ReadKit vs Leaflet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ReadKit
This app consolidates your news feeds and saved articles into a single, distraction-free reading experience. It offers robust organization, offline access, and advanced customization for a personalized way to consume content across devices.
- All-in-one reading hub
- Cross-platform sync (iOS/macOS)
- Offline article access
- Advanced organization with smart folders
- Enhanced reader mode
- Customizable interface
- Powerful search and filtering
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Your All-in-One Reading Companion ReadKit is a powerful, all-in-one read-later and RSS client that brings together your favorite news, articles, and feeds. With major providers and built-in iCloud RSS and Read Later sync, ReadKit lets you save and read articles later, providing a distraction-free reading experience anytime and anywhere. KEY FEATURES • All-in-One Reading Hub: Access all your accounts in one place with multi-account support. • Cross-Platform: Universal app with full feature parity on iOS and macOS. • iCloud RSS and Read Later: Built-in services with iCloud sync. • Flexible Syncing: Sync with major RSS aggregators and read-later services. • Advanced Organization: Manage feeds, folders, tags and automatically updated smart folders. • Smart Folder Actions: Mark items read or starred and filter content. • Offline Access: Read articles offline with cached images. • Enhanced Reading Experience: Built-in reader mode extracts full article content, with options for automatic activation. • Wide Gesture Support: Navigate, mark articles read and perform quick actions. • In-App Browser: View links and references without leaving the app. • App Badge Preferences: Customize the badge to display the count of unread items. • Mark as Read Options: Mark articles read while scrolling, by pulling up, or in one tap. • Contextual Marking: Quickly mark articles as read above or below directly from the context menu. • Customizable Interface: Choose themes, light or dark mode, and app icons to suit your style. • Powerful Search: Search articles by content, title, or source. • Filter Articles: Easily filter articles by read or starred status. • Background Syncing: Always stay updated with background sync. • Content Sharing: Use the share extension to save articles from Safari and other apps for later reading. • Email Articles: Send articles directly via email to share with others. • Share via Apps and Services: Share articles through the share sheet. • YouTube Channel Support: Subscribe to YouTube channels and playlists through RSS feeds. • Full Keyboard Support: Optimized for hardware keyboards on macOS and iPad. • Feed Import/Export: Import or export subscriptions via OPML files. • Application Settings Export: Export and import appearance, reading, general behavior and gesture preferences. Enjoy ReadKit’s essential features completely free — no ads, no data mining. Unlock additional features with ReadKit Premium, available via a universal subscription or a one-time lifetime purchase for iOS, macOS, or both. A free trial is also available. PREMIUM FEATURES • Multi-Account Support: Manage multiple accounts simultaneously. • Unlimited Smart Folders: Create and customize more than one smart folder per account. • Enhanced Reader Mode: Extract full-text content from articles, even when missing from the feed source. • Article Summary: summarize articles using AI on supported devices (requires ReadKit Premium, Apple Intelligence and iOS 26). • Unlimited Feeds: Remove the 20-feed limit for the built-in RSS service. • Advanced Organization Tools: Organize feeds and articles into folders or tags. • Image Caching: Enjoy offline reading with cached images. • Themes & Custom Icons: Unlock exclusive themes and choose custom app icons. • Full OPML Support: Import and export feed subscriptions with ease. • Account and Smart Folder Export: Export account settings with smart folders and import them individually. • Early Access: Enjoy upcoming premium features as they're released. SUPPORTED SERVICES • Built-in RSS and Read Later services with iCloud sync. • News Reader Services: BazQux, Feedbin, Feedly, Fever, FreshRSS, Inoreader, Miniflux, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, Tiny Tiny RSS • Read Later & Bookmarking Services: Instapaper, Wallabag and Pinboard Privacy Policy: https://readkit.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://readkit.app/terms-of-use
Leaflet
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Your feeds, podcasts, and saved stories—together in Leaflet. Read without the clutter, turn articles into listening Shows, and pick up a podcast's YouTube video where you left off. Make room for what you want to read, hear, and remember. FOLLOW YOUR SOURCES Add unlimited feeds from a website or feed URL, discover sources from YouTube channels and Mastodon profiles, or import subscriptions with OPML. Organize feeds into folders, connect a supported RSS service, and keep track of unread stories. MAKE READING COMFORTABLE Choose your type, spacing, and theme. Retrieve full articles when a feed offers only a preview, star favorites, and return to your reading position. Save stories to Read Later to keep their text and pictures on your device—even after they leave the feed. Your next good read is ready for a flight, the subway, or a quiet moment offline. YOUR PODCASTS, YOUR QUEUE Discover podcasts, browse charts, and follow shows alongside your feeds. Organize Favorites and groups, build Up Next, and stream or download episodes. Set a speed and download preferences for each podcast, skip by chapter, jump from timestamps in episode notes, or drift off with a sleep timer. Shorten Silences trims quiet pauses in downloaded episodes. Import and export podcast subscriptions with OPML. LISTEN, THEN WATCH With YouTube video matching in beta, connect a podcast to its YouTube channel and watch matching episodes in the official YouTube player. Switch between the episode's audio and video without losing your place. Matching and video availability vary by show. FIND IT AGAIN Search articles, newsletters, Saved Links, Read Later, and available podcast transcripts together. Narrow results by account, date, unread status, and more. Read publisher transcripts as an episode plays, search within them, and tap a line to jump to that moment. On supported devices with iOS 26 or later, create transcripts privately on your device. TURN FEEDS INTO SHOWS Make a personal listening Show from a site, folder, or mix of feeds, with each article as a chapter. Choose topics, filter stories, set the order, and resume where you stopped. One Show is free. Leaflet Plus adds unlimited Shows and Latest, a short catch-up of new unread articles. KEEP THE BEST BITS With Leaflet Plus, save a podcast moment as an audio clip with its available transcript. Trim it, tag it, replay it, or share it as audio, a link, or a quote card. Highlight passages from articles, then search and export what you saved. TAKE IT ON THE ROAD Leaflet Plus brings Shows, saved article audio, and podcasts to CarPlay on iPhone. Browse your library, use chapter controls, set a sleep timer, and save a podcast moment. Plus also adds background listening for podcasts, feed videos, and saved article audio, including playback with the screen locked. AT HOME ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Read on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Check unread headlines and summaries on Apple Watch, then mark stories read or starred. Keep an on-device RSS library local, sync feeds through iCloud, or connect a supported RSS service. With iCloud library sync enabled, eligible saved content, progress, podcast queues, and settings stay together across devices. ONE PURCHASE. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Leaflet Plus adds natural English voices that run on your device, offline article audio in Listen Later, Voice Boost, a second account, unlimited smart feeds and muted words, keyword alerts, duplicate-story merging, feed cleanup, extra widgets, a true-black theme, alternate icons, reading statistics, and sharing to Readwise or Instapaper. Plus also brings Feedbin newsletters into your reader, where you can read them, listen to their full text, or add them to a Show. A separate Feedbin subscription is required. The core reader is free: unlimited feeds on one account, full-text and offline reading, standard article read aloud, one Show, podcast library and playback, and an unread widget.
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Verdict
ReadKit and Leaflet are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. ReadKit sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Leaflet sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
ReadKit ships an update fortnightly, Leaflet every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ReadKit | Leaflet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (128 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 56.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 128 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Balazs Varkonyi | JudeWorks |
Bugs and requests
ReadKit
Reported bugs
12 issues- Persistent toolbars blocking distraction-free reading
- Background refresh not working reliably
- Wallabag sync errors and failures
- App crashes when integrating multiple services
- Reading articles not marking as read automatically
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- Embedded tweets not displaying in web view
- Favicon and headline display issues in article list
- Thumbnail images not showing in article list
- Text overlap with underline formatting
- Inconsistent behavior between iOS and iPadOS versions
- Sync errors preventing account setup
- Partial feature support without clear disclosure
Requested features
19 requests- iCloud sync support for feeds and data
- Raindrop read-later service integration
- Sepia background option for light mode
- Widgets support
- Automatic reader view option
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- Push notifications for new articles
- Import Smart Folders from previous versions
- Sync Smart Folders across all devices
- Additional read-later service integrations (GoodLinks, etc.)
- Mark all as read button
- Pinboard API key login support
- Article position sync for read-later services
- More article list view customization options
- Highlight and annotate text functionality
- Built-in annotation and newsletter management
- Podcast playing capability
- Automatic full article text loading
- Quick article opening in Safari
- Image zoom and preview functionality
Leaflet
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ReadKit
- Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
- Premium Annual7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Premium Lifetime macOS$19.99
- Premium Lifetime iOS$19.99
- Premium Lifetime Universal$29.99
Leaflet
- Leaflet Plus$0.99









