Comparison

Feedbin vs lire

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • RSS feed reader
  • YouTube channel following
  • Email newsletter aggregation
  • Subscription management
  • Content organization
Features
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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/

About

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.

Highlights
  • Full-text RSS feed conversion
  • Offline reading of cached feeds
  • Standalone feed reader
  • iCloud sync
  • Sync with multiple RSS services
Features
Currently charting
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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.

Screenshots

Feedbin4 screens
lire4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Feedbin ships an update every 6 weeks, lire fortnightly. Both last shipped on September 28, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Feedbin versus lire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFeedbinlire
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating4.2 (78 ratings)4.4 (151 ratings) — better
Positive reviews45.9% of reviews68.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings78151 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#3 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB160 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFeedbin, Inc.Kunal Sood

Customer experience

Feedbin

All ratings78 ratings
Positive78.2%
Neutral3.8%
Negative17.9%
Written reviews37 reviews
Positive45.9%
Neutral10.8%
Negative43.2%

lire

All ratings151 ratings
Positive80.1%
Neutral7.9%
Negative11.9%
Written reviews177 reviews
Positive68.4%
Neutral13.6%
Negative18.1%

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
Show 4 more
  • Automatic article categorization
  • Sharing options
  • PDF export
  • Multilingual support

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Feedbin

Subscriptions2
  • Feedbin Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Feedbin Yearly$59.991 Year
5 purchases

lire

One-time5
  • Generous Tip$0.99
  • Massive Tip$1.99
  • Amazing Tip$4.99
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  • Humongous Tip$9.99
  • Stupendous Tip$19.99

Questions

Is Feedbin free?
Feedbin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is lire free?
lire costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Feedbin or lire?
lire is rated higher. Feedbin averages 4.2 out of 5 from 78 ratings, while lire averages 4.4 from 151 ratings.
Do Feedbin or lire have ads?
Neither Feedbin nor lire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Feedbin or lire?
Feedbin ships an update every 6 weeks, and lire fortnightly. Most recently, Feedbin was updated on September 28, 2026 and lire on September 28, 2026.

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