LP portal vs RSS News Ticker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LP portal
Access industry news, podcasts, webinars, and educational content for loss prevention and asset protection professionals. Discover curated links to retail shopping, charities, and entertainment.
- Loss prevention and asset protection news
- Industry podcasts and webinars
- Educational resources
- Event details and updates
- Links to retail and charities
- Entertainment and travel tips
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LP portal is your personal gateway to (almost) all things relating to loss prevention and asset protection. With a wide variety of channels, LP Portal connects you to the news, podcasts, webinars, education, event details, and updates from across the industry including many of your favorite associations, solution providers, and industry initiatives. But life is not all about work, so we also link you to some of your favorite retailers for shopping, favorite charities to pay it forward, and industry picks for what to watch on TV, music to listen to, books to read, and even travel tips! Take a survey or have fun with a quiz - More channels are on the way!
RSS News Ticker
Organize your news feeds with this reader. Subscribe to RSS and Atom sources, with articles cached locally for offline reading. Features include iCloud sync, a unified newsfeed, tagging for organization, bookmarking, and word muting.
- Subscribe to RSS & Atom feeds
- Offline article caching
- iCloud sync across devices
- Unified newsfeed and timeline
- Tagging for article organization
- Bookmark articles for later
- Mute specific words or topics
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Start bringing order in your news-jungle. Ticker can help you with that. FEATURES Subscribe RSS & Atom sources Subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds in Ticker. All articles are cached locally so you can read them on the go. Use pull-to-refresh to sync all your sources at once. iCloud Sync Your data is only accessible to you, thats why Ticker uses your private iCloud to sync across your devices. Newsfeed & Timeline Access articles of all your sources in one newsfeed. Check your viewed articles in the dedicated timeline. Tags Use tags to bring order in the news-jungle. Tags identify relevant articles by keywords you can define. Articles which include a keyword are automatically assigned to that tag. You can look up relevant articles per tag or view all articles that have at least one tag assigned. Bookmarks Don't have time to read all articles when they pop up? No problem, you can bookmark articles and read them later on. A dedicated Bookmarks view keeps track of all your bookmarked articles to have it available anytime. Mute words Sometimes, topics pop up in your feed, that might not be interesting. In that case, you can mute words for a specific period of time (one day, a week, a month) or even forever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LP portal at none against RSS News Ticker's 3. RSS News Ticker's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. RSS News Ticker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. LP portal asks for nothing beyond the download.
LP portal ships an update every 3 months, RSS News Ticker every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | LP portal | RSS News Ticker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.2 (13 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 87.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Loss Prevention Magazine Inc. | Daniel Hoefer |
Customer experience
LP portal
RSS News Ticker
In-app purchases
LP portal
No in-app purchases
RSS News Ticker
- Small Tip$0.99
- Mid Tip$2.99
- Big Tip$5.99









