Comparison

think vs Eddy

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Save links, PDFs, and threads
  • Distraction-free reading experience
  • Text-to-speech functionality
  • Customizable reading themes and fonts
  • Highlighting and summarization
  • Reading habit tracking
Features
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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.

Screenshots

think4 screens
Eddy4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. think sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Eddy asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
think versus Eddy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterthinkEddy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings22
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB95 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperKhanh Trinh Le BaKumar Akshay

Customer experience

think

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Eddy

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

think

One-time1
  • think forever$9.99
None

Eddy

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is think free?
think is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Eddy free?
Eddy is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, think or Eddy?
think and Eddy are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do think or Eddy have ads?
Neither think nor Eddy shows ads.
Which is updated more often, think or Eddy?
think ships an update every 2 weeks, and Eddy every 2 days. Most recently, think was updated on October 25, 2026 and Eddy on October 24, 2026.

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