# zly2006/zhihu-plus-plus

Zhihu++ | 知乎++: Ad-free, low cost, AI powered zhihu android 3rd-party client. 去广告、占用低、AI大模型的新时代知乎安卓端体验

Repository: https://github.com/zly2006/zhihu-plus-plus
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/zhihu-plus-plus
Language: Kotlin
License: AGPL-3.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: android, zhihu, zhihu-daily
Last push: 2026-08-26T10:41:32+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 85/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 50
- inputs: {"age_days": 702, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 11, "gap_med": 1, "n_releases_24m": 144}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3845, forks 179 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:24.038568+00:00)

## What it is
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

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: gui, privacy, web-scraping, llm-inference, nlp, tts
- domain: social-media, privacy, android-tools
- platform: cross-platform, jvm
- tags: 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

## Member repositories
- zly2006/zhihu-plus-plus (main) score 85

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:24.038568+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 2026-08-29T18:26:12.141945+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/zly2006/zhihu-plus-plus (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:24.038568+00:00, sha dfb66b516f4d)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.