ScrollAI vs BetterNews
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScrollAI
Stay informed about artificial intelligence with AI agents that scan, summarize, and rank news from various sources. Features include a personalized feed, a swipeable highlight deck, and a comprehensive AI curriculum with quizzes. Users can also contribute news and receive daily reminders.
- Personalized, ranked AI news feed
- Swipeable highlight deck
- AI curriculum with quizzes
- Contribute breaking AI news
- Daily news and learning reminders
- Customizable interface themes
Read full descriptionHide full description
ScrollAI is the fastest way to stay on top of artificial intelligence. Our AI agents scan hundreds of sources — labs, journals, GitHub, and the press — then dedupe, summarize, and rank the stories that matter for you. No hype, no doomscrolling. Just what's actually happening in AI, in seconds. • FEED — a personalized, ranked stream of the latest AI launches, papers, and deals, each summarized in our own words with a link to the original. • SCROLL — a swipeable, TikTok-style deck to breeze through the day's highlights. • HERO — the big story, front and center. • LEARN — a complete AI curriculum: 80+ bite-size concepts across 12 sections (Foundations, LLMs, Prompting, RAG, Agents, Multimodal, Safety and more), each a ~2-minute read with a quick quiz. Master AI one card at a time. • CONTRIBUTE — spotted breaking AI news? Share the link; our agents verify it's recent, real, and on-topic, then publish it to everyone. • REMINDERS — a gentle daily nudge to catch up on news or continue learning. • Five themes, five palettes, and a beautiful Liquid Glass interface. Free, and made for anyone who wants to understand AI — developers, founders, designers, marketers, and the curious.
BetterNews
A modern reader for Hacker News, offering enhanced features not found on the original site. It provides personalized feeds, keyword alerts, and a built-in reader with customizable themes and text sizes.
- Personalized Home feed
- Keyword alerts
- Built-in reader
- Customizable themes and text size
- Cross-device sync
- Search stories and comments
Read full descriptionHide full description
BetterNews is a modern reader for Hacker News, with the features the site never gave you. WHAT YOU GET • Top, Time, and New feeds, plus the classic HN view • Threads with collapse rails, new-comment highlighting, and comment permalinks • Follow keywords and people, and get a personalized Home feed • Keyword alerts the moment a matching story lands • Daily email digests, on your schedule and timezone • Favorites, read-state, and preferences synced across all your devices • Search across stories, comments, and people • Direct messages with verified HN users • A built-in reader, light and dark themes, adjustable text size, and multiple typefaces Signing up is free and takes one tap. No passwords.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: BetterNews at none against ScrollAI's shown. BetterNews also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). ScrollAI's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ScrollAI ships an update every 4 days, BetterNews every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ScrollAI | BetterNews |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | — | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Bhanu Mahesh | Steven Truong |
Customer experience
ScrollAI
BetterNews
In-app purchases
ScrollAI
No in-app purchases
BetterNews
No in-app purchases









