Comparison

Rune vs Feed Me RSS

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

Head to head
About

Rune

Features
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Stay informed, effortlessly. Rune brings your favourite blogs, news sites, and publications into one beautiful, distraction-free reading experience. Add any website and Rune automatically discovers its RSS feed - no technical knowledge required. Your content, your pace, no algorithms. __________ SMART FEED DISCOVERY Just paste a URL. Rune finds the feed for you - whether it's RSS, Atom, or JSON Feed. Browse your personalised timeline and never miss a post. ORGANISE WITH TAGS Build a tagging system that works the way you think. Apply tags manually or let Rune's on-device AI do it for you - privately, without ever leaving your device. AI SUMMARIES, ON DEVICE Get the gist of any article in seconds with on-device AI summaries. Choose brief or detailed. No cloud, no data sharing. Just fast, private intelligence. SAVE FOR LATER Bookmark articles with a swipe. Your saved reading list syncs instantly and is always available, even offline. POWERFUL IMPORT Migrating from Pocket or another service? Import your reading list in seconds via CSV or plain text - tags included. READER-FIRST DESIGN Clean article cards. A distraction-free reader view. Multiple accent colours. Haptic feedback. Built for the way you actually read. __________ FREE FEATURES - Subscribe to up to 3 feeds - Save up to 20 articles - Full reading experience - Smart feed discovery RUNE PRO - Unlimited feeds & saved articles - On-device AI article tagging - On-device AI article summaries - Import from Pocket and more __________ Terms of Service: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lachlaneagling.com/apps/rune/privacy/

About

Feed Me RSS

A private and comprehensive RSS reader for Apple devices. It offers AI-powered summaries, customizable views, and offline reading. Syncs across devices via iCloud with no tracking or data collection.

Highlights
  • AI-powered article summaries
  • Customizable feed views
  • Offline reading and caching
  • iCloud syncing across devices
  • No tracking or data collection
  • Full-text reader with ad stripping
  • Markdown export and sharing
Features
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A fast, private, genuinely complete RSS reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Completely free — no subscription, no unlock, no ads, no "Pro" tier. Feed Me RSS is built for people who follow a lot of sources and refuse to let an algorithm choose between them. Your feeds, your order, your reading — synced across every device through your own iCloud account. SUMMARIES FOR AN OVERWHELMING INBOX Two hundred unread is not a plan. Switch on AI summaries and your unread pile summarises itself in the background — on your device, most interesting stories first — so a morning's backlog becomes a couple of minutes of skimming and you only open what earns it. Two sentences per story. Powered by Apple Intelligence on your own iPhone, iPad or Mac: nothing uploaded, nothing logged, no account, no server, no monthly fee. It works on a plane. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO READ A LOT • Front Page — a newspaper-style view that ranks the day across every feed you follow • The Daily — the biggest story from each source, so nothing quiet gets buried • Same-story grouping — one row per story, with "also covered by" for the other outlets • For You — ranks unread against what you actually read and star • Smart lists, custom filters, folders, keyword alerts and per-feed notifications • Full-text reader that strips ads and clutter, with highlights and reading stats • Offline caching, so what you've synced is readable with no signal POWER USER, PROPERLY • Mac: three-pane window, menu-bar reader, Focus mode, per-window light/dark, open articles in their own window • Custom keyboard shortcuts throughout • Markdown export, share sheets, Quick Look • Widgets and Lock Screen complications in a range of styles • Siri Shortcuts, Spotlight, Handoff • OPML import and export — bring your feeds in, take them out whenever you like • FreshRSS / Google Reader API sync if you already run a server PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No accounts. No tracking. No analytics. No data collected, which is why the App Store privacy label says "Data Not Collected". Reading state syncs through your own iCloud, visible only to you — and the AI never leaves your device. Add a site by name, a subreddit, a Bluesky handle or a YouTube channel, or share any page to the app from Safari. RSS does the thing every algorithm promises and never quite delivers: it shows you exactly what you asked for, in the order it happened, with nobody in between. Thirty years on it is still the best deal in news. Go subscribe to something weird.

Screenshots

Rune4 screens
Feed Me RSS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Feed Me RSS at none against Rune's 2. Feed Me RSS also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Rune sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Feed Me RSS asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rune ships an update monthly, Feed Me RSS every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Rune versus Feed Me RSS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRuneFeed Me RSS
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLachlan EaglingKendal Slack

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Rune

Subscriptions2
  • Rune Pro (Monthly)7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Rune Pro (Annual)7 Days trial$19.991 Year
None

Feed Me RSS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rune free?
Rune is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Feed Me RSS free?
Feed Me RSS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Rune or Feed Me RSS have ads?
Neither Rune nor Feed Me RSS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rune or Feed Me RSS?
Rune ships an update monthly, and Feed Me RSS every 6 days. Most recently, Rune was updated on October 8, 2026 and Feed Me RSS on October 14, 2026.

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