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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daily.dev is where developers keep up with what's happening in tech. It pulls posts from 2,000+ blogs, newsletters and YouTube channels, and puts the ones developers are actually reading and upvoting into one feed, tuned to the tags you follow. Lately that's a lot of AI: what changed in Claude Code, Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini, new models from Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, AI agents, MCP, local LLMs with Ollama, and whatever vibe coding means this week. But it's just as much the rest of the job: open source, Linux, self-hosting, security, Rust, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Go, Docker, Kubernetes, system design, game dev and career advice. Plus what shipped at GitHub, AWS, Cloudflare, Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft and Vercel, the occasional outage postmortem, and memes. HOW IT WORKS • Your feed starts from your stack and adjusts as you read • Every post has a TLDR, so you can skim first and open what's worth it • Popular, Most Upvoted and Best Discussions show what everyone else is reading • Happening Now is a quick read of today's headlines as they break • Topic chips above the feed jump straight to AI, web dev, DevOps and more • Hide tags, sources or whole formats (memes, listicles, opinion pieces) you don't care about • Search posts, tags, sources, people and Squads THE COMMUNITY PART • Comments under every post, often more useful than the article • Squads: public or private groups around a language, a framework, a company or your team • Messages, polls, posting your own links, and upvotes that decide what rises • A profile with your stack, your experience and a DevCard you can share • Reputation, achievements, quests, leaderboards and a reading streak, if you're into that • Awards and Cores if you want to tip someone for a great post SAVE IT FOR LATER • Bookmarks and Read it later with reminders, synced with the web app and the browser extension • Reading history, for the article you skimmed on Tuesday and can't find • Best-of archives by month and year for any topic • The same account on the web, and in the Chrome and Edge extension that turns every new tab into your feed • Dark or light mode, list or grid, a different app icon, and notifications only for what you pick FOR YOUR AGENTS daily.dev has a public API and an MCP server. Hook it up to Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or VS Code and your agent can search what developers are reading, pull your feed and save bookmarks. There's a plugin marketplace too. BRIEFINGS Your first Presidential Briefing is free: a 3 to 5 minute AI summary of what changed in your corner of tech, split into must know, good to know and the critical take. daily.dev Plus Optional. Plus adds: • Unlimited and scheduled briefings, in the app, by email or in Slack • Clickbait Shield on every feed, which rewrites misleading titles so they say what the post is about • Advanced custom feeds and keyword filters • Bookmark folders and notes • Titles and TLDRs auto-translated into 10 languages • No ads, and higher API limits daily.dev is free and open source, built in public at github.com/dailydotdev.

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 $9.99 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 (41 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings41 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 11 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$9.991 Month
  • Annual Special$59.991 Year
  • Annual$89.991 Year
One-time11
  • 100 Cores$1.49
  • 300 Cores$4.49
  • 600 Cores$8.99
Show 8 more
  • 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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