Frequently asked questions

2ad.pw is a personalized reading platform. Your feed ranks articles and posts around the topics you care about — not around someone else's engagement goals. You can follow topic worlds, connect accounts you already use, save pieces worth keeping, and skim a short daily TL;DR when you're short on time.

Yes — 2ad.pw is free to use. There is no advertising in the product, and we do not sell your attention. Your ranking preferences stay yours.

During onboarding you pick topic worlds (and can refine them later in Settings). Set each topic as a percentage of your feed — changing one rebalances the rest so they always add up to 100%. As you read, save, or skip, the feed also learns what deserves attention. You can tune sources and ranking preferences directly — the algorithm is meant to serve your intent, not bury it.

Most articles come from publisher feeds (RSS and similar). You can also connect third-party accounts — for example X, Bluesky, Mastodon, YouTube, Reddit, or LinkedIn — so posts you authorize appear alongside publisher reading in one place. Connected posts stay private to your account unless you share them with another 2ad.pw user.

Cockpit is your command center: each interest gets its own board with a few recent pieces, so you can scan what's moving without the mixed Feed. Reorder boards to match how you think. Feed remains the default scrolling home — Cockpit is where you stay oriented by topic.

TL;DR is a short daily skim of what matters across your interests — designed for a few minutes of reading when you can't do a full session. It's a digest, not a replacement for deep reading when you want it.

Yes. Many articles include a Listen option so you can hear the piece read aloud while you cook, commute, or rest your eyes. Voice options depend on what's configured for your account.

You can claim a handle and optionally publish a public page at 2ad.pw/u/yourhandle. You choose what appears — worlds, achievements, soft stats, or a curated shelf. Public profiles are for sharing your reading identity, not for building a social network.

We do not track you for advertising, do not collect IDFA, do not use advertising SDKs, and do not sell or share your data for ads. Personalized recommendations use only first-party activity on 2ad.pw. We store what we need to run your account and personalize your feed — preferences, reading signals, bookmarks, and (if you connect them) encrypted OAuth tokens. Full detail is in our Privacy Policy.

Yes. In Settings you can delete your account. That removes your profile and personal data from the live product subject to the retention notes in our Privacy Policy (for example backups and legal holds). Connected accounts can also be disconnected anytime from Integrations.

2ad.pw works in the browser on phone and desktop. A native mobile experience may also be available depending on your platform — sign in with the same account either way.

Use Contact on the marketing site, or Send feedback from inside the app when you're signed in. We read it.