Brink vs PageFeed
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brink
This app combines podcast listening and news consumption into a single, modern interface. Discover trending content, enjoy seamless playback with AI-generated transcripts, and stay updated with global headlines. Personalize your experience with mood-based playlists and progress syncing across devices.
- Podcast discovery and recommendations
- Smooth playback with queueing
- AI-generated transcripts and chapters
- Global news updates
- Timestamped bookmarks and notes
- Walking mode for calorie tracking
- Mood and interest-based listening
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Brink is a modern podcast player that brings discovery, intelligent listening, and effortless organization together in one beautifully designed experience. Discover podcasts tailored to your interests, keep up with new releases, and revisit the week’s highlights with personalized recommendations and Weekly Catch Up. With Brink, you can: - Discover trending shows, new releases, and personalized recommendations - Ask Siri to find podcasts, play episodes, manage your queue, and control your library - Find shows and episodes directly through system search - Enjoy smooth playback, queue management, offline listening, and synced progress - Generate AI-powered transcripts, chapters, summaries, and listening insights - Save important moments with timestamped bookmarks and personal notes - Use Walking Mode to follow your listening activity and estimated calories burned - Organize episodes with playlists and smart library filters - Continue listening exactly where you left off Brink features a clean, fluid Liquid Glass interface with responsive motion, rich artwork, and fast navigation. Intelligent features are built with privacy in mind, including supported experiences powered securely through Apple’s Private Cloud Compute. Whether you’re discovering your next favorite show, catching up on the week, or listening on a walk, Brink helps you spend less time searching and more time listening. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
PageFeed
This news reader presents content in a book-like, page-turning format, eliminating scrolling. Organize your favorite sources, read offline, and enjoy a distraction-free experience with customizable text and themes.
- Page-based reading, no scrolling
- Organized by source, not algorithm
- Distraction-free reading experience
- On-device article summaries
- Customizable tagging and filtering
- Offline reading capability
- Adjustable text and high-contrast theme
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PageFeed is a different kind of news reader, built for reading, not scrolling. Featured by Six Colors, iPhoneBlog.de and iphone-ticker.de: the news reader you page through like a book. The sites, blogs, and writers you follow, laid out in clean, full pages. You tap forward and back, like turning pages in a book. Nothing scrolls. Every page is set to fit, so you always know exactly where you are. WHY PAGEFEED • Read in pages, never scroll. A calm, book-like way through every story, and on iPad, a two-page spread like an open book. • Your sources in order, not by algorithm. Newest or oldest first, your choice. Nothing is promoted, hidden, or reordered for you. • Group your sources. Organize the sites you follow into your own categories and read one topic at a time. • Private sync, your way. Sync through your own iCloud account to keep your iPhone and iPad in step, or through your own Google Drive to sync cross-platform, including the web. Either way, we never see your reading. Prefer simple? A free PageFeed sync account also works everywhere. • Summaries on device. On an iPhone or iPad with Apple Intelligence, get the gist of any article in a few private, on-device bullet points. • Tags, on your terms. Every story is tagged, so you can follow a topic or mute one and never see it in your feed again. • Save anything. Share a web page to PageFeed to keep it, and star the stories you want to come back to. • Works offline. Once loaded, your reading is there on the subway, on a plane, anywhere. It catches up when you're back online. • Find your sources. Browse hundreds of publications by topic in Discover, and follow the ones you like. • Adjustable type and a high-contrast theme. Set the text size and switch to an easy-on-the-eyes look. PageFeed is deliberately minimal: no noise, no infinite scroll, no clutter. Just the news you choose, in order, one page at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: PageFeed at free against Brink's freemium. PageFeed also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Brink's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and ratings volume (33 vs 3). On price, review sentiment, 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
Both are free to download. Brink sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and PageFeed sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PageFeed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brink has 33 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Brink's written reviews are positive against 100% of PageFeed's.
Brink ships an update every 2 days, PageFeed every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brink | PageFeed |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (33 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 208 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gowtham Oleti | Brad Moss |
Customer experience
Brink
PageFeed
In-app purchases
Brink
- Brink Plus$3.991 Month
- Brink Plus$14.991 Year
- Brink Plus$69.99
PageFeed
- PageFeed Unlock$9.99









