Follow

Next generation information browser.

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Introduction

Welcome to Follow! This software is all about allowing you to follow your favorite websites, blogs, social media accounts, podcasts and notifications in one place. It is designed as a modern, fast, and convenient all-in-one information center.

AI: Follow leverages advanced AI to assist your operations. Beyond basic AI translation, summarization, and recommendations, it provides twice-daily AI reports to highlight key information from your subscriptions. Additionally, it offers a personalized AI knowledge base built from your subscriptions.

Blockchain: Follow uses blockchain technology as an incentive mechanism for active users and outstanding creators. Users can obtain more services and benefits by holding and using Power Token. Creators can obtain more rewards by providing high-quality content and services.

Social: Follow is also a social platform that allows you to follow other users, share your subscriptions, and discover new content. It also offers a subscription list synchronization feature, enabling your friends to sync with your subscriptions.

Supported Platforms: Follow Desktop for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Browser; Follow Mobile for Android and iOS (coming soon).

Screenshots

The project is currently under active development. The following screenshots are for reference only and may differ from the final release version.

• Use different views for various types of content to offer an experience equal to or better than the original platform - Articles, Social Media, Pictures, Videos, Podcasts, and Notifications

• Everything is RSSible. Our RSSHub community, comprising over 1,000 developers, has spent six years adapting nearly a thousand websites to provide almost all the content you need. This includes platforms like X (Twitter), Instagram, PlayStation, Spotify, Telegram, YouTube, and more. You can also write your own scripts to adapt additional websites.

• Actions and AI features. Follow leverages advanced AI to assist your operations. Beyond basic AI translation, summarization, and recommendations, it provides twice-daily AI reports to highlight key information from your subscriptions. Additionally, it offers a personalized AI knowledge base built from your subscriptions.

  

• Blockchain features and $Power token. Follow uses blockchain technology as an incentive mechanism for active users and outstanding creators. Users can obtain more services and benefits by holding and using Power Token. Creators can obtain more rewards by providing high-quality content and services.

• Social features. Follow is also a social platform that allows you to follow other users, share your subscriptions, and discover new content. It also offers a subscription list synchronization feature, enabling your friends to sync with your subscriptions. Click here to view my automatically generated personal page.

• Extensive customization options

• Third-party integrations

• Shortcuts and gestures

Releases

Currently, Follow is still in the early developer preview stage (alpha) and is only available to a limited number of users through an invitation system.

You can get an invitation code in the following ways:

• Looking for any alpha test user to invite you.
• Join our Discord server for occasional giveaways.
• Follow our X account for occasional giveaways.

If you have access, you are welcome to use the following methods to download and install it:

• Visit our online webapp at app.follow.is
• You can get the installation packages for each platform from the Releases page.
• If you are using Arch Linux, you can install package follow-appimage that maintained by timochan.
• If you are using Nix, you can install package follow that maintained by iosmanthus.
• If you are using macOS with Homebrew, you can install cask follow (also @alpha and @nightly) that maintained by realSunyz.

Contributing

If you are eligible to use Follow, you are welcome to join the open source community to build together.

Before you start, make sure you have enabled Corepack. Corepack makes sure you are using the correct version (packageManager field in package.json) for package manager when you run corresponding commands.

corepack enable

Install dependencies.

pnpm install

Develop in the browser

pnpm run dev:web

Then the browser opens https://app.follow.is/__debug_proxy，you can access the online API environment to development and debugging.

Develop in the electron

You need to fill in the required environment variables first.

cp .env.example .env

Then set VITE_API_URL to https://api.follow.is and run:

pnpm run dev

Since it is not very convenient to develop in Electron, the first way to develop and contribute is recommended at this stage.

[!TIP] If you can't log in to the app, copy the authjs.session-token in the cookie from your browser into the app.

License

Follow is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3 with the addition of the following special exception:

All content in the icons/mgc directory is copyrighted by https://mgc.mingcute.com/ and cannot be redistributed.

All content in the lottie directory is distributed under the Lottie Simple License.