Kite RSS vs Rivo
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kite RSS
This app offers a minimalist and immersive reading experience for RSS and Atom feeds. It helps users curate their own content, free from algorithmic feeds, and provides powerful search and organization tools. All data is kept private and synced across Apple devices.
- Minimalist design
- Immersive reading experience
- Effortless subscription management
- Smart formatting and native experience
- Lightning-fast on-device search
- Read later and sync across devices
- Privacy-first, no account required
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Kite RSS is a modern, beautifully crafted RSS reader designed to rescue you from algorithm-driven timelines. Take back control of your content and build a high-quality information feed that is entirely yours. Whether it's breaking news, tech blogs, design inspiration, or your favorite independent creators, Kite RSS brings them all together elegantly. We focus on providing the ultimate smooth and immersive reading experience, allowing you to focus purely on the words. 【Key Features】 Minimalist Design, Immersive Reading: A clean, distraction-free modern interface with carefully curated themes and typography. Full Dark Mode support ensures comfortable reading at any time. Effortless Subscription Management: Add any RSS or Atom feed with a single tap. Organize your sources into custom categories effortlessly. Smart Formatting & Native Experience: Automatically extracts cover images and full text. Supports rich text rendering, bringing complex web layouts beautifully onto your screen. Lightning-Fast Search: Powerful on-device search lets you find any article, source, or keyword in milliseconds, whenever inspiration strikes. Read Later & Sync: Bookmark articles with one tap. All your subscriptions and reading progress are seamlessly synced across your Apple devices via iCloud. Privacy First: No account required. All your data stays securely on your device and your personal iCloud. Your data belongs strictly to you. In an age of information overload, let Kite RSS be your quiet corner for digital reading.
Rivo
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Rivo is a calm, fast RSS reader for iPhone, iPad and Mac that works with the server you already run. Three columns, no clutter: articles open straight into a clean full-text Reader View, and video channel feeds open straight into the player. One app, every Apple device. YOUR SERVER, FIRST-CLASS Rivo is a client, not a service — there is no Rivo account and nothing is stored on our side. Sign in with what you already have: • FreshRSS, Miniflux, Tiny Tiny RSS (FreshAPI plugin) — and any other server that speaks the Google Reader API • BazQux Reader, The Old Reader • Feedbin, Inkwell (Micro.blog) Add as many accounts as you like; each one gets its own section in the sidebar. Folders, unread and starred stay in sync, and actions you take offline are queued and replayed when you're back online. READER VIEW, ON BY DEFAULT Every article feed opens as clean full text — extracted on your device, even when the feed only carries an excerpt. Switch it off per feed, fall back to the feed content or the original web page in one tap, and pick the text size that suits you. VIDEO WITHOUT THE ALGORITHM Video channel feeds show thumbnails in the list and play right inside the app, with the description and a button to open the video in your browser. A hundred channels feel like a subscription box, not an inbox. BUILT FOR READING • Sidebar → list → article, with unread badges; Unread, Starred and All filters • Read/unread, star, mark all as read for the current folder or feed; swipe actions on iPhone and iPad • Search titles and excerpts in any scope • Keyboard-first on the Mac: j/k to move, space to scroll, m to toggle read, s to star, ⌘R to refresh • A minimal article toolbar (Star and Read); everything else one tap away • Themes: System, Paper, Terminal, Newspaper, Midnight, Sepia — plus automatic dark mode and system fonts ASK AI Send the article to your favourite AI assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Grok, Gemini) with a ready-made prompt — summarise, explain, translate, or write your own template. Nothing is sent anywhere until you choose to. MADE FOR BIG ACCOUNTS Tested with hundreds of thousands of unread articles: the newest items sync first, badges use your server's counts, and older articles load on demand at the end of every list. Launch is instant, even with huge libraries. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No telemetry, no third-party SDKs, no Rivo account. Your credentials live in the system Keychain and talk only to the server you chose — over HTTPS, or plain HTTP for a server on your own network if you say so. RIVO PRO Rivo is free to use with one account and everything above. Rivo Pro — monthly, yearly, or a one-time lifetime purchase — unlocks unlimited accounts, all themes and the comfort features that come with every release. Subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and you can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Rivo is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of the services it connects to; their names are used only to describe compatibility. LEGAL Privacy Policy: https://marcotini.com/privacy-policy Terms of Use (EULA): https://marcotini.com/eula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kite RSS at none against Rivo's 3. Kite RSS also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). Rivo's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Rivo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Kite RSS asks for nothing beyond the download.
Kite RSS ships an update every 6 days, Rivo monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kite RSS | Rivo |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 文佳 王 | Marco Tini |
In-app purchases
Kite RSS
No in-app purchases
Rivo
- Rivo Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
- Rivo Pro Yearly$8.991 Year
- Rivo Pro Lifetime$29.99









