Fiery Feeds vs An Otter RSS Reader
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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Make room for the reading you care about. Fiery Feeds brings your RSS subscriptions and saved articles together on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with layouts, fonts and colors you control. Sync with your preferred service, use iCloud, or keep a local account. Fiery Feeds Pro adds Hot Links, Smart Views and full-text extraction to help you find what matters and read offline. - Smart Views - Hot Links - Find pages frequently linked in your articles. Low and High Frequency - Separate quiet and busy feeds. Long and Short Articles - Filter by article length. Must Read - Keep important feeds together. Recents - See today's articles. - Text Extraction - Read available full article text, including offline. Choose feed text, extracted text or the original website for each feed. - Share Extension - Save links to read later and subscribe to feeds from Safari and other compatible apps. - Customizable - Choose fonts, text sizes, colors and layouts. Create color themes with the included editor or browse the theme directory. - Smart Searches - Save searches by content, title, publication date, posting frequency and more. - Home Widgets - See articles, Hot Links and unread counts. Mark articles read or starred from supported widgets. - Article Summaries and Translations - Summarize and translate articles. Availability varies by device, OS, language and provider; external AI services require your own API key. - Keyboard Shortcuts and VoiceOver - Navigate with keyboard shortcuts and VoiceOver support. - Custom URL Sharing - Create URL actions and email templates for sharing articles. - Feed Management - Subscribe, organize feeds and folders, and work with multiple accounts. - Even more - Horizontal article swiping - Move between articles with a swipe. Flexible read marking - Mark read on scroll, by age, or above or below an article. Three Pane View - More room for reading on iPad and Mac. - Supported Feed Accounts - Feedly, Feedbin, Inoreader, NewsBlur, FreshRSS, Miniflux, Feeder, Gobbler, FeedHQ, BazQux, The Old Reader, Tiny Tiny RSS, Nextcloud News, Fever, iCloud and local accounts. - Supported Read Later Accounts - Instapaper, Raindrop.io, Karakeep, Wallabag, Pinboard, Paper Press, iCloud and local accounts. Features vary by account and service. - Fiery Feeds Pro - Pro includes text extraction, Smart Views, article summaries and translations, multiple accounts, saved searches, advanced widgets, feed management, custom themes and sharing actions. One subscription covers iOS and macOS. Fiery Feeds Pro 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
An Otter RSS Reader
A minimalistic RSS reader that synchronizes your subscribed feeds across Apple devices via iCloud. It allows for automatic feed discovery, organization into folders, and reading articles in a standard web view. Integrates with Shortcuts and offers home screen widgets for unread counts.
- iCloud feed synchronization
- Auto-discover RSS feeds
- Group feeds into folders
- Read articles in web view
- Shortcuts integration
- Home screen widgets
- Import/Export with OPML
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An Otter RSS Reader is a simple RSS reader for following news, blogs, and personal sites without another account. Subscribe to feeds, organize them into folders, and let iCloud keep everything in sync across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Otter keeps the experience intentionally calm: quick refreshes, native navigation, readable article views, and just enough personality to make checking your feeds feel pleasant. New in 2.0, the iPad edition grew up. The Front Page opens to today's stories while native adaptive columns keep feeds and the story list side by side when there’s room, then collapse cleanly on smaller screens. Articles set in a real serif with a comfortable reading measure, on iPad and iPhone alike. Features: - Subscribe to RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and XML feeds - Sync subscriptions and reading state with iCloud - The Front Page: a daily opening spread across iPhone and iPad - Smart Folders that fill themselves — long reads, quick reads, podcasts, videos - A serif reading view with adjustable typography - Reading Insights: streaks, reading calendar, and when-you-read patterns - Organize feeds into folders - Import and export subscriptions with OPML - Keyboard shortcuts and menu commands on iPad - Refresh feeds in the background or manually - Shortcuts actions, Home Screen widgets, and alternate app icons Otter Pro, the optional subscription, adds ad-free reading, custom Smart Folders, TL;DR article summaries, and the full Reading Insights dashboard. Otter is not trying to be a social network, inbox, or power-user dashboard. It is a practical little RSS reader for people who still like the open web. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://anotterrss.com/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: An Otter RSS Reader at free with in-app purchases against Fiery Feeds's subscription. An Otter RSS Reader also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). Fiery Feeds's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.1) and review sentiment (73% vs 60%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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 9 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and An Otter RSS Reader sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fiery Feeds holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fiery Feeds has 469 ratings behind it against 73, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Fiery Feeds's written reviews are positive against 60% of An Otter RSS Reader's.
Fiery Feeds ships an update weekly, An Otter RSS Reader every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Fiery Feeds | An Otter RSS Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (469 ratings) — better | 4.1 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.5% of reviews — better | 60.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 469 — better | 73 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 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 | 17.4 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 499 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lukas Burgstaller | Josh Holtz |
Customer experience
Fiery Feeds
An Otter RSS Reader
User reviews
Fiery Feeds
From 469 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
An Otter RSS Reader
From 73 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Elegant and convenient
- 👍 Great app
- 👍 Cute RSS reader in every way
- 👍 Works Great, syncs on all iOS Devices
- 👍 More than an 'okay minimalistic app'
Room to improve
- 🐛 It does not work
- 🐛 Abandoned app
- 🐛 Bug list view dark mode
- 🐛 Only shows a couple of entries
- 🐛 Missing keyboard shortcuts
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
An Otter RSS Reader
Reported bugs
10 issues- It does not work
- Articles flicker in and out of existence and about 30 of them don't show at all
- The list views are messed up with many black spaces where a feed item should appear but is completely black
- Reader mode seems to not work
- Articles show up in duplicated often, articles had been marked as read will show up again as unread
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- Feeds disappear after closing the app
- Feeds don't refresh
- Crashes when importing OPML files
- Crashing when importing opml files
- Crashes when trying to import an OPML file
Requested features
13 requests- Encripted iCloud backups would be welcome
- Mark articles read on scrolling past them
- Option to hide read articles by default instead of manually hiding all the time
- When clicking on a top level folder it expands the folder clicking the arrow should expand the folder
- Needs swipe gestures example swipe right mark read/unread swipe left add to favorite
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- Need to add an option to sort by oldest and newest first
- If in reader mode hitting the safari button should open in the in app browser instead of leaving the app
- Under notifications there should be an option to show badge count with unread articles
- Should be an option to see favicons to the left of the headline to quickly see at a glance which site posted the story as well as an option to enable images if there is one in the story
- MiniFlux Sync would be nice
- Offline reading?
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
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 trial2 variants$9.991 Year
- Fiery Feeds Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Fiery Feeds Pro3 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Snack-Sized Tip$2.99
- Coffee-Sized Tip$5.99
- Lunch-Sized Tip$9.99
An Otter RSS Reader
- Otter Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Otter Pro Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Small Tip2 variants$0.99
- Medium Tip2 variants$2.99
- Large Tip2 variants$5.99
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- Mega Tip2 variants$12.99
- Otter Pro Lifetime$19.99








