Comparison

Gatherly vs Flit

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

Head to head
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. No ads and no tracking, so you can focus on reading.

About

Flit

This app is an RSS reader that allows you to follow sites, blogs, and podcasts without algorithmic interference. It offers a card-based interface for managing new content, with options to save, dismiss, or read articles. You can also discover top stories, organize sources, and enjoy offline reading.

Highlights
  • Card-based content management
  • Offline reading capabilities
  • Source organization with folders
  • AI-powered article summaries
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Customizable notifications
Features
Currently charting
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Flit is an RSS reader for the sites, blogs and podcasts you follow. Every new article lands in your Inbox as a card, and you go through them one at a time. Swipe right to save it for later, swipe left if it's not for you, or tap to read it now. Swiped the wrong way? Undo brings it back. No cards left means you've seen everything new. There's no algorithm deciding what you see. Flit works with RSS, the open format behind most blogs, news sites and magazines, so you follow exactly the sources you choose. FIND YOUR SOURCES Search for a site by name or topic, paste any web address, or move over from another reader: Flit brings your sources from Feedly, Inoreader, NewsBlur, Feedbin and any app that exports OPML. DISCOVER The day's top stories from the countries you pick, by category, and a search across the news. Follow a source you like with one tap. READ WITHOUT THE CLUTTER Articles open in a clean reader with the text size you prefer. Select any passage to share it as a quote, or as a share card with the article's picture. Everything you keep waits in your Library, in Unread, Later, Saved and Read. Write a note on any saved article. READ ANYWHERE Download your Inbox, Later and Saved, text and pictures, to read on a flight or underground. VIDEOS AND PODCASTS Follow YouTube channels and podcasts next to your sites. They arrive as cards like everything else. YOUR RULES Block words or phrases, and articles with them in the title skip your Inbox. Organise your sources in folders, each with its own icon, colour and page. Get notified only for the folders or sources you care about. SUMMARIES Hold a card and Siri AI sums it up in a few lines, on the device. ON EVERY DEVICE iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, in step through iCloud Sync. On iPhone Duo, the Inbox and the article sit on either side of the fold. Widgets bring the latest headlines or your Read Later list to the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and StandBy. IN YOUR LANGUAGE English, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Turkish. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Your subscriptions and reading stay on your devices and in your own iCloud. Flit only sends anonymous usage statistics, which never include what you read. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.heterochromia.studio/flit-privacy

Screenshots

Gatherly4 screens
Flit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gatherly at none against Flit's 6. Flit's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly) and chart position (#131 vs unranked). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Flit sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Gatherly asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gatherly ships an update weekly, Flit every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Gatherly versus Flit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGatherlyFlit
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Freemium
Best chart rank—#131 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSeho ParkEdoardo Galati

In-app purchases

None

Gatherly

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Flit

Subscriptions2
  • Flit Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Flit Pro Annual$12.991 Year
One-time4
  • Flit$0.99
  • Flit$3.99
  • Flit$8.99
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  • Flit Pro Lifetime$44.99

Questions

Is Gatherly free?
Gatherly is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flit free?
Flit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Gatherly or Flit have ads?
Neither Gatherly nor Flit shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gatherly or Flit?
Gatherly ships an update weekly, and Flit every 2 days. Most recently, Gatherly was updated on November 5, 2026 and Flit on November 8, 2026.

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