AI summary
Medium Unlocker accesses paywalled articles from Medium and six other publishers via freedium.cfd mirrors. Version 3.0 adds bookmark categories, optional auto-paste, undo for deletions, and support for The New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Economist, and Financial Times. Share any supported article link to the app or paste a URL to open the cached version instantly.
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About this app
Medium Unlocker is an Android app designed to access Medium articles without any paywalls.
✨ Features
Project Background - Medium’s “3 free reads” wall is frustrating for casual browsing. - freedium.cfd hosts publicly cached versions of Medium stories, but there was no polished way to reach them. - Medium Unlocker bridges that gap with a custom UI, tailored network stack, and automation that lets readers paste or share a Medium URL and instantly open the matching freedium mirror.
Feature Highlights
Web - Purpose-built frontend – React 18 SPA with a bespoke dark interface. - URL normalizer – Cleans Medium query noise and rewrites the slug for freedium. - Result inspector – Shows whether the article was fetched from cache or proxied live. - Share-ready links – Generates clean freedium URLs you can copy anywhere.
Android - Native shell – Java + WebView with Material Design 3 styling. - One-tap share target – Appears inside the Android share sheet for any Medium link. - Inline resolver – Performs the same URL normalization on-device, then loads freedium in a hardened WebView. - Tiny footprint – <3 MB release APK.
Quick Start
Web 1. Go to medium-unlocker.inulute.com. 2. Paste any Medium article URL. 3. Hit Unlock and read the freedium mirror.
Android 1. Install (you may need to allow side-loading). 2. Either: - Share a Medium link and pick Medium Unlocker, or - Open the app, paste a URL, tap Unlock.
⚠️ Note Service Availability This tool relies on freedium.cfd, a third-party service. Availability and functionality may vary. Some articles may not be accessible if not indexed by the service.
What's new
- Features - Seven publishers, not just Medium Deep links widened – Article links from The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg, Reuters, The Economist and the Financial Times now open in the app alongside Medium. - Works with list – The home screen shows which publishers are supported at a glance. - Link settings prompt – The banner now tracks every supported domain, instead of only reporting on medium.com. - Bookmark categories File your bookmarks – Create categories and move bookmarks into them from the ⋮ menu on any row. - Filter by category – A chip row on the Bookmarks tab, and on the home screen when it is showing bookmarks. - Rename and delete – Managed from the toolbar menu. Deleting a category keeps its bookmarks and makes them uncategorised. - Auto-paste is now optional New setting – Settings → Auto-paste from Clipboard controls whether the URL box fills itself from your clipboard on open. It was previously always on. - No longer overwrites – A link arriving from the share sheet is no longer replaced by whatever is on the clipboard.
- Changes - Swipe switches tabs – Swiping a row sideways moves between Recent and Bookmarks. It no longer deletes the article. - Deletion can be undone – Removing an entry from the ⋮ menu offers an Undo, and restores it to its original position and date rather than the top of the list. - Visible row menu – Every row has a ⋮ button, so the options are no longer hidden behind a long-press. - Home feed – Both has been retired; the choice is now Recent Articles or Bookmarks. Cards show which category a bookmark is filed under. - See all – Opens the tab matching your home feed instead of always landing on Recent. - Dialogs – Every dialog now uses the app's own styling instead of the platform default.
About this version
- Version
- 3.0 (10)
- Size
- 2.08 MB
- Requires Android
- 5.0
- Target SDK
- 21
- Architecture
- universal
- Downloads
- 31
- Updated
- Sep 6, 2026
- Package
- com.inulute.mediumunlocker
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