Courier
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About Courier
Courier is a mobile RSS news reader with enhanced security features, offline reading and sharing capability. We've designed it to be fast and light on slow networks and secure in case your network is monitored.
FEATURES:
★ SECURE: Courier works with Orbot, Tor for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android) to defend against network surveillance and protect your privacy
★ ENCRYPTED: Courier encrypts your stored news - and personal information - to protect your privacy
★ PANIC: Courier's configurable "panic" action will remove your news, your personal data and optionally the app itself with one swipe
★ SAFE: Courier securely caches your password with a configurable timeout. You can configure for repeated password entry failures to trigger data (and app!) deletion. And you can set a special "kill password".
★ AUTOMATIC: Courier quietly synchronizes your feeds in the background (manual mode available, too!)
★ CONTENT SHARE: secure, off-network, sharing of news articles with other users of Courier via Bluetooth (unsecure share available, too!)
★ PEER-TO-PEER APP SHARING: Get your friends set up with Courier by sharing the app over a common WiFi network or hotspot.
★ LIGHTWEIGHT: configure Courier to minimize network data use on low-speed networks or sync only on wi-fi
★ FAVORITES: mark articles as easily-retrieved favorites
★ PRE-CONFIGURED: Courier ships with desirable international news feeds, and it's easy to add your own
★ LANGUAGES: English, Chinese (中國的), Tibetan (བོད་ཡིག), Ukrainian (Український), Russian (русский)
★ AD-FREE: Courier is an ad-free, open-source application
ABOUT US:
Guardian Project is a group of developers, designers and technologists that make secure mobile apps and open-source code for a better tomorrow.
★ OUR WEBSITE: https://guardianproject.info
★ ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/guardianproject
★ OPEN-SOURCE: Courier is free software. Take a look at our source code, or join the community to make it better: https://github.com/guardianproject/securereader
★ MESSAGE US: Are we missing your favorite feature? Found an annoying bug? We’d love to hear from you! Send us an email: support@guardianproject.info
***Disclaimer***
The Guardian Project makes apps that are designed to protect your security and anonymity. The protocols that we use are widely regarded as the state of the art in security technology. While we are constantly upgrading our software to combat the latest threats and eliminate bugs, no technology is 100% foolproof. For maximum security and anonymity users must utilize best practices to keep themselves safe. You can find a good introductory guide to these topics at https://securityinabox.org
FEATURES:
★ SECURE: Courier works with Orbot, Tor for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android) to defend against network surveillance and protect your privacy
★ ENCRYPTED: Courier encrypts your stored news - and personal information - to protect your privacy
★ PANIC: Courier's configurable "panic" action will remove your news, your personal data and optionally the app itself with one swipe
★ SAFE: Courier securely caches your password with a configurable timeout. You can configure for repeated password entry failures to trigger data (and app!) deletion. And you can set a special "kill password".
★ AUTOMATIC: Courier quietly synchronizes your feeds in the background (manual mode available, too!)
★ CONTENT SHARE: secure, off-network, sharing of news articles with other users of Courier via Bluetooth (unsecure share available, too!)
★ PEER-TO-PEER APP SHARING: Get your friends set up with Courier by sharing the app over a common WiFi network or hotspot.
★ LIGHTWEIGHT: configure Courier to minimize network data use on low-speed networks or sync only on wi-fi
★ FAVORITES: mark articles as easily-retrieved favorites
★ PRE-CONFIGURED: Courier ships with desirable international news feeds, and it's easy to add your own
★ LANGUAGES: English, Chinese (中國的), Tibetan (བོད་ཡིག), Ukrainian (Український), Russian (русский)
★ AD-FREE: Courier is an ad-free, open-source application
ABOUT US:
Guardian Project is a group of developers, designers and technologists that make secure mobile apps and open-source code for a better tomorrow.
★ OUR WEBSITE: https://guardianproject.info
★ ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/guardianproject
★ OPEN-SOURCE: Courier is free software. Take a look at our source code, or join the community to make it better: https://github.com/guardianproject/securereader
★ MESSAGE US: Are we missing your favorite feature? Found an annoying bug? We’d love to hear from you! Send us an email: support@guardianproject.info
***Disclaimer***
The Guardian Project makes apps that are designed to protect your security and anonymity. The protocols that we use are widely regarded as the state of the art in security technology. While we are constantly upgrading our software to combat the latest threats and eliminate bugs, no technology is 100% foolproof. For maximum security and anonymity users must utilize best practices to keep themselves safe. You can find a good introductory guide to these topics at https://securityinabox.org
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App History & Updates
What's Changed
First release!
FYI: It is signed with our new 4096-bit signing key, so it has a different signing key than all of our other apps. For more info:
https://guardianproject.info/home/signing-keys/
First release!
FYI: It is signed with our new 4096-bit signing key, so it has a different signing key than all of our other apps. For more info:
https://guardianproject.info/home/signing-keys/
More downloads Courier reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
Name changed Name changed! Courier: Secure News Reader now is known as Courier.
More downloads Courier reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
Version update Courier was updated to version 0.1.9
What are users saying about Courier
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Current version doesn't work. Crashes when entering my passphrase. I reached out to The Guardian Project and confirmed that they're working on a new version. Will update my review when the new app is available.
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Can't load any feeds
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App hasn't been update since 2014. Appears to be dead.
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Crashes after passphrase. Nexus 5x running 6.0.1.
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I would like to use this application, because it has the right purpose, but unfortunately it doesn't works on my Mi4 (android marshmallow)
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Did not work for me, I'm using an LG V10 .
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Doesn't work on One Plus 2 marshmallow
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Nonstop crashing; unusable.
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Was pretty excited about this, but sadly it won't load any of the feeds.
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It is trash! Crashes, crashes, crashes!
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Can we please get an upgrade!
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Nexus 6 with Android 6.0.1. Attempted multiple times to install and uninstall with different passphrases and the app never loads, just crashes after putting in a passphrases. It hasn't been updated since '14. I think development is dead.
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This project seems to be dead. no matter what device it is installed on, whether from Gapps or Fdroid, the app always crashes on entering a password. first it crashes after entering the initial password, then opening and entering the now required password also causes the crash. app is unusable.
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Big fan of Guardian Project's work, but this app won't load in marshmallow on my phone :(
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Adding feeds is difficult because the app keeps locking me out and I have to use copy-paste to get passwords from my manager to the password field. Then I get locked out again while trying to get the feed link from my browser. The timeout setting doesn't work apparently. Separately, I need a way to sync subscriptions and stats between devices/desktop.
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A double passphrase would be nice - one to unlock, second to wipe data and unlock. || Also it would be nice if it could load more of the article than just the intro, jumping out of the app to read the article is a bit annoying :-/
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It's perfect. The panic button isn't useful to me, but I can see how it could be useful.
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Orbot fails to load when this application wants to run, or is installed. Great idea, but it doesn't run at all.
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Worked very well on my cm12.1 but always force closes after updating to cm13. Tried reinstalling from play store but no effect. Though app is awesome please update it to support mm.
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I am able to open links in Firefox, but not in Orweb. It would make more sense to be able to open in Orweb. Also, how do I mark an item as read so it no longer appears in the list?
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This app does nothing. Say swipe down to sync news but doest actually load anything. Just always says successfully connect to TOR.
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used to work great but upgraded to marshmallow on LG G5 now it won't work after I enter the passphrase the first time
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Can't load any feeds
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What ia the point of this app? A panic button seriously and where do you need Tor when reading news? That is ridiculous. :D useless and stupid app.
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Doesn't work on Android 6
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Won't show any news from the feeds that are built into the app. Didn't bother trying to setup my own after that
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I would like to use this application, because it has the right purpose, but unfortunately it doesn't works on my Mi4 (android marshmallow)
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You don't see the point? Try reading the New York Times in Iran. Or a Richard Dawkins book in Indonesia. In China, reading Facebook is considered subversive and dangerous, to give you an idea. Cherish the luxury of not understanding this app.
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sic so far so
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Nothing can beat this app
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Can we please get an upgrade!
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Only works with predefined media sources. What's the point? I couldn't load content from media organizations I'm interested in
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But it sure does crash a whole lot on my S5 running lollipop
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Good concept. Nice and secure, but you can only read the intro of articles.
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Needs more function.
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Gave it a 3 star, but sorry .. Should be given a single star!! It doesn't refresh automatically, and manual refresh sucks!! No use of the manual refresh. Unless it's fixed, I wouldn't recommend this app ...
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I really like the concept but whenever i sync the app crashes and it can get annoying,but overall great app!
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Crashes after passphrase. Nexus 5x running 6.0.1.
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Am I missing something? A panic button for reading BBC, etc.? In what freakishly paranoid world does this belong?
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Its loaded with news companies that specialize in spreading liberal bias. Its great if you have no journalistic integrity or morals.