Comparison

RSS vs Briefed.ro

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

Head to head
About

RSS

This news reader allows you to control your content with advanced filtering options. Blacklist, whitelist, or graylist terms to ensure you see what matters without wasting time. Enjoy a clutter-free experience with no ads or data sharing.

Highlights
  • Advanced filtering (blacklist, whitelist, graylist)
  • Content control
  • Clutter-free reading
  • No ads, account, or data sharing
  • iCloud syncing
  • One-time in-app purchase for unlimited filters
Features
Currently charting
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A clutter-free reader app with easy-to-use but advanced filtering options, including a blacklist, a whitelist, and a graylist. You control what reaches you. Miss less while wasting less time. No ads. No account needed. No data sharing. No subscriptions. Effective Filtering: Add terms quickly to a filter list by selecting text. You can manage entire topics by selecting parts of a website link, such as '/crosswords/'. Articles containing a blacklisted term are automatically trashed. If no whitelisted term is present, articles containing a graylisted term are also automatically trashed. You can review the trash occasionally to verify your settings. Transparent And Fair Purchase Model: Start with up to 100 filter entries, then unlock unlimited filters with a one-time in-app purchase (5 USD)—no subscriptions or recurring fees. This lets you scale up to thousands of filter terms effortlessly.

About

Briefed.ro

Features
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Briefed automatically gathers news from online media and puts it into a single feed, organised by source and category. Nobody decides for you: you see what dozens of publications publish, as it appears, and you build your own news stream. The app is free. WHAT YOU CAN DO One feed, continuously updated The latest stories from every monitored publication, plus "Trending now" and "Most popular". Filter by source, category, keyword and time range. Events: the same story, across outlets Articles about the same story are grouped automatically into an event. You see who reported it first and when, how long the others took to follow, a chronology by the minute with each outlet's delay, how many outlets wrote about it, and the wording their headlines shared. Custom timelines Build your own streams: pick the sources and categories you care about (Politics from three publications, say), add keywords and a time window. You can follow events the same way. A timeline can become the app's home screen, showing how many articles are new since you last opened it. Advanced keywords A space means "and", a minus sign excludes a word, OR accepts any of the terms, and quotation marks search for an exact phrase. Case and accents are ignored: "galati" also finds "Galați". Alerts when something you follow appears Create rules on sources, categories and keywords, for articles or for events, then choose the channel and how often you hear about it: instantly, hourly, daily or at fixed hours. Useful for following a topic, an institution, a city or your own company name. Briefed Articles Our own content, published daily: press reviews, the day's opinions, analyses and explainers written by the Briefed team. Saved articles, in folders, with notes Save any article, file it in a folder and add a personal note. Coverage in other sources On an article page you can check whether the story was reported by other publications, so you can compare angles. Topics and public figures Dedicated pages for the topics of the moment and for the names in the news: how many articles, from how many sources, which publications write about them most, and how the attention shifts month by month. Statistics on the monitored press The barometer shows how much the monitored outlets publish each month, with the peak hour and the split by category. Audiences shows the most-read sources and categories on Briefed. Daily briefing by email Pick the hour and the number of articles, and you get a daily summary of the news that matters to you. Romanian, English and several countries Choose the app's language and the country whose publications you want to follow. Your choice follows you to briefed.ro when you are signed in. Comfortable reading Light theme, dark theme, or whatever your phone is set to. An interface built for reading quickly. WITH OR WITHOUT AN ACCOUNT You can read the feed and the events, search and open articles without an account. A free account, with email or Google, unlocks timelines, alert rules, saved articles and the daily briefing. HOW IT WORKS Briefed reads publications' public RSS feeds and shows the headline, a short excerpt and a link to the original article. We do not republish articles in full: the "Read the article" button takes you to the source's own site. Articles in the Briefed Articles section are our own content and are labelled as such. Grouping into events is automatic, and the figures cover only the feeds Briefed subscribes to, not a newsroom's entire output. Briefed is independent. We are not affiliated with the publications we monitor, and their trademarks belong to their rightful owners. If you represent a publication and want it added to or removed from monitoring, write to us from the Contact section. Website: https://briefed.ro Editorial policy: https://briefed.ro/politica-editoriala Terms and conditions: https://briefed.ro/termeni-si-conditii Privacy: https://briefed.ro/politica-de-confidentialitate

Screenshots

RSS4 screens
Briefed.ro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Briefed.ro at Free against RSS's $4.99. Briefed.ro also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). RSS's advantage is chart position (#159 vs unranked). On ads, 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

Briefed.ro is free to download; RSS costs $4.99 up front. RSS sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Briefed.ro asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
RSS versus Briefed.ro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRSSBriefed.ro
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank#159 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.616.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB36 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperVolker KochCristian Longo

In-app purchases

1 purchases

RSS

One-time1
  • One-Time Unlock$4.99
None

Briefed.ro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RSS free?
RSS costs $4.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Briefed.ro free?
Briefed.ro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do RSS or Briefed.ro have ads?
Neither RSS nor Briefed.ro shows ads.

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