think vs Eddy
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.
Eddy
Save articles, PDFs, and threads from any app to read or listen to later. It removes distractions like pop-ups and ads, offering customizable reading themes and text-to-speech functionality. Build a reading habit with goals and streaks.
- Save links, PDFs, and threads
- Distraction-free reading experience
- Text-to-speech functionality
- Customizable reading themes and fonts
- Highlighting and summarization
- Reading habit tracking
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Eddy is a calm place to keep what you meant to read - and a good voice to read it back to you. Save a link from any app, drop in a EPUB, PDF, or capture a whole thread. Eddy strips away the pop-ups, cookie banners and newsletter overlays, and keeps the words. Then read them properly, or press play and listen while you walk. SAVE ANYTHING • Share a link from Safari or any app • Paste a URL straight into Eddy • Import EPUBs, PDFs - papers, reports, manuals • Capture X threads as one readable piece • File things into folders, or leave them be READ IT PROPERLY • Six themes, from paper white to true black • Four typefaces, with size, spacing and margin controls • Your place is kept, down to the paragraph • Distraction-free - no ads, no related-content rails • PDFs open in the same reader, themed to match, remembering the page LISTEN WHEN YOU CAN'T READ • Any article, ebooks, PDF can be read aloud • Build a queue, then play it like a podcast • A Daily Brief that gathers what you haven't read and introduces each piece • Sleep timer for late nights • Lock screen and headphone controls • Choose your voice and set the pace KEEP WHAT MATTERS • Highlight in four colours, in articles, ebooks and PDFs alike • Every highlight gathered in one place, searchable • Copy or share any of them • Summarise a long read on device BUILD THE HABIT • Set a daily reading goal • Keep a streak worth protecting • See a year of reading at a glance • Pick up exactly where you left off ON ALL YOUR DEVICES Eddy runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Eddy at none against think's 1. Eddy also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). think's advantage is iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Eddy asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for think against 5.0 for Eddy. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively.
think ships an update every 2 weeks, Eddy every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | think | Eddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 51 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Khanh Trinh Le Ba | Kumar Akshay |
Customer experience
think
Eddy
In-app purchases
think
- think forever$9.99
Eddy
No in-app purchases







