zly2006/zhihu-plus-plus

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Zhihu++ is an open-source third-party Android client for the Chinese Q&A platform Zhihu, built in Kotlin, that removes ads, promotional posts, and paid Salt-Select content while giving users control over their feed. It features a fully local recommendation algorithm, AI-powered content filtering using on-device LLM embeddings (ONNX), rich reading/writing tools, and an experimental cross-platform desktop build via Kotlin Multiplatform.

Use cases

• browse zhihu on android without ads or sponsored posts
• replace zhihu's algorithm with a local customizable recommendation feed
• block zhihu answers by keywords, regex, users, or topics
• use AI to automatically filter low-quality or AIGC content in my feed
• read zhihu articles with text-to-speech and immersive mode
• export zhihu answers and collections to pdf, markdown, or html
• get a lightweight zhihu client with a tiny apk instead of the official 110MB app
• log in to zhihu on desktop via qr code scanning

When to choose

• You are an active Zhihu user on Android who wants an ad-free, privacy-respecting, low-footprint client
• You want to escape the platform's recommendation algorithm with local, tunable feed weights and blocking rules
• You want AI-assisted content filtering, AIGC labeling, watermark-free image saving, and export to PDF/Markdown
• You want to contribute to or customize an open-source (AGPL-3.0) client

When to avoid

• You need an iOS or production-quality desktop client - only Android is stable and the desktop jar is experimental
• You depend on the official app's full feature set or guaranteed API stability, since a third-party client can break when Zhihu changes its API
• You want the smallest, fastest APK but still need the NLP smart filtering, which is only in the Full build with the ONNX runtime
• You are not a Zhihu user - the app is purpose-built for that platform

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gui privacy web-scraping llm-inference nlp tts social-media privacy android-tools cross-platform jvm zhihu third-party-client ad-blocking content-filtering local-recommendation kotlin-multiplatform on-device-ai aigc-detection feed-customization q-and-a chinese-platform agpl-3.0 natural-language-processing android mobile desktop

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