PatchRadar vs Gather
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PatchRadar
Stay informed about the software and games you care about. Receive instant notifications for updates, patch notes, and sales. Discover new products tailored to your interests and request additions to the platform.
- Track favorite games and software
- Instant update notifications
- Discover new products
- Request new product additions
- Stay updated on sales and patch notes
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Discover a new way to stay updated on the software and games you love. Track your favorite products to receive the latest updates, patch notes, sales, and news - all in one place. With PatchRadar, you can: - Keep track of your favorite games and software. - Get instant notifications about updates, new features, and deals. - Discover new products based on your interests. - Request products we don’t have yet — your feedback helps us grow! Our platform is built for fans who want to stay connected to the products they love, without noise or distractions. Whether it’s the newest game update or an exciting sale, PatchRadar has you covered. Download PatchRadar today and never miss an update again!
Gather
This app provides a calm, local-first RSS reader to follow trusted publications and read clean full articles. It offers customizable reading experiences, offline access, and privacy-focused features without requiring an account.
- Local-first RSS reader
- Offline article reading
- Customizable reading views
- No account required
- On-device processing
- OPML export
- Optional article translation
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Read what you choose, without turning every subscription into another inbox. Gather is an RSS and Atom reader built around your sources. Follow trusted publications, blogs, and independent sites. No Gather account is required. A feed that fits you Use Browse for a relaxed chronological stream and Keep up for the few sources you want to finish. Group coverage of the same story, discover new sources, and organize focused views. Comfortable reading Open clean reader views when available or switch to the publisher’s live page. Adjust type and appearance, save favorites, search downloaded articles, and prepare a reading queue for offline use. Listen to articles and translate supported text on your device after a language pack downloads. Summaries, your choice Get a plain title and five clear points in the standard summary style, or choose another summary voice. Optional cloud summaries send the article title and text through CodeNest’s service on Cloudflare and OpenRouter only after you explicitly allow them in Settings. Turn them off anytime. On-device summaries remain available with Apple Intelligence on supported iPhones or a downloaded model. Keep your data Subscriptions, reading history, and saved articles live on your device. Article titles, text, links, sources, searches, and topics are excluded from analytics. Import and export subscriptions with OPML, make a Gather backup, or use optional sync with iCloud. Core reading and offline tools do not require a subscription. A one-time purchase removes in-feed sponsored cards. Supporting Gather is optional and does not unlock core reading features. Publisher sites, paywalls, and JavaScript-heavy pages can limit extraction. Gather offers retries or a live-page fallback when a clean view is unavailable. Privacy: https://codenestllc.org/gather/privacy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PatchRadar at none against Gather's 1. PatchRadar also leads on ads (none vs shown). Gather's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Gather sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PatchRadar asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gather holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 2 respectively.
PatchRadar ships an update every 3 weeks, Gather daily. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PatchRadar | Gather |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 30 MB | 107 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | PatchRadar GmbH | CodeNest LLC |
Customer experience
PatchRadar
Gather
In-app purchases
PatchRadar
No in-app purchases
Gather
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