Vuo - A native Sailfish OS client for Miniflux

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Hi there :new_moon_face:

I have recently released Vuo, a native Sailfish OS client for Miniflux, the self-hosted feed reader.

Vuo - Focus on what matters.
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Vuo does not fetch or parse any feeds itself. It syncs with a Miniflux server through it’s REST API, and fetching, parsing, cleaning up, deduplication and full-text extraction all stay on the server. Vuo is the Sailfish UI on top, with a local copy of your articles so you can read offline.

It is built for the Jolla Phone 2026. Other/older devices may or may not work.

Release: Release Vuo v1.1.1 · muhnschein/vuo · GitHub
Source (GPLv3+): GitHub - muhnschein/vuo

Screenshots

Onboarding
Onboarding1080×2378 1.03 MB

Unread items view
Unread items view1080×2378 738 KB

Article view
Article view1080×2378 845 KB

To Do’s/Known limitations

In no particular order:

  • [Out of scope] Fetching feeds on the phone without a server
  • [Out of scope] Other backends (Fever, Google Reader, Tiny Tiny RSS, Nextcloud News)
  • [Out of scope] Server administration beyond adding and removing feeds, e.g. rewrite rules, scraper rules, blocklists. Use the Miniflux web UI for these.
  • [Out of scope] A podcast player
  • [Out of scope] Feeding the trolls
  • [Done] Notifications for new articles
  • [Done] Search
  • [Todo] Background daemon? Currently, Vuo syncs only while the app is open or on the cover. Harbour doesn’t allow a background service. Maybe some day.
  • [Todo] Sharing
  • [Todo] Translations - These have not been proof-read yet and might have some rough edges.
  • Probably more.

Installing

Vuo has been submitted to Harbour/the Jolla Store and is waiting in line for quality assurance. Until then, it installs like any sideloaded package. Download harbour-vuo-1.1.1-1.aarch64.rpm from the release page and, in developer mode, run:

devel-su pkcon install-local harbour-vuo-1.1.1-1.aarch64.rpm

How it was made

Vuo was developed with the help of AI, as the README states up front. The app has CI checks, and tests, and all of the code is public for review. If that’s a deal-breaker for you, that’s completely fair. I’d ask that this thread stay about the app itself. :heart:

About the name

Vuo is Finnish for “flux”, as a small nod to Miniflux, and again to our Finnish friends. :new_moon_face:

Feedback welcome

This thread is for any constructive feedback about the app: impressions, feature requests, UI feedback, translation fixes.

Bug reports are best filed as GitHub issues so they don’t get lost. I may eventually look at bugs reported here, but I’ll focus on GitHub issues.

:new_moon:

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Vuo 1.1.0 is out

This release adds search and image zoom, along with a handful of improvements.

What’s new

  • Search the local mirror
  • Zoom into article images
  • Updated cover art showing the unread article count in text art
  • Improved power efficiency when “Only sync on Wi-Fi” is on
  • Globally hidden feeds stay out of Unread and All.
  • On Miniflux servers older than 2.3.2, read and star changes are refused rather than
    sent.
  • Rewritten English strings, translated into every catalog.

Download

The RPM (aarch64, Sailfish OS 5.2 and later) is on the GitHub release page: Release Vuo v1.1.0 · muhnschein/vuo · GitHub

Install it with pkcon install-local harbour-vuo-1.1.0-1.aarch64.rpm.

Feedback and bug reports are welcome as issues on GitHub.

Happy reading!

:full_moon:

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Ugh, just when you hit send, a new RUSTSEC advisory pops up.

Aaaand here is Vuo 1.1.1:

What’s new

  • Update rustls to 0.23.46 to fix two security advisories.

Download

Release Vuo v1.1.1 · muhnschein/vuo · GitHub