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

This app allows you to follow and read RSS and Atom feeds, organizing them into folders. It offers AI-powered summaries, offline reading capabilities, and syncs your reading state across Apple devices. Enjoy your feeds in CarPlay with native playback controls.

Highlights
  • Follow RSS and Atom feeds
  • Organize feeds into folders
  • AI-powered article summaries
  • CarPlay integration for listening
  • Sync reading state with iCloud
  • Offline reading with Read Later
  • On-device AI processing
Features
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Your feeds. Along for the ride. Read, listen and catch up with Feed Me RSS. Follow the RSS and Atom feeds you choose, organise them into folders, and keep your reading state in sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac with iCloud. No AI account or paid AI subscription is required. YOUR FEEDS IN CARPLAY On iPhone, browse your own feeds and folders, choose unread or all articles, or continue your listening queue. Short on time? Hear concise AI summaries to catch up quickly, or choose full articles for a longer listen. Use native CarPlay playback controls, see the source, change speed and save the current article. Ask Siri to save it for later without interrupting your listening. Connecting to CarPlay never starts playback automatically. READ YOUR FEEDS AS ONE CONTINUOUS SESSION Start with a summary or excerpt, expand the stories you want and keep several open as you read. New arrivals wait until you choose to add them, and read stories stay in your session until you start again. Save, queue, highlight or open the original without losing your place. TURN YOUR READING PILE INTO A LISTENING QUEUE Listen to concise AI summaries or choose full articles, with no 30-story queue limit. On-device neural voices bring stories to life, while the mini player keeps play, pause and previous/next controls close as you browse. Story notes show the current article’s AI summary in your listening player and follow the queue as each story changes. Save interesting stories without interrupting your queue. Completed and skipped stories are automatically marked as read. Queueing and pausing do not mark stories read. CarPlay’s Notes tab shows the current AI summary as scrollable text. Ask Siri to “save for later in Feed Me RSS” to add the playing story to Read Later, or favourite it for Saved/Starred. An article can be in both lists. PRIVATE APPLE INTELLIGENCE Summarise an article, ask it questions, reframe the explanation, pull out key sentences, translate, or explore why it matters. Compatible devices do the AI work locally. Choose the tools you want to see and whether article-list summaries should be prepared automatically. Completed AI summaries also appear on Front Page story cards, clearly marked so you can tell them from publisher excerpts. READING THAT FITS YOUR SCREEN Front Page offers Unread, All and Read filters for your feeds and folders. On wide Duo feed layouts, choose Two Columns from the newspaper view menu; your choice is remembered per feed and adapts to narrower panes. Use native split reading on iPad and Mac, with a compact article/list layout when space is tight. Mac remembers each feed’s view, restores your reading window and gives you keyboard commands for continuous reading and article expansion. On supported wide iOS devices, choose Scrolling, Book or Desk. Duo also adapts to its posture, with facing pages in Book and a reader above the controls in Desk. READ SMARTER • Quick Read queues for the time you have • Advanced search and smart filters • Related stories and alternative angles • Snoozed stories you can return to later • Notes, tags and highlights • Read Later downloads for offline reading • Feed Health to find and retry troubled subscriptions • RSS/Atom discovery, OPML import/export and optional FreshRSS sync MAKE IT YOURS Choose your theme, accent, app icon, text size, reader layout and swipe actions. Hide unread counts for a quieter inbox. Search the reorganised Settings to find what you need. Your subscriptions and reading state sync through iCloud. AI features require a compatible device with Apple Intelligence enabled. Feed availability and full-article extraction depend on the publisher.

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 4.0) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 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 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 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 4 weeks, Feed Me RSS every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
RSS versus Feed Me RSS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRSSFeed Me RSS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB178 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperClimb AppKendal Slack

Customer experience

RSS

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral50.0%
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 4.0 out of 5 from 2 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 4 weeks, and Feed Me RSS every 5 days. Most recently, RSS was updated on November 9, 2026 and Feed Me RSS on November 10, 2026.

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