Comparison

Smart Feed Reader vs Feed Viewer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • RSS, RDF, ATOM feed support
  • Smart news filtering
  • Automatic feed organization
  • Rate and share stories
  • Import from other readers
  • Full-context search
Features
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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.

About

Feed Viewer

This app aggregates news from your chosen RSS feeds and converts them into daily podcasts. It functions as a full-text reader, even when offline, and offers synchronization across multiple Apple devices and Windows.

Highlights
  • Full-text RSS reader
  • Offline reading capability
  • News podcasts from feeds
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • RSS feed search
  • OPML import
Features
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Feed Viewer is an RSS reader with a news widget for iPhone/iPad/Mac and a personal podcast news app. It is perfect for daily news delivery or as an offline reader for traveling. You’ll have a podcast compiled from your chosen sources, ready for you to listen to every day. Product features: • Full-text RSS reader, even offline • News podcasts from the content of your RSS feeds • iOS ↔ iPadOS ↔ macOS ↔ Windows synchronization • RSS feed search • OPML import Terms of use (EULA): https://www.feedviewer.app/termsofuse

Screenshots

Smart Feed Reader4 screens
Feed Viewer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Smart Feed Reader at 4.6 against Feed Viewer's 3.0. Smart Feed Reader also leads on review sentiment (36% vs 0%) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Feed Viewer's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 11 months). On price, ads and device support 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

Both are free to download. Feed Viewer sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Smart Feed Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Smart Feed Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 36% of Smart Feed Reader's written reviews are positive against 0% of Feed Viewer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smart Feed Reader ships an update every 11 months, Feed Viewer every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Smart Feed Reader versus Feed Viewer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart Feed ReaderFeed Viewer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (7 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews36.4% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.2 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB37 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSCAND LLCVaclav Dajbych

Customer experience

Smart Feed Reader

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive36.4%
Neutral15.2%
Negative48.5%

Feed Viewer

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

None

Smart Feed Reader

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Feed Viewer

Subscriptions4
  • Essential3 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Basic3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Advanced$19.991 Month
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  • Premium$24.991 Month

Questions

Is Smart Feed Reader free?
Smart Feed Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Feed Viewer free?
Feed Viewer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Smart Feed Reader or Feed Viewer?
Smart Feed Reader is rated higher. Smart Feed Reader averages 4.6 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Feed Viewer averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Smart Feed Reader or Feed Viewer have ads?
Neither Smart Feed Reader nor Feed Viewer shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smart Feed Reader or Feed Viewer?
Smart Feed Reader ships an update every 11 months, and Feed Viewer every 9 days. Most recently, Smart Feed Reader was updated on October 11, 2026 and Feed Viewer on September 27, 2026.

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