Comparison

Zetfeed vs SOURCE! News Reader

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

Head to head
About

Zetfeed

Consolidate news from various sources into a single, ad-free feed. Customize your reading experience with multiple views, spoiler protection, and integrated content like weather and games. Enjoy offline access and text-to-speech functionality.

Highlights
  • Ad-free and tracker-free news aggregation
  • Import OPML files from other readers
  • Keyword blocking and sponsored post filtering
  • Spoiler protection for shows and movies
  • Customizable feed with weather, stocks, and games
  • Multiple reading views: List, Magazine, Card
  • Offline reading and text-to-speech
Features
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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

About

SOURCE! News Reader

Features
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Take Back Your Morning. SOURCE! is where you check the news before you open social media. No algorithm decides what lands in front of you, no billionaire-owned feed reorders your reality to chase engagement, and no outrage loop dictates your morning. Just handpicked RSS Packs of vetted, independent journalism—and the feeds you choose—delivered in the exact order they were published. Before you step into the noise, get the full picture on your terms. WHY SOURCE! FIRST? Zero Algorithms: Every story comes straight from an RSS feed in real-time. Nothing is boosted because it's controversial; nothing is hidden to keep you scrolling. Curated Packs: RSS Packs are starter packs for your news feed. Jumpstart your reading with collections like Headlines: Best in the World, or build your own custom Packs around topics and local outlets. Context Without the Outrage: Use Buzz to see what journalists and creators are discussing on Bluesky without the like/repost counts or outrage bait. Complete Control: Add your own custom RSS feeds, save stories for later, or export your Packs anywhere as open RSS feeds—because your feed belongs to you, not a platform. Check the news first. Own your mind.

Screenshots

Zetfeed4 screens
SOURCE! News Reader4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: SOURCE! News Reader at 15.0 against Zetfeed's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zetfeed ships an update weekly, SOURCE! News Reader every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Zetfeed versus SOURCE! News Reader: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZetfeedSOURCE! News Reader
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB2 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperImgwerx LLCJason Sattler

In-app purchases

None

Zetfeed

No in-app purchases

None

SOURCE! News Reader

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zetfeed free?
Zetfeed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SOURCE! News Reader free?
SOURCE! News Reader is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Zetfeed or SOURCE! News Reader have ads?
Neither Zetfeed nor SOURCE! News Reader shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Zetfeed or SOURCE! News Reader?
Zetfeed ships an update weekly, and SOURCE! News Reader every 8 days. Most recently, Zetfeed was updated on November 5, 2026 and SOURCE! News Reader on October 31, 2026.

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