Big News vs RSS24
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Big News
Consolidate your newsletters and RSS feeds into a single, intelligent reading platform. Get a dedicated email address for newsletters and enjoy a distraction-free experience with prioritized news and real-time notifications.
- Combine newsletters and RSS feeds
- Dedicated @bignews.app email address
- Prioritize stories by importance
- Distraction-free reading experience
- Real-time push notifications
- Home screen widgets
- Search thousands of stories
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Big News blends your newsletters and feeds together into one super-smart reading experience. - Combine newsletters and RSS feeds together - Get your very own @bignews.app email address - Sort stories by the day's biggest news - Enjoy a beautiful fullscreen, distraction-free reading experience - Realtime push notifications from your favourite channels - Add the news to your home screen with our Widgets - Search hundreds of thousands of stories in a snap One place for your newsletters and feeds: Big News combines different sources from across the web – like newsletters and RSS feeds – into one unified reading experience. So it doesn't matter what you're reading, or where it's from, you can find it all in Big News. An email address just for newsletters: With your very own @bignews.app email address, newsletters skip your regular inbox and instead are sent directly to Big News. That means less stuff mixed in with your daily emails and more great reads for when you want them. Not just another inbox: We didn't want to create another list of things in an inbox to be managed. That's why Big News uses dozens of signals to intelligently prioritise the stories that matter to you today, all in one inviting layout. There's no endless pile of unread badges or month-old news. Just the Big News, today. Sources you already know and trust: Add your existing newsletters and feeds to Big News in just a few taps. Plus, the Big News directory contains hundreds of channels, so you're sure to find the sites and newsletters you already love – as well as discover something altogether new. RSS. SMTP. OMG: We built Big News upon the open standards of the web – like RSS and SMTP – so it already works with thousands of sources today, as well as thousands more in the future. And now for the legal bits: Payment will be charged on either a monthly or annual basis to your Apple ID account. Your monthly or annual subscription automatically renews unless you cancel before the end of the current billing period. You can manage and cancel your subscription at any time by going to your account settings on the App Store after purchase. For our full Terms of Service please visit: https://bignews.app/terms. For our Privacy Policy visit https://bignews.app/privacy
RSS24
This news reader focuses on delivering the most relevant articles from the past 24 hours. It offers two reading modes, smart filtering, and a clean interface to reduce clutter and ensure you see the freshest content first. Personalization is kept on-device with no tracking.
- 24-hour news focus
- Top Picks and Latest reading modes
- Smart article ranking
- Tag-based filtering
- Full article reader
- Customizable themes and text size
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RSS24 is a clean, smart RSS reader built around one idea: show you the latest news from the last 24 hours, with the most worth-reading stories first. Subscribe to your favorite news sources and blogs via RSS feeds. Pick from our curated catalog or add your own feed in seconds. Choose how you want to read — let RSS24 surface the standout stories first, or stick to a strict newest-on-top timeline. Either way, articles older than 24 hours fade away automatically so you never wade through stale headlines. What makes RSS24 different: • Two ways to read — Switch between "Top Picks" and "Latest" anytime. Top Picks ranks today's best stories first using a smart algorithm; Latest is pure newest-first chronological order. • Fresh-first feed — Articles from today always sit above yesterday's, organized into clean Today / Yesterday / older sections. • Read it, lose it — Once you've opened an article, it stays put for the rest of your session and quietly disappears on the next refresh, so your feed never feels stale. • Swipe to dismiss — Not interested? Swipe an article right-to-left to remove it. Quick swipe reveals a delete button; long swipe removes it instantly. • Tag-based filtering — Tag your feeds by topic and filter the timeline with one tap. • Quick onboarding — Get started in three easy steps: pick a theme, choose recommended feeds from a curated catalog, and add your own RSS source if you have one (or skip and add it later). • Reduce Noise — Optional toggle that hides very short or low-quality posts and limits how many items each source can flood your feed with. • Full article reader — Read full content without leaving the app, with reader-mode styling that respects your theme. Tap to open the original in a clean built-in browser. • Themes and text size — Light, dark, and sepia themes plus adjustable text size. • Personalization that respects you — RSS24 quietly learns which tags and sources you read most so Top Picks gets sharper over time. All of that history stays on your device — no accounts, no tracking, no ads. Delete the app and it's gone.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: RSS24 at 5.0 against Big News's 4.3. RSS24 also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Big News's advantage is ratings volume (53 vs 1). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Big News sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. RSS24 asks for nothing beyond the download.
RSS24 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Big News has 53 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Big News ships an update every 3 weeks, RSS24 every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Big News | RSS24 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (53 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 46.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 12+ |
| Developer | The Not So Big Company | Abdylas Tynyshov |
Customer experience
Big News
RSS24
In-app purchases
Big News
- Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
- Max Monthly$3.991 Month
- Plus Yearly$14.991 Year
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- Max Yearly$29.991 Year
RSS24
No in-app purchases








