Openvibe merges news and social media into a single app

Openvibe now integrates RSS, letting users follow news and social media in one app.

: Openvibe app revolutionizes user experience by merging social media platforms like Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr with news content through newly added RSS support, facilitating seamless access to varied content. This update positions Openvibe as a formidable competitor against Tapestry, Feeeed, and Surf, which also aggregate social and news content. CEO Matej Svancer prioritizes RSS based on user demands, enabling users to easily integrate and track content directly through a customized feed or by importing existing OPML files. Currently free, Openvibe plans future subscription models and is supported by Czech Founders VC, Tensor Ventures, and Automattic.

Openvibe is positioning itself as a single place to track the open social web and now traditional news, adding RSS support alongside feeds from networks like Bluesky, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr. The expansion means users can follow posts from decentralized platforms and subscribe to updates from news sites and blogs without leaving the app, bringing both short‑form social posts and long‑form articles into one timeline.

The company frames this as an antidote to algorithmic, ad‑driven feeds: instead of relying on platform ranking, Openvibe lets people assemble their own sources across social and media. Early coverage notes that while RSS also powers podcasts and YouTube tracking, Openvibe is currently focused on article‑style updates, keeping the experience lightweight and reading‑first.

On mobile, Openvibe remains free to download, with a subscription roadmap planned later. A pragmatic touch aimed at performance and data savings is a toggle to limit heavy media in previews, making long, mixed feeds more responsive on slower connections or older devices—useful when combining social streams with article content.

The update also sharpens Openvibe’s competitive stance against other “social + news” aggregators experimenting with the fediverse and RSS. By explicitly embracing both the ActivityPub/AT Protocol world and the long‑standing open standard of RSS, Openvibe taps into creator workflows that already publish everywhere, while giving end users a single reading hub.

Funding for the app has come from a small round including Czech Founders VC, Tensor Ventures, and Automattic—the parent of WordPress.com and Tumblr—signaling strategic alignment with the open‑web publishing ecosystem. That backing, together with the new RSS feature, suggests Openvibe aims to be a neutral, interoperable layer rather than yet another closed social silo.

Sources: TechCrunch, Yahoo Finance, 9to5Google

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