Smart Feed Reader vs Wire
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Feed Reader
This app helps you manage your news feeds from various sources like RSS, RDF, and ATOM. It offers smart filtering to organize content, allows you to rate and share articles, and provides a user-friendly interface for efficient news consumption.
- RSS, RDF, ATOM feed support
- Smart news filtering
- Automatic feed organization
- Rate and share stories
- Import from other readers
- Full-context search
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Smart Feed Reader is a full-featured RSS, RDF and ATOM reader for iPhone, iPod and iPad touch platforms. Manage your news automatically by using Smart News Filtering, organize Feeds Groups by any criteria you choose – music, sport, movies and international news, rate the most interesting readings or important news and share them with your friends and colleagues. Smart Feed Reader is based on user experience design and provides you with easy to learn and use graphic user interface and inuitive workflow. Features: - Support of RSS, RDF and ATOM feeds; - Easy to add feeds; - Stories filtering by Author, Title, Content, Category; - Automatic organizing of the feeds by categories to Keep Everything In Order; - Media Collection support; - Import feeds from the most popular RSS readers; - Rate stories by starring them; - Sharing via E-Mail; - Landscape support; - Feeds identification with icons; - Full-context search in saved stories; - Grouping stories by Date. Smart News Filtering is likely the most powerful feature in Smart Feed Reader. It allows to automate common actions like copy a news into some Criteria Folder, mark news as Read, Starred or just delete it. You can create as many filters as you need. Each filter is made up of search condition to match specific news and an action to perform on them. Once created, the filter will work on downloaded news that matches the search conditions.
Wire
This app aggregates RSS feeds and displays original articles in a web browser for offline reading. It syncs feeds across devices using iCloud and Apple ID, offering a privacy-focused experience without requiring an additional user account.
- RSS feed aggregation
- Original article rendering
- Offline article access
- iCloud sync
- Privacy-focused
- Web browser integration
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A modern, web first, privacy-focused news reader. Wire is entirely focused on aggregating RSS feeds and rendering articles in a modern way. Articles are downloaded for offline use, but you read them in a real browser. Most RSS readers only show you the content in the RSS feed, but Wire gives you the original article. Feeds are synced across devices using iCloud and your Apple ID, so you don't need an additional user account. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Smart Feed Reader at none against Wire's 4. Smart Feed Reader also leads on iOS requirement (9.2 vs 26.0). Wire's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 11 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Wire sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Smart Feed Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.
Smart Feed Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 12 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Smart Feed Reader's written reviews are positive against 29% of Wire's.
Smart Feed Reader ships an update every 11 months, Wire fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 11, 2026.
| Parameter | Smart Feed Reader | Wire |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7 ratings) — better | 4.4 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.4% of reviews — better | 28.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 9.2 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | SCAND LLC | Josh Betz |
Customer experience
Smart Feed Reader
Wire
In-app purchases
Smart Feed Reader
No in-app purchases
Wire
- Wire Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Wire Pro7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Wire Pro+7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Wire Pro (Lifetime)$29.99









