Unread vs Flux News Reader

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/

Flux News is the native Miniflux reader for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Built entirely in SwiftUI — not a cross-platform port or web wrapper — it looks and feels at home on every Apple device, and brings a fast, focused reading experience to the self-hosted RSS server you already control. Connect once with your Miniflux server address and API key. Your feeds, folders, stars, and read state stay in sync across all your devices — no third-party cloud, no account to create, no tracking. DEEP MINIFLUX INTEGRATION • Manage everything Miniflux offers from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac — no web interface needed • Edit each feed's Miniflux rules: scraper rules, rewrite rules with a built-in rule builder, URL rewrites, and block and keep filters • Per-feed fetch options: full-content crawler, user agent, cookies, HTTP authentication, proxy, and more • Add feeds with discovery, organise folders, and import or export OPML • Refresh feeds on the server, flush history, and save articles to your Miniflux integrations • Read state, stars, folders, and unread counts sync both ways through Miniflux itself A REAL MAC APP • Designed for macOS, not adapted from iPad: native menu bar, Settings window, resizable windows, and widgets • Keyboard-first reading: J/K next and previous, M read/unread, B star, O open in browser, ⌘R refresh, ⌘K mark all as read • One free download covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac FAST AND OFFLINE • Opens instantly to your feeds — even before syncing • Read everything offline; mark, star, and save without a connection and changes sync when you're back online • Search your articles instantly on device READING, YOUR WAY • Newspaper, List, and Topics layouts • Clean article view with optional full-content fetch • 10 fonts including New York, Charter, Georgia, Iowan Old Style, and Palatino • 7 themes including Sepia, Midnight, OLED Dark, and two high-contrast themes, with light, dark, and automatic modes • Inline YouTube, podcasts, and video, with AirPlay and Now Playing controls SMART, ON-DEVICE INTELLIGENCE • Articles are automatically tagged by topic with Apple Intelligence — browse tags just like folders • Bullet-point summaries of any article, even long reads • Everything runs on your device; article text never leaves it LISTEN TO YOUR ARTICLES • Read aloud with system voices, or natural ElevenLabs voices using your own key • Background playback with lock screen and headphone controls MADE FOR EACH DEVICE • iPhone: swipe between feeds, articles, and the reader; pull to refresh; home and lock screen widgets; share extension to add feeds from Safari • iPad: side-by-side split view with keyboard support • Mac: menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, and widgets PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No analytics, no tracking, no ads • Connects only to your Miniflux server • Send feedback from Settings (or the Help menu on Mac) — it includes app and OS versions, never your server address or API key REQUIREMENTS • A Miniflux server — self-hosted, or a hosted account at miniflux.app • iOS 17, iPadOS 17, or macOS 14 or later • Tagging and summaries require iOS 26 or macOS 26 on an Apple Intelligence–capable device Flux News is an independent app and is not affiliated with the Miniflux project.