App Intel

TheFeed: Private Feeds+Chat

LiveHolistic Resilience4 apps · 5.9M installsCommunicationFreecom.thefeed.android

Follow channels and chat end-to-end encrypted, even when only DNS works.

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Total installs
2,016
exact · Play shows 1,000+
Installs / day
0
since last crawl
Rating
4.9★
828 ratings · 92 reviews
Released
30 Jul 2026
2mo ago
Last update
1 Aug 2026
v0.38.0 · 2mo ago
Countries
—
not checked yet

Install history

exact counter from Google Play
2K2.7K3.5K4.2K5K10 Oct11 Oct12 Oct
2K2.7K3.5K4.2K5K10 Oct11 Oct12 Oct

Installs per day · last 90 days

00.30.50.8111 Oct12 Oct12 Oct11 Oct: 012 Oct: 0

Change timeline

No changes recorded yet. We compare every crawl with the previous one and list title, icon, screenshots, description, version, price and availability changes here.

Country availability

Availability has not been checked for this app yet. “Check all countries” looks the app up in about 140 Google Play storefronts and shows where it is live, listed but not installable, or missing — plus any country-specific (custom) store listings.

Top countries

Country data will be available soon.

We estimate where downloads come from using the app’s position in Google Play’s top charts in about 140 countries. This app is not in any chart we have collected yet; the estimate appears as soon as it is.

Top chart positions

Not in any tracked top chart.

App manifest

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Manifest analysis reads only the required APK ranges. Base APK downloads may need separate device splits to install.

Data safety

declared by the developer on Google Play
  • No data shared with third parties
  • Collects data Messages
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • No way to ask for data deletion

This is the developer's own declaration, summarised from the Play listing. The permissions below show what the app is technically able to access.

Permissions

5 in 3 groups
4 Sensitive0 Notable1 Routine

What this app can do with your phone

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storage
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storage
Photos/Media/FilesSensitive2

Access to photos, videos, music and other files stored on your device

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage · WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
StorageSensitive2

Access to files, photos and media saved on your phone's storage

  • Read photos, videos, and other files saved in your phone's shared storageread the contents of your USB storage · READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
  • Add, change or delete photos, videos and other files in your phone's storagemodify or delete the contents of your USB storage · WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE
OtherRoutine1

Access to miscellaneous device features that don't fit other categories

  • Connect to the internet to load content and send datafull network access · INTERNET

Sensitive = can reach personal data, location, camera/mic or act on your behalf. Notable = changes how your device behaves. Routine = normal for almost every app. Source: Google Play's permission list for all versions of this app.

Store listing

Full description
TheFeed is a lightweight reader and private messenger that works over plain DNS, so it keeps working on networks where almost everything else is blocked. Follow public Telegram channels and public X (Twitter) accounts in one clean, fast feed. Read posts, view photos and media, and get a new-message badge per channel — all delivered as ordinary encrypted DNS traffic that blends in with normal network activity. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Feed — follow Telegram channels and public X accounts, grouped and easy to scan. • Mirror — a read-only, web-style view of a channel with stable image and album layout. • Messenger — send end-to-end encrypted messages to other users. Only the two of you can read them; delivery is confirmed with matching safety emojis on both devices. • Saved — keep private, locally encrypted notes and bookmarks. • Resolvers — a shared, self-healing pool of DNS servers, with a built-in scanner to find more when your usual ones stop working. PRIVACY BY DESIGN • End-to-end encryption for messages (X25519, Ed25519, AES-256-GCM). • All traffic is encrypted and rides standard DNS, with random padding so message sizes cannot be fingerprinted. • No account, no phone number, no email. Your messaging identity is generated on your device from a recovery code you control. • The app runs on your own device and connects only to the servers in the config you use. Messages are end-to-end encrypted, so no server that relays them — nor anyone else — can read their contents. WORKS WHERE OTHER APPS DON'T When conventional connections are throttled or filtered, DNS usually still gets through. TheFeed uses that narrow path to deliver feeds and messages, and adapts automatically by scoring resolvers on speed and reliability. OPEN AND SELF-HOSTABLE TheFeed is open source. Anyone can run a server outside the filtered network and share a config with friends and family. Import a config, or paste a domain and passphrase, and you are reading in seconds. Free. Open source. No ads. No tracking.

What's new

Channel management improvements

Growing in Communication

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