Mimir vs CMRSS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mimir
Organize your podcast listening with custom groups and priority settings. Enjoy a premium audio experience with advanced playback features and personalized recommendations. Discover new content and sync across devices.
- Podcast groups for organization
- Priority settings for favorite podcasts
- Continuous playback queue
- Advanced audio engine with silence skip
- Curated lists and personalized recommendations
- CarPlay support
- Video episode playback
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Mimir is the podcast player for people with too many shows. Organize your library into nested groups (folders), set priorities for the podcasts you care about most, and import an existing library via OPML or Apple Podcasts. Then keep listening with Continuous Playback — pull the next episode from a group, a podcast, or your whole library — with silence skip, voice boost, and CarPlay when you need them. Stay Organized • Nested groups that work like folders for your podcasts • Collapse and expand groups to show only what you need • Set higher priority for the shows you love • Drag and drop, swipe actions, and long-press menus for fast library control Continuous Playback • An automatic playlist that always keeps the next episodes ready • Choose the source: a group, a single podcast, or auto-generated lists • Sort and filter options so Mimir queues what you actually want next • Priority-aware ordering puts your favorites first Advanced Audio Engine • Custom audio engine built for podcasts • Silence skip detects and removes silent segments • Voice Boost enhances quiet speech • High-quality playback at faster speeds • Sleep timer and customizable skip intervals Make Mimir Your Own • Light and dark mode • Color schemes and custom tint • Dynamic Type support Discover • Curated lists from podcast writing around the web • Recommendations based on what you play and prioritize • Genre charts and search Also on Mac • Native Mac app with the same library via iCloud • Organize once; listen on iPhone, iPad, and Mac And more • CarPlay • iCloud sync • Password-protected RSS feeds • Video episodes • Media Control Center support • Customizable download settings • Import and export libraries from other apps Mimir is designed and developed by a solo developer in Colorado who cares about podcast listening. Thanks for giving it a try. One-Time Purchases Mimir Pro is a one-time purchase that unlocks silence skip, custom skip sounds, voice boost, Continuous Playback, custom tint colors, and color schemes on your iOS devices — without a subscription. Purchasing Mimir Pro unlocks features for all iOS devices using the same Apple ID. Mimir Pro for macOS is purchased separately. Subscription Mimir Premium unlocks all features on both iOS and macOS via a monthly or discounted yearly plan you can cancel anytime. Premium includes everything in Pro, removes ads, and also unlocks Mimir Premium on macOS. It helps cover third-party costs for recommendations, search, and curated lists. Terms of Service https://mimirpodcasts.app/terms-and-conditions.html Privacy Policy https://mimirpodcasts.app/privacy-policy.html
CMRSS
This news reader offers a streamlined way to consume content across all Apple devices. It features on-device AI for article summarization and robust organization tools, ensuring a private and efficient reading experience.
- iCloud sync across Apple devices
- On-device AI article summarization
- Tabbed reading with built-in browser
- Organize feeds into folders
- Follow YouTube, Reddit, X, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook
- Smart Folders with custom rules
- Widgets for desktop and Home Screen
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CMRSS — A native RSS reader for Mac, iPhone, and iPad CMRSS is a fast, beautifully native RSS reader that keeps up with everything you follow — and helps you read it in less time. One app, every Apple device, perfectly in sync. Everything, everywhere — automatically Your feeds, folders, and read/unread state sync seamlessly through iCloud. Set things up once and pick up exactly where you left off, whether you're on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad. Read smarter with on-device AI Get a clear one- or two-sentence summary of any article, generated privately on your device with Apple Intelligence. Skim your feeds, catch what matters, and dive in only when you want to. Nothing is sent to a server. Built for focused reading • Tabbed reading with a built-in browser — open full articles without leaving the app, and your open tabs follow you to your other devices • Unread-first workflow — jump straight to what's new, or browse everything • Organize feeds into folders that stay in sync everywhere • Tune your layout: title line count, summaries on or off Follow more than blogs • Paste a YouTube channel or a subreddit — CMRSS finds the feed for you • Follow X, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook pages, and entire websites through the optional RSS.app integration (RSS.app account required) • Import and export OPML to bring your subscriptions with you — or take them anywhere Smart Folders • Folders that fill themselves — collect articles by title, content, feed, age, or read state • Combine rules into nested any/all groups for precise filters • Unread counts and iCloud sync, just like regular folders Widgets for your desktop and Home Screen • An unread ring for a glanceable count, or latest-articles widgets in two sizes • Show everything or pick a single feed; tap to jump straight to the article Never miss what you care about • Smart background refresh on your schedule (every 5, 15, 30, or 60 minutes) • Flexible notifications: a single sync summary, one per feed, or one per article • Mark important feeds for per-article alerts • An app-icon badge that always shows your unread count Power features • Dispatch Actions — send any article to your other apps through Shortcuts, with keyboard slots ⌘1–⌘5 • Spotlight search — find your articles right from the desktop or Home Screen • Curated suggestions to get you started fast • Automatic cleanup — choose how long to keep articles to control storage Private by design Sync runs through your own iCloud account, and AI summaries are generated entirely on-device. No third-party servers. No tracking. Your reading is yours. Free to try, one purchase to own Every feature is free with up to 5 feeds. A single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited feeds — no subscription, yours forever. Download CMRSS and make your feeds feel effortless again. Note: AI article summaries require a device that supports Apple Intelligence.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CMRSS at 5.0 against Mimir's 4.3. CMRSS also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%) and update cadence (every 6 days vs fortnightly). Mimir's advantage is ratings volume (31 vs 1) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Mimir sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month and CMRSS sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
CMRSS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mimir has 31 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Mimir's written reviews are positive against 100% of CMRSS's.
Mimir ships an update fortnightly, CMRSS every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mimir | CMRSS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (31 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 72.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | +17 | 17+ |
| Developer | Grant Davis | Charlie Monroe Software, s.r.o. |
Customer experience
Mimir
CMRSS
Bugs and requests
Mimir
Reported bugs
35 issues- App crashes at opening
- App will not load on 26.6 Public Beta
- App will not work with 26.6
- Search crashes on iOS 18
- Typed text is not visible in the regular podcast page
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- CarPlay 'Now Playing' app often won't play
- Player interface may freeze momentarily or not reflect changes when managing episodes
- Progress bar sits at the end as if podcast has finished playing even if it hasn't
- Macbook Air M1 starts lagging when switching from this app to any other app with Stage Manager open
- Mac locks up, potentially due to library on an external drive
- Macbook shuts down during a podcast
- Crash on selecting 'marked as played'
- Cannot select how many episodes to download
- Cannot tell if a podcast from search is video or audio
- Video podcast stopped playing and the app closed on a Catalina Mac
- Favorite podcasts not downloaded correctly
- Play and pause symbol flickers, podcast remains silent
- Promo screen shown for paid subscriber
- Setapp Activated: Not Working At All
- Discover tab shows no episodes
- Vocal boost feature doesn't work
- Episode downloads/deletes are not customizable
- Buffering and lagging is constant
- Unable to play any episodes when opening the app sometimes
- Import from podcasts app doesn’t work
- Single Pro version does not remove ads on iOS
- App crashes while importing OPML file
- Slows down the whole system very often
- Cannot handle slow internet connections
- Streaming from website works, but Mimir cannot download or stream the same file
- App crashes on selecting marked as played
- When viewing a podcast from search, cannot tell if it is a video podcast or an audio podcast
- Video podcast stopped playing and the app closed on a Catalina Mac
- The app will not load on 26.6 Public Beta
- The app will not work with 26.6
Requested features
22 requests- Episode pictures
- Apple Watch app
- Streaming episodes without downloading (especially on macOS)
- Mark episode as played from CarPlay now playing screen
- Episode description visibility
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- Chapter markers display
- In/Outro skipping
- Finer playback speed adjustment (0.25 steps)
- Shorter sleep timer intervals (5, 10, 15 minutes)
- Easier to enable continuous play
- Widgets
- Home Screen widget
- Mini Player
- Ability to rename podcasts in the list
- Ability to obviate podcasts with no episodes or no longer maintained
- Native CarPlay interface
- Ability to automatically download new episodes
- Continuous Play: only add episodes to the end of the queue
- Full CarPlay system integration
- Fix folder creation and drag/drop issues
- Option to add podcast to a created folder via right-click
- Allow users to restrict display of recent episodes (e.g., top 10)
CMRSS
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mimir
- Mimir Monthly Subscription7 Days trial$1.491 Month
- Mimir Yearly Subscription7 Days trial$12.491 Year
- Mimir TrialFree
- Mimir iOS Pro Features$9.99
- Mimir macOS Pro Features$19.99
CMRSS
- CMRSS Pro$9.99









