Comparison

Fiery Feeds vs darktechmeme

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

darktechmeme

Enhances techmeme.com with a dark theme for comfortable reading on mobile and desktop. It also adds a color bar to headlines, providing a quick visual cue for sentiment based on keywords.

Highlights
  • Dark theme for easier reading
  • Color bar for sentiment cues
  • Keyword-based sentiment analysis
  • Faster feed scanning
  • Optimized for mobile and desktop Safari
Features
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DarkTechmeme applies a focused dark theme to techmeme.com so reading is easier on your eyes on both desktop Safari and mobile Safari. DarkTechmeme also adds a small color bar before each headline as a quick sentiment cue. The signal is generated from headline keywords directly in the extension so you can scan the feed faster.

Screenshots

Fiery Feeds4 screens
darktechmeme1 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: darktechmeme at 5.0 against Fiery Feeds's 4.5. darktechmeme also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.4). Fiery Feeds's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (470 vs 1). 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. darktechmeme asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

darktechmeme holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fiery Feeds has 470 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fiery Feeds ships an update weekly, darktechmeme every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Fiery Feeds versus darktechmeme: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFiery Feedsdarktechmeme
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (470 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews72.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings470 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 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 MB1 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLukas BurgstallerPascal Jaillon

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

darktechmeme

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

darktechmeme

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fiery Feeds free?
Fiery Feeds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is darktechmeme free?
darktechmeme is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fiery Feeds or darktechmeme?
darktechmeme is rated higher. Fiery Feeds averages 4.5 out of 5 from 470 ratings, while darktechmeme averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Fiery Feeds or darktechmeme have ads?
Neither Fiery Feeds nor darktechmeme shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Fiery Feeds or darktechmeme?
Fiery Feeds ships an update weekly, and darktechmeme every 2 months. Most recently, Fiery Feeds was updated on November 11, 2026 and darktechmeme on October 31, 2026.

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