Fiper vs NewsFlash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fiper
Take control of your news consumption with this fast and visually appealing reader. It offers an unfiltered, chronological feed from any source you choose, making it easy to follow blogs and news sites without algorithmic interference.
- Unfiltered chronological timeline
- Follow any news source or blog
- Lightning-fast performance
- Visual, photo-centric design
- Automatic RSS feed detection
- Easy to use
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Are you tired of algorithms determining what you read? Switch to Fiper, the lightning-fast and beautiful news reader that puts you back in control! Fiper is much more than just a news app. It's the ultimate RSS reader that's incredibly easy to use, even if you don't know what RSS is. What makes Fiper unique? - 100% Unfiltered: Enjoy a pure, chronological timeline. No algorithms, no information bubbles, just the news and blogs you really want to see. - Follow Any Source: From the largest national newspapers to the smallest local blogs or specialised sites—as long as there's a feed, you can add it. You decide your media diet. - Super Fast & Visual: Fiper has been completely revamped, is lightning fast and has an attractive, photo-centric design that is more reminiscent of Instagram than a traditional RSS reader. - Child's Play: Just enter a website's URL and Fiper's smart algorithm will automatically find the RSS feed for you. No more searching for technical links! Rediscover the news on your own terms. Download Fiper and experience how intuitive, fast and easy it can be to follow all your favourite media.
NewsFlash
A fast, modern RSS reader designed for a clean, distraction-free news experience. Organize articles with tags, filter content, and search your entire feed. Offers custom push notifications and developer-friendly features.
- Clean, distraction-free reading experience
- Customizable tags and filtering
- Full-text search across articles
- Keyword blocking for unwanted topics
- Custom push notifications
- iCloud Sync for private data backup
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Your sources. Less noise. NewsFlash is an independent RSS reader for people who want to choose what they read, without an algorithm, ads, tracking, or a separate account. Bring the websites, blogs, and links you care about into one organized library on iPhone and iPad. Filter out what doesn't interest you and keep what does. FOLLOW YOUR SOURCES Subscribe to RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds. Paste a website or feed address, preview its articles, or start with suggested feeds. Import and export your subscriptions with OPML. CONTROL THE NOISE Hide articles that match words or phrases in their title, summary, or URL. Apply a filter to one feed or your whole library, and preview what it matches before you save it. The source stays; only the stories you don't want disappear. KEEP MORE THAN A BOOKMARK Save articles for later, add tags and personal notes, and organize feeds in nested folders. Search across titles, sources, tags, and notes to find things again. SAVE LINKS FROM ANYWHERE Share a page from Safari or any other app straight into NewsFlash, even if you don't follow its source. READ IT YOUR WAY Choose Hero, Full, Compact, or Text Only layouts, with separate settings for each feed. Light and Dark Mode, larger text, and Safari Reader on supported websites help you read comfortably. Seen and read are tracked separately. YOUR READING, WITHIN REACH Your library syncs through your own iCloud account. Get to headlines and saved articles with widgets, Siri, Shortcuts, Control Center, and Spotlight, and choose which feeds may notify you. On iPad, a sidebar keeps your folders and tags in view. Good to know: saved articles are kept when older articles are removed automatically, but saving doesn't store an offline copy of the full webpage. Feed alerts depend on refresh timing, and iOS manages background refresh. An independent RSS reader, made by Michael Steurer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fiper at none against NewsFlash's 3. Fiper also leads on review sentiment (83% vs 67%) and ratings volume (50 vs 6). NewsFlash's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. NewsFlash sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Fiper asks for nothing beyond the download.
NewsFlash holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fiper has 50 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Fiper's written reviews are positive against 67% of NewsFlash's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Fiper ships an update every 3 weeks, NewsFlash monthly. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.
| Parameter | Fiper | NewsFlash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (50 ratings) | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.8% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 50 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Edeas | Michael Steurer |
Customer experience
Fiper
NewsFlash
In-app purchases
Fiper
No in-app purchases
NewsFlash
- Espresso$0.99
- Cappuccino$2.99
- Specialty Coffee Aeropress$4.99








