Feedbin vs lire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Feedbin
Stay updated with your favorite content from RSS feeds, YouTube channels, and email newsletters all in one place. Organize and manage your subscriptions to follow your passions without missing a beat.
- RSS feed reader
- YouTube channel following
- Email newsletter aggregation
- Subscription management
- Content organization
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Follow your passions with RSS, YouTube, and email newsletters. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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: Feedbin at Free against lire's $9.99. lire's advantage is review sentiment (68% vs 46%) and rating (4.4 vs 4.2). On ratings volume, 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
Feedbin is free to download; lire costs $9.99 up front. Feedbin sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and lire sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
lire holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 78 and 151 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 46% of Feedbin's written reviews are positive against 68% of lire's.
Feedbin ships an update every 6 weeks, lire fortnightly. Both last shipped on September 28, 2026.
| Parameter | Feedbin | lire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $9.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (78 ratings) | 4.4 (151 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.9% of reviews | 68.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 78 | 151 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #3 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 160 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Feedbin, Inc. | Kunal Sood |
Customer experience
Feedbin
lire
Bugs and requests
Feedbin
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
Feedbin
- Feedbin Monthly$5.991 Month
- Feedbin Yearly$59.991 Year
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







