Medium Unlocker
Medium Unlocker is an android app designed to access Medium articles without any paywalls.
Cost / License
- Free
- Open Source (MIT)
Platforms
- Android
- Online
Features
- No registration required
- Ad-free
Medium Unlocker News & Activities
Recent activities
- OrdinaryPerson added Medium Unlocker
OrdinaryPerson added Medium Unlocker as alternative to PaywallBuster, Anti-Paywall, Ladder and Science hub Mutual Aid Community
Medium Unlocker information
What is Medium Unlocker?
? 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. Mirror Support – Automatically switches to freedium-mirror.cfd if the primary server is blocked. Smart Auto-Retry – Seamlessly detects connection failures and retries with the mirror server. Network extras – Optional DoH, proxy toggles, custom SSL pinning for freedium’s cert chain.

