think vs Rubbish Talk News
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Rubbish Talk News
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Rubbish Talk cuts through media spin. We take the news — markets, economy, tech, world events — and strip out the sugarcoating so you get the facts, not the framing. • R-Score — every story rated 1–10 for how much spin it's carrying • Rubbish Checks — plain-English breakdowns of what the headline left out • Check any article — paste a link and get your own spin-check (Premium) • Save the stories you want to come back to • Ad-free and offline reading with Premium No agenda. No hype. Just what actually happened. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://rubbishtalk.com/privacy-policy/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: think at none against Rubbish Talk News's shown. Rubbish Talk News's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, 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. think sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Rubbish Talk News sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
think ships an update every 2 weeks, Rubbish Talk News every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | think | Rubbish Talk News |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Khanh Trinh Le Ba | Stefan Jevremovic |
In-app purchases
think
- think forever$9.99
Rubbish Talk News
- Premium$12.991 Month
- Premium (Annual)$99.991 Year









