Comparison

Munchfeed vs Tidings

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

Head to head
About

Munchfeed

Features
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MunchFeed is an RSS reader for people who want to keep up without turning reading into a backlog. Follow the feeds you care about, move quickly between unread, saved, all, and discarded articles, and search across your library when you need something specific. When a feed only includes a short excerpt, you can open the full article. If you just want the main points, you can switch between the full article, a 50% summary, or a 25% summary. Each feed can have its own reading defaults and filters. You can use keyword filters and AI filters to remove topics you do not want to see, and you can reduce noise by discarding promotional and duplicate articles. MunchFeed also includes themes, font controls, line-height controls, link-opening preferences, read-item retention, and OPML import and export. MunchFeed+ removes the usage limits for AI summaries and full-text article opening. The free tier includes up to 20 AI summaries and 80 full-text article openings. Terms of Use (EULA): [https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/](https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/)

About

Tidings

Features
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Take back control of what you read. Tidings turns the sources you choose into a calm, focused daily news feed—without an account, ads, or cross-app advertising tracking. TODAY'S BRIEF Catch up quickly with a concise digest of the stories most worth your time. Use the built-in offline summary or connect an OpenAI-compatible service for smarter summaries. KEYWORD RADAR Follow topics, companies, and people—not just publications. Tidings gathers matching stories from all your feeds and can notify you when something new appears. YOUR PERSONAL NEWSPAPER Turn today's subscriptions into a beautifully typeset morning or evening front page. Share it as one polished image, complete with a QR code that helps friends discover Tidings. SHARE ANY ARTICLE Turn a worthwhile story into a polished portrait card with its headline, excerpt, source, reading time, and an App Store QR code—perfect for sharing with friends. READ LATER Save articles to a dedicated inbox without mixing them with favorites. Saved items survive feed refreshes and automatic cleanup, while bilingual reading-time estimates help you pick the right article for the moment. READ YOUR WAY Fetch full text when a feed only provides an excerpt, keep it available offline, listen with text-to-speech, resume long articles where you stopped, and move through your unread queue without distractions. ALSO INCLUDED RSS and Atom discovery, batch subscription import, folders, full-text search, article thumbnails, OPML import and export, broken-feed detection, light and dark themes, background refresh, and local-first storage. Your subscriptions and article reading history stay on your device. Optional usage analytics is off by default. If enabled, it sends a random installation identifier and limited usage/error-count events, never article content, subscriptions, searches, URLs, API keys or error details. You can turn it off at any time in Settings.

Screenshots

Munchfeed4 screens
Tidings4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tidings at none against Munchfeed's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Munchfeed sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Tidings asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Munchfeed versus Tidings: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMunchfeedTidings
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.217.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJOSE LUIS DEL PINO GARCIABeijing Pengcheng Technology Co., Ltd.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Munchfeed

Subscriptions1
  • Munchfeed+ Mensual$4.991 Month
None

Tidings

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Munchfeed free?
Munchfeed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tidings free?
Tidings is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Munchfeed or Tidings have ads?
Neither Munchfeed nor Tidings shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Munchfeed or Tidings?
Munchfeed ships an update every 3 weeks, and Tidings every 3 weeks. Most recently, Munchfeed was updated on October 28, 2026 and Tidings on October 29, 2026.

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