Comparison

PatchRadar vs Gather

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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!

About

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.

Highlights
  • Local-first RSS reader
  • Offline article reading
  • Customizable reading views
  • No account required
  • On-device processing
  • OPML export
  • Optional article translation
Features
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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/

Screenshots

PatchRadar4 screens
Gather4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Gather sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PatchRadar asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PatchRadar ships an update every 3 weeks, Gather daily. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
PatchRadar versus Gather: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPatchRadarGather
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings5 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB107 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperPatchRadar GmbHCodeNest LLC

Customer experience

PatchRadar

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Gather

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

PatchRadar

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Gather

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99

Questions

Is PatchRadar free?
PatchRadar is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gather free?
Gather is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PatchRadar or Gather?
Gather is rated higher. PatchRadar averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Gather averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do PatchRadar or Gather have ads?
Gather shows ads; PatchRadar does not.
Which is updated more often, PatchRadar or Gather?
PatchRadar ships an update every 3 weeks, and Gather daily. Most recently, PatchRadar was updated on October 4, 2026 and Gather on October 16, 2026.

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