Comparison

Smart Feed Reader vs PoweReader

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

PoweReader

This app uses AI to enhance your RSS reading experience, offering smart summaries, personalized news picks, and audio narration. It breaks down language barriers and allows for offline processing, making staying informed more efficient.

Highlights
  • AI daily news picks
  • Smart article summaries
  • AI audio narration
  • AI-powered translation
  • Offline processing mode
  • Built-in RSS service
  • Sync across Apple devices
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Too many feeds to read? PoweReader is an RSS reader for iPhone and Mac with AI summaries, translation and audio: get through the news worth reading in minutes, get any article's key points in one tap, read foreign articles with a translation under each paragraph, and listen when you can't look at the screen. It works with your Feedbin, Miniflux, FreshRSS, NewsBlur, Tiny Tiny RSS or Fever account. DAILY PICKS No more scrolling through every feed: in a few minutes you know what has been happening. Open Discover and AI picks the stories worth reading, each with a summary, key developments, what each source says and the articles that cover it. You can also listen to it as a briefing. AI SUMMARY For an article you only want to skim, one tap gives you a summary with the key points in seconds, plus a picture that explains it. You can also summarize a category, a feed or the unread list. The list summary is split by topic, and you can tap any link to open the article. AUDIO SUMMARY When you can't look at the screen, let AI read the summary aloud. Playback starts a few seconds after you tap play. TRANSLATION Foreign articles are translated paragraph by paragraph, with the translation under each original paragraph. Choose cloud AI translation, Apple Translate or offline translation. YOUR OWN AI SERVICE With Premium, connect OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, OpenRouter or another compatible service and use your own API key for summaries, images and translation. RSS SERVICES AND FEEDS Sign in with Feedbin, NewsBlur, Miniflux, FreshRSS, Tiny Tiny RSS or any Fever API server, and unread and starred articles sync both ways. Or start right away with the built-in local account, no sign-up needed: the Feed Library has 130+ feeds by topic, or paste any feed address. ICLOUD SYNC Reading progress syncs between iPhone and Mac, so you pick up where you left off. READING The same reading typography on iPhone and Mac, code blocks and math formulas rendered properly, dark mode, and articles available offline. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Smart Feed Reader4 screens
PoweReader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Smart Feed Reader at none against PoweReader's 2. Smart Feed Reader also leads on iOS requirement (9.2 vs 17.0). PoweReader's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 11 months) and review sentiment (62% vs 36%). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PoweReader sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 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 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 13 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of Smart Feed Reader's written reviews are positive against 62% of PoweReader's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Smart Feed Reader ships an update every 11 months, PoweReader monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Smart Feed Reader versus PoweReader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart Feed ReaderPoweReader
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (7 ratings) — better4.4 (13 ratings)
Positive reviews36.4% of reviews61.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings713 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, Mac
Requires iOS9.2 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB394 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSCAND LLC珂诚 许

Customer experience

Smart Feed Reader

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

PoweReader

All ratings13 ratings
Positive84.6%
Neutral7.7%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews13 reviews
Positive61.5%
Neutral15.4%
Negative23.1%

In-app purchases

None

Smart Feed Reader

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

PoweReader

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Smart Feed Reader free?
Smart Feed Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PoweReader free?
PoweReader is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Smart Feed Reader or PoweReader?
Smart Feed Reader is rated higher. Smart Feed Reader averages 4.6 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while PoweReader averages 4.4 from 13 ratings.
Do Smart Feed Reader or PoweReader have ads?
Neither Smart Feed Reader nor PoweReader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smart Feed Reader or PoweReader?
Smart Feed Reader ships an update every 11 months, and PoweReader monthly. Most recently, Smart Feed Reader was updated on November 1, 2026 and PoweReader on October 30, 2026.

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