Flat RSS vs content
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flat RSS
Consolidate all your reading, watching, and listening into one calm, chronological feed. Save articles, videos, and podcasts from various sources, with offline access and cross-device sync. Enjoy a private, ad-free experience.
- Unified feed for RSS, podcasts, videos, social media
- Save articles, videos, and links to Stash
- Offline access for saved content
- Cross-device iCloud sync
- Ad-free and privacy-focused experience
- Customizable feed filtering
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Flat is one calm place for everything you read, watch, and listen to. Flat brings RSS, podcasts, videos, social feeds, and saved links together in one quiet place. No unread counts. No pressure. No algorithmic ranking. FOLLOW YOUR FAVORITE SOURCES • RSS, Atom, JSON feeds, podcasts, YouTube, Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky, and more • Paste a URL or keyword and Flat finds the right source • Browse a clean chronological timeline • Filter by source, focus or hide feeds, and filter out unwanted keywords SAVE ANYTHING • Save articles, videos, podcasts, and links to your Stash • Save links from any app, browser, or Flat browser extension • Auto-stash items from feeds you never want to miss • Keep saved items until you are ready to come back LISTEN AND WATCH • Play podcasts and videos with playback progress synced across devices • Build your own audio and video queue • Use chapters and a sleep timer AVAILABLE EVERYWHERE • iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Automatic iCloud sync across devices • Offline access for saved articles, audio, and video podcasts PRIVACY FIRST • No ads • No tracking • No account required • Your reading data is not used for advertising FLAT PRO Start free with Stash, saved links from other apps, and up to 30 feeds. Upgrade to Flat Pro for unlimited feeds, so new articles, podcasts, and videos from all your favorite sources appear automatically in your timeline. A free trial is available. Just your content, at your pace. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://justasimple.app/privacy
content
This app provides a clean, chronological feed of articles from any website or service that publishes an RSS or Atom feed. It offers a distraction-free reading experience, offline access, and organizes content into customizable categories. The app prioritizes user privacy with no accounts or tracking.
- Chronological feed display
- Supports RSS, Atom, YouTube, Reddit
- Distraction-free reader view
- Offline reading capabilities
- Customizable categories
- Save articles for later
- No account or tracking
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The internet used to feel different. You picked the sites you loved, and you read them. content brings that back. content is a calm, beautiful RSS reader for people who want to read articles — not scroll comments, fight algorithms, or chase engagement metrics. NO ALGORITHM. NO COMMENTS. NO NOISE. Your feeds appear in one place, in the order they were published. Chronological, always. No ranking, no "trending," no recommendations, nothing deciding for you what matters. FOLLOW ANYTHING WITH A FEED News sites, personal blogs, magazines, newsletters, YouTube channels, subreddits — if it publishes an RSS or Atom feed, you can follow it. Found something good in Safari? Add it straight from the share sheet. Import your existing subscriptions via OPML in seconds. A READER THAT RESPECTS THE ARTICLE Articles open in a clean, distraction-free reader view: no pop-ups, no interstitials, no comment sections. Typography-first design in dark or light mode. Even sites that only publish headlines get the full article extracted for you. ORGANIZED YOUR WAY Group feeds into categories and read them as one chronological stream. Save articles for later. Tag anything. Your library, your structure. ON IPHONE AND IPAD On iPad, your list sits beside the article you're reading, so finishing one and starting the next never changes the screen. Your library opens as a sidebar. Attach a keyboard and the arrow keys move through the list. SYNCS ACROSS YOUR DEVICES Your feeds, categories, tags, arrangement, and everything you've read or saved follow you between your iPhone and iPad over iCloud. Nothing to turn on, no account to create. PICKS UP EXACTLY WHERE YOU LEFT OFF content remembers your place in every list and every article. Close the app mid-paragraph, come back tomorrow, keep reading. READS OFFLINE Articles and their images prefetch quietly in the background on Wi-Fi. Open the app on the subway, on a flight, in a dead zone — everything's already there. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No sign-up. No analytics, no tracking, nothing promoted — ever. Your articles are stored on your device, and syncing runs through your own private iCloud storage. Nothing is sent to our servers, because there are no servers. PAY ONCE, KEEP EVERYTHING No subscription. No premium tier. No locked features, no in-app purchases, no upsell. You buy the app, you own the app. Stay informed. Not hooked.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Flat RSS at Free against content's $2.00. content's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and chart position (#102 vs unranked). On review sentiment, update cadence, 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
Flat RSS is free to download; content costs $2.00 up front. Flat RSS sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. content asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flat RSS ships an update every 10 days, content every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Flat RSS | content |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.00 |
| Rating | — | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #102 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rene Fischer | Keith Norman |
Customer experience
Flat RSS
content
In-app purchases
Flat RSS
- Flat Pro Monthly7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Flat Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Flat Pro Lifetime$44.99
content
No in-app purchases









