Medium Unlocker

Medium Unlocker is an Android app designed to access Medium articles without any paywalls.

End-to-end paywall bypasser built from scratch around the freedium.cfd index.

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. Grab the latest APK. 2. Install (you may need to allow side-loading). 3. 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.

License

MIT