diff --git a/shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/dev/sasikanth/rss/reader/network/FeedFetcher.kt b/shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/dev/sasikanth/rss/reader/network/FeedFetcher.kt
index 6483d8c8b..b737aabba 100644
--- a/shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/dev/sasikanth/rss/reader/network/FeedFetcher.kt
+++ b/shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/dev/sasikanth/rss/reader/network/FeedFetcher.kt
@@ -37,22 +37,28 @@ class FeedFetcher(private val httpClient: HttpClient, private val feedParser: Fe
 
   private var redirectCount = 0
 
-  suspend fun fetch(url: String): FeedFetchResult {
+  suspend fun fetch(url: String, transformUrl: Boolean = true): FeedFetchResult {
     return try {
-      // Currently Ktor Url parses relative URLs,
-      // if it fails to properly parse the given URL, it
-      // default to localhost.
-      //
-      // This will cause the network call to fail,
-      // so we are setting the host manually
-      // https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTOR-360
+      // We are mainly doing this check to avoid creating duplicates while refreshing feeds
+      // after the app update
       val transformedUrl =
-        URLBuilder()
-          .apply {
-            protocol = URLProtocol.HTTPS
-            host = url.replace(Regex("^https?://"), "").replace(Regex("^www\\."), "")
-          }
-          .build()
+        if (transformUrl) {
+          // Currently Ktor Url parses relative URLs,
+          // if it fails to properly parse the given URL, it
+          // default to localhost.
+          //
+          // This will cause the network call to fail,
+          // so we are setting the host manually
+          // https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KTOR-360
+          URLBuilder()
+            .apply {
+              protocol = URLProtocol.HTTPS
+              host = url.replace(Regex("^https?://"), "").replace(Regex("^www\\."), "")
+            }
+            .build()
+        } else {
+          URLBuilder(url).apply { protocol = URLProtocol.HTTPS }.build()
+        }
 
       val response = httpClient.get(transformedUrl.toString())
 
diff --git a/shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/dev/sasikanth/rss/reader/repository/RssRepository.kt b/shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/dev/sasikanth/rss/reader/repository/RssRepository.kt
index de7120fbb..cd4502115 100644
--- a/shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/dev/sasikanth/rss/reader/repository/RssRepository.kt
+++ b/shared/src/commonMain/kotlin/dev/sasikanth/rss/reader/repository/RssRepository.kt
@@ -56,9 +56,9 @@ class RssRepository(
 
   private val ioDispatcher = dispatchersProvider.io
 
-  suspend fun addFeed(feedLink: String): FeedAddResult {
+  suspend fun addFeed(feedLink: String, transformUrl: Boolean = true): FeedAddResult {
     return withContext(ioDispatcher) {
-      when (val feedFetchResult = feedFetcher.fetch(feedLink)) {
+      when (val feedFetchResult = feedFetcher.fetch(feedLink, transformUrl)) {
         is FeedFetchResult.Success -> {
           return@withContext try {
             val feedPayload = feedFetchResult.feedPayload
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ class RssRepository(
     val results =
       withContext(ioDispatcher) {
         val feeds = feedQueries.feeds().executeAsList()
-        feeds.map { feed -> launch { addFeed(feed.link) } }
+        feeds.map { feed -> launch { addFeed(feed.link, false) } }
       }
     results.joinAll()
   }