MyActu vs Tidings
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MyActu
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MyActu brings your favorite newspapers and media outlets together in one app. Create your own personalized news feed by freely choosing the sources you want to follow. Stay up to date with the latest news from Switzerland, France, Lithuania, Europe and around the world without switching between multiple apps. YOUR NEWS, YOUR PREFERENCES Enable or disable each media source individually. Sources are organized by country, making it easy to personalize your experience. ONE PERSONALIZED NEWS FEED Browse articles from your selected sources in a clean, fast and user-friendly interface. Filter news by country or category to quickly find the topics that matter most to you. KEY FEATURES • Select media sources individually • Sources organized by country • Chronological news feed • Filters for Switzerland, France, Lithuania and World news • Search by topic or keyword • Categories including business, sports, science, culture and politics • Save articles to your favorites • View your reading history • Add custom RSS or Atom feeds • Quickly share articles • Open full articles on the publisher’s website • No account required A WIDE RANGE OF SOURCES MyActu lets you bring together media outlets from Switzerland, France, Lithuania, the United Kingdom, the United States and Europe. Article titles, excerpts and images remain hosted or provided by their respective publishers. MyActu redirects users to the original publication to read the full article. YOUR DATA STAYS ON YOUR DEVICE Your preferences, favorites and reading history are stored locally on your device. MyActu does not require a user account. Create your own personal newspaper and access the news that matters to you from one single app.
Tidings
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Tidings is an RSS reader built for people who want to read, not manage software. Add a feed by pasting any site's URL — it finds the feed for you. Your articles land in one inbox, oldest first, and you triage them: read now, keep for later, star what matters, or sweep the rest away. Nothing is recommended to you, nothing is ranked by an algorithm, and nothing arrives that you didn't ask for. READS BEAUTIFULLY Articles are stripped to their text and images — no popups, no cookie banners, no newsletter modals. Adjustable type, light and dark, and it remembers exactly where you stopped reading, even after you change the font. WORKS OFFLINE Articles are downloaded and cached, so a subway ride or a flight is just reading time. Images come along too. SYNCS PRIVATELY Your feeds and reading state sync across your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud account. There is no server in the middle, because there is no server at all. BRINGS YOUR FEEDS WITH YOU Import an OPML file from any other reader, and export yours whenever you like. Your subscriptions are yours to take. FEATURES • Automatic feed discovery — paste a site URL, not a feed URL • RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and YouTube channels • Distraction-free reader with full-text extraction • Offline reading with cached text and images • Inbox, Read Later, and Starred — triage with swipe gestures • Mark Above as Read for fast sweeping • Remembers your place in every list and article • iCloud sync across your devices • OPML import and export • Full VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support • iPhone and iPad FREE FOR UP TO 10 FEEDS Everything above is included — the reader, offline articles, iCloud sync, YouTube feeds, OPML import and export. Nothing is crippled, nothing expires, and there's no trial countdown. If you outgrow 10 feeds, Tidings Premium removes the limit for a single one-time payment. That's the only thing it changes. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. NO ACCOUNT. NO ANALYTICS. NO SUBSCRIPTION. Tidings has no way to know what you read — it has no server to tell.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MyActu at none against Tidings's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tidings sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. MyActu asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | MyActu | Tidings |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian-Jean Sordet | Hongyu Zhang |
In-app purchases
MyActu
No in-app purchases
Tidings
- Tidings Premium$9.99









