Unread vs ReadAll
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Unread
This app offers a beautiful and intuitive way to read your favorite news and blogs. It features customizable themes, automatic full-text article retrieval, and seamless syncing across devices. Enjoy offline access and integration with various read-later services.
- Beautiful typography and color themes
- Gesture-based navigation
- Automatic full-text article retrieval
- Cross-device syncing with Unread Cloud
- Offline access to cached content
- Integration with read-later services
- Share sheet extensions for subscribing and saving
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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/
ReadAll
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ReadAll is a feed reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Subscribe to websites, blogs, podcasts, YouTube channels, subreddits and GitHub projects, and read them in one list that stays in step on all your devices through iCloud. ReadAll is free, with no ads, no account and no tracking. SUBSCRIBE TO ALMOST ANYTHING • RSS, Atom and JSON Feed • Enter a website's address and ReadAll finds its feeds • YouTube channels, subreddits, and GitHub releases, tags and commits • Import and export your subscriptions as OPML READ • Articles with their pictures and a reading time • Load Full Article brings in the rest of a story when a feed sends only a summary • Choose the font, a sepia or dark theme, the text size and the line width • Podcasts and videos play in the reader; turn an episode into a transcript on your device • The discussion of a Hacker News, Lobsters, Reddit, Stack Exchange or GitHub link, beside the article SUMMARIES, TRANSLATION AND READING ALOUD • The gist of a long article from the on-device model, where Apple Intelligence is available • Translate an article on your device, with its layout intact • Have an article read to you while you keep browsing KEEP UP • Folders in your order, with unread counts • Swipe to mark read or to star, and mark everything above or below as read • Mute keywords you don't want to see • Notifications for the feeds you choose EVERYWHERE • Subscriptions, folders and articles, read and starred, sync through iCloud • Widgets, the Lock Screen too • Siri and Shortcuts, Spotlight, Handoff and Focus filters • On the Mac, an unread count in the menu bar and keyboard shortcuts for everything In English, German, French, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese (Simplified) and Russian; the translations were made with AI. Questions and ideas: support@loshadki.app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Unread at 18.0 against ReadAll's 27.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Unread sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and ReadAll sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Unread ships an update every 8 days, ReadAll weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Unread | ReadAll |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (444 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 72.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 444 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Golden Hill Software | Loshadki, LLC |
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
ReadAll
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Unread
- 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
ReadAll
- Small Tip$1.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99









