RSS vs Newsairy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RSS
Consolidate your favorite websites into a single, streamlined feed reader. Enjoy fast navigation, automatic feed detection, and offline translation for articles. Keep your reading organized with folders and sync your progress across devices.
- Automatic feed detection
- Organize feeds with folders
- Fast article navigation
- Background refresh & push notifications
- Bookmark articles
- iCloud sync across devices
- Offline auto-translation
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RSS - Article Reader is a clean, fast feed reader that brings all your favorite websites together in one place. Designed to feel right at home on your iPhone. A clean interface, smooth performance, and a reading experience built for speed. • Wide Format Support Supports every version of RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed. Just paste a website URL and feeds are detected automatically. • Organize with Folders Group your feeds into folders to keep your subscriptions tidy and easy to navigate. • Read Through Articles Fast Navigate between articles and mark as read with a single tap. Every button is placed for effortless reading flow. • Never Miss an Update Background refresh and push notifications keep you informed when your favorite sites publish new content. • Bookmark Articles Save articles to read later and revisit them anytime. • Sync Across Devices iCloud keeps your subscriptions, read status, and bookmarks in sync. Switch phones without missing a beat. • Easy Migration Switch from another reader with OPML import and export. • Auto-translate foreign articles Translate articles with one tap from the detail view. The feature is powered by Apple's translation engine and works offline too.
Newsairy
Customize your news consumption by following chosen sources and organizing them into smart feeds. Read articles offline, in-app, or in your browser with adjustable display settings. Sync your preferences across Apple devices and import/export subscriptions easily.
- Follow custom RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds
- Tailor article list display (thumbnail, favicon, unread dot)
- Offline reading and built-in reader with font customization
- Smart feeds for relevant articles (Today, Last 24/48/72 hours, etc.)
- Custom Smart Feeds based on keywords
- iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Import/export subscriptions via OPML
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Read what you want, how you want. Follow the sources you choose, at your own pace. Your news. Your rules. No algorithm. Read the way you want - Supports RSS, Atom and JSON feeds - Browse a clean article list you can tailor: layout (Grouped or Plain), density (Comfortable or Compact), thumbnail size, favicon, unread dot and preview lines (0–6) - Read in the offline preview or the built-in reader (picking font and text size), or open it in your browser - Smart feeds keep the most relevant articles front and centre: Today, Last 24 / 48 / 72 hours, Last 7 days (a rolling week) and This week (from the start of the current week to now) - Build your own Custom Smart Feeds: keyword-based feeds that gather matching articles, or mute keywords to hide the ones you don't want to see - Anti-Spoiler hides any article mentioning a word or phrase — everywhere in the app — until you remove it or until it expires on its own - Looking for something you recently read? Read History is a smart feed too — see only what you actually opened, or everything marked as read, with a toggle to switch - Organise feeds into folders - Choose how each feed opens: as published (perhaps only the first paragraph), with the full article extracted automatically, or downloaded ahead of time so it's ready offline — set per feed, not as one global preference. It needs a connection to fetch, and not every site allows it. - Get a short AI summary of any article, generated entirely on your device (iOS 26 or later) — nothing leaves your phone. Stay in sync - iCloud keeps your feeds, folders and reading state in sync across your iPhone, iPad and Mac - Configure sync to happen automatically, on launch, or on resume — or trigger it manually with pull-to-refresh Make it yours - Choose your theme: Automatic, Light, Dark or Sepia - Configurable swipe actions, order and article retention rules - Import and export your subscriptions with standard OPML files - Search across all your articles instantly - Star articles to save them — starred items are never deleted by retention rules Newsairy Pro — a single, one-time purchase — removes the 6-feed limit (free accounts include up to 6 local and 6 iCloud feeds) and adds sync with TheOldReader, Feedbin, Inoreader, Miniflux and FreshRSS, bringing your existing subscriptions, read state, and starred articles with you. No subscription. Pay once, yours forever. No ads. No tracking. No third-party analytics. Newsairy is a young app built on solid foundations, and it's updated constantly — with new features regularly on the way. Requires iOS 18 or later. On Mac, requires macOS 15 or later and Apple silicon. iCloud sync requires an active iCloud account. TheOldReader, Feedbin, Inoreader, Miniflux and FreshRSS sync requires Newsairy Pro (and an account with these aggregators).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RSS at none against Newsairy's 1. Newsairy's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks) and review sentiment (67% vs 50%). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Newsairy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. RSS asks for nothing beyond the download.
Newsairy holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of RSS's written reviews are positive against 67% of Newsairy's.
RSS ships an update every 4 weeks, Newsairy weekly. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.
| Parameter | RSS | Newsairy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.2 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Climb App | Enrico Bonaldo |
Customer experience
RSS
Newsairy
In-app purchases
RSS
No in-app purchases
Newsairy
- Newsairy Pro$2.99








