Feedbin vs trickle
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 through RSS feeds, YouTube channels, and email newsletters. Organize and manage your subscriptions to follow your passions.
- RSS feed aggregation
- YouTube channel following
- Email newsletter management
- Content organization
- Subscription management
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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/
trickle
A podcast player and feed reader with a unique dark cyberpunk interface. It allows users to stream or download episodes, manage playback, and read various feed types including RSS, Atom, and JSON. Public YouTube videos can be watched without ads.
- Podcast search and subscription
- Stream or download episodes
- Customizable playback queue
- Global playback speed control
- Sleep timers and playback skipping
- Read RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds
- Follow YouTube channels and Nostr profiles
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trickle is a podcast player and feed reader with a dark cyberpunk interface. Podcasts • Search the Apple Podcasts catalog and view shows before subscribing • Stream or download episodes • Build and reorder your Up next queue • Resume from saved progress • Use global playback speeds from 1x to 2x • Set sleep timers, bookmarks, intro skip, and outro skip • Search timed transcripts and tap a segment to seek • Read chapters and show notes • Control playback from the Lock Screen • See download storage and remove played or all downloads Feeds • Read RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed • Follow public YouTube channels and playlists • Follow verified posts from Nostr profiles • Read articles in a clean reader view • Save readable article text for offline use • Search, filter, and sort a source or category • Group non-podcast sources into categories • Share a feed or website to trickle from another app Public YouTube videos play without ads when supported, with the official player as a fallback. Use Picture in Picture to keep listening while using other apps or when the screen is locked. Import and export OPML files, or make a local backup of your subscriptions and app data. trickle does not collect your information.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: trickle at 5.0 against Feedbin's 4.2. trickle also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2) and update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). Feedbin's advantage is ratings volume (78 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. trickle asks for nothing beyond the download.
trickle 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 monthly, trickle every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Feedbin | trickle |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Feedbin, Inc. | Parmesh Krishen |
Customer experience
Feedbin
trickle
In-app purchases
Feedbin
- Feedbin Monthly$5.991 Month
- Feedbin Yearly$59.991 Year
trickle
No in-app purchases









