Feed Drum vs Lumo Post
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Feed Drum
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Feed Drum is a modern take on news and feed readers. With its modern and simplistic design, Feed Drum brings all your news sources to one place. You are in control of your news feed. With Feed Drum, you can select from a catalog of reputed news sources to be shown on your feed, minimizing distractions. Beyond that, Feed Drum offers you the ability to create multiple groups with sources you select so that you can create your own custom feeds on different interests and topics. With its simple and intuitive design, Feed Drum is the better way to get your news and keep up to date on topics you care about.
Lumo Post
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Everything you read, in one app. News, long reads, independent writers, podcasts, and any website you like to keep close β gathered on your own device and sorted into one edition each day. No account. No tracking. No ads. One purchase or subscription covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. BUILT FOR iPhone Duo Lumo Post and iPhone Duo now work together. Unfold the phone and your feed and the story sit side by side, like the pages of a newspaper. Opened upright, the article fills one wide page. Stand it on the table to read on top while you scroll and switch stories from below. TODAY Every day, one edition instead of an endless feed. The stories that matter from everything you follow, grouped by theme. When five outlets cover the same event, they become one story β you read it once. NEWS Follow publications, agencies and channels from anywhere in the world. A built-in catalogue of hundreds of sources in dozens of countries, or paste any address you already have. Everything lands in one place, sorted into eight folders: politics, business, conflicts, technology and science, sport, society and culture, incidents, and the rest. Tap Share in Safari, Telegram or YouTube and choose Lumo Post β the source is added to the right section automatically. MAGAZINES For when you want something longer than a headline. Science, ideas, history, investigations β grouped by subject, in their own section. More than 200 magazines in eleven languages. AUTHORS People, not newsrooms. Independent writers publishing on their own, from established names to those just finding their readers. Choose from the built-in list, or add anyone by address. Follow the person, not the masthead. PODCASTS Search any show or browse the charts. Playback continues in the background, and where you stopped follows you from phone to tablet to desktop. WEBSITES Some sites have no feed at all β and you still want them nearby. Save any address and it opens here in full, the way a browser shows it. SORTED BY AN AI THAT NEVER LEAVES YOUR DEVICE A model running on your iPhone, iPad or Mac reads each story and files it. Nothing is sent to a server to be classified, and nothing about you reaches anyone. CLEAN READING Articles open without ads, banners or pop-ups. Reading mode strips the page to the text. Newspaper-style typography, with an Aa control to set your text size. Translation and read-aloud are built in, using Apple's own on-device frameworks. Save to Favourites, share, or open the original page in one tap β the publisher is always credited. YOURS ALONE No sign-up. No tracking, no analytics, no advertising. We run no servers for your content and collect nothing about you. Your subscriptions, favourites and reading progress sync through your own iCloud, readable only by your devices. ONE PURCHASE, THREE PLATFORMS Seven days free. After that, choose monthly, yearly, or a one-time purchase forever β any of them covers iPhone, iPad and Mac. Fully in English. Also available in German, French, Spanish, Russian and Chinese. Built with Gemma.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Feed Drum at none against Lumo Post's 3. Feed Drum also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). Lumo Post's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Lumo Post sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.49 per month. Feed Drum asks for nothing beyond the download.
Feed Drum ships an update weekly, Lumo Post fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Feed Drum | Lumo Post |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly β better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | No β better |
| In-app purchases | No β better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac β better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 β better | 26.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 386 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ravindu Wataketiya | Alexey Budkov |
In-app purchases
Feed Drum
No in-app purchases
Lumo Post
- Lumo Post Monthly$4.491 Month
- Lumo Post Annual$29.991 Year
- Lumo Post Lifetime$59.99
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