lire vs Quick Reads
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
lire
This app transforms partial RSS feeds into full-text articles, eliminating the need to click "Read more" links. It offers offline reading and syncs with various services, providing a seamless news consumption experience.
- Full-text RSS feed conversion
- Offline reading of cached articles
- Syncs with Feedly, Feedbin, and more
- iCloud sync option
- No need to click 'Read more' links
- Standalone feed reader functionality
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Love RSS feeds? So do we!! RSS feeds are a great way to follow updates on your favorite website. However, some sites set up their feeds to only show a portion of each entry, you know, to get you to click through to their actual website. We find that really annoying, and we're sure you do too. Which is why, unlike other RSS feed readers, that either push you into a browser (in-app or otherwise), or depend on third party text parsing services and require you to be online to fetch the full text of one article at a time (which makes it no different from having to click/tap through to a website), in lire, you get your favorite RSS feeds as they should've been. You don't need to click through to any website (though, you do still have the option to, if you really wanted). It takes your favorite partial feeds, does its magic, and converts them in to full feeds, so you don't have to click/tap on those annoying 'Read more' or 'Continue reading' links. Once they're cached, you don't even need to be connected to read your full-text feeds. Use as a standalone feed reader, sync with iCloud, or, sync with any of the several services: Feedly, Feedbin, FeedHQ, The Old Reader, Inoreader, BazQux Reader, Newsblur, Feed Wrangler, FreshRSS, Miniflux, Nextcloud News, Tiny Tiny RSS.
Quick Reads
Save articles from anywhere and read them later in a distraction-free environment. Organize your reading library with tags and highlights, all built natively for iOS.
- Save articles from any app
- Distraction-free reading experience
- Highlight important passages
- Organize with tags and archives
- Offline reading support
- Native iOS design
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*Requires an active Quick Reads account.* Save articles. Read them later. Simple as that. A beautiful, distraction-free home for the articles that matter. Save from anywhere, highlight what resonates, and build your personal reading library. Beautiful reading experience Articles are stripped down to just the words and images. No ads, no pop-ups, no clutter. Choose from carefully tuned themes including Sepia, Cream, and Midnight, and read comfortably day or night. Highlight what matters Mark the passages worth remembering. All your highlights live in one place, easy to revisit later, and you can share a beautifully formatted highlight card to anywhere you'd like. Built natively for iOS Quick Reads is written in the latest Apple frameworks. That means it feels fast, looks at home on your device, and takes full advantage of features like the system share sheet, dark mode, Dynamic Type, and offline reading. Save articles from any app with the Share Extension, even when you're offline. Organize your way Tag articles to group them by topic, project, or mood. Archive what you've finished. Search across everything you've ever saved. Indie software, honest pricing Quick Reads is built by one person with exactly zero VC funding. No engagement metrics, no dark patterns, no selling your data. Just a focused tool made for people who want to read more of the good stuff on the internet.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Quick Reads at Free against lire's $9.99. Quick Reads also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 5). lire's advantage is rating (4.4 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (158 vs 2). On 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
Quick Reads is free to download; lire costs $9.99 up front. lire sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Quick Reads asks for nothing beyond the download.
lire holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: lire has 158 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
lire ships an update fortnightly, Quick Reads every 11 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | lire | Quick Reads |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $9.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.4 (158 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 68.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 158 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #5 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 168 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kunal Sood | Matt Birchler |
Customer experience
lire
Quick Reads
Bugs and requests
lire
Reported bugs
7 issues- Crashes on launch
- Incorrect feed display
- Articles not opening
- Overlapping UI elements
- Sync errors with FreshRSS and Wallabag
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- Revert to old articles after sync
- VoiceOver issues after update
Requested features
9 requests- Bulk unsubscribe option
- Ability to add multiple feeds at once
- Custom keyword filtering
- Highlight/annotate articles
- Embedded video support
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- Automatic article categorization
- Sharing options
- PDF export
- Multilingual support
Quick Reads
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
lire
- Generous Tip$0.99
- Massive Tip$1.99
- Amazing Tip$4.99
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- Humongous Tip$9.99
- Stupendous Tip$19.99
Quick Reads
No in-app purchases









