Comparison

Smart Feed Reader vs tiny Reader RSS

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

tiny Reader RSS

This is a lightweight, unofficial RSS reader designed for Tiny Tiny RSS (TTRSS). It requires a TTRSS server with an activated API and user account to function.

Highlights
  • Lightweight RSS reader
  • Unofficial TTRSS client
  • Requires TTRSS server
  • API integration
Features
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tiny Reader is an unofficial lightweight RSS reader for Tiny Tiny RSS (TTRSS). It requires a Tiny Tiny RSS server with an account and an activated API. ** Please contact support for help and feature request. **

Screenshots

Smart Feed Reader4 screens
tiny Reader RSS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: tiny Reader RSS at 79% against Smart Feed Reader's 36%. tiny Reader RSS also leads on update cadence (every 4 months vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (31 vs 7). Smart Feed Reader's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.1) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). 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. tiny Reader RSS sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. 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 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 31 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 36% of Smart Feed Reader's written reviews are positive against 79% of tiny Reader RSS'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, tiny Reader RSS every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Smart Feed Reader versus tiny Reader RSS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart Feed Readertiny Reader RSS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (7 ratings) — better4.1 (31 ratings)
Positive reviews36.4% of reviews78.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings731 — better
Update frequencyEvery 11 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS9.2 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB6 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperSCAND LLCPascal PLUCHON

Customer experience

Smart Feed Reader

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

tiny Reader RSS

All ratings31 ratings
Positive80.6%
Neutral9.7%
Negative9.7%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive78.5%
Neutral8.4%
Negative13.1%

In-app purchases

None

Smart Feed Reader

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

tiny Reader RSS

One-time2
  • Tiny tip for tiny Reader$0.99
  • Normal tip for tiny Reader$2.99

Questions

Is Smart Feed Reader free?
Smart Feed Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is tiny Reader RSS free?
tiny Reader RSS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Smart Feed Reader or tiny Reader RSS?
Smart Feed Reader is rated higher. Smart Feed Reader averages 4.6 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while tiny Reader RSS averages 4.1 from 31 ratings.
Do Smart Feed Reader or tiny Reader RSS have ads?
Neither Smart Feed Reader nor tiny Reader RSS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Smart Feed Reader or tiny Reader RSS?
Smart Feed Reader ships an update every 11 months, and tiny Reader RSS every 4 months. Most recently, Smart Feed Reader was updated on October 11, 2026 and tiny Reader RSS on October 6, 2026.

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