Comparison

daily.dev vs Coffee Break News

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

Head to head
About

daily.dev

Get a personalized feed of developer news, articles, and discussions tailored to your interests. Discover new tools and insights across AI, React, DevOps, and more from thousands of sources.

Highlights
  • Personalized developer feed
  • AI-powered content curation
  • Community discussions (Squads)
  • Bookmarks and reading streaks
  • Developer profile
Features
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Your whole dev world, distilled into one personalized feed.  daily.dev pulls the best engineering articles, tutorials, and discussions from 2,000+ trusted sources — including the GitHub Blog, Dev.to, freeCodeCamp, and hundreds more — then AI and a community of over a million developers cut it down to what actually matters for your stack. Signal, not noise.  The more you read, the sharper it gets. It learns from you, and from what a million other developers find worth reading.  :trophy: Product Hunt — Golden Kitty Award winner  :star: 18,000+ GitHub stars, fully open source at github.com/dailydotdev  WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU OPEN THE APP  :one: Your feed is already yours. Technical articles, tutorials, and community discussions from 2,000+ sources, matched to your stack from the start.  :two: Caught up in minutes, not hours. AI summarizes the noise away and a million developers upvote the good stuff to the top — so you read what's worth reading and skip the rest.  :three: Every article is a conversation. See what other engineers think, add your take, and learn from the comments — the real insight is often there.  :four: A calm daily habit. Build a reading streak, unlock achievements, and grow a developer profile over time. Come back because it's useful, not because it nags.  :five: Find your people. Join a Squad around React, DevOps, AI, cloud, mobile, open source — or anything you care about. Share links, start discussions, learn together. Public or private.  :bulb: WHY IT FEELS DIFFERENT  Most tools in this space are glorified RSS readers or pure-algorithm feeds. daily.dev is different because the community is built in.  Developers upvote articles, which teaches the system what actually matters — not just what's new, but what's good. Discussions add context you can't get from reading alone. Squads create focused curation around every topic and language. And AI personalizes on top of all of it, matched to your specific stack.  Think of it as a feed curated by a senior engineer who shares your exact interests.  :hammer_and_wrench: FEATURES (all free)  • Personalized reading from 2,000+ sources, powered by AI + community signals  • Multiple views: Popular, Upvoted, Discussed, Following  • Custom feeds for different interests and stacks  • Squads — communities around any topic  • Reading streaks, achievements, and leaderboards  • DevCard — a shareable developer identity card  • Bookmarks with folders  • Search across millions of posts  • Dark mode and light mode  • Syncs seamlessly across all your devices  :dart: WHO IT'S FOR  • Developers who want what matters without opening 10 sites every morning  • Engineers who learn better when they can see what peers think is worth reading  • Anyone who wants a daily reading habit that builds over time  • Teams that share and discuss technical articles in private Squads  :gem: daily.dev Plus  Unlock premium features:  • Presidential Briefing — a personal agent scans the landscape daily, analyzes 100+ posts, and delivers one concise briefing  • Smart Titles — rewrites clickbait headlines so you know what you're actually clicking  • Clickbait Shield — detects and replaces misleading titles automatically

About

Coffee Break News

Features
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Coffee Break News is an exclusive weekly newsletter app curated by me, Tiago Henriques. The newsletter features the best articles, news, tips and apps submitted by iOS developers worldwide. My mission is to showcase the work of iOS devs by providing a platform for them to share their work. I have decided to turn the newsletter into an actual app! Ready to use it?

Screenshots

daily.dev4 screens
Coffee Break News3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Coffee Break News at none against daily.dev's shown. daily.dev's advantage is iOS requirement (16.6 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. daily.dev sells 14 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and Coffee Break News sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
daily.dev versus Coffee Break News: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterdaily.devCoffee Break News
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (40 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings40 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDaily Dev LtdTiago Henriques

Bugs and requests

daily.dev

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Buttons not working
  • Unable to sign up

Requested features

1 request
  • Web app option

Coffee Break News

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

14 purchases

daily.dev

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Annual Special$59.991 Year
  • Annual$89.991 Year
One-time11
  • 100 Cores$1.49
  • 300 Cores$4.49
  • 600 Cores$8.99
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  • 1,200 Cores$17.99
  • 2,400 Cores$34.99
  • 5,000 Cores$72.99
  • 8,000 Cores$114.99
  • 12,000 Cores$174.99
  • 25,000 Cores$364.99
  • 50,000 Cores$549.00
  • 100,000 Cores$999.99
3 purchases

Coffee Break News

One-time3
  • Buy the dev a small coffee$5.99
  • Buy the dev a medium coffee$9.99
  • Buy the dev a large coffee$19.99

Questions

Is daily.dev free?
daily.dev is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Coffee Break News free?
Coffee Break News is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do daily.dev or Coffee Break News have ads?
daily.dev shows ads; Coffee Break News does not.

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