Tribb vs Lede
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Lede
A fast, calm RSS reader that lets you follow your favorite websites and read articles in a clean, customizable native interface. Manage your reading with daily limits and filters, and import/export your feeds easily. It's designed for privacy with no accounts, ads, or tracking.
- Clean native reader with customizable text
- Automatic full text fetching for teasers
- Swipe navigation for articles
- Starred, Unread, and All filters
- Daily limits per feed
- Import/export OPML feeds
- Private by design, no tracking
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Lede is a fast, calm RSS reader for iPhone. Follow the sites you choose, read them in a clean native reader, and leave when you're done. READ, DON'T WADE • Articles open in a clean reader with your choice of text size and typeface. • Teaser feeds get their full text fetched automatically. • Swipe up or down for the next article, right to go back, left for the original web page. STAY IN CONTROL • Starred, Unread and All on every list, plus a recency filter: Today, the past few hours, or the past week. • Daily limits per feed: show only the first few articles a busy feed publishes each day, so it can't take over your day. • Keep Articles cleans up after a day, a week or a month. Starred articles are always kept. BRING YOUR FEEDS • Add any feed, or just a website's address and Lede finds its feed. • Import and export OPML to move from any other reader. • Start with a pack of well-known feeds (news and tech, sports, food and crafts, and more), or with none. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no ads, no analytics, no tracking. • Everything stays on your iPhone. There are no servers of ours: Lede fetches only what your feeds point to.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lede at daily against Tribb's every 5 days. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tribb against 5.0 for Lede. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Tribb ships an update every 5 days, Lede daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tribb | Lede |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 26.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Vigneshraj Sekar Babu | Steve Shreeve |
Customer experience
Tribb
Lede
In-app purchases
Tribb
No in-app purchases
Lede
No in-app purchases





