Read Medium articles for free through your choice of reader service
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FreeView is a lightweight, ad-free reader for Medium articles. Share a Medium link to FreeView (or paste it into the app) and it opens the full article through the free reader service of your choice - no browser clutter and no login.
Features
Multiple reader services: Read-Medium, Freedium, Archive.today, Archive.is, and a Medium parser vercel app
Open a link by sharing it from any app, pasting it into the in-app address bar, or tapping a medium.com link and choosing FreeView
Optional reading history - keep your last 20, 50, or 100 articles and reopen them with a tap
Multi-select in the history list (long-press) to delete entries
Settings for the reader service, theme (light / dark / system), and article text size
Clean Material 3 interface with a collapsing top bar and full light and dark support
How it works
Pick a reader service in Settings. Share or paste a Medium link - or tap a link and choose FreeView - and it rewrites the link for that service and loads the article. You can switch services any time and revisit past reads from History or your saved Bookmarks. Tapping works for Medium articles on any domain (medium.com and custom publication domains alike); FreeView is offered for web links in the system "Open with" chooser.
Note
FreeView is not affiliated with Medium or any of the reader services it opens. It hosts, scrapes, and modifies nothing - it only opens publicly available pages in a WebView. Those services are third-party and outside FreeView's control.
Screenshots
What’s new
Bookmarks: save articles, browse them in a dedicated list, delete with long-press multi-select, and bookmark straight from your History.
Open links directly: tap a Medium link anywhere - on medium.com or a custom publication domain - and choose FreeView (Settings has an "Open Medium links in FreeView" shortcut). FreeView is offered for web links in the system "Open with" chooser.
Reading view: the link field is always available, a loading bar shows progress, and the toolbar adapts while you re
How to install
Download the APK from the button at the top of this page.
Allow “Install unknown apps” for your browser or file manager only, not for every app.
Open the downloaded file and confirm the installation.
If installation fails with “App not installed,” remove an earlier build of the same app first. A signature conflict is the usual cause.
Data safety
Every file is checked against its published SHA-256 before it is listed.
Files are scanned for malware on every update.
The permissions each app requests are listed on its own page.
Read the full safety policy for how we test, flag, and delist files.
