Fraidycat Fraidycat

News & Weather
Version: 1.1.10
Last Update: 2021-08-29

Overview

Fraidycat is a Chrome extension developed by kicks. According to the data from Chrome web store, current version of Fraidycat is 1.1.10, updated on 2021-08-29.
2,000+ users have installed this extension. 10 users have rated this extension with an average rating of .

Follow from afar.

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.

"I did not expect how immediately and wholeheartedly I would appreciate and enjoy [Fraidycat] once I began to use it." - Jason McIntosh

"I am enjoying the browser extension called Fraidycat, which presents a lovely, anarchic opportunity: follow all the people you like, no matter what platform they’re using, without having accounts on those platforms. Basically, it’s an 'RSS… or whatever' reader." - Robin Sloan

"It’s really neat, and I’m already finding it a much more deliberate and less distracting way of surfing the modern web that doesn’t just involve me mindlessly refreshing social feeds and closing and opening various browser tabs like a rat in a maze." - Nick Statt, The Verge

Rating

10 ratings

Total Installs

2,000+

Information

Last Update

2021-08-29

Current Version

1.1.10

Size

1.88MiB

Author

kicks

Website

None

Category

News & Weather

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avatar He Jin
2020-10-12

Wonderful

avatar Dimitrios Paraschas
2020-04-09

Amazing idea and implementation. This is a concrete positive contribution to the world. I hope a developer community gets cultivated around it, and it never gets abandoned or monetized.

avatar Aykut Korkmaz
2020-03-06

Omg, this is really cool! Don't forget to watch the youtube video explaining how it works.
Thank you to the creator XOXO

avatar Nicholas M.
2020-02-26

Fantastic stuff!

avatar Peter Brown
2019-12-17

Amazing, found on HN