Comparison

Google News vs Feed Me RSS

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

Head to head
About

Google News

This app aggregates and highlights global and local news stories tailored to your interests. It provides personalized briefings, in-depth coverage from multiple sources, and allows you to follow specific topics and news outlets. Stay informed on the go or on your desktop.

Highlights
  • Personalized news briefings
  • Local news from your area
  • Full coverage with multiple perspectives
  • Customizable topics and sources
  • Cross-device access
Currently charting
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Google News is a personalized news aggregator that organizes and highlights what’s happening in the world so you can quickly catch up and discover more about the stories that matter to you. With Google News, you’ll find: YOUR BRIEFING: It can be nearly impossible to keep up with every story you care about, Your Briefing makes it easy to stay in the know about what’s important and relevant in your world. It updates throughout the day to bring you the top local, national, and world headlines, plus personalized news tailored to your interests. LOCAL NEWS: Explore your community through stories and articles from news outlets in your local area. Customize and choose multiple locations so you can know what’s happening near you or wherever home is. FULL COVERAGE: Dive deeper into a story with multiple perspectives. The Full Coverage feature organizes everything online about a story, surfacing and highlighting coverage from different outlets and mediums. With just a tap, you’ll uncover how the story is unfolding and how everyone is reporting on it. STORIES FOR YOU: The For You section delivers personalized news related to your interests. Take control and customize the articles you see by following the topics and sources you care about. ACCESS FROM ANY DEVICE: Stay up to date on the news no matter where you are. Pair the Google News mobile app with our Desktop website, news.google.com, and enjoy your personalized content across all your devices.

About

Feed Me RSS

This app allows you to follow and read RSS and Atom feeds, organizing them into folders. It offers AI-powered summaries, offline reading capabilities, and syncs your reading state across Apple devices. Enjoy your feeds in CarPlay with native playback controls.

Highlights
  • Follow RSS and Atom feeds
  • Organize feeds into folders
  • AI-powered article summaries
  • CarPlay integration for listening
  • Sync reading state with iCloud
  • Offline reading with Read Later
  • On-device AI processing
Features
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Your feeds. Along for the ride. Read, listen and catch up with Feed Me RSS. Follow the RSS and Atom feeds you choose, organise them into folders, and keep your reading state in sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac with iCloud. No AI account or paid AI subscription is required. YOUR FEEDS IN CARPLAY On iPhone, browse your own feeds and folders, choose unread or all articles, or continue your listening queue. Short on time? Hear concise AI summaries to catch up quickly, or choose full articles for a longer listen. Use native CarPlay playback controls, see the source, change speed and save the current article. Ask Siri to save it for later without interrupting your listening. Connecting to CarPlay never starts playback automatically. READ YOUR FEEDS AS ONE CONTINUOUS SESSION Start with a summary or excerpt, expand the stories you want and keep several open as you read. New arrivals wait until you choose to add them, and read stories stay in your session until you start again. Save, queue, highlight or open the original without losing your place. TURN YOUR READING PILE INTO A LISTENING QUEUE Listen to concise AI summaries or choose full articles, with no 30-story queue limit. On-device neural voices bring stories to life, while the mini player keeps play, pause and previous/next controls close as you browse. Story notes show the current article’s AI summary in your listening player and follow the queue as each story changes. Save interesting stories without interrupting your queue. Completed and skipped stories are automatically marked as read. Queueing and pausing do not mark stories read. CarPlay’s Notes tab shows the current AI summary as scrollable text. Ask Siri to “save for later in Feed Me RSS” to add the playing story to Read Later, or favourite it for Saved/Starred. An article can be in both lists. PRIVATE APPLE INTELLIGENCE Summarise an article, ask it questions, reframe the explanation, pull out key sentences, translate, or explore why it matters. Compatible devices do the AI work locally. Choose the tools you want to see and whether article-list summaries should be prepared automatically. Completed AI summaries also appear on Front Page story cards, clearly marked so you can tell them from publisher excerpts. READING THAT FITS YOUR SCREEN Front Page offers Unread, All and Read filters for your feeds and folders. On wide Duo feed layouts, choose Two Columns from the newspaper view menu; your choice is remembered per feed and adapts to narrower panes. Use native split reading on iPad and Mac, with a compact article/list layout when space is tight. Mac remembers each feed’s view, restores your reading window and gives you keyboard commands for continuous reading and article expansion. On supported wide iOS devices, choose Scrolling, Book or Desk. Duo also adapts to its posture, with facing pages in Book and a reader above the controls in Desk. READ SMARTER • Quick Read queues for the time you have • Advanced search and smart filters • Related stories and alternative angles • Snoozed stories you can return to later • Notes, tags and highlights • Read Later downloads for offline reading • Feed Health to find and retry troubled subscriptions • RSS/Atom discovery, OPML import/export and optional FreshRSS sync MAKE IT YOURS Choose your theme, accent, app icon, text size, reader layout and swipe actions. Hide unread counts for a quieter inbox. Search the reorganised Settings to find what you need. Your subscriptions and reading state sync through iCloud. AI features require a compatible device with Apple Intelligence enabled. Feed availability and full-article extraction depend on the publisher.

Screenshots

Google News4 screens
Feed Me RSS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Feed Me RSS at 100% against Google News's 29%. Feed Me RSS also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Google News's advantage is ratings volume (226K vs 1) and chart position (#26 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Feed Me RSS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Google News has 226K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Google News's written reviews are positive against 100% of Feed Me RSS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Google News ships an update monthly, Feed Me RSS every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 4 level
Google News versus Feed Me RSS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGoogle NewsFeed Me RSS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (226K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews28.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings226K — better1
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
Best chart rank#26 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size172 MB178 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGoogleKendal Slack

Customer experience

Google News

All ratings226,194 ratings
Positive90.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative5.0%
Written reviews2,081 reviews
Positive28.7%
Neutral13.6%
Negative57.7%

Feed Me RSS

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Google News

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Articles not loading properly
  • Sudden app crashes and freezes
  • Inability to return to previous position in feed
  • Incorrect or outdated news content
  • Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions

Requested features

5 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Improved article bookmarking/saving
  • Better control over news sources
  • Smoother scrolling and navigation
  • Faster updates and real-time news

Feed Me RSS

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Google News

No in-app purchases

None

Feed Me RSS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Google News free?
Google News is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Feed Me RSS free?
Feed Me RSS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Google News or Feed Me RSS?
Feed Me RSS is rated higher. Google News averages 4.6 out of 5 from 226K ratings, while Feed Me RSS averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Google News or Feed Me RSS have ads?
Google News shows ads; Feed Me RSS does not.
Which is updated more often, Google News or Feed Me RSS?
Google News ships an update monthly, and Feed Me RSS every 5 days. Most recently, Google News was updated on November 9, 2026 and Feed Me RSS on November 7, 2026.

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