Bulletin vs Newsairy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bulletin
This app uses AI to summarize news articles from your RSS feeds, allowing you to quickly grasp key information. It offers a customizable reading experience with features like dark mode, adjustable text, and organization tools. Save articles for later and sync across all your Apple devices.
- AI-powered article summaries
- Customizable RSS feed management
- Read later functionality
- Dark mode and appearance options
- Cross-device sync with iCloud
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
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Bulletin is a modern RSS news reader with summaries built in, so you can get through everything you follow in less time. You choose every source, and no algorithm decides what surfaces. Use the summary to decide what to read, then open the article in a distraction-free reader with no ads. SMART SUMMARY, POWERED BY REAL ARTICLE CONTENT Bulletin extracts the article before building its summary, rather than relying on the short text in an RSS feed. The result reflects what the article actually says, so you're not judging a story by its headline. • Read a concise summary in bullet points or one sentence • Switch to Quotes mode to read the article's key quotes, word for word • Improve unclear or clickbait headlines with a clearer, more accurate one • Summarise a whole feed or category, with each point citing the publication behind it. Tap to open the story • Copy, select, or share summaries Bulletin uses AI to summarise article content. YOU PICK EVERY SOURCE Start reading straight away with useful starter categories, then make Bulletin yours. Add the publications, independent writers, blogs, and specialist sites you trust. Nothing is inserted because an algorithm thinks it should be there. • Add an RSS feed from any supported site or feed URL • Import an existing collection with OPML, or export it when you need to • Create, rename, hide, and organise categories around the way you follow news • Enable, disable, or rename individual sources at any time • Mute phrases you do not want to see in your feeds A FOR YOU FEED, ON YOUR TERMS For You brings your chosen categories together in one personalised feed. Nothing is ranked or promoted: it is all from sources you added. Sort a combined feed purely by time and the sites that post twenty times a day bury the ones that post twice a week. Weaved mode keeps For You close to newest first, but never lets one source run more than twice before another gets a turn. Busy sites still appear as often, just spread out, so everything you follow gets seen. • Weaved mode, so no single source takes over the feed • Switch to chronological ordering whenever you prefer • Choose which categories appear together in For You READ THE WAY YOU WANT A summary is a starting point. When an article deserves your attention, open it in a clean reading view that keeps the text and images while removing page ads and newsletter prompts. You can also switch to the original page at any time. • Choose a serif or sans-serif reading font and adjust text size • Use light, dark, or extra-dark reading styles • Change article card size to make feeds compact or visual • Sort feeds, show or hide unread counts, and mark articles as read in batches SAVE IT FOR LATER Save an article to Read Later with one action, then return when the time is right. Your sources, reading history, preferences, and Read Later list stay in sync with iCloud across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. TRANSLATE AS YOU READ When a source is written in another language, translate its headlines, full articles and summaries entirely on your device. WIDGETS, SIRI AND SHORTCUTS • See recent headlines in Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets • Open Bulletin actions from Control Center or Siri • Follow the latest headlines in a Live Activity CLEAR ABOUT YOUR DATA Bulletin removes tracking parameters from article URLs. Anonymous usage analytics can be turned off, and article content is not collected for analytics. Your source list remains yours. TRY BULLETIN FREE The free tier includes 20 opens of the distraction-free reader and 5 shared Smart Summary or headline-improvement uses. Bulletin Pro unlocks unlimited reader opens, unlimited summaries, headline improvements, and alternate app icons. Monthly, Yearly, and Lifetime options are available, with pricing shown before purchase. Choose your sources, read the summary, and open what matters. Terms of Service: https://www.pixelfolio.app/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://www.pixelfolio.app/privacy.html
Newsairy
Customize your news consumption by following chosen sources and organizing feeds. Enjoy a clean reading experience with smart feeds, keyword filtering, and AI summaries generated on-device. Syncs across Apple devices and offers advanced customization options.
- Follow custom RSS, Atom, JSON feeds
- Tailorable article list layout and density
- Smart feeds for recent and relevant articles
- Keyword filtering and anti-spoiler options
- On-device AI article summarization
- iCloud sync across Apple devices
- Organize feeds into folders
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Read what you want, how you want. Follow the sources you choose, at your own pace. Your news. Your rules. No algorithm. Read the way you want - Supports RSS, Atom and JSON feeds - Browse a clean article list you can tailor: layout (Grouped or Plain), density (Comfortable or Compact), thumbnail size, favicon, unread dot and preview lines (0–6) - Read in the offline preview or the built-in reader (picking font and text size), or open it in your browser - Smart feeds keep the most relevant articles front and centre: Today, Last 24 / 48 / 72 hours, Last 7 days (a rolling week) and This week (from the start of the current week to now) - Build your own Custom Smart Feeds: keyword-based feeds that gather matching articles, or mute keywords to hide the ones you don't want to see - Anti-Spoiler hides any article mentioning a word or phrase — everywhere in the app — until you remove it or until it expires on its own - Looking for something you recently read? Read History is a smart feed too — see only what you actually opened, or everything marked as read, with a toggle to switch - Organise feeds into folders - Choose how each feed opens: as published (perhaps only the first paragraph), with the full article extracted automatically, or downloaded ahead of time so it's ready offline — set per feed, not as one global preference. It needs a connection to fetch, and not every site allows it. - Get a short AI summary of any article, generated entirely on your device (iOS 26 or later) — nothing leaves your phone. Stay in sync - iCloud keeps your feeds, folders and reading state in sync across your iPhone, iPad and Mac - Configure sync to happen automatically, on launch, or on resume — or trigger it manually with pull-to-refresh Make it yours - Choose your theme: Automatic, Light, Dark or Sepia - Configurable swipe actions, order and article retention rules - Import and export your subscriptions with standard OPML files - Search across all your articles instantly - Star articles to save them — starred items are never deleted by retention rules Newsairy Pro — a single, one-time purchase — removes the 6-feed limit (free accounts include up to 6 local and 6 iCloud feeds) and adds sync with TheOldReader, Feedbin, Inoreader, Miniflux and FreshRSS, bringing your existing subscriptions, read state, and starred articles with you. No subscription. Pay once, yours forever. No ads. No tracking. No third-party analytics. Newsairy is a young app built on solid foundations, and it's updated constantly — with new features regularly on the way. Requires iOS 18 or later. On Mac, requires macOS 15 or later and Apple silicon. iCloud sync requires an active iCloud account. TheOldReader, Feedbin, Inoreader, Miniflux and FreshRSS sync requires Newsairy Pro (and an account with these aggregators).
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Verdict
Bulletin and Newsairy both sit at 4.2 stars, but that hides the real split: 67% of Newsairy's written reviews are positive against 42% of Bulletin's. Newsairy also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Bulletin's advantage is ratings volume (190 vs 5) and device support (6 vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Bulletin sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Newsairy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Bulletin against 4.2 for Newsairy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bulletin has 190 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 42% of Bulletin's written reviews are positive against 67% of Newsairy's.
Bulletin ships an update every 4 days, Newsairy weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bulletin | Newsairy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (190 ratings) | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.1% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 190 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Pixelfolio Inc. | Enrico Bonaldo |
Customer experience
Bulletin
Newsairy
Bugs and requests
Bulletin
Reported bugs
22 issues- App crashes when importing feeds
- App crashes when pasting URLs
- App crashes when adjusting settings
- Apple Watch app stuck on loading screen
- Apple TV app stuck on loading screen
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- iCloud sync not working properly across devices
- Imported feeds not syncing to other devices
- Arabic content causes app shutdown
- Website links fail to load in watch app
- Blank screen with spinning loader on startup
- Widget not auto-refreshing
- Widget images appearing white with dark theme
- Imported feeds category structure not preserved
- Toggle switches for feed selection not working
- Add feed URL field not functional
- Thumbnail images not loading for certain feeds
- App freezes on startup without network
- Slow and inconsistent app performance
- Settings not persisting across devices
- Read status not retained across devices
- Blank screen loading issues on iPad and Mac
- Scrolling issues on Apple Vision Pro
Requested features
26 requests- Font size adjustment capability
- Category customization on Apple TV
- Safari Reader view integration
- Like/dislike article feedback system
- Summary length customization
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- Full article translation support
- Reel/card-based news format
- Widget auto-refresh functionality
- Search by site name or URL
- Reorder and prioritize categories
- Mark articles as read on scroll
- Swipe to next article navigation
- History section for read articles
- Granular notification customization by feed
- Hierarchical feed organization
- Bulk editing capabilities
- Text-to-speech with adjustable voices
- Top headlines view
- Full iPad screen support in portrait mode
- Brazilian Portuguese language support
- Italian language support
- Spanish language support
- Chinese and Japanese language support
- Duplicate story elimination
- Feed preference syncing via iCloud
- 7-day free trial period
Newsairy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Bulletin
- Bulletin Monthly Access$3.991 Month
- Bulletin Pro (1 Year)$19.991 Year
- Generous Tip$1.99
- Bulletin Lifetime Access$39.99
Newsairy
- Newsairy Pro$2.99









