Clear Reader ™ vs Knots FM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Calm, minimal RSS feed interface
- Offline article caching
- Search cached articles
- Save articles for later
- Filter articles by keywords
- Customizable themes and text size
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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.
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.
- Cross-show search
- Audio enhancement
- Timestamp navigation
- iCloud sync
- Offline downloads
- Customizable queues
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Clear Reader ™ ships an update every 2 days, Knots FM every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Clear Reader ™ | Knots FM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Space 64 LLC | Lumik LLC |
Customer experience
Clear Reader ™
Knots FM
In-app purchases
Clear Reader ™
- Clear Reader Pro$9.99
Knots FM
- Knots Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Knots Pro Yearly3 Months trial$14.991 Year
- Knots Pro Lifetime$59.99









