Comparison

FeedPulse vs Gatherly

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

Head to head
About

FeedPulse

Features
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FeedPulse is a modern RSS reader designed for clarity, speed, and smart content discovery. • Add and organize RSS feeds with an elegant, minimal interface. • View clean, distraction-free articles with built-in Liquid Glass design. • Automatically detect favicons and Open Graph images for a visual reading experience. • Browse category-based recommendations for technology, news, science, business, entertainment, and sports. • Search across feeds and articles instantly. • Use an integrated inspector to preview article details, authors, and publication dates. • Access curated recommendations and easily add new feeds from a dedicated window. FeedPulse makes it effortless to stay informed, discover quality sources, and enjoy the web’s best content — all in one refined dashboard.

About

Gatherly

Features
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Gatherly - An RSS Reader for Your Feeds Gather your chosen blog and news feeds in one place, read at your pace, and save articles to find again. Gatherly is a free RSS reader for feeds you choose to follow. Add a feed with an RSS URL or a website address, review the preview, and subscribe. If you already have a feed list, import it from an OPML file. Export your subscribed feeds as OPML when you need a portable list. Organize feeds with tags, mark articles as read, and save the ones you want to revisit. Open a saved item from the Saved view. Explore trends, recommended feeds, categories, and topics in Discover. Keyword search creates a Google News RSS feed so you can subscribe to a topic. When iCloud is available, feeds, tags, and saved items can sync between your devices. To get started, choose Add RSS Feed in Settings, enter a URL, and open your first article. You can also start by importing OPML.

Screenshots

FeedPulse4 screens
Gatherly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Gatherly at weekly against FeedPulse's fortnightly. On price, ads, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FeedPulse ships an update fortnightly, Gatherly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
FeedPulse versus Gatherly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFeedPulseGatherly
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB41 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDor PascalSeho Park

In-app purchases

None

FeedPulse

No in-app purchases

None

Gatherly

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FeedPulse free?
FeedPulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gatherly free?
Gatherly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FeedPulse or Gatherly have ads?
Neither FeedPulse nor Gatherly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FeedPulse or Gatherly?
FeedPulse ships an update fortnightly, and Gatherly weekly. Most recently, FeedPulse was updated on October 7, 2026 and Gatherly on October 2, 2026.

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