Comparison

GoodLinks vs Reeder Classic

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

Head to head
About

GoodLinks

Save articles and links for later reading, with a clean, ad-free experience. Organize, highlight, and take notes on your saved content across all your devices. Enjoy a private and customizable way to manage your reading list.

Highlights
  • Save links and articles
  • Ad-free reading experience
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Highlight and take notes
  • Organize with tags and stars
  • Customizable interface
  • Private and secure
Features
Currently charting
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Save links effortlessly. View them later, from anywhere, on all your devices. Sync, organize, and share your links—privately, without ever creating an account. GoodLinks is a powerful bookmarking app with a sleek reading experience. Save the content of the link while eliminating the ads and other clutter. Adding and viewing links is super simple and lightning fast. If you want to dig deeper, GoodLinks can be fully customized. No account. No ads. No creepy spying. GoodLinks just works. KEY FEATURES • Universal App :: GoodLinks is a single app that works on all of your iOS and macOS devices, so you can access your articles anywhere. • No Account :: Sync links, tags, and reading position without needing another web service account. iCloud Sync means all you have to do is install the app. • Simple :: Save articles from anywhere with a powerful Share Sheet extension. GoodLinks is so easy it feels like part of the operating system. • Readability :: Put the emphasis where it belongs—on the article you want to read. GoodLinks extracts the article text and removes web advertisements and other distractions to provide a wonderful reading experience. Pick the perfect font, spacing, and size. • Highlight & Note :: Highlight important information within articles and add notes to them, making it easier for you to remember key passages. • Organize :: Tame a large list with tags and starred articles, so you can always find what you need. You can also search based on title, author, and description. • Actions :: Actions help you manage and share links. You can add article to Starred, share to other apps, export to PDF, plain text or Markdown... Build your own actions to export and share your saved links. • Customize :: Adjust how your links and lists look, change swipe behavior, and more. Tailor GoodLinks to fit your style. • Themes :: Switch between beautiful themes: Light and Sepia for light mode, Dark and Night for dark mode. • Siri Shortcuts :: Deep support of iOS Shortcuts. Save a new link, query links, open a specific view, and more. • Log in to Sites :: Log in to paywalled sites to get full access to their content. • Widgets :: Get quick access to a list, or open a random unread link from your home screen. • Summarization :: Get a summary of any article with Apple Intelligence or external LLM services using your own API keys. • Archive :: The full rich text of each article gets saved in GoodLinks, and your reading history provides a natural archive if you need it. Save as many links as you want. • Private :: Your reading history and favorite articles should only be private by default. GoodLinks doesn’t track you or your information, and nothing is shared online unless you choose to share it. • VoiceOver :: GoodLinks is fully accessible via VoiceOver. GOODLINKS PREMIUM When you purchase GoodLinks today, you will get *permanent* access to all the current features, including any new ones released one year from your date of purchase. After your one year of feature upgrades is up, any new features introduced will require the GoodLinks Premium subscription to unlock. Once unlocked, those features are yours to keep *forever*, even if you choose to unsubscribe right after subscribing. Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://goodlinks.app/privacy/

About

Reeder Classic

This app combines an RSS reader and a read-later client, offering iCloud syncing for your news feeds and saved articles. It features a focus-enhancing reading mode, customizable widgets, and the ability to mark items as read while scrolling. Enjoy a clutter-free reading experience with its reader view.

Highlights
  • RSS feed reader
  • Read later client
  • iCloud syncing
  • Bionic Reading mode
  • Customizable widgets
  • Mark as read on scroll
  • Reader view
Currently charting
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Keep control of your news reading with Reeder Classic, RSS reader and read later client in one app, now with support for iCloud syncing. FEEDS Sync all your feeds and articles with iCloud. Reeder Classic comes with a built-in RSS/Feeds service which will keep everything in sync on all your devices. Of course, this is optional. You can still just use one of the many third-party services supported by Reeder or just RSS (without sync). READ LATER This is Reeder's built-in read later service which stores all your data securely in iCloud. A sharing extension allows you to add links from outside of Reeder. BIONIC READING A higher dimension of reading. With Bionic Reading you read texts with more focus, awareness, and sustainability. Read more about Bionic Reading at bionic-reading.com. WIDGETS View most recent articles, configurable to only show items from feeds, folders, searches (for services that support searches) or tags (for read later services). MARK AS READ ON SCROLL With version 5, Reeder finally supports marking items as read while scrolling. Off by default, this can be enabled on a per-account basis. READER VIEW Enter Reader View (for feed items and read later links that support this) for a clutter-free reading experience directly in Reeder's article viewer. You can enable "Automatic Reader View" on a per-feed basis to always load items of a feed with Reader View. SUPPORTED THIRD-PARTY SERVICES Feedbin, Feedly, FeedHQ, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, Inoreader, BazQux Reader, FreshRSS, Instapaper and Pocket.

Screenshots

GoodLinks4 screens
Reeder Classic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: GoodLinks at 4.7 against Reeder Classic's 4.1. GoodLinks also leads on review sentiment (80% vs 61%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs monthly). Reeder Classic's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and price ($4.99 vs $9.99). On ratings volume, 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

GoodLinks costs $9.99 and Reeder Classic $4.99 up front. GoodLinks sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Reeder Classic asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GoodLinks holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 645 and 839 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of GoodLinks's written reviews are positive against 61% of Reeder Classic's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GoodLinks ships an update fortnightly, Reeder Classic monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
GoodLinks versus Reeder Classic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoodLinksReeder Classic
Price$9.99$4.99 — better
Rating4.7 (645 ratings) — better4.1 (839 ratings)
Positive reviews80.0% of reviews — better61.0% of reviews
Number of ratings645839 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#1 — better#3
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size224 MB27 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperNgoc LuuSilvio Rizzi

Customer experience

GoodLinks

All ratings643 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews535 reviews
Positive80.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative12.0%

Reeder Classic

All ratings820 ratings
Positive75.7%
Neutral5.9%
Negative18.4%
Written reviews525 reviews
Positive61.0%
Neutral11.8%
Negative27.2%

User reviews

GoodLinks

From 645 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Fast and responsive
  • 🔒 Respects privacy
  • 👍 Clean and intuitive UI
  • 💡 Useful tagging and organization features
  • 👍 Seamless sync across devices

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Syncing issues between devices
  • 🐛 Inconsistent article rendering
  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs reported
  • 💡 Lack of annotation/highlighting features
  • 💡 Missing folder organization option

Reeder Classic

From 839 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Smooth and fast
  • 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
  • 🔒 Secure with iCloud sync
  • 💡 Useful read later feature
  • 👍 Minimalist and clean design

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Sync issues with iCloud
  • 🐛 Background refresh not working
  • 🐛 Occasional crashes or bugs
  • 🐛 Compatibility issues with older devices
  • 🐛 Slow sync for large feed counts

Bugs and requests

GoodLinks

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Syncing problems between devices
  • Crashes and freezes reported
  • Inconsistent article rendering

Requested features

5 requests
  • Annotation and highlighting support
  • Folder-based organization
  • Improved search and filtering
  • PDF export and annotation
  • RSS feed integration

Reeder Classic

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Articles not loading properly
  • Inconsistent behavior when switching between articles
  • Unreliable background sync
  • Issues with Twitter integration

Requested features

6 requests
  • Ability to filter feeds by keywords
  • Option to change app icon
  • Support for more languages
  • Tighter integration with Matter app
  • Offline reading mode
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  • Text-to-speech support

In-app purchases

6 purchases

GoodLinks

Subscriptions1
  • Annual Feature Upgrade$4.991 Year
One-time5
  • Small Tip$0.99
  • Nice Tip$2.99
  • Generous Tip$4.99
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  • Massive Tip$9.99
  • Amazing Tip$19.99
None

Reeder Classic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GoodLinks free?
GoodLinks costs $9.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Reeder Classic free?
Reeder Classic costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GoodLinks or Reeder Classic?
GoodLinks is rated higher. GoodLinks averages 4.7 out of 5 from 645 ratings, while Reeder Classic averages 4.1 from 839 ratings.
Do GoodLinks or Reeder Classic have ads?
Neither GoodLinks nor Reeder Classic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GoodLinks or Reeder Classic?
GoodLinks ships an update fortnightly, and Reeder Classic monthly. Most recently, GoodLinks was updated on November 6, 2026 and Reeder Classic on November 7, 2026.
Which is more popular, GoodLinks or Reeder Classic?
GoodLinks currently peaks at #1 in the App Store charts, and Reeder Classic at #3. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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