Stream vs lire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stream
Consolidate all your news feeds into a single, unified timeline. Offers a clean interface, easy import of existing lists, and support for open reading standards for a fresh user experience.
- Unified feed timeline
- Simple user interface
- Import existing lists
- Supports open reading standards
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With Stream all your feeds appear as a unified timeline. With its simple user interface, ability to import existing lists, and support for open reading standards, Stream is a great choice if you're looking for a different experience.
lire
This app provides full-text RSS feeds, converting partial feeds into complete articles. Read content offline after initial caching. It offers standalone use or syncs with iCloud and various popular RSS services.
- Full-text RSS feed conversion
- Offline reading of cached feeds
- Standalone feed reader
- iCloud sync
- Sync with multiple RSS services
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Love RSS feeds? So do we!! RSS feeds are a great way to follow updates on your favorite website. However, some sites set up their feeds to only show a portion of each entry, you know, to get you to click through to their actual website. We find that really annoying, and we're sure you do too. Which is why, unlike other RSS feed readers, that either push you into a browser (in-app or otherwise), or depend on third party text parsing services and require you to be online to fetch the full text of one article at a time (which makes it no different from having to click/tap through to a website), in lire, you get your favorite RSS feeds as they should've been. You don't need to click through to any website (though, you do still have the option to, if you really wanted). It takes your favorite partial feeds, does its magic, and converts them in to full feeds, so you don't have to click/tap on those annoying 'Read more' or 'Continue reading' links. Once they're cached, you don't even need to be connected to read your full-text feeds. Use as a standalone feed reader, sync with iCloud, or, sync with any of the several services: Feedly, Feedbin, FeedHQ, The Old Reader, Inoreader, BazQux Reader, Newsblur, Feed Wrangler, FreshRSS, Miniflux, Nextcloud News, Tiny Tiny RSS.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Stream at Free against lire's $9.99. Stream also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 68%). lire's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and chart position (#11 vs unranked). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Stream is free to download; lire costs $9.99 up front. Stream sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and lire sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Stream holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: lire has 151 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Stream's written reviews are positive against 68% of lire's.
Stream ships an update every 3 months, lire fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on August 1, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stream | lire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (21 ratings) — better | 4.4 (151 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 68.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 | 151 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #11 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 160 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Rob Fahrni | Kunal Sood |
Customer experience
Stream
lire
Bugs and requests
Stream
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
lire
Reported bugs
7 issues- Crashes on launch
- Incorrect feed display
- Articles not opening
- Overlapping UI elements
- Sync errors with FreshRSS and Wallabag
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- Revert to old articles after sync
- VoiceOver issues after update
Requested features
9 requests- Bulk unsubscribe option
- Ability to add multiple feeds at once
- Custom keyword filtering
- Highlight/annotate articles
- Embedded video support
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- Automatic article categorization
- Sharing options
- PDF export
- Multilingual support
In-app purchases
Stream
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$1.99
- Large Tip$4.99
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- Enormous Tip$9.99
lire
- Generous Tip$0.99
- Massive Tip$1.99
- Amazing Tip$4.99
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- Humongous Tip$9.99
- Stupendous Tip$19.99








