Zetfeed vs Beacon

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

Beacon brings the sites and people you follow into one reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Paste a site address and Beacon finds its RSS, Atom or JSON feed. Follow Mastodon and Bluesky accounts as feeds of their own. Bring your subscriptions from another reader with OPML, and take them with you whenever you like. Looking for more? Follow suggests sites that what you read already links to, and the websites of people you follow. YOUR OWN NEWSPAPER Open the Newspaper and the last day's articles are set as a front page, with a lead story, sections and In Brief, in a morning, afternoon or evening edition. With Apple Intelligence, stories covered by several of your sources appear once, with every source beside them. MADE FOR READING Articles open in a clean reading view, in the font, size and spacing you like, with a choice of line width on iPad and Mac. Timeline keeps everything in order and holds your place. Prefer an inbox? Classic shows only what you haven't read. Listen to any article read aloud. ORGANISED YOUR WAY • Folders, pinned sources and icons in the sidebar • Smart Folders from any saved search • Mute keywords you'd rather not see • Notifications for the feeds you choose • Feed health flags feeds that have stopped working ASK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE READING Ask Siri to summarise an article or answer a question about it. Beacon answers from that article, on your device, with Apple Intelligence on supported devices. WHEREVER YOU READ • Siri and Shortcuts actions: refresh before you sit down, or save an article in one step • A Front Page widget for the Home Screen, the Lock Screen and the Mac desktop • A proper Mac app, with keyboard shortcuts on Mac and on iPad with a keyboard • Your library in sync through your private iCloud No Wells Code account, and no algorithmic feed in your Timeline. Just the sources you chose. One plan unlocks Beacon on iPhone, iPad and Mac, with Family Sharing: Annual or Monthly, each with a two-week free trial, or Pay Once. Terms of Use: https://wellscode.com/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://wellscode.com/privacy/