Unread vs FeedStash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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/
FeedStash
Manage your RSS feeds and saved articles from a self-hosted server. This open-source app syncs your content across devices, offering offline reading and customizable organization. No accounts, ads, or tracking are involved.
- Self-hosted server required
- RSS/Atom feed management
- Save links and notes
- Offline reading
- Customizable appearance
- Search saved content
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The RSS feeds you follow and the things you save for later, in one app, on a server you run yourself. FeedStash is the iPhone and iPad app for your own FeedStash server: free, open source, and one Docker container on a home server, NAS or VPS. Your feeds, saved pages and read state live there, not with us, so every device agrees. No account, no ads, no tracking. YOUR SERVER You need a FeedStash server to use this app. Setting one up takes one Docker command: github.com/LiftbridgeLabs/feedstash FEEDS * RSS and Atom feeds in folders, with unread counts * Swipe between articles, or jump to the next unread * Swipe to mark read, star or save to your stash * Mark read by age, with undo * Full articles for feeds that only send a summary * Offline reading, images included THE STASH * Save links, notes and pictures from any app * A readable copy of every saved page, even if the site goes away * Folders, tags and smart lists * List, grid or tiles * Search everything you've kept ON iPAD * A layout made for the bigger screen MAKE IT YOURS * Nine color schemes, light or dark * Three list spacings and adjustable text size The server also gives you a web app, and imports from OPML, Feedly and bookmark files.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Unread at 4.6 against FeedStash's 4.0. Unread also leads on ratings volume (443 vs 2). FeedStash's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and review sentiment (100% vs 72%). 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. Unread sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. FeedStash asks for nothing beyond the download.
Unread holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Unread has 443 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 72% of Unread's written reviews are positive against 100% of FeedStash's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Unread ships an update every 8 days, FeedStash weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Unread | FeedStash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (443 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 443 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Golden Hill Software | Liftbridge Labs LLC |
Customer experience
Unread
FeedStash
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
FeedStash
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
FeedStash
No in-app purchases









