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About Wallflower — a quiet social reader
Skip to content<br>The reading flow<br>The stream moves. Your reading can stay.<br>Social timelines are good at bringing things to you and bad at<br>helping you return to them. Wallflower treats discovery and reading<br>as connected but different activities: notice something, decide<br>whether it deserves your time, then open it in the Reader and<br>file it into your workflow without the stream tugging at your<br>sleeve.
Mastodon · 18 minutes ago<br>The library kept its windows open through the rain. Everyone<br>read a little more slowly.
Bluesky · 26 minutes ago<br>A field note on attention, public spaces, and the things a city<br>teaches quietly.
← keep what matters →<br>To Read · 8 minutes<br>The patient work of paying attention<br>An article kept away from the rush of the timeline.
“Keep the sentences that change the way you look.”<br>Read · Narrate · Export episode
What is inside<br>Built around a reader, not a metric.
01<br>Mastodon and Bluesky<br>Connect multiple accounts from either network or both. Posts arrive<br>in one edition, while full handles and origins stay visible.<br>Matching cross-posts appear once, with their connection intact.
02<br>Confluence<br>A deliberately balanced view of both networks, made for the days<br>when one busy source would otherwise crowd out the other.
03<br>Compose and respond<br>Write, reply, quote, and cross-post. Quick replies open where you<br>are; images and GIFs carry alt text; drafts wait when you need to<br>leave a thought unfinished.
04<br>Threads, profiles, and search<br>Follow conversations through a nested thread or read a self-reply<br>chain as one essay. Search people, posts, and tags, and keep private<br>notes beside the profiles you return to.
05<br>Inbox, To Read, and Archive<br>Inbox holds things you have not decided about. To Read is the queue<br>you chose deliberately. Archive keeps what is finished or worth<br>retaining without pretending it is still waiting.
06<br>A first-class feed reader<br>Subscribe to RSS and Atom, arrange sources in folders, import or<br>export OPML, sync seen stories, and move an article straight to<br>Inbox or To Read. Cached editions open without a fresh round trip.
07<br>A focused article reader<br>Open the full post or feed article in a quiet reading view, search its<br>text, file it into your private workflow, and post a story without<br>leaving the reader. PDFs join the same queue with their own annotation<br>view.
08<br>Highlights that travel<br>Keep passages with notes, revisit them in context, or turn one into<br>a post or warm-paper quote card. Export reading as EPUB, Markdown,<br>BibTeX, RIS, or Obsidian-ready notes.
09<br>Listening and read aloud<br>Have an Apple device read an article aloud on-device. With Patron,<br>turn any kept post, link, or article into a private Wallflower episode<br>and private podcast feed. Save it in Reader first, then listen through<br>AirPods, the Lock Screen, or Dynamic Island without changing your<br>workflow.
10<br>A library you can shape<br>Notebooks, full-book search, reading-time filters, batch filing,<br>recoverable trash, and a Reading Year keep a useful library from<br>becoming another undifferentiated pile.
11<br>Quiet media and safety<br>Images, video, and podcast audio play inline. Alt text remains<br>available, while content warnings, sensitive-media gates, filters,<br>mutes, blocks, and reporting keep control with the reader.
12<br>Accessible by design<br>VoiceOver and screen-reader descriptions, Dynamic Type, keyboard<br>navigation, generous targets, and reduced-motion and transparency<br>support are part of the interface rather than an afterthought.
Web · iPhone · iPad · Mac<br>One reading life, across devices<br>Wallflower adapts from a single comfortable column on your phone to<br>a broad, adjustable multi-column edition on larger screens.<br>Commonplace material, feed subscriptions and folders, seen stories,<br>column choices, and reading preferences stay connected wherever you<br>read. Apple devices can also carry signed-in accounts through iCloud.
Public beta<br>Take Wallflower with you.<br>The native iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps are available through<br>TestFlight while we finish the details. The same invitation works<br>for both Apple betas.
iPhone & iPad Join on iPhone & iPad → macOS Join on Mac → Any modern browser Use Wallflower on the web →
A note from the maker<br>Wallflower is made by Andrew Leahey for people who still like reading the whole thing. It is a sibling to PIVOT,<br>a daily word puzzle with the same quiet temperament.