Comparison

lista vs Safe & Informed

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

Head to head
About

lista

Features
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Browse your feeds, save posts, get trending ones. Simple, like a social media app. No unread counts, no folders, no accounts, no subscriptions. Just great content. lista is an RSS reader for Mac and iPhone that keeps reading simple. Instead of giving you complex folders or unread counts, it brings all your feeds together into a single, clean list. Why lista is different • No unread backlog: Scroll through new articles the same way you browse a social feed. Read what interests you, skip what doesn't, and walk away without feeling guilty about unread badges. • One simple list: No folders to build or separate feeds to click through. Every post you follow shows up in one chronological timeline. • One-button saving: The interface stays minimal. Tap a single button to save an article for later, and nothing more. • Complete privacy: No account creation or personal details required. Your data stays on your device and syncs securely across your Mac and iPhone using your personal iCloud storage. • Trending articles: Discover interesting posts saved by the wider community. The trending section highlights popular articles anonymously, without profiles or social tracking. • Offline access & easy setup: Saved articles and recent posts remain stored on your device for offline reading. Add websites using a URL, the Safari share extension, or an OPML import file.

About

Safe & Informed

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Safe & Informed is a news reader you can listen to. You pick the sources and the app reads them to you, on screen or aloud, and in the car through CarPlay. YOUR SOURCES • Add any RSS feed, or start from the community directory. • Found a site in Safari? Share it to Safe & Informed and the feed is added. • Organise feeds into categories and subcategories. • Import your feeds from another reader (OPML or Excel). • Recommendations are computed on your device. Nothing in your feed is paid for or picked by someone else. LISTEN ANYWHERE • Read-aloud with the system voice: free, and it works offline. • A natural AI voice and AI summaries on Pro. • Radio turns a topic into a continuous station. • The Daily Briefing reads today's top stories and ends when you're caught up. • CarPlay: browse and play your feeds from the car screen. • Download articles and briefings for offline listening. READING • Reader view strips the clutter. • Magazine view opens photo-rich feeds as a cover, a contents page and full-screen spreads. • Coverage lines up how different outlets headline the same story. • Podcasts next to your news. • 22 languages, including Arabic and Hebrew, plus on-device translation of articles. • Adjustable text size, light and dark themes. ON EVERY APPLE DEVICE • iPhone, iPad and Mac, with iCloud sync between them. • Apple Watch app with a complication. • Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, Siri and Shortcuts. PRIVACY • No account and no sign-up. • Your sources, history and settings stay on your device, or in your own iCloud. • Ads on the free plan are contextual only. The advertising identifier is never used to track you. • AI summaries and the AI voice receive only the article text, with nothing that identifies you. Discover and Ask send your interests to an AI provider, so the app asks for your permission first. PLANS • Free: system voice, with contextual ads. • No Ads: the free app without advertising. • Pro: natural AI voice, AI summaries, Radio, Daily Briefing, Discover and 150 AI-voice plays a month. Extra credits are available as top-ups and never expire. Everything made with AI is labelled "Made with AI" and can be reported from inside the app. AI can be wrong: treat it as a starting point and check the source. Terms of Use (EULA): https://safeandinformed.com/eula Privacy Policy: https://safeandinformed.com/privacy

Screenshots

lista4 screens
Safe & Informed4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Safe & Informed at Free against lista's $4.99. Safe & Informed also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and device support (4 vs 2). lista's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and ads (none vs shown). On iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

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

Safe & Informed is free to download; lista costs $4.99 up front. Safe & Informed sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. lista asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

lista ships an update every 5 days, Safe & Informed every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences Ā· 1 level
lista versus Safe & Informed: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterlistaSafe & Informed
Price$4.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better18.4
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB57 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFRWRD7 LLCSafe and Informed S.R.L.

In-app purchases

None

lista

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Safe & Informed

Subscriptions3
  • No Ads$2.991 Month
  • Pro$12.991 Month
  • Pro Annual$119.991 Year
One-time4
  • 50 AI Voice Credits$4.99
  • 120 AI Voice Credits$9.99
  • 250 AI Voice Credits$18.99
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  • 600 AI Voice Credits$41.99

Questions

Is lista free?
lista costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Safe & Informed free?
Safe & Informed is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do lista or Safe & Informed have ads?
Safe & Informed shows ads; lista does not.
Which is updated more often, lista or Safe & Informed?
lista ships an update every 5 days, and Safe & Informed every 2 days. Most recently, lista was updated on November 13, 2026 and Safe & Informed on November 10, 2026.

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