EchoPie vs Tribb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EchoPie
Consolidate blogs, news, and publications into a single reading space. Translate foreign-language content, create highlights, and build a personal library of articles. Sync your reading across devices and choose your preferred cloud storage.
- RSS feed aggregation
- Article translation
- Offline reading
- Highlighting and note-taking
- AI-powered summaries
- Cross-device syncing
- OPML import/export
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Bring blogs, news sites, and independent publications into one calm reading space. EchoPie helps you understand foreign-language feeds and turn Read Later items, highlights, and notes into your own reading library. FOLLOW THE SOURCES THAT MATTER • Support for RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 RDF, and Atom • Discover feeds from a website or import them with OPML • Organize subscriptions and quickly browse Today, Unread, and Bookmarks UNDERSTAND WITHOUT LEAVING THE ARTICLE • Translate article titles and full articles into your chosen language • Select text to highlight, add a note, translate, or explain • Generate concise overviews with compatible AI providers • Keep articles available offline and move smoothly through long reads KEEP WHAT IS WORTH RETURNING TO • Manage Bookmarks, Read Later, highlights, and notes in dedicated views • Search your library to find articles again • Review your feeds with word clouds and create shareable reading cards PICK UP ON ANOTHER DEVICE • Sync through iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, WebDAV, cloud files, or devices on the same Wi-Fi network • Keep subscriptions, reading state, settings, and notes together • Import and export OPML or EchoPie snapshots YOUR DATA, YOUR CHOICE No EchoPie account required. Data stays on your device by default. You choose whether to sync and which translation or AI provider to use. EchoPie does not decide what you should read. It helps you understand what matters, keep it, and find it again. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Tribb
A calm RSS reader for iPhone and iPad that lets you follow any feed without an algorithm. Read articles one at a time, save them, or access them later. Supports various feed types and offers on-device summarization.
- Follow any RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, podcasts, and video feeds
- Read articles one at a time
- On-device AI summarization
- Background audio playback for podcasts
- Reading statistics and streak tracking
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Siri and Shortcuts integration
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Tribb is a calm RSS reader for iPhone and iPad. Follow the sources you choose and read them in one quiet place. The Reader shows your unread posts one at a time. Save a post, mark it as read, or choose Read at end to see it after everything else. Articles lists your Unread, All, and Saved posts. Articles open on the publisher’s own webpage, with native controls to save and summarize. Create an on-device Summary with Apple Intelligence when it is available. Tribb does not send article text to a third-party AI provider. Follow RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, podcasts, and supported video feeds. Start with suggested feeds, add a feed by its address, or import an OPML file. Export your feeds as OPML at any time. Listen with background audio, AirPlay, and system playback controls. Reading Stats shows your streak, best streak, a 24-week heatmap, and your most read feeds, counted on your device. Widgets show your unread count, newest headlines, and reading streak on the Home Screen. Streak widgets also work on the Lock Screen and in StandBy. Ask Siri what’s new in Tribb, save the article on screen, subscribe to the page you’re reading, or resume the last episode. The same actions work in Shortcuts. On iPad, Articles, Feeds, and Search show the list beside the article. Your library starts on this device. With private iCloud sync, your feeds, Saved posts, reading positions, and stats stay the same on your iPhone and iPad. Tribb requires no account and adds no ads, tracking, or third-party analytics. Publisher webpages can contain ads and tracking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tribb at none against EchoPie's 4. EchoPie's advantage is iOS requirement (16.4 vs 27.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. EchoPie sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Tribb asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for EchoPie against 5.0 for Tribb. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
EchoPie ships an update every 4 days, Tribb every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | EchoPie | Tribb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 58 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | +17 | 17+ |
| Developer | 振培 林 | Vigneshraj Sekar Babu |
Customer experience
EchoPie
Tribb
In-app purchases
EchoPie
- EchoPie PRO Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- EchoPie PRO Yearly7 Days trial$7.991 Year
- Buy Me a Coffee$2.99
- EchoPie PRO Lifetime$24.99
Tribb
No in-app purchases







