Comparison

Fiery Feeds vs Fluent Reader Lite

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

Fluent Reader Lite

A simple, open-source RSS client that supports various self-hosted and commercial services. It offers features like dark mode, content filtering, and article organization. Optimized for multitasking on iPad.

Highlights
  • Supports Fever, Google Reader, Inoreader, and Feedbin APIs
  • Dark mode for UI and reading
  • Configure content loading (full or webpage)
  • Dedicated subscriptions tab with article titles
  • Search and filter local articles
  • Organize subscriptions with groups
  • Two-pane view and multitasking on iPad
Features
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Fluent Reader Lite is a simplistic, cross-platform, and open-source RSS client. The following self-hosted and commercial RSS services are supported. * Fever API (TT-RSS Fever plugin, FreshRSS, Miniflux, etc.) * Google Reader API (Bazqux Reader, The Old Reader, etc.) * Inoreader * Feedbin (official or self-hosted) Other key features include: * Dark mode for UI and reading. * Configure sources to load full content or webpage by default. * A dedicated subscriptions tab organized by latest updates with article titles. * Search for local articles or filter by read status. * Organize subscriptions with groups. * Support for two-pane view and multitasking on iPad. The following features from the desktop app are *NOT* present: * Local RSS support and source / group management. * Importing or exporting OPML files, full application data backup & restoration. * Regular expression rules that mark articles as they arrive. * Fetch articles in the background and send push notifications. * Keyboard shortcuts.

Screenshots

Fiery Feeds4 screens
Fluent Reader Lite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Fiery Feeds at 4.5 against Fluent Reader Lite's 3.6. Fiery Feeds also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months) and review sentiment (72% vs 50%). Fluent Reader Lite's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Fiery Feeds sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Fluent Reader Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Fiery Feeds holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fiery Feeds has 470 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 72% of Fiery Feeds's written reviews are positive against 50% of Fluent Reader Lite's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fiery Feeds ships an update weekly, Fluent Reader Lite every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Fiery Feeds versus Fluent Reader Lite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFiery FeedsFluent Reader Lite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (470 ratings) — better3.6 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews71.9% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings470 — better10
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size339 MB23 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperLukas BurgstallerHaoyuan Liu

Customer experience

Fiery Feeds

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

Fluent Reader Lite

All ratings10 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews18 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral16.7%
Negative33.3%

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

Fluent Reader Lite

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
None

Fluent Reader Lite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fiery Feeds free?
Fiery Feeds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fluent Reader Lite free?
Fluent Reader Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fiery Feeds or Fluent Reader Lite?
Fiery Feeds is rated higher. Fiery Feeds averages 4.5 out of 5 from 470 ratings, while Fluent Reader Lite averages 3.6 from 10 ratings.
Do Fiery Feeds or Fluent Reader Lite have ads?
Neither Fiery Feeds nor Fluent Reader Lite shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fiery Feeds or Fluent Reader Lite?
Fiery Feeds ships an update weekly, and Fluent Reader Lite every 6 months. Most recently, Fiery Feeds was updated on November 13, 2026 and Fluent Reader Lite on November 11, 2026.

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