Intelli RSS vs Riffle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Intelli RSS
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Intelli RSS is a clean, fast, and privacy-focused RSS reader designed for people who want to take control of their news. Subscribe to your favorite websites, blogs, and news sources โ all in one place. No algorithms deciding what you see. No ads. Just your feeds, beautifully presented. KEY FEATURES โข Auto-Discovery โ Paste any website URL and Intelli RSS will find all available RSS and Atom feeds automatically. โข Push Notifications โ Get notified instantly when new articles are published in your feeds. โข Cross-Device Sync โ Your subscriptions, read states, and starred articles sync seamlessly across all your devices. No account required. โข OPML Import & Export โ Moving from another reader? Import your OPML file in seconds. Export anytime. โข Home Screen Widget โ See your latest articles at a glance without opening the app. โข Smart Filters โ Quickly view All, Unread, or New articles. Search across all your feeds. โข Starred Articles โ Save articles for later with a single tap. โข Built-in Reader โ Read articles in a clean, distraction-free view with adjustable font size. โข Dark Mode โ Full support for Light, Dark, and System appearance modes. โข Popular Feeds โ Get started instantly with curated feed suggestions in your language. โข Background Refresh โ Articles update automatically in the background so your feeds are always fresh. โข Privacy First โ No account, no tracking, no personal data collection. Your reading habits stay yours. Built entirely with SwiftUI and SwiftData for a native iOS experience that feels fast and right at home on your iPhone. Intelli RSS is free and respects your privacy. Read our full privacy policy on our support page.
Riffle
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Riffle is an RSS reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It keeps your reading on your device and syncs it with a server you choose โ or with no server at all. OFFLINE FIRST Articles download as they arrive, so your unread list works on a flight, on the metro, and anywhere the signal gives out. Marking something read or starring it works offline too: those actions queue up and reach your server the moment you are back, in the order you made them. Nothing is lost because you were in a tunnel. WORKS WITH YOUR SERVER Connect FreshRSS, Miniflux or Feedbin, or any server that speaks the Fever or Google Reader API. Subscriptions, folders, read state and stars stay in step across every device you read on. Credentials go to your server and nowhere else. OR NO SERVER AT ALL Riffle can fetch feeds itself, with no account and nothing in between. Paste a website and it finds the feed. YouTube channels, subreddits, GitHub releases and Medium writers work as they are. BUILT FOR READING A reader view set in Apple's New York serif, with the face, size and line width under your control. Feeds that publish only a summary can be opened in full. Swipe to mark read or to star, search everything you have downloaded, and switch between the article, the full text and the live page whenever you want. DRIVEN FROM THE KEYBOARD Vim-style keys throughout: j and k to move, n for the next unread, s to star, m to toggle read, / to search, ? for the list. Menu commands and shortcuts on the Mac for everything else. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Widgets for your unread count and your newest articles. Share a page from Safari and Riffle finds the feed behind it. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No Riffle account and no Riffle server. No tracking, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party services. Passwords and API keys live in the Keychain, never in the database. Riffle talks to your server and to the sites you subscribe to, and to nothing else. POLITE TO YOUR SERVER Riffle will not poll more often than every fifteen minutes, whatever the settings say, and it never runs a full sync just to tell your server you read something. A self-hosted instance is usually one small machine, and it is treated like one. Native on all three platforms: three columns on Mac and iPad, a navigation stack on iPhone, and one library underneath them all.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Riffle at none against Intelli RSS's 3. Intelli RSS's advantage is iOS requirement (18.6 vs 26.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Intelli RSS sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Riffle asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Intelli RSS | Riffle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | โ |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 โ better | 26.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Grzegorz Kowalewski | Nikolaj Jensen |
In-app purchases
Intelli RSS
- Small Coffee$0.99
- Large Coffee$2.99
- Coffee & Cake$4.99
Riffle
No in-app purchases









