Comparison

RSS 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

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.

Highlights
  • 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.

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

RSS4 screens
Feed Me RSS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Feed Me RSS at 100% against RSS's 50%. Feed Me RSS also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Feed Me RSS holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of RSS's written reviews are positive against 100% of Feed Me RSS's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

RSS ships an update every 2 weeks, Feed Me RSS every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
RSS versus Feed Me RSS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRSSFeed Me RSS
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClimb AppKendal Slack

Customer experience

RSS

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
Negative0.0%

Feed Me RSS

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

RSS

No in-app purchases

None

Feed Me RSS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is RSS free?
RSS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Feed Me RSS free?
Feed Me RSS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, RSS or Feed Me RSS?
Feed Me RSS is rated higher. RSS averages 3.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Feed Me RSS averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do RSS or Feed Me RSS have ads?
Neither RSS nor Feed Me RSS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, RSS or Feed Me RSS?
RSS ships an update every 2 weeks, and Feed Me RSS every 6 days. Most recently, RSS was updated on October 10, 2026 and Feed Me RSS on October 14, 2026.

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