Comparison

Aura Digest 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

Aura Digest

Features
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AuraReader is an AI-powered RSS reader that transforms how you consume news. Instead of endless scrolling, get intelligent summaries and insights tailored to your reading habits. KEY FEATURES: โ€ข Weekly Report โ€” AI analyzes your weekly reading and delivers insights on topic trends, missed highlights, and knowledge cards โ€ข Daily Digest โ€” Smart grouping of articles by topic with AI-generated summaries, so you grasp key points in seconds โ€ข AI Filters โ€” Create semantic rules to automatically filter and prioritize content that matters to you โ€ข Clean Reading โ€” Distraction-free reading experience with customizable fonts and themes โ€ข OPML Support โ€” Import and export your subscriptions freely. Your data belongs to you โ€ข Smart Localization โ€” Full English and Chinese support with in-app language switching Whether you're a news junkie or a casual reader, AuraReader helps you stay informed without the overwhelm. Download now and experience RSS reimagined with AI. Terms of Use: https://aura.robinren.me/terms Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://aura.robinren.me/privacy

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

Aura Digest4 screens
Riffle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Riffle at none against Aura Digest's 2. Aura Digest's advantage is iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Aura Digest sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Riffle asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Aura Digest versus Riffle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAura DigestRiffle
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad โ€” better
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better26.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size44 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer่ฃ•ๆ–Œ ไปปNikolaj Jensen

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Aura Digest

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly7 Days trial$12.991 Year
None

Riffle

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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