Zetfeed vs Tidings

Skip the influencers and algorithms. Your news, without the ads or the tracking. Zetfeed brings the news sites, blogs, podcasts and YouTube channels you follow into one clean feed. You choose every source, no surprises. Paste a link to almost anything and Zetfeed finds its feed; including blogs, YouTube and Bluesky accounts, podcasts, RSS feeds, and published newsletters. Switching from another RSS reader? Import your OPML file and everything comes with you. YOUR FEED - NOT INFLUENCED BY ANYONE Organize sources into folders. Mute the ones you want to keep but not see today. Hide what you have already read. Members can also block keywords you never want to see again, filter out sponsored posts, and collapse a story into one card when several of your sources run it. NO SPOILERS Put a show, a film or a team on your watchlist and Zetfeed masks the headlines that would give it away until you choose to look. Finale recaps, ending explainers and last night's score stay hidden while you catch up. Spoiler blocking is a Member feature. MORE THAN HEADLINES Your day has more in it than news, so your feed can too. Insert cards for weather, your favorite shows, stocks, sports scores, concerts near you, the lottery, top stories and the daily games. You choose which cards appear, how often, and which teams, tickers and shows to follow. Inserts are a Member feature. THREE WAYS TO READ List for speed and density. Magazine for big images and room to browse. Card for one story per screen, at your pace. Switch between them easily at any time. MAKE IT YOURS Typography presets, and control over size, spacing and width. Choose between light or dark mode, with customizable accent colors, a warmth slider and a high-contrast option. Members can also select from custom fonts and accent colors. LOCAL NEWS AND WEATHER Local coverage for your area, weather, and events and nearby concerts. Severe weather and earthquake alerts arrive as notifications. FIVE GAMES, FRESH EVERY DAY On Words, Rank Up, Misquote, First! and Nonsense. Test your puzzle solving abilities and trivia knowledge. Each game takes only a few minutes. You can keep a streak and share your results. Daily games are free while members have access to the full games archive. BUILT FOR APPLE Real native apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac, not a website in a container. Home Screen widgets for the latest stories and the day's games. An Apple Watch app for headlines and summaries on your wrist. Keyboard shortcuts and proper menu bar support on the Mac. WORKS WITHOUT SIGNAL Articles are cached as they arrive, so a tunnel or a plane does not stop you. Read, save and mark things read offline, and everything syncs when you are back online. LISTEN INSTEAD Any article can be read aloud, on your device. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No ads. No third-party analytics. No trackers. No advertising identifier. We do not sell your data, and there is no ad business here to sell it to. Location is only ever a city or ZIP you type in, because Zetfeed never asks for your device location and cannot read it. FREE, AND FREE TO STAY The free tier is real value, not a demo: a generous number of feeds, all three reading modes, local news and weather, all five daily games, and no ads anywhere. Every download starts with 30 days of Member, free and without a card. When it ends nothing is deleted. Extra feeds pause, and come straight back if you upgrade. ZETFEED MEMBER, $9.99/month or $89.99/year Unlimited feeds. Insert cards. Keyword and sponsored filtering. Spoiler protection. Duplicate detection. Custom typography and reading surfaces. Save to Instapaper, Pinboard, Raindrop.io and Readwise. Email digests. The full games archive. Multiple saved locations. Priority fetching. And much more! Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel in your Apple ID settings. Privacy Policy: https://zetfeed.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://zetfeed.com/terms

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.