Hushread vs Simplio RSS Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hushread
This app offers a calm reading experience for news, RSS feeds, and book summaries. It provides AI-powered summaries, daily news briefings, and a distraction-free reader to help you stay informed without doom-scrolling.
- AI Article Summaries
- AI News Briefings
- Non-Fiction Book Ideas
- Follow Topics & Websites
- Full-Text Reader
- Bookmarks
- Push Notifications
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You choose who to follow. Hushread does the work a plain feed can't: it recognises when thirty articles from thirty outlets are one story, shows it to you once, lays it out as a timeline of how it unfolded, and tells you when it's surging. No algorithm decides what you see. Your sources do. ONE STORY, NOT THIRTY HEADLINES When your outlets all cover the same event, Hushread folds them into a single story. Open it and you get the story so far, then coverage day by day from every source, each one linked to the original report. Follow a story for weeks without rereading the same news twice. TRENDING, FROM YOUR SOURCES Trending is counted from coverage, not clicks. See what the outlets you follow are writing about most, how many of them are on it, and for how long. Filter by Local, or by Politics, Business, Technology, Science, Sports and more. A surge shows up as it forms. READ FAST OR READ DEEP Swipe left on any article for a quick take, written from the report itself. Open the full piece for clean text without clutter. Tap Listen and a natural voice reads it while you walk, cook or commute. ANYTHING CAN BE A SOURCE RSS and Atom feeds, plain websites, subreddits, YouTube channels, Facebook pages, Google News topics. Start from curated collections or search for a site by name. Switching from another reader? Import your OPML in one tap. YOUR ORDER, YOUR RULES Folders with icons, tags, a start screen you pick, Card, Magazine or List layouts. Set rules that alert you when a keyword appears or when coverage turns negative on a topic you watch. Mark scrolled articles as read automatically. Search everything you've ever pulled in. LOCAL AND GLOBAL Local news from your country sits beside world coverage, so you see what matters at home and what's moving everywhere else. EVERYWHERE YOU READ iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, kept in sync. Home screen widget for a glance. Light and dark themes, your fonts, your text size. FREE TO START Follow up to five sources free, forever. Hushread Pro unlocks unlimited sources, trending stories, audio and rules. One subscription covers every device. Hushread is built by a small team that reads a lot of news and got tired of reading it three times. Questions or ideas: support@hushread.com Web: https://hushread.com Privacy policy: https://hushread.com/privacy Terms: https://hushread.com/terms
Simplio RSS Reader
This app offers a private and chronological way to follow news and blogs without algorithmic manipulation or advertisements. It supports various feed formats and provides robust organization tools. Unlock advanced features like unlimited feeds and keyword filtering with a subscription.
- RSS, Atom, JSON feed support
- OPML import/export
- Folders and tags for organization
- Unread count widgets
- Clean reader mode
- Full offline reading
- iCloud sync
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Your reading list, not an algorithm's. If you remember the open web before recommendation engines decided what you would read next, Simplio RSS Reader brings that habit back. It is a calm, private rss reader for adults who want to subscribe to the blogs, newsletters and newsrooms they actually care about, then see them in chronological order without ads, without a trending rail, and without engagement traps designed to keep you scrolling. Reading, not feed-doom. The feed reader treats your time as yours: it loads what you subscribed to, in the order it was published, and stops being interesting the moment your inbox is empty — which is the point. Every feature described below is unlocked only with an auto-renewable subscription purchased inside the app. New users receive a 3 day free trial; you may cancel anytime during the trial to avoid being charged. Add feeds by URL or paste in an OPML file from another app, then organise them with folders and tags. The reader app supports RSS, Atom and JSON Feed, articles open in a clean reader mode stripped of clutter, and you can star articles, save them to read later, or search across every feed when you remember a phrase but not the source. Unread counts surface on Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, full offline reader mode means the subway is a library, and OPML export lets you walk away at any time with everything you ever subscribed to. The blog reader also handles the awkward shape of modern publishing: full-text fetch pulls the complete article when a feed only ships a summary, keyword filtering quietly mutes topics you are tired of and highlights the ones you care about, and background refresh schedules let a heavy news reader update at sensible intervals without draining battery. Per-feed rules can mark a niche developer blog as "always notify" while a high-volume newsroom is held back to a single digest. The atom reader and rss subscription handling supports authenticated feeds where the publisher allows, and PDF article export lets you save a long read for an offline flight or a research archive. Your subscription list and read state stay on this device. There is no account requirement, no analytics following which articles you open, and no third-party server in the loop with your reading habits. The interface ships in 39 languages with VoiceOver accessibility, designed for anyone who missed RSS after it was declared dead, writers and journalists tracking sources, developers following blogs and changelogs, and readers tired of algorithmic news feeds. As a minimal reader, blog aggregator and privacy reader, it hands editorial decisions back to you — what you read, in what order, and for how long is no longer a recommendation. Unlock with Pro: • Unlimited feeds (free tier: 20 feeds) • All widgets, themes and custom reader fonts • Full-text fetch when the feed is truncated • Keyword filtering to mute or highlight topics • Background refresh schedules and PDF article export Subscription Pricing & Terms Features require a subscription. Pricing and terms available in-app. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Manage or cancel your subscription and free-trial conversion in Settings > Apple ID after purchase. Any unused portion of the free-trial period will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Hushread at free with in-app purchases against Simplio RSS Reader's subscription. Hushread also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.5). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Hushread sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year and Simplio RSS Reader sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Hushread ships an update every 4 days, Simplio RSS Reader every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hushread | Simplio RSS Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 3.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 8 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 74 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ramarya Software Services LLP | Bahattin Duran |
Customer experience
Hushread
Simplio RSS Reader
In-app purchases
Hushread
- Hushread Pro Annual$14.991 Year
Simplio RSS Reader
- Pro Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- Pro Monthly3 Days trial$6.991 Month
- Pro Annual7 Days trial$29.991 Year









