Minifeed vs YoRead
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minifeed
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IMPORTANT: You need your own instance of Minifeed server to use this application. Minifeed is a self-hosted and open source minimalist feed reader (RSS, Atom). To setup your server : https://github.com/BenoitMC/minifeed.rails
YoRead
Save web content for offline access and listen to articles, news, and novels with text-to-speech. Ideal for hands-free listening during commutes, exercise, or chores. Manage playlists and playback progress with adjustable speed and multi-language support.
- Save web content offline
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Playlist management
- Playback progress control
- Adjustable playback speed
- Multi-language support
- Offline permanent storage
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YoRead allows you to save web offline and listen it later. It supports text-to-speech, enabling you to listen to news, articles, and novels anytime, anywhere. – Suitable Scenarios – When commuting to work, walking, running, exercising, traveling, on a plane or train, cooking, washing dishes, sweeping or mopping the floor, or situations where your hands are occupied and your mind is idle. – Pain Points Solved – - Tired eyes and long articles? YoRead reads them to you. - Good articles, little time? YoRead helps you remember. - Youth fades, but articles remain. YoRead keeps them forever. - Too many platforms, too many bookmarks? YoRead manages them all. – Supported Features – - Quick article adding: easily extract the web page's main content and remove irrelevant elements. - Playlist management: conveniently adjust the playback order of articles, add and remove articles from the playlist. - Playback progress control: highlights the currently playing sentence, allowing you to read along while listening and click to jump to a specific part. - Playback speed control: offers precise speed adjustment from 0.5x to 3.0x, enhancing listening efficiency. - Multi-language text-to-speech: supports voice playback for major international languages with various voices to choose from. - Offline permanent storage: articles are saved locally, making them accessible even without an internet connection and free from leakage and loss. – YoRead Pro – Upgrading to YoRead Pro unlocks all features, including: - Unlimited article adding (the free version allows up to 30 articles per month) - Unlimited keep or favorite of articles (unread articles can be kept indefinitely while read articles are stored for 30 days) About consecutive monthly and yearly subscription packages - Price: in the purchase screen, the latest subscription price will be displayed in real time; - Payment: payment will be withheld from your iTunes account upon confirmation of purchase and payment; - Renewal: subscriptions are billed on a monthly or yearly basis, and your iTunes account will be charged 24 hours before they expire, for the same amount as the previous subscription. Subscription update cycle after successful deduction; - Unsubscribe: go to Settings-> Apple ID-> subscriptions -> Select “YoRead Pro” to unsubscribe. If the subscription is not closed at least 24 hours before the subscription period ends, the subscription is automatically renewed; - Refunds: Please note that when you complete the purchase, the application development team can not provide a refund, you need to use the relevant services provided by Apple. Your purchases and refunds are subject to Apple's payment policies. - Terms: https://github.com/yoodu/service/wiki/Terms-of-Use - Policy: https://github.com/yoodu/service/wiki/Privacy-Policy Save the web, Listen anytime
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Minifeed at none against YoRead's 2. Minifeed also leads on device support (3 vs 1). YoRead's advantage is update cadence (every 4 months vs every 18 months) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On price and ads 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. YoRead sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.59 per month. Minifeed asks for nothing beyond the download.
Minifeed ships an update every 18 months, YoRead every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minifeed | YoRead |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 2.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benoit MARTIN-CHAVE | 伟坤 方 |
In-app purchases
Minifeed
No in-app purchases
YoRead
- Monthly$2.591 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year









