# inulute/medium-unlocker

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

Repository: https://github.com/inulute/medium-unlocker
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/medium-unlocker
Homepage: https://medium-unlocker.inulute.com
Language: Java
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: bypass-paywalls, medium, medium-article, medium-articles, medium-unlocker, medium-unlimited
Last push: 2026-08-16T17:46:20+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 91/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 98, longevity 64
- inputs: {"age_days": 896, "days_push": 17, "days_rel": 17, "gap_med": 21, "n_releases_24m": 10}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1767, forks 112 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:33.611741+00:00)

## What it is
Medium Unlocker is an Android app (with an accompanying web frontend) that bypasses Medium's paywall by redirecting article URLs to the freedium.cfd mirror. It normalizes Medium URLs, resolves them to cached mirror versions, and renders the full article in a hardened WebView.

## Use cases
- read medium articles without paywall
- open medium links via freedium mirror
- share medium url to unlock full article
- copy medium article as markdown
- bypass medium 3 free articles limit
- access medium stories blocked by paywall

## When to choose
- you read Medium articles casually and keep hitting the paywall
- you want a one-tap Android share target for Medium links
- you want to export Medium articles as markdown

## When to avoid
- you need guaranteed legal access to paid Medium content
- you rely on freedium mirrors being online and unblocked
- you need an iOS or desktop-native app

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: http-client, web-scraping, proxy
- domain: privacy, censorship-circumvention, web-development
- platform: -
- tags: paywall-bypass, medium, freedium, webview, share-target, read-it-later, android, web-server

## Member repositories
- inulute/medium-unlocker (main) score 91

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:33.611741+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:26:24.818823+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/inulute/medium-unlocker (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:33.611741+00:00, sha 32d4fefead93)
  - homepage: https://medium-unlocker.inulute.com (fetched 2026-08-29T11:04:44.934071+00:00, sha 90730a688eab)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.