Aruvi RSS vs Riffle

Aruvi is a modern RSS feed reader designed for people who want to take control of what they read. In a world of algorithmic feeds and endless distractions, RSS remains the best way to follow the content you care about. Aruvi makes it simple to subscribe to your favorite blogs, news sites, and publications—all in one clean, focused app. SUBSCRIBE TO ANY FEED Add RSS feeds from any website with a single tap. Aruvi handles the rest, automatically fetching new content so you never miss a post. READ WITHOUT DISTRACTIONS A clean, minimal interface puts your content front and center. No ads, no algorithmic sorting—just the articles you chose to follow, in the order they were published. SEARCH EVERYTHING Looking for that article you read last week? Full-text search lets you find any post across all your subscribed feeds instantly. SORT YOUR WAY View your feeds newest first, oldest first, or sorted by most comments. Filter by individual feed or browse everything at once. SYNC ACROSS DEVICES Sign in with just your email—no password required. Your subscriptions sync automatically, so you can pick up where you left off on any device.

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 — 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.