Managing Sources

Sources are the RSS and Atom feeds that populate your river. Here's how to add, organize, and manage them.

Adding Sources

From a URL

1. Go to Settings → Sources
2. Tap the + button
3. Enter any website URL
4. Current automatically finds the RSS/Atom feed
5. Tap Subscribe

Direct Feed URL

You can also paste a direct feed URL (ending in .rss, .xml, /feed, etc.). Current recognizes these and subscribes directly.

From Share Sheet

While browsing Safari or another app, use the share sheet to add the current page as a source in Current.

Source Health

Current tracks the health of each source:

• Healthy: Recent successful fetch
• Stale: Not fetched recently (might be normal for infrequent publishers)
• Warning: Recent errors, but recovered
• Error: Currently failing to fetch

Source Settings

Each source has individual settings:

Pin

Pinned sources appear at the top of your river, ensuring you don't miss important content.

Mute

Muted sources have reduced visibility. Their articles appear less prominently without unsubscribing.

Velocity Override

Override the automatic content velocity detection. Useful if a source is miscategorized.

Mark as Person

Enable this for individual writers to add them to your Library as Authors, collecting their work into a personal collection.

Removing Sources

1. Go to Settings → Sources
2. Swipe left on the source
3. Tap Delete

Removing a source removes future articles but doesn't delete articles already in your river or Read Later.

Source Cleanup

Current can identify problematic sources:

1. Go to Settings → Source Cleanup
2. See sources with errors or long inactivity
3. Decide which to keep or remove

Organizing with Currents

Use Currents to organize sources into collections:

• A source can belong to multiple Currents
• Switch Currents to filter your river
• See Currents for details