Comparison

Fiery Feeds vs lire

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Fiery Feeds

A highly customizable news reader for power users that aggregates RSS subscriptions and saved articles across devices. It offers advanced filtering, text extraction, and personalization options for a tailored reading experience.

Highlights
  • Customizable layouts, fonts, and colors
  • Smart Views for filtering articles
  • Full-text article extraction
  • Share extension for saving links
  • Home widgets for quick access
  • Article summarization and translation
Features
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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.

About

lire

This app transforms partial RSS feeds into full-text articles, eliminating the need to click "Read more" links. It offers offline reading and syncs with various services, providing a seamless news consumption experience.

Highlights
  • Full-text RSS feed conversion
  • Offline reading of cached articles
  • Syncs with Feedly, Feedbin, and more
  • iCloud sync option
  • No need to click 'Read more' links
  • Standalone feed reader functionality
Features
Currently charting
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Love RSS feeds? So do we!! RSS feeds are a great way to follow updates on your favorite website. However, some sites set up their feeds to only show a portion of each entry, you know, to get you to click through to their actual website. We find that really annoying, and we're sure you do too. Which is why, unlike other RSS feed readers, that either push you into a browser (in-app or otherwise), or depend on third party text parsing services and require you to be online to fetch the full text of one article at a time (which makes it no different from having to click/tap through to a website), in lire, you get your favorite RSS feeds as they should've been. You don't need to click through to any website (though, you do still have the option to, if you really wanted). It takes your favorite partial feeds, does its magic, and converts them in to full feeds, so you don't have to click/tap on those annoying 'Read more' or 'Continue reading' links. Once they're cached, you don't even need to be connected to read your full-text feeds. Use as a standalone feed reader, sync with iCloud, or, sync with any of the several services: Feedly, Feedbin, FeedHQ, The Old Reader, Inoreader, BazQux Reader, Newsblur, Feed Wrangler, FreshRSS, Miniflux, Nextcloud News, Tiny Tiny RSS.

Screenshots

Fiery Feeds4 screens
lire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Fiery Feeds at Free against lire's $9.99. Fiery Feeds also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly). lire's advantage is chart position (#11 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.4). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Fiery Feeds is free to download; lire costs $9.99 up front. Fiery Feeds sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and lire sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Fiery Feeds against 4.4 for lire. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 470 and 158 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Fiery Feeds's written reviews are positive against 69% of lire's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fiery Feeds ships an update weekly, lire fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Fiery Feeds versus lire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFiery Feedslire
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating4.5 (470 ratings) — better4.4 (158 ratings)
Positive reviews71.9% of reviews — better68.5% of reviews
Number of ratings470 — better158
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#11 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.415.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size339 MB168 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperLukas BurgstallerKunal Sood

Customer experience

Fiery Feeds

All ratings470 ratings
Positive86.2%
Neutral5.5%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews288 reviews
Positive71.9%
Neutral9.7%
Negative18.4%

lire

All ratings157 ratings
Positive80.9%
Neutral7.6%
Negative11.5%
Written reviews181 reviews
Positive68.5%
Neutral13.8%
Negative17.7%

User reviews

Fiery Feeds

From 470 App Store ratings

What 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

lire

From 158 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast full-text parsing
  • 👍 Highly customizable
  • 🔒 No data collection
  • 💡 Bionic reading support
  • 👍 Excellent accessibility

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Frequent crashes
  • 🐛 Sync issues
  • 🐛 Memory management problems
  • 🐛 Buggy after updates
  • 🐛 Inconsistent article rendering

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

lire

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Crashes on launch
  • Incorrect feed display
  • Articles not opening
  • Overlapping UI elements
  • Sync errors with FreshRSS and Wallabag
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  • Revert to old articles after sync
  • VoiceOver issues after update

Requested features

9 requests
  • Bulk unsubscribe option
  • Ability to add multiple feeds at once
  • Custom keyword filtering
  • Highlight/annotate articles
  • Embedded video support
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  • Automatic article categorization
  • Sharing options
  • PDF export
  • Multilingual support

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Fiery Feeds

Subscriptions6
  • 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
One-time2
  • Coffee-Sized Tip$5.99
  • Lunch-Sized Tip$9.99
5 purchases

lire

One-time5
  • Generous Tip$0.99
  • Massive Tip$1.99
  • Amazing Tip$4.99
Show 2 more
  • Humongous Tip$9.99
  • Stupendous Tip$19.99

Questions

Is Fiery Feeds free?
Fiery Feeds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is lire free?
lire costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fiery Feeds or lire?
Fiery Feeds is rated higher. Fiery Feeds averages 4.5 out of 5 from 470 ratings, while lire averages 4.4 from 158 ratings.
Do Fiery Feeds or lire have ads?
Neither Fiery Feeds nor lire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fiery Feeds or lire?
Fiery Feeds ships an update weekly, and lire fortnightly. Most recently, Fiery Feeds was updated on November 13, 2026 and lire on November 13, 2026.

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