Comparison

AiryFeed vs Riffle

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

Head to head
About

AiryFeed

Features
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AiryFeed is a fast RSS reader for iPhone, built around on-device AI. Subscribe to your favorite blogs, news sites, and publications, then read everything in one clean, distraction-free place. AiryFeed parses feeds right on your device and pulls articles into a focused reader view, so you get the words without the clutter. What makes AiryFeed different is on-device AI. Summaries are generated locally using Apple Intelligence β€” the article text used for a summary never leaves your iPhone and is never sent to a server. Get the gist of a long read in seconds, with no AI paywall and no cloud processing. FEATURES β€’ On-device AI summaries β€” catch up on long articles instantly. The text is processed entirely on your iPhone. β€’ Clean reader view β€” distraction-free reading with comfortable typography. β€’ Organize with folders β€” group feeds the way you think. β€’ Read & star β€” track what you've read and save the articles that matter. β€’ Full-text search β€” find any article across your subscriptions. β€’ Offline reading β€” your library is cached on device, so it just works on the subway or a plane. β€’ Sync across devices β€” pick up right where you left off. No account or sign-up required. β€’ Built for iOS β€” a native SwiftUI app designed for iPhone. ON-DEVICE AI, PRIVATE BY DESIGN AiryFeed's summarization runs entirely on your device. The article text it reads stays on your iPhone β€” it is never uploaded for processing. That's the whole point: powerful AI without handing your reading over to a server. AiryFeed is free, supported by a single unobtrusive banner ad. Personalized ads use your device's advertising identifier only with your permission (you'll be asked, and you can decline). Add your first feed and start reading smarter today.

About

Riffle

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Riffle is an RSS reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It keeps your reading on your device and syncs it with a server you choose β€” or with no server at all. OFFLINE FIRST Articles download as they arrive, so your unread list works on a flight, on the metro, and anywhere the signal gives out. Marking something read or starring it works offline too: those actions queue up and reach your server the moment you are back, in the order you made them. Nothing is lost because you were in a tunnel. WORKS WITH YOUR SERVER Connect FreshRSS, Miniflux or Feedbin, or any server that speaks the Fever or Google Reader API. Subscriptions, folders, read state and stars stay in step across every device you read on. Credentials go to your server and nowhere else. OR NO SERVER AT ALL Riffle can fetch feeds itself, with no account and nothing in between. Paste a website and it finds the feed. YouTube channels, subreddits, GitHub releases and Medium writers work as they are. BUILT FOR READING A reader view set in Apple's New York serif, with the face, size and line width under your control. Feeds that publish only a summary can be opened in full. Swipe to mark read or to star, search everything you have downloaded, and switch between the article, the full text and the live page whenever you want. DRIVEN FROM THE KEYBOARD Vim-style keys throughout: j and k to move, n for the next unread, s to star, m to toggle read, / to search, ? for the list. Menu commands and shortcuts on the Mac for everything else. ON YOUR HOME SCREEN Widgets for your unread count and your newest articles. Share a page from Safari and Riffle finds the feed behind it. PRIVATE BY CONSTRUCTION No Riffle account and no Riffle server. No tracking, no analytics, no advertising, no third-party services. Passwords and API keys live in the Keychain, never in the database. Riffle talks to your server and to the sites you subscribe to, and to nothing else. POLITE TO YOUR SERVER Riffle will not poll more often than every fifteen minutes, whatever the settings say, and it never runs a full sync just to tell your server you read something. A self-hosted instance is usually one small machine, and it is treated like one. Native on all three platforms: three columns on Mac and iPad, a navigation stack on iPhone, and one library underneath them all.

Screenshots

AiryFeed4 screens
Riffle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Riffle at none against AiryFeed's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

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

Scorecard1 real difference Β· 5 level
AiryFeed versus Riffle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAiryFeedRiffle
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysβ€”
AdsYesNo β€” better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad β€” better
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details β€” not scored
Size26 MB10 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperRyo NarisawaNikolaj Jensen

In-app purchases

None

AiryFeed

No in-app purchases

None

Riffle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AiryFeed free?
AiryFeed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Riffle free?
Riffle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AiryFeed or Riffle have ads?
AiryFeed shows ads; Riffle does not.

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