Meet Assurcast Reader

A desktop and self-hosted feed reader for the Assurcast community.

Today we're shipping Assurcast Reader v0.1.0. It's a single-binary application that runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. Download it from GitHub, open it, and you're already subscribed to seven Assurcast feeds:

All Stories

Events

IIA Standards

Jobs

News and Blogs

Social and Media

Tools and Tech

No account. No login. No algorithmic feed. Just your subscriptions, sorted by date, with full-text reading and search.

Why we built it

The Assurcast community follows a lot of sources — regulatory updates from the IIA, vendor blogs, talent posts, event calendars, independent practitioners. A web feed exists for each of them on assurcast.com, but you'd typically wire them into Feedly, Inoreader, or NetNewsWire to read them together.

Assurcast Reader removes that step. It ships with the full Assurcast bundle pre-configured. Open the app for the first time and it already knows what you came here for. You can add any other feed you want — your firm's blog, an IIA chapter, a Substack — by pasting a URL. The reader is yours.

A note on Nostr

Assurcast Reader also speaks Nostr long-form (NIP-23) — a decentralized publishing protocol some practitioners are starting to use to publish commentary outside platform gatekeeping. Paste an npub or nprofile URL and the reader subscribes to that author's long-form posts the same way it subscribes to RSS. If you're already on Nostr, this matters. If you're not, you can safely ignore it.

Built on shoulders

Assurcast Reader is a fork of narr by fiatjaf, which is itself a fork of yarr by Nazar Kanaev. Both are MIT-licensed, and we've preserved the lineage credits in the app's About screen and in our license file. What we've added: the Assurcast brand mark, two themes that match assurcast.com, and the pre-subscribed feed bundle.

What's next

This is v0.1.0 — a working first release. On the near roadmap:

A native vector brand mark (crisper at every size)

An updated README document to share more about the community

Tell us what you'd add. File an issue at github.com/audit-brands/assurcast-reader/issues, or reply to this post on Assurcast.