Feedbin vs Clear Reader ™
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/
Clear Reader ™
This app offers a calm and focused way to read curated news feeds offline. It provides tools for managing articles, adjusting the reading experience, and searching cached content, promoting deliberate reading over scrolling.
- Calm, minimal RSS feed interface
- Offline article caching
- Search cached articles
- Save articles for later
- Filter articles by keywords
- Customizable themes and text size
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Clear Reader is a calm native reading app for deliberate news reading. It gives you a quieter way to follow a thoughtfully curated feed, with local tools that make reading more useful than simply opening articles in a browser. Clear Reader is designed to help you read with more focus and less urgency. Features: - Read a curated RSS feed in a calm, minimal interface - Cache articles on device for offline access - Search cached articles by title and summary - Save articles for later reading - Mark articles as read and optionally hide read items - Filter articles with your own blocked keywords - Adjust theme, article text size, and reading density - Browse saved items and archive/history - Open source articles in an in-app web view or browser Clear Reader is built around clarity over urgency, reading over scrolling, and a more thoughtful relationship with news.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Clear Reader ™ at 5.0 against Feedbin's 4.2. Clear Reader ™ also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Feedbin's advantage is ratings volume (78 vs 1). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Feedbin sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month and Clear Reader ™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Clear Reader ™ holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Feedbin has 78 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Feedbin ships an update every 6 weeks, Clear Reader ™ every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Feedbin | Clear Reader ™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (78 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 78 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Feedbin, Inc. | Space 64 LLC |
Customer experience
Feedbin
Clear Reader ™
In-app purchases
Feedbin
- Feedbin Monthly$5.991 Month
- Feedbin Yearly$59.991 Year
Clear Reader ™
- Clear Reader Pro$9.99
