NewsFlash vs Artykul
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Artykul
Consolidate your favorite websites, blogs, and social feeds into a single, clutter-free reading experience. Organize content with custom folders and receive push notifications for new articles. Enjoy a customizable reader that allows offline access and personalized themes.
- Consolidate multiple RSS, ATOM, YouTube, Telegram, Mastodon, and Reddit feeds
- Organize feeds into custom folders with unique icons
- Offline article reading and customizable reader themes
- Push notifications for new articles
- Article to audio conversion
- Full-text search across all feeds
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Read your favorite sites in one app and without noise. Stay in touch with what's happening in your favorite interests. Artykul is an RSS reader with a best-in-class native reader. RSS, ATOM, YOUTUBE, TELEGRAM, MASTODON, REDDIT You can add any site that supports RSS or Atom. Add your favorite blogs, news sites, Reddit, YouTube, Telegram channels or Mastodon profiles. LINKS Share links to interesting YouTube videos, articles, Telegram and Reddit posts, news, apps, recipes, and just interesting materials from the internet. Stay informed about what is currently relevant in the world, among your friends, and around you. FEEDS & FOLDERS Create custom folders, and add sites to them. You can set custom icons for your folders. Feeds and folders will sync with your Artykul Account if you want. You can turn on push notifications for favorite sites and be the first who knows about new articles. Unread indicators and unread filters help to know what you have not read. ARTICLE READER Best-in-class customizable article reader. Article Reader allows you to read articles without leaving the app. You can change font, size, and color theme. All articles are available offline and without an internet connection. The app remembers where you stop reading. You can return to reading at any time. BOOKMARKS & FAVORITES You can add any web page to bookmarks and read it with Artykul. Mark any article as a favorite to return for it at any time. DOZENS OF FEATURES • Article to audio • Full-Text Search • Unread indicator • Mark as read on the scroll • Custom feed settings for images and cell size limiting • Gesture navigation and full-screen reader • Folders with custom icons • Custom site names • Storage settings • 3 types of feed appearance • 4 themes for the reader • Discover • App tint color and icons • OPML import and export • Artykul Instructions • Telegram and YouTube channels • And more... Terms of Use: https://artykul.org/doc/terms-of-use/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: NewsFlash at monthly against Artykul's every 3 months. Artykul's advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 67%) and monetization model (freemium vs paid). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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
Both are free to download. NewsFlash sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Artykul sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
NewsFlash holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 11 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of NewsFlash's written reviews are positive against 80% of Artykul's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
NewsFlash ships an update monthly, Artykul every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | NewsFlash | Artykul |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6 ratings) — better | 4.6 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Michael Steurer | Mikalaj Karhin |
Customer experience
NewsFlash
Artykul
In-app purchases
NewsFlash
- Espresso$0.99
- Cappuccino$2.99
- Specialty Coffee Aeropress$4.99
Artykul
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Annual7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Infinity$49.99








