Fiery Feeds vs Unread
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fiery Feeds
A powerful and customizable RSS reader and read-it-later client that syncs with various services. It offers advanced features like smart views, text extraction for offline reading, and home widgets for quick access to articles.
- Smart Views for filtering articles
- Full text extraction for offline reading
- Home widgets for article display
- Customizable themes and fonts
- Keyboard shortcut support
- Safari extension for subscriptions and saving
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Fiery Feeds is a powerful and highly customisable feed reader and read-it-later client that syncs with most services. - Smart Views - Hot Links - Finds the most linked to websites in your articles Low and High Frequency - folders shows articles from feeds that only post rarely or particularly often. Long and Short Articles - folders filter articles by length. Must Read - folder is a specially highlighted folder, where you can put the most important feeds. Recents - folder only shows articles published today - Text Extraction - Fiery Feeds can automatically extract the full article text or display the website instead of the truncated article text. The selected mode is remembered by feed and the full text can even be downloaded for offline viewing. - Home Widgets - Fiery Feeds includes Home Widgets to display the lastest or random articles, or article counts in specific accounts. You can mark articles starred or read directly from the widget - Smart Searches - You can create saved searches matching multiple properties like content, title, published date, posting frequency and more. - Safari Extension - You can subscribe to new feeds and save links to read later right in Safari with the included extension. - Keyboard Shortcuts - Fiery Feeds fully supports external keyboards and keyboard shortcuts. You can navigate the entire app using only the keyboard if you want to. - Customisable - You can create your own color themes, there is a directory of user-created themes and a theme editor included. - Custom URL Sharing - Fiery also supports sharing to other apps and websites using URL schemes that you can create yourself or install from the action directory and customisable email templates. - Feed Management - You can subscribe to new feeds, unsubscribe, move or rename them. You can add new folders, delete, move or rename them. You can even group your folders. - VoiceOver - Every feature is accessible via VoiceOver. - Even more - Highly customisable - Almost every aspect of Fiery Feeds is customisable. Color Themes, Fonts, Text sizes. If you want a leisurely reading environment, just the headlines, or anything in between, Fiery Feeds has you covered. Horizontal article swiping - You can swipe to the next or previous article by swiping horizontally, instead of vertically. This avoids having to scroll down the entire (long) article just to get to the next one. Marking Articles Read - On Scrolling, only articles older than some time, or marking all above or below a specific article read. Three Pane View - Especially designed for larger iPads. - Supported Feed Accounts - Feedly, Feedbin, Fever, NewsBlur, Tiny Tiny RSS, Inoreader, Bazqux, FreshRSS, The Old Reader, Nextcloud News, iCloud, Local Accounts - Supported Read Later Accounts - Pinboard, Pocket, Instapaper, Wallabag, iCloud, Local Accounts - Fiery Feeds Premium - Fiery Feeds Premium automatically renews as a paid subscription, unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the date of renewal. The payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. You can cancel a free trial or subscription anytime by turning off auto-renewal through your iTunes account settings. This must be done 24 hours before the end of a free trial or subscription period to avoid being charged. The cancellation will take effect the day after the last day of the current subscription period, and you will be downgraded to the free service. Any unused portion of a free trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a premium subscription during the free trial period. Privacy Policy: https://voidstern.net/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://voidstern.net/terms-of-use
Unread
This app is a beautifully designed RSS reader that focuses on a clean reading experience with customizable typography and themes. It offers seamless syncing across devices and integrates with various read-later services, allowing for offline access to cached content.
- Gesture-based navigation
- Customizable color themes
- Cross-device syncing
- Automatic webpage text display
- Offline access with caching
- Integration with read-later services
- Widgets for unread counts
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Rediscover the joy of reading your favorite writers and publications with Unread. Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography, comfortable gesture-based navigation, and a variety of color themes. Unread is available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Unread won the MacStories Selects 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. Capabilities include: SYNCING: Our free Unread Cloud service keeps your devices in sync. Unread also syncs with Feedbin, Feedly, Fever, FreshRSS, Gobbler, Inkwell, Inoreader, Miniflux, and NewsBlur. AUTOMATIC WEBPAGE TEXT: For feeds that contain only article summaries, Unread will display the full article text from the webpage. Easily switch between feed text and webpage text for any article, and change the default for individual feeds. WEBSITE ACCOUNTS: For news websites that require an account, sign in and get full webpage text. SUBSCRIBE IN UNREAD: This share sheet extension lets you subscribe to a website’s feeds while visiting that website from Safari or any other web browser. SAVE TO UNREAD: This share sheet extension creates an article in Unread with the contents of the webpage you are visiting from Safari or any other web browser. (Subscription required.) COLOR THEMES: Unread provides a variety of color themes. Choose one theme for light mode and another for dark mode. CACHING: Unread caches webpage text and images for instant loading and offline access. (Subscription required.) READ-LATER SERVICES: Unread can save articles to Anybox, Flyleaf, GoodLinks, Instapaper, Matter, Pinboard, Plinky, Raindrop.io, Readwise, Safari Reading List, and wallabag. On a device with a hardware keyboard, assign a custom keyboard shortcut to each. (Subscription required.) SHORTCUTS: Perform shortcuts on articles and links inside articles. On a device with a hardware keyboard, assign a custom keyboard shortcut to each. (Subscription required.) --- “Most importantly, I should stress again how refreshing it feels to have such a great native experience with Unread. The app is really fast, even when it’s loaded up with hundreds of feeds.” — Niléane Dorffer, MacStories “It’s an RSS reader made with taste. It has great typography, themes, search, and compatibility with the usual suspects. I love having this app on my Mac.” — David Sparks, MacSparky “Unread is focused on eliminating chrome — it is a pure reading app. It’s like reader mode all the time, and the assortment of color themes is nicely curated.” – John Gruber, Daring Fireball --- Unread has full VoiceOver coverage. Every screen and every feature is available to users with vision impairments: • From any screen you can perform a magic tap, a two-finger double tap, to open a menu of options available for that screen. • When on an article list, there are actions available for each article in the list. After selecting an article, invoke the accessibility rotor and then select “Actions”. There is an action to mark the article read or unread, an action to share the article, and many others. • Use the VoiceOver escape gesture, a two-finger “Z”, to back out of the current screen. --- UNREAD SUBSCRIPTION Unread is a free app. Additional functionality is available with a $29.99 (USD)/year auto-renewing subscription: • Article actions for sending articles directly to supported bookmarking and read later services, and for sharing via email or iMessage. • Ability to execute shortcuts on articles and links. • Caching of webpage text and images. • Widget customization options. • Save to Unread share sheet extension. • Custom app icons. • Premium support. A subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Unread’s Terms of Use are available at: https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/unread/terms-of-use/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Unread at free with in-app purchases against Fiery Feeds's subscription. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Fiery Feeds sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Unread sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Fiery Feeds against 4.6 for Unread. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 467 and 442 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 73% and 72% positive.
Fiery Feeds ships an update fortnightly, Unread every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fiery Feeds | Unread |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (467 ratings) | 4.6 (442 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better | 72.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 467 — better | 442 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 215 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lukas Burgstaller | Golden Hill Software |
Customer experience
Fiery Feeds
Unread
User reviews
Fiery Feeds
From 467 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Highly customizable
- 🚀 Smooth and fast performance
- 💡 Excellent feature set
- 👍 Responsive developer support
- 👍 Great integration with various services
Room to improve
- 💰 Subscription model concerns
- 🐛 Occasional crashes and syncing issues
- 🔋 High CPU usage and battery drain
- 👎 Complicated settings for some users
Unread
From 442 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Elegant and intuitive UI
- 🚀 Fast and responsive
- 🔒 Secure login integration
- 📚 Excellent article formatting and readability
- 💡 Automated full-text article retrieval
Room to improve
- 💰 Subscription model seen as too expensive
- 🔀 Inconsistent experience between iOS and iPad versions
- 🔍 Difficult to discover certain features
- 🔠 Lack of customization options (e.g., font, theme)
Bugs and requests
Fiery Feeds
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inconsistent article rendering
- Issues with OPML file import
- Syncing problems with certain services
Requested features
4 requests- Dark mode option
- Improved search functionality
- Better handling of read/unread articles
- Apple Watch support
Unread
Reported bugs
3 issues- Occasional article duplication
- Issues with 'Keep Unread' feature
- Text formatting problems in dark mode
Requested features
4 requests- Add support for more RSS providers (e.g., Miniflux, FreshRSS)
- Implement keyboard shortcuts and power-user features
- Improve information density on iPad layout
- Introduce a one-time purchase option
In-app purchases
Fiery Feeds
- Fiery Feeds Pro2 variants$1.991 Month
- Fiery Feeds Pro3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Fiery Feeds Pro$4.993 Months
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- Fiery Feeds Pro3 Days trial3 variants$9.991 Year
- Fiery Feeds Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Snack-Sized Tip$2.99
- Coffee-Sized Tip$5.99
- Lunch-Sized Tip$9.99
Unread
- Unread Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
- Unread Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
- Unread: Free first year$29.991 Year
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- Unread: Discounted first year$29.991 Year








