Fraidycat

Fraidycat is a new type of single-page "reader" - a dashboard for monitoring social media accounts, discussion websites and blogs. Rather than showing you a massive inbox of new posts to sort through, you see a list of recently active individuals. The page updates as new posts are discovered.

Fraidycat also focuses on "importance" - each account or website that you follow can be assigned a priority, whether you want to keep up in "Real-time" or if you "Rarely" want updates. In this way, you can track important "Real-time" follows on the front page, while lower priority items are hidden away.

Other features are:

• Sync. If you are logged in to Chrome, your follows will be synced between any Chrome browsers running the extension.
• Import and export of your saved data to JSON, OPML and HTML files.
• Tags. Follows can be categorized into separate tabs. Even emoji can be used as tags!
• Concise. Rather than filling up your display with large posts, each follow is given two lines of summary. (See our screenshots.)
• Live and pinned posts. If an account is currently 'live' or has 'pinned' posts, these are shown in that follow's status line.
• Dark mode. You can alternate between light and dark themes.
• Fraidycat supports most social networks and feed types.

Fraidycat is a whole new concept in tracking creators on the Web. If you don't quite see how this is different from a classic feed reader, check out our video above to see the tool in action.