Comparison

Unread vs Manifold Markets

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

Head to head
About

Unread

This app is a beautifully designed RSS reader that focuses on a clean reading experience with customizable typography and themes. It offers seamless syncing across devices and integrates with various read-later services, allowing for offline access to cached content.

Highlights
  • Gesture-based navigation
  • Customizable color themes
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Automatic webpage text display
  • Offline access with caching
  • Integration with read-later services
  • Widgets for unread counts
Features
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Rediscover the joy of reading your favorite writers and publications with Unread. Unread is an RSS reader with beautiful typography, comfortable gesture-based navigation, and a variety of color themes. Unread is available for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Unread won the MacStories Selects 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award. Capabilities include: SYNCING: Our free Unread Cloud service keeps your devices in sync. Unread also syncs with Birchfeed, Feedbin, Feedly, Fever, FreshRSS, Gobbler, Inkwell, Inoreader, Miniflux, and NewsBlur. AUTOMATIC WEBPAGE TEXT: For feeds that contain only article summaries, Unread will display the full article text from the webpage. Easily switch between feed text and webpage text for any article, and change the default for individual feeds. WEBSITE ACCOUNTS: For news websites that require an account, sign in and get full webpage text. SUBSCRIBE IN UNREAD: This share sheet extension lets you subscribe to a website’s feeds while visiting that website from Safari or any other web browser. SAVE TO UNREAD: This share sheet extension creates an article in Unread with the contents of the webpage you are visiting from Safari or any other web browser. (Subscription required.) COLOR THEMES: Unread provides a variety of color themes. Choose one theme for light mode and another for dark mode. CACHING: Unread caches webpage text and images for instant loading and offline access. (Subscription required.) READ-LATER SERVICES: Unread can save articles to Anybox, Flyleaf, GoodLinks, Instapaper, Matter, Pinboard, Plinky, Quick Reads, Raindrop.io, Readwise, Safari Reading List, and wallabag. On a device with a hardware keyboard, assign a custom keyboard shortcut to each. (Subscription required.) SHORTCUTS: Perform shortcuts on articles and links inside articles. On a device with a hardware keyboard, assign a custom keyboard shortcut to each. (Subscription required.) --- “Just a gorgeous app.” – John Gruber, Daring Fireball “Most importantly, I should stress again how refreshing it feels to have such a great native experience with Unread. The app is really fast, even when it’s loaded up with hundreds of feeds.” — Niléane Dorffer, MacStories “It’s an RSS reader made with taste. It has great typography, themes, search, and compatibility with the usual suspects. I love having this app on my Mac.” — David Sparks, MacSparky --- Unread has full VoiceOver coverage. Every screen and every feature is available to users with vision impairments: • From any screen you can perform a magic tap, a two-finger double tap, to open a menu of options available for that screen. • When on an article list, there are actions available for each article in the list. After selecting an article, invoke the accessibility rotor and then select “Actions”. There is an action to mark the article read or unread, an action to share the article, and many others. • Use the VoiceOver escape gesture, a two-finger “Z”, to back out of the current screen. --- UNREAD SUBSCRIPTION Unread is a free app. Additional functionality is available with a $29.99 (USD)/year auto-renewing subscription: • Article actions for sending articles directly to supported bookmarking and read later services, and for sharing via email or iMessage. • Ability to execute shortcuts on articles and links. • Caching of webpage text and images. • Widget customization options. • Save to Unread share sheet extension. • Custom app icons. • Premium support. A subscription automatically renews unless it is canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage and cancel your subscriptions by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. Unread’s Terms of Use are available at: https://www.goldenhillsoftware.com/unread/terms-of-use/

About

Manifold Markets

This app offers accurate forecasts on a wide range of topics. Users can trade on these forecasts using play-money, earn if they are correct, and create their own questions to explore their curiosities. It's a platform for social forecasting and prediction.

Highlights
  • Accurate forecasts
  • Trade on forecasts
  • Earn play-money
  • Ask prediction questions
  • Social forecasting
  • Future prediction
Features
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Manifold is the largest social prediction market. Bet with play-money on what happens next — in politics, sports, science, tech, AI, pop culture, and your own life — and find out how well you really know the world. Every market is a question with a probability attached, set by thousands of traders putting their (play) money where their mouth is. Think the crowd is wrong? Trade against it and profit when you're right. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Trade on thousands of live markets, from elections and championships to "will my friend finish their novel this year" • Create your own market on anything in seconds and let the world weigh in • Compete on leaderboards, climb the league ladder, and keep your daily streak alive • Follow friends, comment on markets, and argue about the odds • Get notified when markets you care about move or resolve • Track your portfolio, profit, and forecasting accuracy over time WHY PREDICTION MARKETS? Prices are probabilities, so a market at 70% means traders collectively think there's a 70% chance the event happens. Manifold's forecasts have called elections, sports, and world events with striking accuracy — and you can be part of the signal. WHO IT'S FOR Forecasters, sports fans, politics junkies, news addicts, superforecasters-in-training, and anyone who's ever said "I bet…" and wanted to back it up. FREE TO PLAY Manifold runs entirely on mana, a play-money currency. You start with a free balance and earn more by trading well, creating popular markets, and logging in daily. Mana has no cash value and cannot be withdrawn or exchanged for real money. No gambling, no purchase necessary to play. Join a community of forecasters who take being right seriously — and have fun doing it.

Screenshots

Unread4 screens
Manifold Markets4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Unread at 442 against Manifold Markets's 139. Manifold Markets's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Unread sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Manifold Markets sells 3 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 — 4.6 for Unread against 4.5 for Manifold Markets. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 442 and 139 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Unread's written reviews are positive against 69% of Manifold Markets's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Unread ships an update every 8 days, Manifold Markets fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Unread versus Manifold Markets: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterUnreadManifold Markets
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (442 ratings) — better4.5 (139 ratings)
Positive reviews72.4% of reviews — better68.6% of reviews
Number of ratings442 — better139
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB27 MB
Age rating17++17
DeveloperGolden Hill SoftwareManifold Markets, Inc.

Customer experience

Unread

All ratings442 ratings
Positive89.8%
Neutral2.7%
Negative7.5%
Written reviews170 reviews
Positive72.4%
Neutral8.2%
Negative19.4%

Manifold Markets

All ratings139 ratings
Positive87.8%
Neutral2.9%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive68.6%
Neutral5.7%
Negative25.7%

User reviews

Unread

From 442 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Elegant and intuitive UI
  • 🚀 Fast and responsive
  • 🔒 Secure login integration
  • 📚 Excellent article formatting and readability
  • 💡 Automated full-text article retrieval

Room to improve

  • 💰 Subscription model seen as too expensive
  • 🔀 Inconsistent experience between iOS and iPad versions
  • 🔍 Difficult to discover certain features
  • 🔠 Lack of customization options (e.g., font, theme)

Manifold Markets

From 139 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Great concept and idea
  • 👍 Informative and educational
  • 👍 Fun and addictive
  • 👍 Good UI and design
  • 👍 Responsive and well-made app

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Buggy and glitchy
  • 🐛 Site is down or slows to a crawl constantly
  • 🐛 Inconsistent moderation policies
  • 🐛 Vague polls and subjective resolutions
  • 🐛 App is a port of the mobile website, could be smoother

Bugs and requests

Unread

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Occasional article duplication
  • Issues with 'Keep Unread' feature
  • Text formatting problems in dark mode

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add support for more RSS providers (e.g., Miniflux, FreshRSS)
  • Implement keyboard shortcuts and power-user features
  • Improve information density on iPad layout
  • Introduce a one-time purchase option

Manifold Markets

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Update deleted markets and verification feature doesn't work
  • Stuck on loading screen after account creation
  • Questions vanish after creation
  • Loading bar issue when viewing trades
  • Verification feature errors out
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  • Site is down or slows to a crawl constantly
  • Political markets manipulated by mods
  • Vague polls are subjectively ended
  • Links posted to question descriptions open a bad thumbnail on mobile
  • Cannot save chosen topics when following a topic

Requested features

7 requests
  • More interesting and diverse markets
  • Ability to save drafts of questions
  • Easier way to embed predictions into Obsidian.md
  • Switching tabs shouldn't send back to home page
  • App-specific functions beyond mobile website port
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  • Improve thumbnail display for links on mobile
  • Resume donations feature

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Unread

Subscriptions4
  • Unread Monthly Subscription$4.991 Month
  • Unread Annual Subscription$29.991 Year
  • Unread: Free first year$29.991 Year
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  • Unread: Discounted first year$29.991 Year
3 purchases

Manifold Markets

One-time3
  • 1,000 Mana$14.99
  • 2,500 Mana$35.99
  • 10,000 Mana$142.99

Questions

Is Unread free?
Unread is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Manifold Markets free?
Manifold Markets is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Unread or Manifold Markets?
Unread is rated higher. Unread averages 4.6 out of 5 from 442 ratings, while Manifold Markets averages 4.5 from 139 ratings.
Do Unread or Manifold Markets have ads?
Neither Unread nor Manifold Markets shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Unread or Manifold Markets?
Unread ships an update every 8 days, and Manifold Markets fortnightly. Most recently, Unread was updated on October 13, 2026 and Manifold Markets on October 12, 2026.

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