Comparison

NewsFlash RSS vs Ruby

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

Head to head
About

NewsFlash RSS

A fast, modern RSS reader designed for a clean, distraction-free news experience. Organize articles with tags, filter content, and search your entire feed. Offers custom push notifications and developer-friendly features.

Highlights
  • Clean, distraction-free reading experience
  • Customizable tags and filtering
  • Full-text search across articles
  • Keyword blocking for unwanted topics
  • Custom push notifications
  • iCloud Sync for private data backup
Features
Currently charting
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Stay in control of your news. NewsFlash is a beautifully designed RSS reader that brings all your favorite sources into one fast, clean, distraction-free feed. Why NewsFlash? Fast & Minimal: A clean reading experience without clutter, ads, pop-ups, or algorithmic noise. Read Your Way: Open articles directly in Safari or use the built-in Reader view. Get the full web experience you prefer. Stay Organized: Tag articles with custom labels, filter your feed instantly, and navigate with smooth, scrollable tag chips. Never Lose Track: Clear read/unread indicators and one-tap bookmarking keep important stories in sight. Find Anything: Full-text search across all articles, tags, and feeds. Control Your Feed: Block keywords to automatically remove topics you don’t care about. Perfect For • News lovers following dozens of sites • Professionals staying current in tech, design, finance, science, etc. • Anyone tired of algorithmic feeds and wanting real control again Power Features • Custom Push API: Send rich push notifications via simple HTTP requests • Developer-Friendly: Great for monitoring services, CI/CD pipelines, personal automations, and more Privacy First • iCloud Sync for private, encrypted syncing • No accounts, no tracking, no ads • Your data stays entirely on your device NewsFlash combines elegant design with powerful tools. Simple enough for casual reading. Powerful enough for serious users. Take back control of your information flow. Download NewsFlash today.

About

Ruby

A beautifully designed news reader app offering a personalized home feed based on your chosen topics. Easily discover trending articles, bookmark content for later, and customize your reading experience with language and region settings. Enjoy ad-free content across multiple Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Personalized topic feeds
  • Explore trending articles
  • Bookmark articles for later
  • Customizable region and language
  • Ad-free reading experience
  • iCloud syncing across devices
  • Apple Watch app integration
Features
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Ruby is a beautifully designed news app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision. It's built with a familiar design, so it's simple and easy to use and understand. Ruby works great with your devices, and supports iCloud syncing for a seamless experience across all of them. The app itself has a lot of distinct features, such as being able to choose the topic you want to view on your home feed. If you only want to view technology without the politics, you can. Only interested in sports? There's an option for that too. With the explore page, you can also keep up with the latest trends in your region, or make a quick search for whatever you're interested in. Ruby also offers bookmarks, so you can find an article and come back to it later. We also offer customization. You can easily change the country you're in, or the language you prefer to read. The built in news reader is easy to understand, and provides content from your favorite websites, but without the advertisements and other nonsense. Ruby also offers an Apple Watch app, where you can quickly view headlines on your wrist. The Apple Watch app has the same functionality as the iPhone app, so you can easily read headlines of a specific topic, and more. If you want to suggest features for Ruby, contact me on X (Twitter) @mbrkhrdt. I'm open to suggestions, and want to create the best user experience possible!

Screenshots

NewsFlash RSS4 screens
Ruby4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Ruby at Free against NewsFlash RSS's $0.99. Ruby also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and device support (5 vs 2). NewsFlash RSS's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and review sentiment (67% vs 50%). On ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

Ruby is free to download; NewsFlash RSS costs $0.99 up front. NewsFlash RSS sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Ruby sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.69 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Ruby holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of NewsFlash RSS's written reviews are positive against 50% of Ruby's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NewsFlash RSS ships an update monthly, Ruby every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
NewsFlash RSS versus Ruby: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNewsFlash RSSRuby
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.8 (6 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better4
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#88 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS18.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB8 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperMichael SteurerMBRKHRDT LLC

Customer experience

NewsFlash RSS

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

Ruby

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

NewsFlash RSS

One-time3
  • Espresso$0.99
  • Cappuccino$2.99
  • Specialty Coffee Aeropress$4.99
9 purchases

Ruby

Subscriptions3
  • Ruby Premium - Weekly7 Days trial$0.697 Days
  • Ruby Premium - Monthly$0.991 Month
  • Ruby Premium - Annual$5.991 Year
One-time6
  • Tip Jar - $0.99$0.99
  • Tip Jar - $1.99$1.99
  • Tip Jar - $2.99$2.99
Show 3 more
  • Tip Jar - $4.99$4.99
  • Tip Jar - $9.99$9.99
  • Ruby Premium - Lifetime$17.99

Questions

Is NewsFlash RSS free?
NewsFlash RSS costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Ruby free?
Ruby is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, NewsFlash RSS or Ruby?
Ruby is rated higher. NewsFlash RSS averages 4.8 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Ruby averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do NewsFlash RSS or Ruby have ads?
Neither NewsFlash RSS nor Ruby shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NewsFlash RSS or Ruby?
NewsFlash RSS ships an update monthly, and Ruby every 5 months. Most recently, NewsFlash RSS was updated on September 23, 2026 and Ruby on September 12, 2026.

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