Comparison

Clear Reader ™ vs Knots FM

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Calm, minimal RSS feed interface
  • Offline article caching
  • Search cached articles
  • Save articles for later
  • Filter articles by keywords
  • Customizable themes and text size
Features
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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.

About

Knots FM

This app offers a streamlined podcast listening experience with features like cross-show search, audio enhancement, and timestamp navigation. Organize your library, queue episodes, and sync across devices for uninterrupted listening.

Highlights
  • Cross-show search
  • Audio enhancement
  • Timestamp navigation
  • iCloud sync
  • Offline downloads
  • Customizable queues
Features
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Knots is a calm, focused podcast player designed to make every episode easier to find, hear, and enjoy. SIMPLE BY DESIGN Move naturally between your shows, queue, downloads, history, and Now Playing without unnecessary clutter. SEARCH EVERY SUBSCRIBED SHOW Search across the podcasts you follow and quickly surface the episode you are looking for. HEAR MORE CLEARLY Enhance voices and trim silence for a clearer, more efficient listening experience. JUMP TO THE MOMENT Tap timestamps in show notes to start playback at exactly the right point. STAY IN SYNC Keep your listening activity available across your devices with iCloud sync. YOUR LIBRARY, YOUR WAY Follow shows from Apple’s podcast directory, add an RSS feed, or import your existing subscriptions with OPML. Download episodes for offline listening, build a Play Next queue, and return to your listening history whenever you like. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Clear Reader ™4 screens
Knots FM4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is monetization model: Clear Reader ™ at free against Knots FM's freemium. Clear Reader ™ also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Clear Reader ™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Knots FM sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Clear Reader ™ against 5.0 for Knots FM. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Clear Reader ™ ships an update every 2 days, Knots FM every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Clear Reader ™ versus Knots FM: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClear Reader ™Knots FM
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB48 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSpace 64 LLCLumik LLC

Customer experience

Clear Reader ™

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Knots FM

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Clear Reader ™

One-time1
  • Clear Reader Pro$9.99
3 purchases

Knots FM

Subscriptions2
  • Knots Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Knots Pro Yearly3 Months trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Knots Pro Lifetime$59.99

Questions

Is Clear Reader ™ free?
Clear Reader ™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Knots FM free?
Knots FM is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Clear Reader ™ or Knots FM?
Clear Reader ™ and Knots FM are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Clear Reader ™ or Knots FM have ads?
Neither Clear Reader ™ nor Knots FM shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Clear Reader ™ or Knots FM?
Clear Reader ™ ships an update every 2 days, and Knots FM every 2 weeks. Most recently, Clear Reader ™ was updated on October 31, 2026 and Knots FM on October 31, 2026.

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