Comparison

Rune vs Inkline

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

Inkline

Stay informed with a streamlined reading experience for news and blogs. Organize your feeds, take notes, and get personalized summaries. All processing happens on your device for enhanced privacy.

Highlights
  • On-device processing
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
  • Siri integration
  • Spotlight search for notes
  • Handwritten notes with Apple Pencil
  • AI-powered daily brief
  • Subject and journalist monitoring
Features
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Inkline is a news reader for people who follow the news for a living: comms teams, journalists and anyone who has to know what is being said, by whom, and first. YOUR FRONT PAGE Today leads on the stories most of your publications are running, each one shown with its publisher's own icon. One card per story tells you how many outlets have it, who was first and when, and opens Compare to show how the coverage differs. Choose from over 7,500 publications in 130 markets, or add your own. WATCH A SUBJECT, FOLLOW A WRITER Watch a name, a company or a subject across your publications and the wider web, with a surge alert when coverage jumps, and a Live Activity on the Lock Screen if you want one. Follow individual journalists by their bylines rather than their mastheads. BRIEFINGS A short briefing of the last twelve hours, written on your device by Apple Intelligence, and Inkline Radio to listen to it, from the app, the Lock Screen or Control Center. SIRI, IF YOU WANT IT On iOS 27, you can let Siri answer some questions about your news, such as what's the latest in Inkline, from your own sources. It is optional and off until you turn it on. A REAL READER Articles open in a calm, typographic reader with captions, pull quotes and More on this story at the foot. Everything already fetched reads offline. Three fonts including OpenDyslexic, four color modes. KEEP WHAT MATTERS Save a story, select any sentence to keep the quote, write notes beside it, and turn a watched subject into a coverage report for the people you brief. YOUR NEWSLETTERS Connect Substack once and the newsletters you already subscribe to open whole, sorted into your categories. OUTSIDE THE APP Widgets on the Home Screen and Lock Screen, Spotlight, Shortcuts, a share extension to follow a site from Safari, and alerts you can act on straight away. Made for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo. PRIVATE No Inkline account, no servers of ours, no tracking. The intelligence runs on your device, and your notes and follows stay in your own iCloud. Inkline is free with up to 50 publications, and there is no time limit. Inkline Pro adds monitoring and alerts, following journalists, your Substack newsletters, the written and spoken briefings, and as many publications as you like. New subscribers may be offered a free trial first. Made by White Wiki. Inkline Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription, billed to your Apple account at the price shown for your country and renewing automatically until you cancel. You can turn off renewal at any time in your account settings, up to a day before it renews. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Rune4 screens
Inkline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Inkline at every 5 days against Rune's monthly. Inkline also leads on iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). 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. Rune sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Inkline sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rune ships an update monthly, Inkline every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Rune versus Inkline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRuneInkline
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Subscription
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB127 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLachlan EaglingMichael White

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
2 purchases

Inkline

Subscriptions2
  • Inkline monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Inkline Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Rune free?
Rune is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Inkline free?
Inkline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Rune or Inkline have ads?
Neither Rune nor Inkline shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rune or Inkline?
Rune ships an update monthly, and Inkline every 5 days. Most recently, Rune was updated on October 8, 2026 and Inkline on October 25, 2026.

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