Monfil is a free desktop app that follows your whole field for you: release notes, papers, blogs, posts and job boards, from the sources you pick.
You never hunt for an RSS address. Paste the page you already read: a GitHub repository, an arXiv category, a YouTube channel, a Bluesky profile or a company job board. Monfil finds the feed behind it, and asks you to pick when there is more than one.
See every supported sourceMore links you can paste
bsky.app/profile/bsky.app
Every post
kubernetes, cloud in France
Calls for papers and start dates
youtube.com/@cloudflare
New videos
boards.greenhouse.io/cloudflare
New job postings
Group sources into workspaces for work, research or the job hunt. Unread counts show you where the news is, and conference cards tell you when a call for papers opens or closes. Saved searches stay as pills above the river, each with a count of the new items that match.
Newest first, always. No ranking, no “suggested for you”, nothing hidden from you.
36 curated packs, 1,179 sources in all. Install a pack for your field in one click, then keep what you like.
No account, no Monfil server. Feeds, read state and saved articles live in a local database that you can back up. Anonymous usage stats are off unless you agree.
Each field lives in its own corner of the web. Monfil brings the corners together, for whatever you track.
Release notes of the tools you run, Hacker News stories with 300+ points, and the calls for papers of the conferences you want to speak at.
Platform Engineering packAdvisories, research labs and threat reports, plus the researchers who post on Bluesky and Mastodon first.
Cybersecurity packNew papers in your arXiv categories, next to the lab blogs and newsletters that discuss them.
AI packThe changelogs and blogs of your competitors, your market’s newsletters, and the people who shape it.
Founders & Solopreneurs packThe job boards of the companies you want to join, with a saved search for your role and city.
Tech Jobs pack“Mon fil” is French for “my feed”. One independent developer builds Monfil in public: the code, the test quality numbers and the changelog are open, and your reading stays yours.
Read why Monfil existsRadar. Keep track of everything that happens in your field.
Your sources. You choose them. Nothing is ranked or hidden.
Your machine. Your data stays on your computer.
The open web. Many kinds of sources, not one platform.
In public. Source-available, with quality in the open.
Sync your feeds between devices, and get a smarter radar that brings up what you must not miss.
Monfil is a free desktop feed reader for macOS, Windows and Linux. It follows blogs, release notes, papers, social posts, videos and job boards from the sources you pick, and shows them in one place. There is no account and no algorithm.
RSS and Atom feeds, Substack, Google Alerts, YouTube channels and playlists, GitHub and GitLab releases, Hacker News, arXiv categories, Bluesky, Mastodon, developer conferences from developers.events, and job boards such as Greenhouse, Lever and Ashby.
No. Paste the link of the page you read, such as a GitHub repository, a YouTube channel or a company job board. Monfil finds the feed behind it. When a page has more than one feed, you pick the one you want.
Yes. The desktop app is free and has no ads.
Monfil has no account and no Monfil server. Your feeds, read state and saved articles stay on your device. Anonymous usage stats are off unless you agree in the app. Fetching feeds, articles and images connects to the sites that publish them.
macOS 13 or later on Apple silicon and Intel, Windows 10 and 11, and 64-bit Linux with .deb and .rpm packages. There is no mobile app.
Yes. Monfil imports and exports OPML, the file format that most feed readers use for subscriptions.
Monfil is source-available under the Business Source License 1.1. You can read, build and change the code, and use it for personal and internal business use. Each version changes to the MIT License four years after its release.
Open an issue on GitHub. Bug reports and ideas are welcome.
Free for macOS, Windows and Linux. Install a feedpack and your river fills in a minute.
Photos by Wolfgang Hasselmann and Alexey O on Unsplash