RSS vs Lede
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RSS
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RSS News Reader is a very app available to create a personal news feed and read your favorite websites and blogs in a clean and intuitive format. You can Subscribe to as many feeds as you want and keep up on all topics and sources you care about. Free RSS News Reader is loaded with features: • Follow unlimited news sources • Open links using the in-app browser • Forward articles via email and text • Share on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn • Load feeds once and read them offline With RSS News Reader today you can focus on the news that matter most to you! At the end it is all your News. That Simple as that!.
Lede
A fast and clean RSS reader that allows you to follow your favorite websites and read articles in a distraction-free native interface. It offers control over your reading experience with features like daily limits and customizable article retention.
- Clean native reader interface
- Automatic full text fetching
- Swipe navigation for articles
- Starred, Unread, and All filters
- Daily article limits per feed
- OPML import/export
- Private by design, no tracking
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Lede is a fast, calm RSS reader for iPhone. Follow the sites you choose, read them in a clean native reader, and leave when you're done. READ, DON'T WADE • Articles open in a clean reader with your choice of text size and typeface. • Teaser feeds get their full text fetched automatically. • Swipe up or down for the next article, right to go back, left for the original web page. STAY IN CONTROL • Starred, Unread and All on every list, plus a recency filter: Today, the past few hours, or the past week. • A limit per feed: show only a busy feed's latest articles, so it can't take over your lists. • Keep Articles cleans up after a day, a week or a month. Starred articles are always kept. BRING YOUR FEEDS • Add any feed, or just a website's address and Lede finds its feed. • Import and export OPML to move from any other reader. • Start with a pack of well-known feeds (news and tech, sports, food and crafts, and more), or with none. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. • Everything stays on your iPhone. There are no servers of ours: Lede fetches only what your feeds point to.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: RSS at 3 against Lede's 1. RSS also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | RSS | Lede |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ramalingam Sivaramakrishnan | Steve Shreeve |
In-app purchases
RSS
No in-app purchases
Lede
No in-app purchases
