Comparison

Elytra vs Mega Corp.

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

Head to head
About

Elytra

A privacy-focused RSS reader for iOS and macOS that offers native article rendering, advanced search, and cross-device synchronization. It strips tracking scripts and provides customizable appearance options for a clean reading experience.

Highlights
  • Privacy-focused design
  • Native article and image rendering
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Search within articles
  • Customizable appearance
  • Mute filters
  • Widgets
Features
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Elytra is a private RSS reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Follow the news sites and blogs you choose, read them in a clean native reader with every tracker stripped out, and keep everything in sync across your devices. Elytra is a paid app: every new account starts with a 14-day free trial, after which you can subscribe or buy a one-time lifetime licence. WHY ELYTRA PRIVATE BY DESIGN: Your account is created automatically. There is no email, no password and no personal information. A random account ID and anonymous crash reports are the only data Elytra uses, and only to sync your feeds and keep the app stable. NO TRACKING: Elytra removes tracking scripts and tracking pixels from every article, so what you read stays between you and your device. NATIVE READER: Articles are rendered with native iOS text and image views, not a web view. That means Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, text selection across paragraphs, syntax-highlighted code blocks and fast scrolling on long articles. SYNC: Your feeds, folders, read state and bookmarks sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac through Elytra's own service. The Mac app is a separate download on the Mac App Store. PUSH NOTIFICATIONS: Get real-time alerts from blogs that support the WebSub protocol, and near real-time local notifications from the ones that do not. FULL-TEXT ARTICLES: When a feed only ships a summary, Elytra can fetch the full article for you. SEARCH: Search for a feed, then an article, then a phrase inside the article. Elytra was the first RSS reader to search within articles. MUTE FILTERS: Hide topics, spoilers and keywords you do not want in your timeline. OPML: Import your subscriptions from another reader, and export them at any time. OFFLINE BOOKMARKS: Bookmarked articles are stored on your device, so you can read them without a connection. FEED FORMATS: RSS, Atom and JSON Feed are all supported. IMAGE LOADING: Choose when images load to save mobile data, or load them on demand. APPEARANCE: Light and dark themes, a choice of serif and sans-serif fonts, and support for custom fonts installed on your device. LINKED HEADERS: When an author links section headers, Elytra lets you share a link straight to that section. WIDGETS: Four widgets bring your favourite feeds and latest updates to your Home Screen and Lock Screen. ——— Elytra uses its own sync service and cannot connect to Feedly, Inoreader, iCloud or other RSS syncing services. ——— Terms: https://elytra.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://elytra.app/privacy/

About

Mega Corp.

Features
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The Mega News App features updates from the tchop blog, curated social media posts, interesting articles from the publishing, media and corporate communications world as well as quotes from the leading minds of todays digital world. tchop.io is the mobile communication hub for your employees, executives, subscribers, members, fans or followers. Get in touch with us anytime if you're interested or apply for an account right inside the app. tchop combines content creation and curation with rich community features in a new way. You can include external content as seamless as creating your own. We make it easy to implement all the content and services you already have: from your blog, intranet, website or any CMS. Our platform includes a secure real time messaging platform in your own look and feel. It covers all the features you are used to from the market’s leading chat apps and gives you full control about the communication inside your team or enterprise. tchop is built for a mobile content generation defined by social networks. It lets you create curated content feeds from all kinds of sources with just a few clicks - on any device. We provide you with your own customized employee app, news app or member app so you can concentrate on delivering the right content to the right users. It’s perfect for: INTERNAL COMMUNICATION - Use as an employee app to serve your workforce with daily updates on a real time communication hub CONTENT MARKETING - Curate and present daily content and news to your most valuable users. Integrate the tchop output stream easily on your website, intranet or blog based on our API MOBILE COMMUNITIES - Improve your digital product portfolio with native apps. tchop provides a full App-as-a-Service solution, which is perfect for special interest publishers, creators, enterprises and publishers of any size.

Screenshots

Elytra4 screens
Mega Corp.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mega Corp. at none against Elytra's 9. Mega Corp. also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). Elytra's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 6 months). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Elytra sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Mega Corp. asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Elytra ships an update fortnightly, Mega Corp. every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 19, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Elytra versus Mega Corp.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElytraMega Corp.
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (9 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews44.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings9 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS26.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB76 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperNikhil Nigadetchop GmbH

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Elytra

Subscriptions4
  • Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Pro - Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$10.491 Year
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  • Pro - Yearly7 Days trial$20.001 Year
One-time5
  • Free TrialFree
  • 1 Month Subscription$0.99
  • 3 Months Subscription$2.99
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  • 1 Year Subscription$12.99
  • Lifetime Subscription$54.99
None

Mega Corp.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Elytra free?
Elytra is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mega Corp. free?
Mega Corp. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Elytra or Mega Corp. have ads?
Neither Elytra nor Mega Corp. shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Elytra or Mega Corp.?
Elytra ships an update fortnightly, and Mega Corp. every 6 months. Most recently, Elytra was updated on September 19, 2026 and Mega Corp. on September 9, 2026.

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