Readspace vs think
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Readspace
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The internet never runs out of things to show you. Your attention does. Readspace brings the publications, independent blogs, newsletters, and communities you care about into one calm, chronological feed. When you don’t have time to read everything, your Daily Digest turns hundreds of unread articles into a five-minute briefing of the major developments—plus a short list of stories worth reading in full. Stay informed without spending your day scrolling. WHY READSPACE? • One Feed You Control Follow the sources you choose and see every new article in chronological order. No engagement algorithm deciding what deserves your attention. • A Five-Minute Daily Digest Catch up on the major developments across your sources without opening every article. Readspace also highlights “Worth reading” stories you may want to explore yourself. • Follow More of the Web Keep up with independent writers, publications, magazines, Reddit communities, and email newsletters without scattering everything across different apps and inboxes. • Save Now, Read Later Save articles from your browser and return to them whenever you have time. Enjoy supported articles in a focused, customizable reader with dark mode and less visual clutter. • Summaries, Highlights, and Translations Generate quick summaries, surface the key highlights to skim an article faster, or translate it into your preferred language. These features are always optional. • Search, Discover, and Sync Find publications and blogs, paste a website to discover its feed, or import your existing subscriptions with OPML. Your subscriptions and saved articles stay synced across Readspace on mobile, web, and the browser extension. PRIVACY COMES FIRST Readspace is open source and built around your choices—not advertising, addictive recommendations, or selling your reading activity. Your feed contains what you followed, not whatever keeps you scrolling longest. Whether you already use RSS or simply want a more mindful way to follow the internet, Readspace helps you catch up, find what matters, and move on with your day. Build your own calmer corner of the internet with Readspace. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
think
This news app offers a focused reading experience by presenting one story at a time, free from distractions like auto-playing media or infinite scrolling. Users can customize their news sources by selecting topics, publishers, or adding custom RSS feeds, with all data stored locally for privacy.
- One story at a time reading
- Customizable publisher selection
- Add custom RSS/Atom feeds
- Bookmark stories for later
- No account or tracking
- Offline data storage
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think renders news the way e-ink renders a page: soft greys, a serif headline, dithered photographs, nothing that blinks, auto-plays, or refreshes itself while you're looking at it. ONE STORY AT A TIME No infinite scroll, no feed to doomscroll through. Each story fills the screen — headline, photo, publisher, and a read-time estimate. Swipe up for the next one, swipe right (or tap) to open the full article in-app. When you've seen everything your topics have to offer, the feed says so and stops, instead of padding itself out with filler. PICK YOUR PUBLISHERS, SKIP THE ALGORITHM There's no engagement-driven ranking deciding what you see. Choose your topics, and think shows you a curated catalog of publishers behind them — 208 publishers across 32 topics at last count. Vote a story up or down to tune the mix, or mute a publisher outright. Want a source that isn't in the catalog? Paste any site's RSS or Atom feed URL and think adds it to your list. SAVE FOR LATER Bookmark anything you don't have time for now. Saved stories are grouped by topic and stay in your list until you clear them. NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING There's no sign-in and no user id. think has no analytics, advertising, or crash-reporting SDK, and no server of its own — it only talks to your chosen publishers' RSS feeds and their image hosts. Your topics, your publishers, your votes, and your saved stories live on your device only, and are deleted when you delete the app. Available in English and Vietnamese. Requires iOS 15 or later.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: think at none against Readspace's 2. Readspace's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly). On price, ads, 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. Readspace sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. think asks for nothing beyond the download.
Readspace ships an update every 2 days, think fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Readspace | think |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 72 MB | 24 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Abhay Srivatsa | Khanh Trinh Le Ba |
In-app purchases
Readspace
- Readspace Pro Monthly$5.991 Month
- Readspace Pro Monthly$59.991 Year
think
No in-app purchases








