Comparison

Weave vs Newspapers.ai

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

Head to head
About

Weave

A calm, non-algorithmic news reader that lets you curate your own feed from trusted publishers and RSS feeds. Organize news by topic, save articles for later, and enjoy a distraction-free reading experience.

Highlights
  • Curated news feed from chosen sources
  • Import custom RSS feeds
  • Topic tracking with 'Beats'
  • Organize sources into folders
  • Save articles for offline reading
  • Distraction-free reader
  • Light and dark mode
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Weave is a calm, non-algorithmic news reader built around the Sources you choose. Follow trusted publishers, import RSS feeds, and build Your Feed without a recommendation engine deciding what deserves your attention. Create Beats to track topics across Weave’s built-in Sources, organize Sources into Folders, save articles for later, and read in a clean, distraction-free reader. With Weave you can: • Follow built-in Sources or import your own RSS feeds • Build Your Feed from the Sources you choose • Create unlimited Beats and Folders • Track topics across Weave’s built-in Sources with Beats • Search, sort, filter, and organize your news • Save unlimited articles • Keep offline copies of Saved articles on this iPhone • Sync Sources, Folders, Beats, Saved state, read state, and core settings when signed in • Read articles in a clean, focused reader • Use light or dark mode Weave Free includes up to 150 Sources, unlimited Beats, unlimited Folders, unlimited Saved articles, core sync, and a 7-day searchable archive. Weave Pro removes ads, raises the Source limit to 2,000, and expands searchable archive access to 30 days. No social feed. No engagement ranking. Just the news you choose, organized your way. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Newspapers.ai

Features
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Newspapers.ai brings the world's news into one clean, fast feed — no accounts, no ads, no algorithmic rabbit holes. We pull headlines from many of the top trusted publishers, sort them newest first, and get out of the way. Every story links straight to the publisher who wrote it. BUILD YOUR OWN FRONT PAGE Pick the publishers you actually read and My Feed shows only their reporting. Change your mind any time — your choices stay on your iPhone. NINE SECTIONS World, US, Travel, Politics, Tech, Sports, Health, Science and Entertainment. Tap a section to focus, pull down to refresh. SEARCH EVERYTHING Search across every publisher at once. Find a topic, a person, or a place, and see how different outlets are covering it. SAVE FOR LATER — AND READ OFFLINE Bookmark a story with one tap. Saved stories stay on your iPhone and are readable without a connection, so a plane or a tunnel is no obstacle. BREAKING NEWS THAT ACTUALLY MEANS SOMETHING Most news apps alert you every time anything is published. We don't. You get a notification only when several independent publishers report the same story at the same time — genuine corroboration, not a publishing schedule. A few a day at most, and never between 10pm and 7am your time. Alerts are opt-in and can be narrowed to the sections you care about. BUILT TO RESPECT YOU No account. No advertising. No tracking across other apps or websites. We don't collect your name, your email, or a list of what you read. Light and dark themes follow your iPhone automatically. Newspapers.ai is a discovery tool. We don't host or republish articles — every headline links to the original, so the newsrooms doing the work get the visit.

Screenshots

Weave4 screens
Newspapers.ai2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Newspapers.ai at none against Weave's 3. Newspapers.ai also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Weave sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Newspapers.ai asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Weave versus Newspapers.ai: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWeaveNewspapers.ai
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB26 MB
Age rating12+17+
DeveloperSunrise Web Studios LLCArlington North LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Weave

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$49.99
None

Newspapers.ai

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Weave free?
Weave is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Newspapers.ai free?
Newspapers.ai is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Weave or Newspapers.ai have ads?
Weave shows ads; Newspapers.ai does not.

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