About Wallflower
A social reader with somewhere to put things.
Wallflower reads Mastodon and Bluesky together as one calm, chronological broadsheet — then gives the articles, posts, and passages worth keeping a quieter second life in your Commonplace Book.
The reading flow
The stream moves. Your reading can stay.
Social timelines are good at bringing things to you and bad at helping you return to them. Wallflower treats discovery and reading as two connected, but different, activities.
Mastodon · 18 minutes ago
The library kept its windows open through the rain. Everyone read a little more slowly.
Bluesky · 26 minutes ago
A field note on attention, public spaces, and the things a city teaches quietly.
Reading · 8 minutes
The patient work of paying attention
An article kept away from the rush of the timeline.
“Keep the sentences that change the way you look.”
What is inside
Built around a reader, not a metric.
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Mastodon and Bluesky
Connect either network or both. Posts arrive together in a single edition, while their full handles and origins stay visible.
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Confluence
A deliberately balanced view of both networks, made for the days when one busy source would otherwise crowd out the other.
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The Commonplace Book
Send links to Reading, keep posts, collect passages, add notes, and arrange what matters into notebooks you can revisit.
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Feeds and sources
Follow RSS and Atom publications beside the social conversation, then move an article into Reading when it deserves more time.
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Compose and respond
Write, reply, repost, favorite, quote, and share without turning every interaction into a scoreboard.
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Chronological by design
No ads, trending column, suggested follows, red badges, or ranking layer. New posts wait until you choose to see them.
Web · iPhone · iPad · Mac
One reading life, across devices
Wallflower adapts from a single comfortable column on your phone to a broad, multi-column edition on larger screens. Your accounts, Commonplace material, feed subscriptions, and reading preferences stay connected wherever you read.
Public beta
Take Wallflower with you.
The native iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps are available through TestFlight while we finish the details. The same invitation works for both Apple betas.
A note from the maker
Wallflower is made by Andrew Leahey for people who still like reading the whole thing. It is a sibling to PIVOT, a daily word puzzle with the same quiet temperament.