RSS24 vs Inkline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RSS24
This news reader focuses on delivering the most relevant articles from the past 24 hours. It offers two reading modes, smart filtering, and a clean interface to reduce clutter and ensure you see the freshest content first. Personalization is kept on-device with no tracking.
- 24-hour news focus
- Top Picks and Latest reading modes
- Smart article ranking
- Tag-based filtering
- Full article reader
- Customizable themes and text size
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Your news. At your pace. RSS24 brings together the latest news from your favorite sources, so you can stay informed at your own pace. Explore stories from the last 24 hours, read what catches your attention, and carry on with your day. There’s no pressure to read everything. Whether you have a spare minute or time to explore, you decide how much news fits into your life. • A fresh view whenever you visit Start with the last 24 hours of news. Been away for a few days? Come back to what’s happening now, without feeling behind. • The day at a glance Get a quick overview with Daily Brief, an optional AI-written summary of recent headlines from RSS24’s built-in news sources. • Your sources, your interests Choose from a curated selection of publications or add your favorites. Explore news by topic, focus on one source, or follow a subject across your sources. • Choose how you browse Discover stories with Top Picks, or switch to Latest to see the newest headlines first. • Make room for what interests you Skip stories with a swipe, mute topics you’d rather avoid, and reduce noisy posts so browsing feels more manageable. • Settle into a good read Enjoy a clean article view, adjustable text size, and light, dark, or sepia themes. Keep headlines close with a Home Screen widget. No account required. No ads. Your reading preferences stay on your device. Already have favorite RSS feeds? Add them directly or bring your subscriptions over with OPML import. Stay informed. Read what interests you. Leave the rest.
Inkline
Stay informed with a streamlined reading experience for news and blogs. Organize your feeds, take notes, and get personalized summaries. All processing happens on your device for enhanced privacy.
- On-device processing
- Home and Lock Screen widgets
- Siri integration
- Spotlight search for notes
- Handwritten notes with Apple Pencil
- AI-powered daily brief
- Subject and journalist monitoring
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Inkline is a news reader for people who follow the news for a living: comms teams, journalists and anyone who has to know what is being said, by whom, and first. YOUR FRONT PAGE Today leads on the stories most of your publications are running, each one shown with its publisher's own icon. One card per story tells you how many outlets have it, who was first and when, and opens Compare to show how the coverage differs. Choose from over 7,500 publications in 130 markets, or add your own. WATCH A SUBJECT, FOLLOW A WRITER Watch a name, a company or a subject across your publications and the wider web, with a surge alert when coverage jumps, and a Live Activity on the Lock Screen if you want one. Follow individual journalists by their bylines rather than their mastheads. BRIEFINGS A short briefing of the last twelve hours, written on your device by Apple Intelligence, and Inkline Radio to listen to it, from the app, the Lock Screen or Control Center. SIRI, IF YOU WANT IT On iOS 27, you can let Siri answer some questions about your news, such as what's the latest in Inkline, from your own sources. It is optional and off until you turn it on. A REAL READER Articles open in a calm, typographic reader with captions, pull quotes and More on this story at the foot. Everything already fetched reads offline. Three fonts including OpenDyslexic, four color modes. KEEP WHAT MATTERS Save a story, select any sentence to keep the quote, write notes beside it, and turn a watched subject into a coverage report for the people you brief. YOUR NEWSLETTERS Connect Substack once and the newsletters you already subscribe to open whole, sorted into your categories. OUTSIDE THE APP Widgets on the Home Screen and Lock Screen, Spotlight, Shortcuts, a share extension to follow a site from Safari, and alerts you can act on straight away. Made for iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo. PRIVATE No Inkline account, no servers of ours, no tracking. The intelligence runs on your device, and your notes and follows stay in your own iCloud. Inkline is free with up to 50 publications, and there is no time limit. Inkline Pro adds monitoring and alerts, following journalists, your Substack newsletters, the written and spoken briefings, and as many publications as you like. New subscribers may be offered a free trial first. Made by White Wiki. Inkline Pro is a monthly or yearly subscription, billed to your Apple account at the price shown for your country and renewing automatically until you cancel. You can turn off renewal at any time in your account settings, up to a day before it renews. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: RSS24 at none against Inkline's 2. On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Inkline sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. RSS24 asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for RSS24 against 5.0 for Inkline. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | RSS24 | Inkline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 127 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Abdylas Tynyshov | Michael White |
Customer experience
RSS24
Inkline
In-app purchases
RSS24
No in-app purchases
Inkline
- Inkline monthly7 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Inkline Yearly7 Days trial$14.991 Year








