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Building a calm, offline-first reading app in public. Engineering write-ups, guides, and release notes.
A roundup of everything Squirrel Reader has shipped since launch: your own EPUBs and PDFs, recipes, RSS feeds and newsletters, Stash, Article Notes, Reading Stats, and a bigger on-device AI panel.
Read more →Squirrel Reader is a calm, offline-first read-it-later app for iOS: one quiet library for articles, videos, and podcasts. No ads, no algorithmic feed, no tracking.
Read more →How to move your Pocket, Instapaper, or Omnivore library into Squirrel Reader: getting your export file, what imports cleanly, and what doesn't (yet).
Read more →Squirrel Reader ships with zero analytics, ad, or crash-reporting SDKs. Here's how the app stays private by architecture — and what that honestly costs us.
Read more →Why Squirrel Reader treats the network as a background detail: on-device SQLite, idempotent writes, and a sync engine built to pass the airplane test.
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