NetNewsWire vs Corvus RSS Reader for Safari
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Direct feed downloading
- iCloud and third-party syncing
- Customizable article themes
- Reader view
- Starred articles
- Smart feeds
- Home screen widgets
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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
Corvus RSS Reader for Safari
A privacy-focused RSS and Atom feed reader for Apple devices. Subscribe to websites, YouTube channels, and blogs, and organize content with folders, tags, and smart filters. Offers multiple view modes and extensive customization for a distraction-free reading experience.
- RSS & Atom feed subscription
- YouTube channel subscriptions
- Folder and nested sub-folder organization
- Multiple view modes (Magazine, list, card, etc.)
- Article saving (Star, Pin, Read Later)
- Full-text search
- Customizable themes and layouts
- OPML import/export
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Corvus RSS Reader is a privacy-first RSS and Atom feed reader built natively for Safari on macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. Subscribe to your favorite websites, YouTube channels, and blogs, and read everything in one clean, distraction-free interface. FEATURES - RSS & Atom Feeds, Subscribe to any website that publishes a feed. Corvus auto-discovers feeds on the page you're visiting. - Discover Feeds, Browse a curated directory of 450+ feeds across 34 categories. Find popular feeds from 47 countries, or explore the full international catalog. - YouTube Channels, Subscribe to any YouTube channel directly from its page. Handles and custom URLs are resolved automatically. - Folder Organization, Group feeds into folders and nested sub-folders. Keep Tech, News, YouTube, and Design neatly separated. - 5 View Modes, Magazine, list, card, expanded, and full-view layouts. Choose the reading experience that works best for you. - Star, Pin & Read Later, Save articles for later, star your favorites, and pin important items. Built-in smart feeds for quick access. - Keyboard Shortcuts, Navigate, star, refresh, and manage articles entirely from the keyboard. J/K to browse, S to star, V to open, and more. - Full-Text Search, Search across all your articles by title, content, or author. Find anything instantly, even in thousands of articles. - Themes & Customization, Light, dark, and auto themes. Customizable accent colors, font sizes, density settings, and newspaper-style column layouts. - Tags & Smart Filters, Organize articles with custom tags and create smart filters that automatically group content by your rules. - OPML Import & Export, Bring your subscriptions from any other reader, or export them at any time. Your data is always portable. - Feed Health Dashboard, Monitor the health of your subscriptions. See which feeds are active, broken, or slow to update. - 33 Languages, Fully localized in English, Spanish (Spain and Mexico), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal), Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. PRIVACY FIRST No account required. No sign-ups, no cloud sync, no tracking. Your feeds and articles live entirely on your device. Corvus RSS Reader collects zero data. BUILT FOR SAFARI Corvus RSS Reader is not a Chrome extension ported to Safari. It is built specifically for Safari with native performance, no background processes, and zero data collection. Works on Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: NetNewsWire at Free against Corvus RSS Reader for Safari's $0.99. NetNewsWire also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (891 vs 1). Corvus RSS Reader for Safari's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly) and device support (4 vs 2). On ads, in-app purchases and chart position 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
NetNewsWire is free to download; Corvus RSS Reader for Safari costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
NetNewsWire holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NetNewsWire has 891 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
NetNewsWire ships an update monthly, Corvus RSS Reader for Safari every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NetNewsWire | Corvus RSS Reader for Safari |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (891 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 891 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #115 | #113 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | +4 |
| Developer | Brent Simmons | Alejandro Estol |
Customer experience
NetNewsWire
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In-app purchases
NetNewsWire
No in-app purchases
Corvus RSS Reader for Safari
No in-app purchases
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