News vs Feedit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
News
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News-Crawler is a "source first" News-App / Feedreader / RSS-Reader / Aggregator. Features: - Shows only articles from sources you selected. - Enter your favorite Websites or RSS-Feeds. - Use keywords to completely block articles on certain topics or search for specific content. - Block sub, premium and plus articles. - Block articles, which have already been shown. - Bookmark articles to read them later. - Save articles as PDF. - Create your own news feed and determine the order of your sources. - Customize the design and font with your own colors. - Import/Export your data. - Very low battery consumption. - No Background activity. - No account obligation. - No ads. - Does not sell your data in any way. Made with Love in Germany. Standard Apple Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Feedit
Manage your news consumption with a clean interface. Organize articles from various sources, save them for later, and catch up on unread content. Offers a reader view and home screen widgets for quick access.
- Sync with iCloud or local storage
- Integrates with popular RSS services
- Read later functionality
- Catch up on unread articles
- Optional reader view
- Home screen widgets
- Safari web extension
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Take control of the news you care about and read what matters to you! Read and share articles from your favorite blogs and websites in a clean and intuitive interface. FEEDS Sync with iCloud, or use the built-in “On My Device” local account. Third party account services that integrate and sync with Feedit: BazQux, Feedbin, Feedly, Inoreader, NewsBlur, The Old Reader, FreshRSS. Feedit also supports extension services – best supported by Local and iCloud accounts: Reddit, Mastodon. You can subscribe to your timelines, a specific username, hashtag, subreddit, etc. STARRED This is a smart collection of articles acting mostly as a read later service. This will save what you want to read or reference later and syncs across devices(except local account). CATCH UP This is a smart collection of your articles that show up as unread after 24 hours of being published. This way you’re able to reference them on your time when you’re ready to get to them and avoid a cluttered timeline. READER VIEW This is an optional feature where it ultimately comes to preference Does not work with extension services(Twitter - deprecated, Reddit, Mastodon) You can find this feature in the article view If you prefer Reader View, you can toggle this for all your subscriptions, or individually WIDGETS View your recent articles – comes in small, medium, large and, for devices that support it, extra large. View your current Today, Unread and Starred filter counts – small sized widget SAFARI WEB EXTENSION: FIND FEED How to enable: - Open Settings app - Select Safari - Select Extensions - Select Feedit - Turn Feedit On - Turn on “All Websites” From there, go to a page in Safari, bring up the Safari options, and tap “Find Feed”
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Feedit at none against News's 1. News's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 18.5). On price, update cadence, 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. News sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $0.99 per year. Feedit asks for nothing beyond the download.
News ships an update every 4 weeks, Feedit every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | News | Feedit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.7 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 39 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Julian Bassner | Tyler Lawrence |
In-app purchases
News
- Premium$0.991 Year
Feedit
No in-app purchases







