Watch Feeds vs WatchFeed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Watch Feeds
Browse RSS feeds directly on your Apple Watch, even without your iPhone. Read full articles, view images, and receive notifications for breaking news. Syncs with various services and offers offline reading capabilities.
- Browse RSS feeds on Apple Watch
- Offline reading with cached content
- Fetch full article content
- Image viewer with zoom
- Search and add new feeds
- Syncs with multiple RSS services
- Notifications and complications
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Watch Feeds is an independent app for your Apple Watch. With Watch Feeds, you can browse your RSS feeds right on your watch, without your iPhone nearby. You Control Your Feeds: Watch Feeds gives you complete control over your subscriptions. You can read articles from the sites you are interested in and can easily unsubscribe from the feeds if you don't enjoy them. Read using Wifi or LTE: Watch Feeds can fetch articles via Wifi or LTE, without your iPhone nearby. It will also cache the feed contents and allow you to continue reading even when you don't have an internet connection. Always Stay Up to Date: Unlike other news apps, Watch Feeds not only shows you the headlines! Most of the websites will automatically provide you with an excerpt or summary. However, if you want to read more, Watch Feeds will fetch the full article content for you. Image Viewer: Watch Feeds will automatically find the image from the article. If you want to see the details of the image, simply double taps the image and use Digital Crown to zoom. Search and Add Feeds: Discover interesting feeds with Watch Feeds. Discover new feeds by category, or use the text field to search feeds. Read When You Have Time: Found an interesting article? Use actions to add the article to Read Later or send it to your iPhone! This allows you to find them easily and read them when you have free time. Notifications & Complications: Stay connected! Watch Feeds will send you notifications and complications refresh to make sure you never miss any important news! Actions (iPhone app & Pro unlock required): Actions allow you to share/save an article within your watch! Currently, Watch Feeds supports the following actions: Read Later Share Open in Browser Send to iPhone New Mastodon Post Send to Instapaper Send to Pocket Send to Raindrop Send to Tagpacker Send to Readwise Send to Omnivore Remind Me Later Translate Watch Feeds supports the following syncing services: Inoreader The Old Reader NewsBlur BazQux Reader Feedbin Fever Tiny Tiny RSS FreshRSS iCloud Local (Use without syncing) Sync Read (A very simple syncing service that requires Sign in with Apple)
WatchFeed
This app brings the Feedly RSS reader experience to your Apple Watch. Access your feeds, mark articles as read, and save them to boards directly from your wrist. It also offers customizable complications for quick access to top stories or unread counts.
- Feedly integration
- Access All and Favourites feeds
- Mark as Read functionality
- Save to Board feature
- Top Story complication
- Unread Count complication
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WatchFeed brings the beloved news reader Feedly to the Apple Watch. With many features similar to those that the iPhone app provides like Feeds, the All feed, the Favourites feed, Mark as Read and Save to Board, WatchFeed is the best RSS reader with Feedly integration available for the Apple Watch. WatchFeed also supports all complications. There is a Top Story complication that shows a popular article on the Graphic and Modular Watch faces and an Unread Count complication on all Watch faces.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Watch Feeds at Free against WatchFeed's $0.99. Watch Feeds also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (83% vs 67%). WatchFeed's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On 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
Watch Feeds is free to download; WatchFeed costs $0.99 up front. Watch Feeds sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. WatchFeed asks for nothing beyond the download.
WatchFeed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Watch Feeds has 26 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Watch Feeds's written reviews are positive against 67% of WatchFeed's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Watch Feeds ships an update monthly, WatchFeed every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Watch Feeds | WatchFeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #16 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, Apple Watch | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kevin Guan | Nienhuis Development |
Customer experience
Watch Feeds
WatchFeed
In-app purchases
Watch Feeds
- Unlock Pro$3.99
WatchFeed
No in-app purchases








