The article itself stays fully readable, just without a summary.
iOS downloads a language pack once per language pair. The first time can take a moment and needs a connection; after that, translation works offline.
Turn it on in Settings — it runs through your own iCloud and is off by default. It takes effect after the app restarts. Both devices need the same Apple Account signed in with iCloud Drive active.
Through OPML, both ways: most readers export an OPML file, Feedboard imports it — and hands your collection back as OPML whenever you want. You are not locked in here.
iOS decides when a widget refreshes, not the app — for a rarely used app that can take a while. Open the app once and the widget catches up. If it stays empty, check whether it still points at a section or feed that no longer exists.
The three amounts under Settings › Tip jar unlock nothing. The app is identical before and after — no subscription, no gated features, no ads. It's a tip jar, that's all.
Billing, receipts and refunds are handled entirely by Apple; I see neither your name nor any payment details. For a refund, go to reportaproblem.apple.com.
Feedboard is a hobby project, not a business. What lands in the tip jar covers the running costs — Apple's developer programme, the domain, the server. For the same reason I am not registered as a trader on the App Store, which is why it carries the note that consumer rights do not apply between us. It is not meant as a way to brush you off when something is wrong: write to me and we will sort it out.
Feedboard has no account, no sign-in and no analytics. What you read stays on the device. The details are in the privacy policy.
Deleting everything: removing the app from the device covers the local data. If you used iCloud sync, also delete Feedboard's data in system settings under Apple Account › iCloud › Manage.
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