Comparison

NetNewsWire vs daily.dev

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

Head to head
About

NetNewsWire

This app aggregates articles from your favorite blogs and news sites, offering a faster and more organized way to consume content. It provides control over your news feed, eliminating the need to visit multiple websites or rely on social media algorithms. Enjoy a streamlined reading experience with customizable features and syncing capabilities.

Highlights
  • Direct feed downloading
  • iCloud and third-party syncing
  • Customizable article themes
  • Reader view
  • Starred articles
  • Smart feeds
  • Home screen widgets
Currently charting
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It’s like podcasts, but for reading. NetNewsWire is a free and open source RSS reader. It shows you articles from your favorite blogs and news sites and keeps track of what you’ve read. It’s fast, stable, and accessible. If you’ve been going from site to site in your browser looking for new articles to read — or counting on the unreliable algorithms of corporate social media — let NetNewsWire bring you the news you want. It’s easy and fun. And it puts you, not billionaires, in control of your news. Features: * Direct feed downloading * Syncing via iCloud, Feedbin, Feedly, BazQux, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, and FreshRSS * Multiple accounts * Custom article themes * Reader view * Share sheet * Starred articles * All Unread and Today smart feeds * Folders * Importing and exporting OPML feed lists * Background refreshing * Searching * Hiding read articles * Timeline customization * Keyboard shortcuts * Context menus * Home screen widgets for today, unread, and starred articles * Share extension

About

daily.dev

Get a personalized feed of developer news, articles, and discussions tailored to your interests. Discover new tools and insights across AI, React, DevOps, and more from thousands of sources.

Highlights
  • Personalized developer feed
  • AI-powered content curation
  • Community discussions (Squads)
  • Bookmarks and reading streaks
  • Developer profile
Features
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Your whole dev world, distilled into one personalized feed.  daily.dev pulls the best engineering articles, tutorials, and discussions from 2,000+ trusted sources — including the GitHub Blog, Dev.to, freeCodeCamp, and hundreds more — then AI and a community of over a million developers cut it down to what actually matters for your stack. Signal, not noise.  The more you read, the sharper it gets. It learns from you, and from what a million other developers find worth reading.  :trophy: Product Hunt — Golden Kitty Award winner  :star: 18,000+ GitHub stars, fully open source at github.com/dailydotdev  WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU OPEN THE APP  :one: Your feed is already yours. Technical articles, tutorials, and community discussions from 2,000+ sources, matched to your stack from the start.  :two: Caught up in minutes, not hours. AI summarizes the noise away and a million developers upvote the good stuff to the top — so you read what's worth reading and skip the rest.  :three: Every article is a conversation. See what other engineers think, add your take, and learn from the comments — the real insight is often there.  :four: A calm daily habit. Build a reading streak, unlock achievements, and grow a developer profile over time. Come back because it's useful, not because it nags.  :five: Find your people. Join a Squad around React, DevOps, AI, cloud, mobile, open source — or anything you care about. Share links, start discussions, learn together. Public or private.  :bulb: WHY IT FEELS DIFFERENT  Most tools in this space are glorified RSS readers or pure-algorithm feeds. daily.dev is different because the community is built in.  Developers upvote articles, which teaches the system what actually matters — not just what's new, but what's good. Discussions add context you can't get from reading alone. Squads create focused curation around every topic and language. And AI personalizes on top of all of it, matched to your specific stack.  Think of it as a feed curated by a senior engineer who shares your exact interests.  :hammer_and_wrench: FEATURES (all free)  • Personalized reading from 2,000+ sources, powered by AI + community signals  • Multiple views: Popular, Upvoted, Discussed, Following  • Custom feeds for different interests and stacks  • Squads — communities around any topic  • Reading streaks, achievements, and leaderboards  • DevCard — a shareable developer identity card  • Bookmarks with folders  • Search across millions of posts  • Dark mode and light mode  • Syncs seamlessly across all your devices  :dart: WHO IT'S FOR  • Developers who want what matters without opening 10 sites every morning  • Engineers who learn better when they can see what peers think is worth reading  • Anyone who wants a daily reading habit that builds over time  • Teams that share and discuss technical articles in private Squads  :gem: daily.dev Plus  Unlock premium features:  • Presidential Briefing — a personal agent scans the landscape daily, analyzes 100+ posts, and delivers one concise briefing  • Smart Titles — rewrites clickbait headlines so you know what you're actually clicking  • Clickbait Shield — detects and replaces misleading titles automatically

Screenshots

NetNewsWire4 screens
daily.dev4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NetNewsWire at none against daily.dev's 14. NetNewsWire also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.7 vs 4.3). daily.dev's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. daily.dev sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. NetNewsWire asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

NetNewsWire holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NetNewsWire has 882 ratings behind it against 40, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of NetNewsWire's written reviews are positive against 68% of daily.dev's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NetNewsWire ships an update monthly, daily.dev every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 12, 2026.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
NetNewsWire versus daily.dev: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNetNewsWiredaily.dev
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (882 ratings) — better4.3 (40 ratings)
Positive reviews84.0% of reviews — better68.4% of reviews
Number of ratings882 — better40
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#133 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.016.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB20 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperBrent SimmonsDaily Dev Ltd

Customer experience

NetNewsWire

All ratings882 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews326 reviews
Positive84.0%
Neutral7.7%
Negative8.3%

daily.dev

All ratings40 ratings
Positive77.5%
Neutral10.0%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews57 reviews
Positive68.4%
Neutral12.3%
Negative19.3%

Bugs and requests

NetNewsWire

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

daily.dev

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Buttons not working
  • Unable to sign up

Requested features

1 request
  • Web app option

In-app purchases

None

NetNewsWire

No in-app purchases

14 purchases

daily.dev

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly$9.991 Month
  • Annual Special$59.991 Year
  • Annual$89.991 Year
One-time11
  • 100 Cores$1.49
  • 300 Cores$4.49
  • 600 Cores$8.99
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  • 1,200 Cores$17.99
  • 2,400 Cores$34.99
  • 5,000 Cores$72.99
  • 8,000 Cores$114.99
  • 12,000 Cores$174.99
  • 25,000 Cores$364.99
  • 50,000 Cores$549.00
  • 100,000 Cores$999.99

Questions

Is NetNewsWire free?
NetNewsWire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is daily.dev free?
daily.dev is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, NetNewsWire or daily.dev?
NetNewsWire is rated higher. NetNewsWire averages 4.7 out of 5 from 882 ratings, while daily.dev averages 4.3 from 40 ratings.
Do NetNewsWire or daily.dev have ads?
daily.dev shows ads; NetNewsWire does not.
Which is updated more often, NetNewsWire or daily.dev?
NetNewsWire ships an update monthly, and daily.dev every 10 days. Most recently, NetNewsWire was updated on October 12, 2026 and daily.dev on October 12, 2026.

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