PetalFeed vs Flux News Reader

An RSS reader built for VoiceOver from day one. Follow blogs, Reddit, Mastodon, Bluesky and YouTube in one place, then listen to it all like a personal news broadcast. No ads, no tracking, no subscription. Every screen is fully labeled for VoiceOver, every swipe has a named custom action, related details are grouped so you hear them in one stop, and all text scales with Dynamic Type. Follow everything you read: - RSS and Atom feeds from any blog or news site - Subreddits, just by name - Your Mastodon and Bluesky timelines - YouTube channels, with videos that play right inside the app - A Discover tab of hand-picked feeds, subreddits and channels by topic Listen hands-free. Have any article, or a whole queue of them, read aloud in any voice installed on your device. Control playback from the Lock Screen, Control Center or the mini player that follows you through the app. The Hive turns your headlines into a short podcast-style show, written by Apple Intelligence and read aloud by distinct voices. Hawk Eye gives you a digest of the topics in your unread articles. Summaries give you the gist of any article in a few sentences. All of it runs privately on your device. Stay organized your way: - Petals are your feeds, Flowers are your folders - Smart Flowers fill themselves using rules you set - Bees filter out keywords, spoilers and topics you would rather skip - Similar articles are grouped, so one story is one stop - Rapid Review lets you triage a busy feed one card at a time - Full-text extraction gives you the whole article without the clutter Bring your library with you. Sync feeds, folders and read state two ways with Feedbin, Inoreader, FreshRSS or Miniflux, or import and export OPML anytime. Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets show your unread counts and latest headlines. Siri and Shortcuts can open an article, read your unread articles aloud, play The Hive, build a Hawk Eye digest or mark everything read. PetalFeed works on iPhone, iPad and Mac. Free 14-day trial, then one-time purchase. Free forever, even after the trial: - Reading RSS and Atom feeds - OPML import and export - Up to 10 Petals - Text-to-speech read aloud - Every accessibility feature PetalFeed Lifetime is a single purchase with no renewals. It unlocks: - Unlimited Petals - Sync with Feedbin, Inoreader, FreshRSS and Miniflux - The Hive, Hawk Eye and summaries - Bees and Smart Flowers - Widgets, Siri and Shortcuts - Refresh as often as every 5 minutes Already bought PetalFeed? You keep everything automatically. Enjoying it? An optional tip jar lets you say thanks. Private by design. Your feeds, articles and reading history stay on your device. All AI runs on the device: no servers, no PetalFeed account, no tracking, no ads. Sync happens only with a service you choose to connect, and your sign-in details stay in the device Keychain. AI features require an Apple Intelligence–capable device.

Flux News is the native Miniflux reader for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Built entirely in SwiftUI — not a cross-platform port or web wrapper — it looks and feels at home on every Apple device, and brings a fast, focused reading experience to the self-hosted RSS server you already control. Connect once with your Miniflux server address and API key. Your feeds, folders, stars, and read state stay in sync across all your devices — no third-party cloud, no account to create, no tracking. DEEP MINIFLUX INTEGRATION • Manage everything Miniflux offers from your iPhone, iPad, or Mac — no web interface needed • Edit each feed's Miniflux rules: scraper rules, rewrite rules with a built-in rule builder, URL rewrites, and block and keep filters • Per-feed fetch options: full-content crawler, user agent, cookies, HTTP authentication, proxy, and more • Add feeds with discovery, organise folders, and import or export OPML • Refresh feeds on the server, flush history, and save articles to your Miniflux integrations • Read state, stars, folders, and unread counts sync both ways through Miniflux itself A REAL MAC APP • Designed for macOS, not adapted from iPad: native menu bar, Settings window, resizable windows, and widgets • Keyboard-first reading: J/K next and previous, M read/unread, B star, O open in browser, ⌘R refresh, ⌘K mark all as read • One free download covers iPhone, iPad, and Mac FAST AND OFFLINE • Opens instantly to your feeds — even before syncing • Read everything offline; mark, star, and save without a connection and changes sync when you're back online • Search your articles instantly on device READING, YOUR WAY • Newspaper, List, and Topics layouts • Clean article view with optional full-content fetch • 10 fonts including New York, Charter, Georgia, Iowan Old Style, and Palatino • 7 themes including Sepia, Midnight, OLED Dark, and two high-contrast themes, with light, dark, and automatic modes • Inline YouTube, podcasts, and video, with AirPlay and Now Playing controls SMART, ON-DEVICE INTELLIGENCE • Articles are automatically tagged by topic with Apple Intelligence — browse tags just like folders • Bullet-point summaries of any article, even long reads • Everything runs on your device; article text never leaves it LISTEN TO YOUR ARTICLES • Read aloud with system voices, or natural ElevenLabs voices using your own key • Background playback with lock screen and headphone controls MADE FOR EACH DEVICE • iPhone: swipe between feeds, articles, and the reader; pull to refresh; home and lock screen widgets; share extension to add feeds from Safari • iPad: side-by-side split view with keyboard support • Mac: menu bar, keyboard shortcuts, and widgets PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No analytics, no tracking, no ads • Connects only to your Miniflux server • Send feedback from Settings (or the Help menu on Mac) — it includes app and OS versions, never your server address or API key REQUIREMENTS • A Miniflux server — self-hosted, or a hosted account at miniflux.app • iOS 17, iPadOS 17, or macOS 14 or later • Tagging and summaries require iOS 26 or macOS 26 on an Apple Intelligence–capable device Flux News is an independent app and is not affiliated with the Miniflux project.