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Muuted has no passwords. Enter your email on app.muuted.com and we send you a sign-in link — tap it, confirm, and you're in. You can also use Continue with Google.

Sign-in links expire after 30 minutes and work once. If one expires, just request a new one. No email in sight? Check your spam folder.

When you first sign in, Muuted walks you through picking a few sources and muting a few words. Nothing is locked in — you can add, remove, and change everything later.

Your feed lives at app.muuted.com/feed. The round button at the top right opens quick settings; Account & full settings takes you to the full dashboard where sources, muted words, and your account live.

Muuted works like an app straight from your browser:

• iPhone / iPad: open your feed in Safari, tap the Share button, then Add to Home Screen.
• Android: open your feed in Chrome, tap the menu, then Add to Home screen (or Install app).

On the dashboard, search any topic, site, team, or channel and tap + Add. Or paste a link — Muuted finds the site's feed for you.

No feed available: TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, and X / Threads don't offer feeds, so they can't be added. Many creators post the same thing on YouTube or their own site — add that instead.

Starter packs add a curated set of sources — Top News, Tech, Sports, Science… — in one tap.

Detox packs are the mute-side twin: a curated set of words that quiets a whole subject (Politics, Spoilers, Doom & Gloom…). Every Detox pack page shows the exact words and the slots they use before you apply, and the pack lands in your settings as its own named list you can pause, edit, or delete.

Switching from another app? On the dashboard, use import to bring over:

• an OPML file from any feed reader,
• a Muuted backup file (from Download a backup of my data),
• your YouTube subscriptions — the subscriptions.csv from a Google Takeout export.

Three ways, easiest first:

• Search a channel by name — on the dashboard (or during setup), type the channel's name and tap + Add.
• Paste an @handle or link — @mkbhd or any youtube.com channel or video link works.
• Import everything at once: open takeout.google.com → Deselect all → tick only YouTube and YouTube Music → under its options keep just subscriptions → Export. Upload the subscriptions.csv from the zip on the Packs page (or during setup).

New videos land in your Video tab and in your feed — in order, no recommendations, no autoplay. Shorts are off by default (there's a switch in quick settings).

Paste a handle into Add-a-source and Muuted resolves it:

• Bluesky: @name.bsky.social — custom-domain handles work too.
• Mastodon: @[email protected] (any instance).

Their posts get a Social tab of their own and show in your main feed. X / Threads don't offer public feeds, so they can't be added.

Every source lives in a category (News, Tech, Gaming…) that becomes a section of your feed. In Your sources you can move a source to another category, rename a category, or move everything at once.

Use categories to keep related sources together; changes show up the next time your feed rebuilds.

Type a word or phrase in Mute the noise and any headline containing it is muted. Matching is whole-word and ignores capitalization: muting musk mutes "Musk announces…" but not "muskrat".

• Phrases: just type the words with a space — lowest prices mutes that exact phrase without muting "lowest" or "prices" on their own.
• Several at once: separate entries with commas.
• Plurals: muted words are exact — mute spoiler and spoilers separately if you want both gone.

Muted topics (Pro) — describe what to mute in a sentence. A muted topic checks the headline against that meaning, so it can catch related phrasing without requiring a separate word for every variation. Example: describe that you want to mute crypto news, then edit the sentence whenever it catches too much or too little.

When it isn't sure — or the classifier is unavailable — it shows the story rather than muting it. Only the headline text and your preference sentence are processed — primarily on Muuted's own self-hosted model, with a hosted fallback for reliability. Your reading history and your other data are never part of it.

Your muted word rules are unchanged: instant, whole-word, and free.

Group related muted words into a named list — Spoilers, March Madness — and control them together. Pause a list and its words stop muting but stay saved (perfect for seasonal topics); resume brings them back; delete frees the slots. Detox packs you apply land as their own list, so you can see, edit, or remove the whole set any time.

Each list shows how many stories it muted this month, so you can tell which of your mutes are doing the work.

Nothing disappears silently. Tap the N muted count in your feed for a quick peek at Recently Muuted — every muted story with a Caught by: line saying exactly what caught it (a muted word, a muted topic, or Junk), grouped by type.

The full Mutes page (app.muuted.com/muted) is the control center: today's catches with a breakdown, every rule you've set — muted words, lists, topics, muted sources, always-show — and your week in one place.

• Show this story restores one story without touching the mute that caught it.
• Unmute first shows you the impact — how many currently muted stories come back — with a "keep the mute, show only this one" option, so one odd catch never makes you delete a rule you still want.

Never miss a topic you care about. Add words under Always show on the dashboard and any headline mentioning them appears even if it also hits a muted word.

Example: you mute FIFA to skip World Cup noise, but always-show drones because you fly them. A story about drones disrupting World Cup security still reaches you.

Always-show matching is deliberately generous — drone also matches "drones".

Stats shows how many stories were muted for you, the loudest topics you skipped, your most-read categories and sources, time saved, and your reading streak.

Open quick settings (the round button, top right) to switch:

• View: Categories (sections by topic) · Sources (sections by site) · Time (newest first).
• Layout: Cards (thumbnails and summaries) · Headlines (compact list) · Minimal (dense text rows). Each tab remembers its own layout.

The search bar at the top does everything at once: type anything and it searches your feed, offers matching new sources to add, and shows any muted words that match — one bar, three answers.

Tap anywhere on a card to open its summary; tap the headline and the article opens in Muuted's clean built-in reader, right over your feed. The feed never reloads — Back (or the ×) returns you exactly where you were, and Open on their site is always available inside the reader.

Done with a story? Swipe it sideways (or use its Mute & more button) and it collapses away, with a brief Undo. Want it later? Mute & more → Save keeps it in your Saved tab.

Two tabs appear automatically at the top of your feed, free on every plan: Video collects your YouTube and Vimeo channels, and Social collects the people you follow from Bluesky or Mastodon. Each has a grouped view (by channel or by person) and a Latest view — and everything still shows in your main feed too.

Empty tab? That just means you haven't added that kind of source yet — the tab itself tells you how.

Videos play right inside Muuted using YouTube’s own embedded player — the same one any website uses. That embedded player isn’t signed in to your YouTube account, so YouTube treats it as an anonymous view: you’ll see ads even if you have Premium, and because it’s an in-page player rather than the YouTube app, background play is limited (phone browsers restrict audio from an embedded video once it moves to the background). This is how YouTube’s embed works, not a setting on our side.

Want your Premium perks — no ads and background play? Watch that video in the YouTube app itself, signed in as you. Everything else in Muuted — your feed, muting, and reading — stays exactly as it is.

Big news gets covered everywhere. Combine dupes (in quick settings) folds the same story from multiple outlets into one card that shows its coverage — set it to Off, Normal, or Aggressive.

Choose whether your feed shows Last 12h, Last 24h, Last 48h — or everything. Great for a quick morning catch-up.

The floating A button (bottom left) adjusts text size. Appearance in quick settings switches between Auto, Light, and Dark — Auto follows your device.

Your feed updates with new stories Every 30 minutes. Refresh feed in quick settings forces a rebuild right now.

From the dashboard, create a read-only link that shows a friend your feed — your sources and headlines with your muting applied, nothing they can change. A nice way to show what Muuted looks like before they sign up.

Upgrade any time at app.muuted.com/upgrade. Muting itself is free forever — that's the point of the product.

Manage billing on the dashboard opens your billing portal: switch between monthly and yearly, update your card, or cancel. Canceling keeps Pro active through the period you've already paid for — no lock-in.

Not for you? Email [email protected] within 15 days of a charge for a full refund, no questions asked.

Download a backup of my data (bottom of the dashboard) gives you a file with your sources, muted words, and always-show words. Import it into a fresh Muuted account — or take your sources to any reader that speaks OPML.

No ads, no tracking, and your data is never sold. What you follow and what you mute is personal — those are stored encrypted on our servers.

The full details live in the Privacy policy and Terms.

Local-news lookups use the GeoNames postal dataset (CC-BY 4.0).

You can delete your account yourself: in the app's settings, tap Delete my account (next to Download a backup of my data) and type your email address to confirm. Your account and all its data are removed. If you have an active subscription, cancel it first via Manage billing.

Prefer a human? Email [email protected] from your account address and we'll handle it. Grab a backup first if you might come back.

Tap Refresh feed in quick settings first. If the app itself seems stuck on an old version, clear the site's stored data once — on iPhone: Settings → Safari → Advanced → Website Data → remove muuted.com — then sign back in. That's a one-time fix.

Muting matches the headline, whole words only. Check the exact headline wording — "GOP" won't be caught by muting republican, and plurals need their own entry. Also check your Always show list: those words deliberately override mutes.

Tap the N muted count to see what was muted and what caught it. Show this story brings back just that one without touching the mute; Unmute removes the rule (it shows you how many stories come back first). Or keep the mute and add an Always show word for the part you care about.

Sites sometimes move or retire their feeds. Remove the source and add it again by searching or pasting its address — Muuted will find the current feed. Still quiet? The site may simply not have published lately.

Check spam and promotions folders, then request a fresh link (they expire after 30 minutes). If it still won't come, email [email protected] and we'll get you in.

Email [email protected] — we read everything.

In the app, the Send feedback button goes straight to us too — it works even if you're signed out — and it's the fastest way to report a bug or ask for a feature.