RSS Mobile vs content
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RSS Mobile
This app allows you to read news from various channels directly on your device without relying on external web services. It downloads and stores feed updates locally for offline reading and supports easy migration with OPML file import/export.
- RSS, Atom, and JSON feed support
- Offline feed storage
- OPML import/export for migration
- Simplified linked webpage view
- Feed grouping
- Post flagging and hiding
- Safari browser subscription
Read full descriptionHide full description
RSS Mobile is a standalone app for reading news channels that does not depend on any third-party web services. It downloads feed updates and stores them on your device for further reading. OPML-file import/export are supported, so you may perform migration easily. RSS Mobile is free and does not contain ads. Features: - RSS, Atom and JSON feeds support - Import / Export of OPML-files - Stores loaded posts locally - Simplified view of linked webpage in Reader - Grouping of feeds - Flagging and hiding of posts - Subscription from Safari browser - Dynamic Type - Pointer and Keyboard support for iPad - VoiceOver Any questions? Feel free to contact us: rssmobileapp@gmail.com
content
This app provides a clean, chronological feed of articles from any website or service that publishes an RSS or Atom feed. It offers a distraction-free reading experience, offline access, and organizes content into customizable categories. The app prioritizes user privacy with no accounts or tracking.
- Chronological feed display
- Supports RSS, Atom, YouTube, Reddit
- Distraction-free reader view
- Offline reading capabilities
- Customizable categories
- Save articles for later
- No account or tracking
Read full descriptionHide full description
The internet used to feel different. You picked the sites you loved, and you read them. content brings that back. content is a calm, beautiful RSS reader for people who want to read articles — not scroll comments, fight algorithms, or chase engagement metrics. NO ALGORITHM. NO COMMENTS. NO NOISE. Your feeds appear in one place, in the order they were published. Chronological, always. No ranking, no "trending," no recommendations, nothing deciding for you what matters. FOLLOW ANYTHING WITH A FEED News sites, personal blogs, magazines, newsletters, YouTube channels, subreddits — if it publishes an RSS or Atom feed, you can follow it. Found something good in Safari? Add it straight from the share sheet. Import your existing subscriptions via OPML in seconds. A READER THAT RESPECTS THE ARTICLE Articles open in a clean, distraction-free reader view: no pop-ups, no interstitials, no comment sections. Typography-first design in dark or light mode. Even sites that only publish headlines get the full article extracted for you. ORGANIZED YOUR WAY Group feeds into categories and read them as one chronological stream. Save articles for later. Tag anything. Your library, your structure. ON IPHONE AND IPAD On iPad, your list sits beside the article you're reading, so finishing one and starting the next never changes the screen. Your library opens as a sidebar. Attach a keyboard and the arrow keys move through the list. SYNCS ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Your feeds, categories, tags, arrangement, and everything you've read or saved follow you between your iPhone and iPad over iCloud. Nothing to turn on, no account to create. PICKS UP EXACTLY WHERE YOU LEFT OFF content remembers your place in every list and every article. Close the app mid-paragraph, come back tomorrow, keep reading. READS OFFLINE Articles and their images prefetch quietly in the background on Wi-Fi. Open the app on the subway, on a flight, in a dead zone — everything's already there. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no tracking, nothing promoted — ever. Your articles are stored on your device, and syncing runs through your own private iCloud storage. Nothing is sent to our servers, because there are no servers. PAY ONCE, KEEP EVERYTHING No subscription. No premium tier. No locked features, no in-app purchases, no upsell. You buy the app, you own the app. Stay informed. Not hooked.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is price: RSS Mobile at Free against content's $2.00. RSS Mobile also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (57 vs 1). content's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 81%). On ads, 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
RSS Mobile is free to download; content costs $2.00 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
RSS Mobile holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: RSS Mobile has 57 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 81% of RSS Mobile's written reviews are positive against 100% of content's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
RSS Mobile ships an update every 3 months, content every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RSS Mobile | content |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.00 |
| Rating | 4.6 (57 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 57 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #102 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Elias Panfilow | Keith Norman |
Customer experience
RSS Mobile
content
In-app purchases
RSS Mobile
No in-app purchases
content
No in-app purchases








