Comparison

NewsFlash vs Smart

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

Head to head
About

NewsFlash

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
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Your sources. Less noise. NewsFlash is an independent RSS reader for people who want to choose what they read, without an algorithm, ads, tracking, or a separate account. Bring the websites, blogs, and links you care about into one organized library on iPhone and iPad. Filter out what doesn't interest you and keep what does. FOLLOW YOUR SOURCES Subscribe to RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds. Paste a website or feed address, preview its articles, or start with suggested feeds. Import and export your subscriptions with OPML. CONTROL THE NOISE Hide articles that match words or phrases in their title, summary, or URL. Apply a filter to one feed or your whole library, and preview what it matches before you save it. The source stays; only the stories you don't want disappear. KEEP MORE THAN A BOOKMARK Save articles for later, add tags and personal notes, and organize feeds in nested folders. Search across titles, sources, tags, and notes to find things again. SAVE LINKS FROM ANYWHERE Share a page from Safari or any other app straight into NewsFlash, even if you don't follow its source. READ IT YOUR WAY Choose Hero, Full, Compact, or Text Only layouts, with separate settings for each feed. Light and Dark Mode, larger text, and Safari Reader on supported websites help you read comfortably. Seen and read are tracked separately. YOUR READING, WITHIN REACH Your library syncs through your own iCloud account. Get to headlines and saved articles with widgets, Siri, Shortcuts, Control Center, and Spotlight, and choose which feeds may notify you. On iPad, a sidebar keeps your folders and tags in view. Good to know: saved articles are kept when older articles are removed automatically, but saving doesn't store an offline copy of the full webpage. Feed alerts depend on refresh timing, and iOS manages background refresh. An independent RSS reader, made by Michael Steurer.

About

Smart

Features
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Smart-Flash permet de recevoir des informations de votre commune, vos associations, vos artisans, vos commerçants préférés. Il n'y a pas besoin de s'inscrire, vous choisissez les groupes a suivre et c'est tout. Dès qu'un groupe publiera une nouvelle information, vous en serez averti via une notification. C'est simple et pratique.

Screenshots

NewsFlash4 screens
Smart4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Smart at none against NewsFlash's 3. Smart also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On price, update cadence, 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

Both are free to download. NewsFlash sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Smart asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NewsFlash ships an update monthly, Smart every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
NewsFlash versus Smart: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNewsFlashSmart
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyMonthly — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB68 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMichael SteurerAPITIKI

In-app purchases

3 purchases

NewsFlash

One-time3
  • Espresso$0.99
  • Cappuccino$2.99
  • Specialty Coffee Aeropress$4.99
None

Smart

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NewsFlash free?
NewsFlash is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Smart free?
Smart is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NewsFlash or Smart have ads?
Neither NewsFlash nor Smart shows ads.
Which is updated more often, NewsFlash or Smart?
NewsFlash ships an update monthly, and Smart every 5 weeks. Most recently, NewsFlash was updated on November 13, 2026 and Smart on November 7, 2026.

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