macprime vs Flat RSS
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
macprime
Access all the latest content from macprime, including news, polls, reviews, tips, and articles, directly on your iPhone or iPad. Discover services like live updates, downloads, classifieds, and a dealer directory. Submit your own stories to the editorial team.
- News, polls, columns, reviews
- Tips and tricks
- Background articles
- macprimeLIVE access
- Downloads and classifieds
- Contests and promotions
- Dealer directory
- Reporter for story submissions
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Die App «macprime» bringt alle Inhalte — News, Umfragen, Kolumnen, Reviews, Tipps und Tricks, Hintergrundartikel — der macprime-Redaktion auf das iPhone, den iPod touch und das iPad. Auch macprime-Services wie «macprimeLIVE», «Downloads», die Kleinanzeigen, Wettbewerbe, Aktionen und Rabatte sowie das Händlerverzeichnis sind bequem per iPhone App abrufbar. Weiter bietet die App einen «Reporter», um interessante Storys auch von unterwegs an die macprime-Redaktion schicken zu können.
Flat RSS
Consolidate all your reading, watching, and listening into one calm, chronological feed. Save articles, videos, and podcasts from various sources, with offline access and cross-device sync. Enjoy a private, ad-free experience.
- Unified feed for RSS, podcasts, videos, social media
- Save articles, videos, and links to Stash
- Offline access for saved content
- Cross-device iCloud sync
- Ad-free and privacy-focused experience
- Customizable feed filtering
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Flat is one calm place for everything you read, watch, and listen to. Flat brings RSS, podcasts, videos, social feeds, and saved links together in one quiet place. No unread counts. No pressure. No algorithmic ranking. FOLLOW YOUR FAVORITE SOURCES • RSS, Atom, JSON feeds, podcasts, YouTube, Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky, and more • Paste a URL or keyword and Flat finds the right source • Browse a clean chronological timeline • Filter by source, focus or hide feeds, and filter out unwanted keywords SAVE ANYTHING • Save articles, videos, podcasts, and links to your Stash • Save links from any app, browser, or Flat browser extension • Auto-stash items from feeds you never want to miss • Keep saved items until you are ready to come back LISTEN AND WATCH • Play podcasts and videos with playback progress synced across devices • Build your own audio and video queue • Use chapters and a sleep timer AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE • iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Automatic iCloud sync across devices • Offline access for saved articles, audio, and video podcasts PRIVACY FIRST • No ads • No tracking • No account required • Your reading data is not used for advertising FLAT PRO Start free with Stash, saved links from other apps, and up to 30 feeds. Upgrade to Flat Pro for unlimited feeds, so new articles, podcasts, and videos from all your favorite sources appear automatically in your timeline. A free trial is available. Just your content, at your pace. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://justasimple.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: macprime at none against Flat RSS's 3. macprime also leads on iOS requirement (10.0 vs 18.6). Flat RSS's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 7 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
Both are free to download. Flat RSS sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. macprime asks for nothing beyond the download.
macprime ships an update every 7 months, Flat RSS every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | macprime | Flat RSS |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tragerverein Melamedia | Rene Fischer |
Customer experience
macprime
Flat RSS
In-app purchases
macprime
No in-app purchases
Flat RSS
- Flat Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Flat Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Flat Pro Lifetime$44.99
