LunarCast vs Clear Reader ™
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LunarCast
This app offers a straightforward podcast listening experience, focusing on user-curated feeds without algorithmic suggestions. Enjoy offline downloads, fast playback, and instant updates for your favorite shows. It's designed for those who prefer a clean, no-nonsense approach to podcasts.
- User-curated podcast feeds
- No algorithmic suggestions
- Instant feed updates
- Offline downloads
- Fast playback
- Ad-free experience
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Lunarcast – Podcasts Your Way, No BS I'm just a guy who loves these shows: Moonshots, Lex Fridman, Innermost Loop... but I hate algorithm spam. So I built this app for myself—simple, clean, zero suggestions. Only the feeds you pick, updated instantly. It starts with: • Moonshots (Peter Diamandis' big ideas) • Lex Fridman (deep, no-fluff talks) • Innermost Loop (Alex Wissner-Gross' AI speedruns) • Bonus: Every Elon Musk podcast interview out there—in one place, no hunting. Offline downloads, fast playback, no ads. It's a labor of love—started as my own fix, now friends use it too. Not here to get rich; just wanna share something useful. If you dig podcasts without the noise, grab it. Got bugs? Feature ideas? Hit me up—I'll tweak it if folks care. Your feed. Your rules.
Clear Reader ™
This app offers a calm and focused way to read curated news feeds offline. It provides tools for managing articles, adjusting the reading experience, and searching cached content, promoting deliberate reading over scrolling.
- Calm, minimal RSS feed interface
- Offline article caching
- Search cached articles
- Save articles for later
- Filter articles by keywords
- Customizable themes and text size
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Clear Reader is a calm native reading app for deliberate news reading. It gives you a quieter way to follow a thoughtfully curated feed, with local tools that make reading more useful than simply opening articles in a browser. Clear Reader is designed to help you read with more focus and less urgency. Features: - Read a curated RSS feed in a calm, minimal interface - Cache articles on device for offline access - Search cached articles by title and summary - Save articles for later reading - Mark articles as read and optionally hide read items - Filter articles with your own blocked keywords - Adjust theme, article text size, and reading density - Browse saved items and archive/history - Open source articles in an in-app web view or browser Clear Reader is built around clarity over urgency, reading over scrolling, and a more thoughtful relationship with news.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: LunarCast at none against Clear Reader ™'s 1. Clear Reader ™'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Clear Reader ™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. LunarCast asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for LunarCast against 5.0 for Clear Reader ™. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
LunarCast ships an update fortnightly, Clear Reader ™ every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LunarCast | Clear Reader ™ |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Darcy Menard | Space 64 LLC |
Customer experience
LunarCast
Clear Reader ™
In-app purchases
LunarCast
No in-app purchases
Clear Reader ™
- Clear Reader Pro$9.99









