Comparison

FeedDeck RSS vs Inkline

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

FeedDeck RSS

Consolidate your favorite news, blogs, and updates from RSS, Atom, and XML feeds into a single, elegant reader. Enjoy AI-powered article summaries generated on-device and smart filtering to stay organized.

Highlights
  • Subscribe to RSS, Atom, XML feeds
  • On-device AI article summaries
  • Smart filtering (Today, Unread, Starred)
  • Clean reading experience
  • OPML import/export
  • iCloud sync
Features
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FeedDeck brings all your favorite RSS, Atom, and XML feeds into one beautifully designed reader. Stay on top of news, blogs, and updates with smart filtering, starring, and AI-powered article summaries. Key Features: • Subscribe to any RSS, Atom, or XML feed • Smart filters: Today, Unread, and Starred articles • On-device AI article summaries powered by Apple Intelligence • Clean, distraction-free reading experience • Import and export feeds via OPML • Automatic feed refresh and article cleanup • iCloud sync across all your devices • Curated starter feeds to get you started Whether you follow tech news, development blogs, science journals, or world events, FeedDeck keeps everything organized in a modern, elegant interface. Tap "AI Summary" on any article to instantly generate a concise summary, powered entirely on-device by Apple Intelligence — no API key, no account, no cloud required.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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When a name you watch runs in the world's press, Inkline shows you - a client, a competitor, your own. Follow the journalists on your beat, by byline. Turn coverage into a report worth sending. Inkline is free to read, and there is no clock running. A checked directory of 5,175 publications across 105 markets and 72 languages. Nothing you read leaves the phone. THE ATLAS The world's press on one globe. 5,175 publications across 105 markets, browsable by subject and by kind: national, local, trade. Tap any title to read its last ten stories before you follow it. FREE, AND NOT A TRIAL • Follow up to 50 publications: pick them from the Atlas, find one by name, or import the list you keep - and take it back out as OPML. • The whole article, set in your own typography: four faces including OpenDyslexic, four contrast modes, your size, your spacing. • Highlight a line to keep the quote. Write the note against the story. Find both again by searching. • Reads with no signal. Words and photographs are already on the phone. • Widgets, Spotlight, Siri, and a share extension that follows a publication right from Safari. • Any story read aloud, in a voice that runs on the device. INKLINE PRO, FOR WHEN THE NEWS IS YOUR JOB • Monitors watch coverage across the world's press, not only the titles you follow, and can alert you when a name or a subject runs somewhere new. • Every watched word carries its own numbers: volume over time, share of voice, the outlets driving it, and a flag when the line jumps. • Coverage reports turn a watched word into a document: what ran, where, and how it compares with the period before. Frozen, so it keeps what it found, and ready to send on. • Voices follows the byline. Inkline reads the author of every story that arrives and builds one stream for that reporter. • Inkline Radio writes and speaks your briefing on the device, so it plays with no signal. • Today's Brief condenses the last twelve hours. Compare Coverage lays one story out across every publication running it and reads how the framing moves. • Publications beyond the free fifty. Inkline Radio, Today's Brief and Compare Coverage are written on your device by Apple Intelligence, so they need a device that supports it, and nothing you read is sent anywhere. READ IT PROPERLY Today leads on the story most of your publications are running rather than the newest one, with a world desk of translated headlines beneath it. The Wire is everything, newest first, clearing as you scroll past it. When a publication files only an excerpt, Inkline fetches the rest in the background, so the reader, the search and the voice have the article, not a teaser. WHERE EVERY TITLE STANDS ON GENERATIVE AI Every publication in the directory carries its owner's public position on generative AI: licensed to an AI company, and named; blocking the crawlers or litigating; or nothing on record. Filter the whole directory by it. Coverage in a licensed title can reach an assistant's answers; coverage in a blocking one is being kept out of them. Compiled from public sources — licensing announcements, court filings and publishers' own crawler policies — and dated on the page. NOTHING LEAVES THE PHONE No account. No ads. No tracking. No data sold. Your publications, your notes and your watched words stay on your device, and the AI runs there too. Built to be read by everyone: Dynamic Type throughout, full VoiceOver support, and color modes that meet WCAG AA contrast. Made by White Wiki. Requires iOS 18. Inkline Pro is an auto-renewing subscription, annual or monthly, each with a one-week free trial, billed to your Apple Account at the price shown for your country. It renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or turn off renewal any time in your account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://inklinenews.com/privacy/

Screenshots

FeedDeck RSS4 screens
Inkline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: FeedDeck RSS at free against Inkline's subscription. Inkline's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FeedDeck RSS ships an update fortnightly, Inkline every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
FeedDeck RSS versus Inkline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFeedDeck RSSInkline
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB121 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZabir RaihanMichael White

Customer experience

FeedDeck RSS

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Inkline

Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

FeedDeck RSS

No in-app purchases

None

Inkline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is FeedDeck RSS free?
FeedDeck RSS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Inkline free?
Inkline is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do FeedDeck RSS or Inkline have ads?
Neither FeedDeck RSS nor Inkline shows ads.
Which is updated more often, FeedDeck RSS or Inkline?
FeedDeck RSS ships an update fortnightly, and Inkline every 5 days. Most recently, FeedDeck RSS was updated on October 9, 2026 and Inkline on October 14, 2026.

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