Comparison

CloudNews vs Feedibus

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

Head to head
About

CloudNews

This app synchronizes with a personal server's news app to provide a seamless feed reading experience across devices. Customize your reading view with adjustable font sizes and spacing, and access full web articles easily. A home screen widget offers quick access to new content.

Highlights
  • Syncs with Nextcloud News app
  • Cross-device synchronization
  • Customizable reading view (font, spacing, margins)
  • Direct access to web articles
  • Article sharing
  • Home screen widget
Features
Currently charting
Read full description

Note: Access to a Nextcloud server with the News app is required to use this app. CloudNews is a feed reader that syncs with the News app on your personal server. Once you have logged in to your server, all feeds with be kept in sync between devices and also the web interface. Optionally supports sync on startup and in the background. Read feeds conveniently by adjusting font size, line spacing, and margins. You can also go directly to the full web version of an article. Easily view the web version of articles and share articles with several services. Quickly see new articles on a home screen widget.

About

Feedibus

This newsreader app aggregates content from RSS, Atom, and JSON feeds into a beautifully organized interface. It uses on-device AI to summarize articles, deduplicate content, and learn user interests for a personalized reading experience.

Highlights
  • AI-powered article summaries
  • Content deduplication
  • Personalized interest learning
  • Cross-device iCloud sync
  • Customizable reading view
  • Background updates
  • OPML import/export
Features
Currently charting
Read full description

Read News & Articles Feedibus is a newsreader app. It supports Atom, RSS, and JSON feeds. All techno-gibberish to you? Don’t worry. Many news websites and blogs offer this service for free so that you can read all your loved and trusted sources in a beautiful interface, organized automagically. Key Features, Making Feedibus Unique: - Magic Content: Enjoy full articles in a beautiful reading experience, even for feeds with just summaries. - Magic Deduplication: Streamline your timeline, grouping duplicates and similar content. - Magic Interests: Discover more, automagically learning your interests. - Magic Summaries: Automatically summarizes articles and displays them in a beautiful liquid glass card. All on-device powered by Apple Intelligence. What makes Feedibus so magical? We could tell you that it uses machine learning and other state-of-the-art computational methods to offer you this awesome experience — but that wouldn’t sound so cool, would it? What else? - iPad/iPhone Support: Read on all your devices. - iCloud Sync: Keeps your devices in sync, including all machine learning data. - Notifications: Define trigger phrases to retrieve local notifications during background refreshes. - Widget Support: Add your favorite news source right to your home screen. - Customizable Reading View: Pick your favorite font, size, and appearance. - Background Updates: Keeping your content fresh, effortlessly. - OPML-Import & Export - Bookmarking: Save articles for later. - Switch between Reading Experiences: Decide for yourself how to read articles, including Embedded Safari Reader Mode. - Favorite Feed Groups: Organize your feeds thematically & focus on what matters in the moment. - Sharing with Friends & Social Networks - Dark Mode / Light Mode … and much more. Design Philosophy We believe that reading your favorite news & articles should be fun, engaging, and informative. Some newsreaders seem to make this a chore, treating it like your email inbox. Feedibus presents all content in a chronological timeline. It highlights what it thinks is interesting and groups duplicate content for you just scroll through, discover and enjoy what you like. We want to go the extra mile for you — for instance, we even analyze the images within an article to detect faces and interesting content so that we can crop them to minimize required space while maintaining essential parts of the image. All powered by the amazing chips in your device! Privacy No sign-up required. All machine learning and processing happens locally on your device. We don’t know what you read, and we don’t want to. Please review our privacy policy for more details. Pay once, own forever Since 2.0 Feedibus requires a one-off payment if you download it from the app store. All functionality included. Only for customers of previous versions we maintain legacy in-app purchase options. — * The Fine Print Magic Content works for many websites; Feedibus supports its machine learning features for most languages, even if you subscribe to feeds of different languages simultaneously. Feedibus’ user interface is currently available in English & German, but more localization is on our to-do list. Magic Summaries only works on devices that have Apple Intelligence enabled and only for supported languages.

Screenshots

CloudNews4 screens
Feedibus4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CloudNews at none against Feedibus's 2. CloudNews also leads on review sentiment (57% vs 39%) and price ($1.99 vs $3.99). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence 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

CloudNews costs $1.99 and Feedibus $3.99 up front. Feedibus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. CloudNews asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.8 for CloudNews against 3.7 for Feedibus. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 12 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 57% of CloudNews's written reviews are positive against 39% of Feedibus's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on September 22, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
CloudNews versus Feedibus: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCloudNewsFeedibus
Price$1.99 — better$3.99
Rating3.8 (12 ratings) — better3.7 (12 ratings)
Positive reviews56.9% of reviews — better39.4% of reviews
Number of ratings1212
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#49 — better#63
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.026.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB22 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperPeter HedlundNicolas Neubauer

Customer experience

CloudNews

All ratings12 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews65 reviews
Positive56.9%
Neutral9.2%
Negative33.8%

Feedibus

All ratings12 ratings
Positive58.3%
Neutral25.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive39.4%
Neutral30.3%
Negative30.3%

In-app purchases

None

CloudNews

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Feedibus

Subscriptions1
  • Unlock Feedibus7 Days trial$0.991 Month
One-time1
  • Unlock Feedibus One-Time Fee$3.99

Questions

Is CloudNews free?
CloudNews costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Feedibus free?
Feedibus costs $3.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, CloudNews or Feedibus?
CloudNews is rated higher. CloudNews averages 3.8 out of 5 from 12 ratings, while Feedibus averages 3.7 from 12 ratings.
Do CloudNews or Feedibus have ads?
Neither CloudNews nor Feedibus shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CloudNews or Feedibus?
CloudNews ships an update every 5 weeks, and Feedibus every 5 weeks. Most recently, CloudNews was updated on September 22, 2026 and Feedibus on September 22, 2026.
Which is more popular, CloudNews or Feedibus?
CloudNews currently peaks at #49 in the App Store charts, and Feedibus at #63. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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