NewsNinja vs Headlines
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NewsNinja
Consolidate your favorite RSS feeds, YouTube channels, and Reddit subreddits into a single, personalized news stream. Enjoy AI-powered summaries, distraction-free reading, and intelligent grouping of articles to save time and stay informed.
- Unified RSS, Reddit, and YouTube feeds
- AI-powered summaries and translations
- Distraction-free reader mode
- Intelligent article grouping
- Fact-checking capabilities
- Mute unwanted topics
- Organize feeds by categories
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Key Features: Unified RSS, Reddit & Youtube Feed Combine your favorite RSS feeds, Youtube channels and subreddits into one personalized news stream. Stay updated with content that matters to you, all in one place. Youtube support View and summarize Youtube videos directly in the app. Reddit support View links, images, videos, and read full comment threads. Use AI to summarize lengthy discussions instantly. Distraction-Free Reader Mode Automatically strip away clutter for clean, easy reading. Customize font, size, and themes for a better reading experience. AI Summaries & Translations Save time with AI-generated summaries and get the main points fast. Choose from 3 summary styles and translate content into your preferred language. Intelligent Grouping NewsNinja’s advanced algorithms clusters articles covering the same story, allowing you to save time and avoid reading the same story multiple times. Choose between multiple grouping algorithm and tailor them to your feeds and reading experience. Fact checking Is it true? Fact check news, articles, youtube videos and reddit threads. Mute Unwanted Topics Blacklist keywords you don’t want to see in your feed. Organize by Categories Group feeds into categories and switch views effortlessly. Save Favorites for Later Star articles to come back to when you have more time. Discover & Import Feeds Explore popular feed categories or import your own using OPML files. Privacy policy: https://ainews.ninja/privacypolicy Terms and conditions: https://ainews.ninja/terms
Headlines
Follow your favorite websites and read their latest content in a clean, ad-free reader. Organize articles into collections, save them for later, and receive daily reminders. Discover new content and enhance your reading with summarization and note-taking tools.
- Ad-free reading experience
- Chronological content feed
- Organize content into collections
- Save articles for later
- Summarize and take notes on articles
- Discover new content and sites
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Headlines is an app that allows you to follow your favourite websites and read content in an ad-free reader that is designed to let you focus. It’s the best way to keep up with the content you love to read online, like news sites, blogs, newsletters, and more. Headlines gives you a chronological feed of the latest content from the sites you follow instead of an algorithm telling you what to read. FEATURES: - Follow sites and writers (just like you follow people on social media) - Beautiful ad-free reader designed to help you focus without distracting ads - News Flash: Receive a morning, afternoon and evening roundup of what’s going on in your world. - Detox Mode: Need to take a break from specific topics or sites? Detox mode makes it easy. - Set your reading time routine in the app and get reminded when it’s time to read - Add anything to your saved list to read later, including pages from around the web from the Safari extension - Organize your content into collections, including sites, articles, and links from around the web. Great for organizing content around a given topic! - Powerful reading tools: enhance your reading experience with summaries, notes, highlighting and more. - Discover: find new content by exploring tags, featured sites, and suggestions based on your interests - Available on the web and iOS! Experience the full-featured web app on your desktop or from anywhere. Headlines is free to use with reasonable limitations that are lifted with a subscription to Headlines Pro. Made in Toronto by a human! Terms of Service: https://headlines.fm/terms\ Privacy Policy: https://headlines.fm/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Headlines at 5.0 against NewsNinja's 4.6. Headlines also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). NewsNinja's advantage is ratings volume (41 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. NewsNinja sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.79 per 7 days and Headlines sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Headlines holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NewsNinja has 41 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
NewsNinja ships an update every 2 weeks, Headlines weekly. Both last shipped on October 1, 2026.
| Parameter | NewsNinja | Headlines |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (41 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 45.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 105 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Timelabs Ltd | Bradley Purchase |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
NewsNinja
- AI Summary - Weekly$0.797 Days
- NewsNinja+$0.991 Month
- NewsNinja+$7.991 Year
- NewsNinja+$24.99
Headlines
- Headlines Pro (Monthly)$3.991 Month
- Headlines Pro (Yearly)1 Year trial$44.991 Year
