A privacy-focused Android app and wrapper for Nitter, allowing you to browse Twitter/X content without an account and subscribe to your favorite user profiles.
Nitterium
Nitterium is a modern, native Android app that provides a clean, privacy-respecting way to consume Twitter/X content. By leveraging Nitter instances, it avoids tracking and requires no user account, all wrapped in a beautiful Jetpack Compose interface.
🤔 Why this?
While browsing Nitter on Android, I needed a way to subscribe to accounts I was interested in following, along with some customization options. That led to the creation of this app![!Important]
This app depends entirely on Nitter persistence and the operational state of public Nitter instances. It's important to check the source and health of the instance you are using.
✨ FEATURES
- 🔒 Privacy First: No ads, no tracking, and no Twitter/X account required.
- 🕸️ Nitter Integration: Browse seamlessly using your preferred Nitter instance via a custom WebView wrapper.
- 📌 Subscriptions: Save and manage your favorite accounts locally on your device. Each account can be rearranged individually by dragging and dropping to suit your preferences!
- 🗂️ Feed Groups: Organize your subscriptions into customizable categories with distinct icons and colors, breaking past URL length limits and keeping your feeds organized.
- 👆 Long-Press & Sharing: Easily share, copy, or open links, tweets, and media directly via intuitive long-press actions.
- 🖼️ Intuitive Image Viewer: Easily exit the image viewer by swiping up or down, and download images directly to your device.
- 🔄 Pull-to-Refresh: Swipe down to reload content seamlessly.
- 🎨 Dynamic Theming: Beautiful Material 3 design that automatically adapts to your system theme and wallpaper (Android 12+).
- 🚀 Modern UI: A fast, responsive user interface built entirely with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
- 🔗 Deep Linking: Automatically intercepts Twitter, X, and Nitter links to open them directly in the app.
- 🌍 RTL Support: Supports RTL content by default.
- ❤️ FOSS: 100% Free and Open-Source Software.
📥 INSTALLATION
Nitterium can be downloaded from:
- GitHub Releases: Get the latest APK directly from the Releases page.
- Obtainium: Keep track of direct APK updates seamlessly.
🛡️ Verification
To ensure the authenticity of the APK, you can verify its SHA-256 fingerprint: 3F:92:8C:35:E5:61:61:A0:63:80:74:9B:BC:F8:02:A6:8D:E6:7D:8D:88:10:0A:B1:79:6E:4E:BE:7B:27:DA:AF
🔐 PERMISSIONS
Nitterium respects your privacy and requests only the absolute minimum permissions required to function:
INTERNET: Required to fetch content and images from Nitter instances over the network.
ACCESSNETWORKSTATE: Used to check if the device is connected to the internet before attempting to load content, providing a better user experience when offline.
📱 SCREENSHOTS
🛠️ BUILT WITH
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- Material 3 Components
- Coil 3
- Jetpack DataStore & Kotlinx Serialization
📜 LICENSE
This project is distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.
🤝 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A huge thanks to the Nitter maintainers and the individuals hosting Nitter instances. Without their hard work and dedication to privacy, this app would not be possible.
