Comparison

Feedibus vs CMRSS

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Feedibus

This newsreader app aggregates content from RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds into a beautifully organized interface. It uses on-device AI to summarize articles, deduplicate content, and learn user interests for a personalized reading experience.

Highlights
  • AI-powered article summaries
  • Content deduplication
  • Personalized interest learning
  • Cross-device iCloud sync
  • Customizable reading view
  • Background updates
  • OPML import/export
Features
Currently charting
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Read News & Articles Feedibus is a newsreader app. It supports Atom, RSS, and JSON feeds. All techno-gibberish to you? Don’t worry. Many news websites and blogs offer this service for free so that you can read all your loved and trusted sources in a beautiful interface, organized automagically. Key Features, Making Feedibus Unique: - Magic Content: Enjoy full articles in a beautiful reading experience, even for feeds with just summaries. - Magic Deduplication: Streamline your timeline, grouping duplicates and similar content. - Magic Interests: Discover more, automagically learning your interests. - Magic Summaries: Automatically summarizes articles and displays them in a beautiful liquid glass card. All on-device powered by Apple Intelligence. What makes Feedibus so magical? We could tell you that it uses machine learning and other state-of-the-art computational methods to offer you this awesome experience — but that wouldn’t sound so cool, would it? What else? - iPad/iPhone Support: Read on all your devices. - iCloud Sync: Keeps your devices in sync, including all machine learning data. - Notifications: Define trigger phrases to retrieve local notifications during background refreshes. - Widget Support: Add your favorite news source right to your home screen. - Customizable Reading View: Pick your favorite font, size, and appearance. - Background Updates: Keeping your content fresh, effortlessly. - OPML-Import & Export - Bookmarking: Save articles for later. - Switch between Reading Experiences: Decide for yourself how to read articles, including Embedded Safari Reader Mode. - Favorite Feed Groups: Organize your feeds thematically & focus on what matters in the moment. - Sharing with Friends & Social Networks - Dark Mode / Light Mode … and much more. Design Philosophy We believe that reading your favorite news & articles should be fun, engaging, and informative. Some newsreaders seem to make this a chore, treating it like your email inbox. Feedibus presents all content in a chronological timeline. It highlights what it thinks is interesting and groups duplicate content for you just scroll through, discover and enjoy what you like. We want to go the extra mile for you — for instance, we even analyze the images within an article to detect faces and interesting content so that we can crop them to minimize required space while maintaining essential parts of the image. All powered by the amazing chips in your device! Privacy No sign-up required. All machine learning and processing happens locally on your device. We don’t know what you read, and we don’t want to. Please review our privacy policy for more details. Pay once, own forever Since 2.0 Feedibus requires a one-off payment if you download it from the app store. All functionality included. Only for customers of previous versions we maintain legacy in-app purchase options. — * The Fine Print Magic Content works for many websites; Feedibus supports its machine learning features for most languages, even if you subscribe to feeds of different languages simultaneously. Feedibus’ user interface is currently available in English & German, but more localization is on our to-do list. Magic Summaries only works on devices that have Apple Intelligence enabled and only for supported languages.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Feedibus4 screens
CMRSS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: CMRSS at 100% against Feedibus's 39%. CMRSS also leads on price (Free vs $3.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.7). Feedibus's advantage is ratings volume (12 vs 1) and chart position (#59 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

CMRSS is free to download; Feedibus costs $3.99 up front. Feedibus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and CMRSS sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

CMRSS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Feedibus has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 39% of Feedibus's written reviews are positive against 100% of CMRSS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Feedibus ships an update every 5 weeks, CMRSS every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Feedibus versus CMRSS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFeedibusCMRSS
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating3.7 (12 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews39.4% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings12 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#59 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB20 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperNicolas NeubauerCharlie Monroe Software, s.r.o.

Customer experience

Feedibus

All ratings12 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral25.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive39.4%
Neutral30.3%
Negative30.3%

CMRSS

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Feedibus

Subscriptions1
  • Unlock Feedibus7 Days trial$0.991 Month
One-time1
  • Unlock Feedibus One-Time Fee$3.99
1 purchases

CMRSS

One-time1
  • CMRSS Pro$9.99

Questions

Is Feedibus free?
Feedibus costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is CMRSS free?
CMRSS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Feedibus or CMRSS?
CMRSS is rated higher. Feedibus averages 3.7 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while CMRSS averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Feedibus or CMRSS have ads?
Neither Feedibus nor CMRSS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Feedibus or CMRSS?
Feedibus ships an update every 5 weeks, and CMRSS every 6 days. Most recently, Feedibus was updated on October 16, 2026 and CMRSS on October 11, 2026.

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