Smart Feed Reader vs FlowReader
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.
FlowReader
Stay updated with your favorite news and blogs through a powerful RSS feed reader. Easily add unlimited feeds, save articles, and customize the app's appearance. Enjoy a convenient daily news experience with features like an in-app browser and reader mode.
- Add unlimited RSS feeds
- Save articles to favorites
- In-app browser
- Safari reader mode support
- Share links on social media
- Local news storage
- Customizable appearance
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Add your personal news and blog feeds, and keep up to date with the new information. It is convenient daily news reader, which provides powerful news aggregation and curation features. FlowReader features: • Absolutely free • Add unlimited number of feeds • Add news & articles to favourites by swipe • Open links using the in-app browser • Supporting of Safari reader mode • Share links on social networks • Pull to refresh for updating the list of news • Store news locally on your device • Choose appearance of application
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: FlowReader at 100% against Smart Feed Reader's 36%. Smart Feed Reader's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 11 months vs every 57 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Smart Feed Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 4 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of Smart Feed Reader's written reviews are positive against 100% of FlowReader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Smart Feed Reader ships an update every 11 months, FlowReader every 57 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Smart Feed Reader | FlowReader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (7 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 36.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months — better | Every 57 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.2 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 41 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SCAND LLC | Sultan Irkaliyev |
Customer experience
Smart Feed Reader
FlowReader
In-app purchases
Smart Feed Reader
No in-app purchases
FlowReader
No in-app purchases
