Comparison

TechnoDaily vs Tidings

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

Head to head
About

TechnoDaily

Features
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All your sources. One brief. TechnoDaily brings your Gmail newsletters, RSS feeds and YouTube channels into one reader that learns what matters to you, on your device, and shows you a short selection instead of a pile of unread items. TechnoDaily is a paid app with no ads and no free tier. For the first 3 days, everything is open, with no purchase and no commitment. Then: a yearly subscription, with a 14-day free trial for a first subscription, or a one-time lifetime purchase. One purchase covers iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro. You are the customer, not the product. A SELECTION, NOT A PILE In For You, the Unread view shows at most 30 reads at a time, picked from the last 48 hours and sorted into three groups: "Just In", "Today", "You may have missed". The tab badge counts that selection, never the volume. The Daily Brief gathers the topics several of your sources are covering, usually three, with their articles. On an Apple Intelligence-compatible device, a summary paragraph is added, generated on the device; without Apple Intelligence, the Daily Brief is still there. If you turn it on, a morning notification announces it at the time you choose (7:30 AM by default): "3 topics this morning". ONE PLACE Your Gmail newsletters, read outside your inbox, with read-only access. Any website through its RSS feed, which the app finds from the site's address; a subreddit too, by pasting its address. OPML import and export to bring your subscriptions along. The latest videos from your YouTube channels, through your Google account. And starter sources in your language. YOUR READING IS NOBODY'S BUSINESS BUT YOURS Your content and reading activity stay on your devices and in your personal iCloud; ranking, topic grouping and summaries are computed on the device. No TechnoDaily account to create, no ads, no ad profile, no advertising or tracking SDK. Anonymous, aggregated usage statistics are off by default. For Gmail, TechnoDaily has passed the independent security audit required by Google (CASA). ALSO • Followed topics: follow a topic, see what changes day after day, share the dossier. • Entity pages: the people and organizations in a topic, day by day, over seven days. • What the app has learned: what the engine took from your reading, and what it does not learn. • Your corrections, synced across your devices: "Not interested", "This doesn't belong here", "Exclude from brief". • Saved: your saved items and your Read Later queue, all types together. • Search: titles, summaries and full text of everything already on your device, even offline. • Refine: smart or recent sort, content types, blocked keywords. • Reading: adjustable text size, and "Next in your feed" at the end of each article. • Article summaries by Apple Intelligence, generated on the device (compatible devices). • Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight, and a widget you can set to the Daily Brief or to a followed topic. • Four tabs: For You, Sources, Saved, Search. • Optimized for iPhone Duo: closed, your list; open, the list and the article side by side, as on iPad and on large iPhones in landscape. • Mac: native app, menu bar, ⌘1 to ⌘4 for tabs, ⌘R to refresh, ⌘F to search, ⌘, for settings, separate article window, Dock badge. REQUIREMENTS iPhone, iPad, Apple Vision Pro: iOS 26, iPadOS 26 or visionOS 26, or later. Mac: macOS 26.1 or later. Summaries: Apple Intelligence-compatible device. Five languages: English, French, Spanish, Simplified Chinese and Japanese. If TechnoDaily is useful to you, a rating on the App Store helps an independent app. Terms of Use: https://www.technoandco.fr/technodaily/conditions.html Privacy Policy: https://www.technoandco.fr/technodaily/confidentialite.html

About

Tidings

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Tidings is an RSS reader built for people who want to read, not manage software. Add a feed by pasting any site's URL — it finds the feed for you. Your articles land in one inbox, oldest first, and you triage them: read now, keep for later, star what matters, or sweep the rest away. Nothing is recommended to you, nothing is ranked by an algorithm, and nothing arrives that you didn't ask for. READS BEAUTIFULLY Articles are stripped to their text and images — no popups, no cookie banners, no newsletter modals. Adjustable type, light and dark, and it remembers exactly where you stopped reading, even after you change the font. WORKS OFFLINE Articles are downloaded and cached, so a subway ride or a flight is just reading time. Images come along too. SYNCS PRIVATELY Your feeds and reading state sync across your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account. There is no server in the middle, because there is no server at all. BRINGS YOUR FEEDS WITH YOU Import an OPML file from any other reader, and export yours whenever you like. Your subscriptions are yours to take. FEATURES • Automatic feed discovery — paste a site URL, not a feed URL • RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and YouTube channels • Distraction-free reader with full-text extraction • Offline reading with cached text and images • Inbox, Read Later, and Starred — triage with swipe gestures • Mark Above as Read for fast sweeping • Remembers your place in every list and article • iCloud sync across your devices • OPML import and export • Full VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support • iPhone and iPad FREE FOR UP TO 10 FEEDS Everything above is included — the reader, offline articles, iCloud sync, YouTube feeds, OPML import and export. Nothing is crippled, nothing expires, and there's no trial countdown. If you outgrow 10 feeds, Tidings Premium removes the limit for a single one-time payment. That's the only thing it changes. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO ACCOUNT. NO ANALYTICS. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Tidings has no way to know what you read — it has no server to tell.

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: TechnoDaily at 4 against Tidings's 2. Tidings's advantage is iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. TechnoDaily sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $17.99 per year and Tidings sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
TechnoDaily versus Tidings: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTechnoDailyTidings
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size10 MB2 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperTechno & CoHongyu Zhang

In-app purchases

2 purchases

TechnoDaily

Subscriptions1
  • TechnoDaily Pro — Annuel14 Days trial$17.991 Year
One-time1
  • TechnoDaily Pro — Lifetime$44.99
1 purchases

Tidings

One-time1
  • Tidings Premium$9.99

Questions

Is TechnoDaily free?
TechnoDaily is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tidings free?
Tidings is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do TechnoDaily or Tidings have ads?
Neither TechnoDaily nor Tidings shows ads.

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