Comparison

ReadOne vs Riffle

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

Head to head
About

ReadOne

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ReadOne is a clean, minimal reader designed for focused reading. Gather your favorite RSS feeds, articles, and newsletters in one beautiful place. Free from clutter, distractions, and algorithms. Key Features: - Distraction-free reading interface with customizable typography. - Offline support to save articles for later. - Sync seamlessly across all your devices. - Organize your content with tags and custom folders. - Smart reading progress tracking.

About

Riffle

Features
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Riffle is an RSS reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It keeps your reading on your device and syncs it with a server you choose โ€” or with no server at all. OFFLINE FIRST Articles download as they arrive, so your unread list works on a flight, on the metro, and anywhere the signal gives out. Marking something read or starring it works offline too: those actions queue up and reach your server the moment you are back, in the order you made them. Nothing is lost because you were in a tunnel. WORKS WITH YOUR SERVER Connect FreshRSS, Miniflux or Feedbin, or any server that speaks the Fever or Google Reader API. Subscriptions, folders, read state and stars stay in step across every device you read on. Credentials go to your server and nowhere else. OR NO SERVER AT ALL Riffle can fetch feeds itself, with no account and nothing in between. Paste a website and it finds the feed. YouTube channels, subreddits, GitHub releases and Medium writers work as they are. BUILT FOR READING A reader view set in Apple's New York serif, with the face, size and line width under your control. Feeds that publish only a summary can be opened in full. Swipe to mark read or to star, search everything you have downloaded, and switch between the article, the full text and the live page whenever you want. DRIVEN FROM THE KEYBOARD Vim-style keys throughout: j and k to move, n for the next unread, s to star, m to toggle read, / to search, ? for the list. Menu commands and shortcuts on the Mac for everything else. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Widgets for your unread count and your newest articles. Share a page from Safari and Riffle finds the feed behind it. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No Riffle account and no Riffle server. No tracking, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party services. Passwords and API keys live in the Keychain, never in the database. Riffle talks to your server and to the sites you subscribe to, and to nothing else. POLITE TO YOUR SERVER Riffle will not poll more often than every fifteen minutes, whatever the settings say, and it never runs a full sync just to tell your server you read something. A self-hosted instance is usually one small machine, and it is treated like one. Native on all three platforms: three columns on Mac and iPad, a navigation stack on iPhone, and one library underneath them all.

Screenshots

ReadOne4 screens
Riffle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: ReadOne at 4 against Riffle's 2. On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
ReadOne versus Riffle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReadOneRiffle
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS27.026.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size8 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHongbo JiNikolaj Jensen

In-app purchases

None

ReadOne

No in-app purchases

None

Riffle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ReadOne free?
ReadOne is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Riffle free?
Riffle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ReadOne or Riffle have ads?
Neither ReadOne nor Riffle shows ads.

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